My family and I just bought a home in the Shaw Neighborhood, a couple of blocks north of Tower Grove Park.

Let me tell you, the annual PrideFest today has a big turnout, auto and foot traffic thick up and down Magnolia pouring in and out of the park.

I’ve always said that the city of St. Louis isn’t for everyone: because it’s for everyone.

(Pictured: Randy Penn of the KC Bar-B-Qs prepares for the start of Sunday’s Pride St. Louis PrideFest Parade 2008 along Grand Avenue in St. Louis. Erik M. Lunsford| Post-Dispatch)