Tim’s Travels: Exploring the Saint Louis Zoo
ST. LOUIS – The Saint Louis Zoo inside of Forest Park is a must-see when visiting St. Louis.
Tim Ezell was there Friday morning exploring the attractions.
The Saint Louis Zoo is one of the top zoos in the country and admission is free.
There is a new exhibit at the Saint Louis Zoo. The Emerson Dinoroarus exhibit opened in April. It is where the old children’s zoo was.
The zoo has 16 different groupings of dinosaurs. They also have some living descendants of dinosaurs to show the kids as well. If you’re not a zoo member, visitors must pay $5.95 to visit the Dinoroarus exhibit.
beginning May 14 through August 15 for Summer Zoo Weekends.
The new hours include the following:
Sunday through Thursday — 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Friday and Saturday — 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Memorial Day weekend and Labor Day weekend — 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.
*Zoo closes at 4:30 p.m. on Thursdays, May 27, June 17, July 15, and Aug. 12 for ticketed Night at the Zoo event.
The sea lions are also fun to visit. Guests can interact with the sea lions as they walk past their habitat or they can learn even more by going to the Sea Lion Show. Guests can watch the California sea lions perform acrobatic tricks throughout the summer.
It is National Travel and Tourism Week, and to get some more ideas for a fun outing with the family go to explorestlouis.com.
Louis Rees-Zammit left stunned as team-mates mob him during Lions announcement
It was the day Louis Rees-Zammit became the youngest British and Irish Lion since 1959.
At just 20 years and 93 days old, the Wales winger received the news he’d dreamed off on Thursday lunchtime.
And video captured the moment he watched the squad announcement in the company of his Gloucester team-mates who mobbed him as his name was read out.
Rees-Zammit’s face said it all as the emotion of the moment could clearly be seen amid the cheers in the room.
The youngster spent the evening celebrating with family in Cardiff, and was even presented with a special Lions congratulations cake.
Following the news, he said: “I can’t even put into words how it feels. It’s been a mad year and I’m so delighted.
“It is an absolute honour. I’ve only been playing international rugby for seven or eight months and now this has happened.
“I was so nervous. I was sweating so much. My name came up and everyone started jumping on me. It was an amazing moment.”
It’s been some year for Rees-Zammit, who only made his Wales debut in the autumn before going on to be one of the stars of the Six Nations.
Lions coach Warren Gatland said: “It’s pretty exciting for him and I think it’s his try-scoring ability and his finishing [that caught the eye].
“I don’t think he’s the finished article and we’ve seen him improve during the Six Nations.
“That’s what is exciting about him as a youngster. We think that going on tour, being around the best players in Britain and Ireland, then he’s going to continue to develop and get better.
“There’s a huge amount of potential. That’s what is exciting about someone like that so we’re looking forward to having the opportunity to work with him.
“We want to see him come on in a position where there are lots of options and strength in depth.”
Louis Vuitton’s Stephen Sprouse Collaboration Turns 20—And Is Still One of the Best Logo Hacks Around
But to many European heritage brands, the logo is sacred. A shorthand icon, and I mean icon in an almost sacrosanct, religious sense; a logo stands in—and up—for the philosophy and ideology of the maison as a whole. It’s the key to the codes, passed down through generations of designer-directors. Before you know the Chanel quilting, the gold chain trim, or the camellia flower, you know the interlaced CCs. (Pharrell and Frank Ocean both have verses about it.) Such holy legends aren’t to be tampered with. Well, at least not in most instances.
Gucci’s recent “hacking” of Balenciaga, in which creative director Alessandro Michele co-opted Balenciaga creative director Demna Gvasalia’s signatures, refuted some of these ideas. The pairing happened not only on the runway, where crystal suits dripped in Gucci and Balenciaga logos, but off it too. Michele and Gvasalia’s text message chain, posted to Gucci’s Instagram stories, was a stream of friendly banter, proving that stablemates can be besties, not competitors. Kering CEO François-Henri Pinault said of the partnership: “[Alessandro and Demna’s] innovative, inclusive, and iconoclastic visions are aligned with the expectations and desires of people today. Those visions are reflected not only in their creative offerings but also in their ability to raise questions about our time and its conventions.” Breaking fashion conventions seems to be good for business: On social media, fashion lovers heralded it for some of the season’s best pieces, a sign that new ideas can flourish in a bleak time.
Heritage and hacking, of course, comes down to ideas of ownership: Who gets credit for which silhouettes, graphics, and even vibes?