Posts Tagged ‘Ryan Franklin’

Have we had enough of television news on e-coii pandemics, tsunamis, earthquakes, tornadoes, volcanoes, U.S. floods, cop shows, food shows and *Dr. Oz*?  Well, on Dr. Oz’s Wednesday show, while a woman asked, “Why do I have an orgasm during a bowel movement?”, the columnist yukily then turned to more urgent matters like blotting post-holiday sun tan oil and heading later to some favorite neighborhood saloons. Cissy and Tommy Bahn’s Cousin Hugo’s, twixt crossroads of Manchester and Laclede Station Road, have kept the aura gong of their clubby clone of yesteryear’s  Busch’s Grove that opened in 1939. Add to that, St. Louis-style barbecued spareribs were served from the pits at Annie and Jim Lucas’ Baumann’s Fine Meats. Tommy, a onetime host at the old Balaban’s, recalled how a couple in their 80s had a reunion there after having not seen each other for 45 years. “Both their spouses had died and it was so poignant,” commented Bahn. “For 20 years, Clayton High School teachers come in and let their hair down after graduation.” Other regulars have been Ryan Franklin, Jackie Smith and Charlie Dooley. On to the fourth owner of Pat’s in the Oakland/Tamm nabe of Dogtown, where bonifaces Ty and Joe Finn dropped a few bon mots of their wish list: 45-degree parking to alleviate the traffic jams; a farmers’ market at Clayton at Tamm avenues; traffic lights at Oakland and Tamm, because “it’s so dangerous” and enthusiasm for newly-elected 24th Ward Alderman Scott Ogilvey. Battered and cooked to order spicey fried chicken is de rigueur there.

Shelly Seawall with daughter Lola and Tommy Bahn

 

 

Silent Auction at Gateway MS Society St. Louis Summer Swizzle

T.J. Birkenmeier avers he has approached Joe Edwards, suggesting a roll-out of Blueberry Hill Beer. . .Nancy Poole, broadcast exec-turned iconic real estater with Janet McAfee, is much too ill. . ..Endowed prof of physics at UMSL Jake Leventhal, with his ever-lovin’ Betty, said enrollment there has risen. “Lose jobs – go back to school,” he reasoned. . .Scotch those rumors, that high-profiled barrister Jim Holloran and his wife, Madison County Circuit Judge Anne Callis, have split. “She has a house in Troy, Ill., and I have a house in Kirkwood and that’s, perhaps, how the rumors began”. . .Youngster Parker Monnig of St. Peters, Mo., is just back with his parents, Melissa and Kyle Monnig, from Huntsville, AL., where he trained to become a Jedi at STARWARS Space Camp. He was singled out at the awards ceremony for “exemplifying Jedi behavior with his actions, ability to learn, and kindness to others”. …Sightems: Mike Shannon at Dino Karagiannis‘ The Tenderloin Room, chowing down on liver with onions; Cards’ Ryan Franklin, with family, at Giovanni’s on the Hill, knocking off veal with porcini mushrooms. . . Look for Debbie Ballman and Kim Lutz to bow their Main Street Cafe on Sept. 1 on West Main Street in Washington, Mo.,.. .Morgan Lily, heiress to former St. Louisan and stand-up comic, Andy Gross, due here from Hollywood on Sept 10, with two comic headliners, at the grand opening of Hottest Ticket Comedy Club in the Third Degree Glass Factory at 5200 Delmar Blvd. The laugh-a-minute comics are Emil Fry and Rocky LaPort. Lily also is featured in Rob Reiner‘s upcoming film, “Flipped,” booked for unspooliing this month. . .More than 300 guests were on hand at the Kemp Auto Museum for the St. Louis Summer Sizzle benefit for the Gateway Multiple Sclerosis Society’s fundraiser. Do-gooder Bill Gillespie was feted for having raised $1 million over the years for MS.

Guests at Kemp Auto Museum for the St. Louis Summer Sizzle benefit

The Benefit Blues Band performed during the festivities . . .Love and kisses for blessed events:  The Post-Dispatch’s crime reporter Christine Byers and courts reporter Heather Radcliff are infanticipating.. . .Newsome twosomes – Sarah Gabriele will say “I do” at her marriage Sept. 11 in French Lick Springs to insurance tycoon Alex Gift.  Sarah’s parents are famed restaurateurs Joan and Agostino Gabriele, who once owned his own dinery here and now operates Vicenzo’s in Louisville. . .WashU pre-med students Claire Shapleigh of Clayton and John Strand of Des Peres are steady-as-they-go. . ..