Ann Lemons Pollack
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New York City: Colicchio & Sons
While we normally post here about our restaurant experiences when we travel, St. Louis Magazine's food blog Relish decided they'd like them. We were really happy with Colicchio & Sons, and it's following the trend for offering less-pricey options. You can read about it here.
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Valentine bubbles
Oh, so you also forgot what's going on tomorrow. . . . Well, we have to move fast, because it's Valentine's Day, and if we don't have sparkling wine, or Bubbly, or Champagne for the holiday and for our wife-husband-boy friend-girl friend-lover-mistress-whoever, we're in big trouble. Sparkling wine is a great drink. The bubbles add
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Race
It's David Mamet, so we expect bad language. It's David Mamet, and the cast includes a woman, which predicts that the woman is going to throw a monkey wrench into the works, as she does in "Oleanna" and "Speed-the-Plow." It's David Mamet, which means we're in for an Indianapolis-type pace, sudden moves and some very
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Pina
Perhaps good things do happen if you wait — I finally saw a movie in 3-D where the process belonged, and actually made the movie more enjoyable. Of course, it’s a spectacularly beautiful piece of work, a documentary about the great German choreographer and dancer, Pina Bausch, written and directed by Wim Wenders, a leader
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Oscar-Nominated Shorts
The Academy Awards are a very big deal to moviegoers and fans, as well as to the film community. The short subjects get very short shrift. I understand that short shrift is better than no shrift at all, but the 10 candidates for Best Short Subject — five Live Action and five Animation — go
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Brunch: LuLu Seafood
Time for dim sum on Saturday or Sunday? We dropped by LuLu a while back and wrote about it for Relish, the St. Louis Magazine blog. You can read about it here.
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Black Thorn Pub & Pizza
Why is a dive bar just off South Grand one of St. Louis' pizza-insider secrets? Because the pizza is very good, and St. Louisans may be particularly quirky about their pizza. We can't think of another city where the cheese is the subject of so much controversy, for instance. We're fond of Imo's, and
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Playland
Athol Fugard, the great South African playwright and anti-apartheid crusader, used to be seen regularly on St. Louis stages. He's been away for a while, driven by nothing more than coincidence, but is back at the Mustard Seed Theatre. A solid production of his 20-year-old "Playland," with passionate performances by Erik Kilpatrick and Charlie Barron,
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Urinetown: The Musical
Political theater stands tallest, hand-in-hand with satire, which continues to laugh, take curtain calls and ignore George S. Kaufman's remark that it's what closes on Saturday night. They're the leading players in "Urinetown: the Musical," which opened at the Tower Grove Abbey last night in a wild and woolly, foolish and frantic, perfectly delightful production