On Wednesday, entrepreneur Kevin Brennan opened The Noble Crown, a Modern American Bistro, on the prominent northeast corner of Euclid and Maryland. The space was occupied for more than 80 years by Culpepper's. When that operation closed in 2019, The Saint Louis Chess Club leased the space with the intention of opening a new restaurant....

The following interview was originally published in the June 2026 issue of CWEA Griffin. Ali Rand, left, and Carroll Lehnhoff-Bell, right, with neighbors on Enright. Several days after the May 16th tornado ripped through the Central West End, Ali Rand received an Instagram message from a woman who had a friend in the Academy neighborhood...