A common refrain during several interviews I’ve conducted over the past year or so with restaurateurs working to open new businesses in the CWE involved their frustration over the unreasonable amount of time it takes to process a liquor license application. In Joe Baker’s case, above, it was 6 months from the time he applied…
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Meet Cynthia Chapple, founder of “Black Girls Do STEM”
The following is a reprint of my interview with Cynthia Chapple, founder of Black Girls Do STEM, which was published in the June issue of CWEA Griffin. BGDSTEM is headquartered in the CWE’s TechArtista, 4818 Washington. (A link to a digital version of the entire June issue can be found at the end of this…
Dressel’s Public House is open at last!
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…