DANFORTH DOINGS: While plant substances were bubbling in the lower levels of the Danforth Plant Science Center on Saturday night, celebrants of the center were bubbling upstairs at the center’s annual Plantasia gala.

Laura Eaker and Lisa Nouss co-chaired the event, which honored Mel and…

DOG LOVERS DELIGHT: St. Louis celebs will walk their own dogs or rescue dogs — which are sometimes one and the same — down the runway on Oct. 26 at the Kemp Auto Museum as part of a benefit for…

CELEBRATING DIFFERENCES: The Girl Scouts of Eastern Missouri and Wells Fargo Advisers were honored last night with 2009 Workplace Diversity Awards from the Anti-Defamation League’s “A World of Difference Institute” at their gala at the Chase Park Plaza.

The league’s Distinguished…

ZOO KNEW REDUX: Attorney Tom Campbell, managing partner of Gallop, Johnson & Neuman, called today to complain that this colyumnist wrote that he had been appointed by St. Louis County Executive Charlie Dooley to the board of the Metropolitan Zoological Park…

Jacqueline and Lou Brock

DON’T FORGET THE BROCKABRELLAS!:

Mark your calendars for Sept. 17 when baseball greats and their greatest fans join in the gala celebration for the 70th birthday of Cardinals Hall of Famer Lou Brock.The event at the Coronado Ballroom…

FUN-RAISING FOR A CAUSE: A ready-for-a-good-time crowd of more than 800 St. Louis Crisis Nursery supporters filled Canyon Café and Cardwell’s last night, with some spillover into Plaza Frontenac’s Center Court.

The crowd was gathered for the 19th annual Celebrity Waitresses…

Undated picture from The Forge. From Left: Shareef Malnick, Al Malnick, Serena Williams, Michael Jackson, Chris Tucker, and Bret Ratner (front).

TWO DEGREES OF SEPARATION: South Florida kingpin and St. Louis native, Alvin I. Malnik, 76, has been getting a…

Ann and Ray Wagner

HANAWAYS HOST: Former U.S. Attorney Catherine Hanaway and her husband Chris Hanaway hosted a surprise birthday party at their home in Kirkwood last Saturday for Ray Wagner, a VP at Enterprise Rent-A-Car.

“Great news was that we actually surprised him,”…