Ann Lemons Pollack

  • General Orders No. 9

    "One last trip down the rabbit hole before it's paved over," is probably a description of his new film by Robert Persons, its author, producer, director and director of photography. It has a strange name, "General Orders No. 9," but it's not a military film. It's a documentary, a look at part of Georgia, and

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  • Roberto’s Trattoria

    We wrote about Roberto's Trattoria, a popular favorite, for the print edition of St. Louis Magazine. You can read about that here.

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  • San Jose Mexican Restorante

    Far better than Martha Stewart's favorite accolade, it's a great thing that kids in the Crestwood-Affton area are learning that good Mexican food doesn't have to come from chain restaurants. We had dinner recently at San Jose Mexican Restaurante, in a new strip mall across Watson Road from the soon-to-be-revived-we-hope Crestwood mall. Banana yellow, mango

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  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream

    There's a huge, happy Mardi Gras party going on at the Grandel Theatre, and it won't stop on Wednesday. The Black Rep's highly enjoyable production of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," which opened over the weekend, will run until March 4, giving lots of people the chance to enjoy it. One of the great joys

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  • The Maids

    Jean Genet’s often-satiric, sometimes-salacious fantasy-play, “The Maids,” opened last night at the Kranzberg Black Box Theatre. The Upstream Theatre production is interesting and involving, like everything Upstream does, but the play itself, which runs through March 4, falls short of being completely satisfying. Whether because of Martin Crimp’s 13-year-old translation, or the direction by Wieslaw

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  • Love Letters

    “Love Letters,” the two-person play by A. R. Gurney that opened last night as — perhaps — the final production of the Avalon Theater Company, is about love and letters, only tangentially about Love Letters. With Larry Mabrey and his real-life wife, Erin Kelley, as the cast, it runs through the weekend at the Crestwood

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  • A Separation

    Iranian writer-director Asghar Farhadi is a nominee for an Academy Award, for Best Original Screenplay. His simple but heart-rending movie, “A Separation,” is a candidate for the Best Foreign Language film Oscar. Winning both would be a victory for the longest long shot in Oscar history, but neither would be undeserved. The film, which opens

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  • Young Goethe in Love

    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German author and philosopher, was a young man like many other young men of the late 18th century, when he lived, or of the early 21st, when we do. So “Young Goethe in Love,” which opens today, is a charming coming-of-age movie about a charming, intelligent person who didn’t quite fit

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  • West Side Story

    With glorious, exciting music by Leonard Bernstein, dashing lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and rollicking, memorable choreography and direction by Jerome Robbins, "West Side Story" brought something new and different to American musical theater when it opened on Broadway in 1957. The production that opened at the Fox Theatre last night remains big and brawling (it

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  • Boodles BBQ

    Silly, we suppose, but we're always interested when we see the re-use of fast food spots. Boodles BBQ (CQ) is in what appears to be an old Wendy's. That means there's plenty of room to stand back, look up at the menu board and ponder the options. More room, too, for mobility assistance devices like

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