October 2024 Issue: Popcorn (Print Edition)

History in a Bottle. Or Two.  Everyone is family at Kasey's Tavern "Bill White, the owner of Kasey’s Tavern in Printers Row, remembers the old days when the neighborhood was down on its heels. He remembers too the way Kasey’s looked when he bought it. 'It was all wood at the time. It looked like an abandoned storefront,' he says. Instead of the large glass picture windows of today, the front of the bar was hidden behind painted wood panels." (June Sawyers) The German Question Exploring the Saint Louis Art Museum's extraordinary collection of Teutonic painting "In the late forties, May went on a quest to obtain cutting-edge modernist art to decorate his new home. He struck gold in 1951 on a visit to J.B. Neumann’s New Art Circle in New York City, where he purchased a commanding twenty-five works. His revelation wasn’t aesthetic, however—he’d been to the gallery years before, and seen the same works on sale, but bought none. What prompted his purchase was the fact that they hadn’t sold i