Skinnytown Sculptures / South Grand Road Diet 11:53 PM

I am in love with the new Morganford--AKA Skinnytown--sculptures that have arisen along the funkified stretch over the past couple weeks. I first learned out these little pieces of whimsy through St. Louis Brick's post entitled "Morganford is the new South Grand", but St. Louis Investment Realty's Matt Kastner has snapped photos of still more sculptures here. From that very blog comes the photo below. Its legginess makes it the perfect tease photo to get you to follow the link to see nine (9!) others (This doesn't even include the giraffe sculpture staring across the street at the Three Monkeys). These appendages strut their stuff outside Vintage Haberdashery, an homage to the legs suspended from their second story window.

In other Tower Grove South news, South Grand is going on a road diet and you, St. Louis, can vote on the resulting slimmer design at an upcoming public meeting. I hear high-tech touch pads will be used for the voting process. Here's a cut-and-paste of the meeting announcement from the Tower Grove South website:

GREAT STREETS INITIATIVE SOUTH GRAND: Public Meeting and Design Charrette Announcement
Good Evening Everyone,
Please accept the attached postcard as an invitation to participate in the Public Meetings and Design Charrette scheduled for Monday, August 10, 2009 – Wednesday, August 12, 2009 from 4:00PM to 7:00PM. Also, please share the postcard flyer with your constituents so that they may have the opportunity to participate in the meetings as well. Should you have any comments or question, please give us a call at (314) 436-3311. We appreciate your immediate attention to this matter, and we look forward to meeting you.
Bridgett S. Willis
Hudson and Associates, LLC
1204 Washington Ave., Ste. 402
St. Louis, MO 63103
Office: 314-436-3311
Fax: 314-436-3503
Cell: 618-560-3225

Maybe a slimmed down South Grand will be able to compete with the charming, wacky Skinnytown along Morganford?

St. Louis's Local Dining Options Expand 11:01 AM

From Sauce Magazine's online foodie "gossip" column:

Now open
Café Osage, the new eatery from the folks at Bowood Farms nursery in the Central West End we told you about back in June, is now open. Stop by 4605 Olive St. to sample the fare prepared by chefs David Guempel and David Kirkland (which uses many ingredients grown at the nursery or its Clarksville farm).

Awesome addition to the Central West End and to the city at large! Well...I've not been of course, but I'm speaking of the concept: healthy foods from local and regional farms. St. Louis has too few of these.

Don't forget about Local Harvest on Morganford's latest venture either: the Local Harvest Cafe (see the Commonspace Blog for hours and more information).

Someone, please, report to Cafe Osage immediately so I can read the full pre-restaurant critic review!