After an extensive renovation, Dressel’s Public House, 419 N. Euclid, has finally re-opened for business. Proprietor Ben Dressel’s father, Jon, a poet and former professor at Webster University (here’s Dwight Bitikofer’s entertaining Poems, Poets & Prose article from 2011 in the West End Word), opened the Welsh pub in 1980. Ben paused operations in 2020…
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The many lives of CWEnder Julio Shankle
There are many versions of Julio Shankle’s story, those he spins (which are sometimes embellished), and those I gleaned from interviewing CWEnders and others who have befriended him over the years. The common denominator in all of those conversations has been that Julio is immensely talented, and one of the kindest people they know. A…
A CWE-based hairstylist embarks on world tour offering free haircuts
As I sipped a delicious Vietnamese coffee and chatted with Sky Le, above, a hairstylist who has operated out of Gregory Smith’s Coiffures by Shawn for a couple of years, I was struck by how amazingly generous people can be, especially this gentle soul. Before Sky departs St. Louis in his white pickup on a…