Ann Lemons Pollack
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MartAnne’s Burrito Palace
On the road again, this time in Flagstaff, Ariz., in search of breakfast beyond the humdrum and the frozen. We visited MartAnne's Burrito Palace. And we're glad we did. Flagstaff is a college town, home of Northern Arizona University, and college towns often have a larger number of ethnic and/or quirky eating spots; MartAnne's falls
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A Little More Wine
…and a little late, but here are some notes on the 2011 vertical Norton tasting at Stone Hill. Just click here to read about it in Relish.
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Meek’s Cutoff
Kelly Reichart's film career is a rather brief one, but she has a lovely view from the director's chair. Her "Wendy and Lucy" a few years ago, was a rich, sensitive story about two women struggling to survive. "Meek's Cutoff," scheduled to open today, is a Western, but certainly not a traditional Western, and while
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Hesher
While good movies come and go, bad movies come and come and keep coming–though perhaps they have reached their nadir with "Hesher," opening here today without the shadow of a single thing to recommend it. Hesher, played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt with skanky hair, lots of self-inflicted crude and ugly tattoos and a personality that is
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Mamma Josephine’s
Yes, gentle reader, there really was a Mamma Josephine. The restaurant in the Shaw neighborhood of south St. Louis is named for her by her daughter Mary Samuelson, and it’s Mamma’s recipes that are the basis for the home-cooking-style food that appear on the plate. That’s also Mamma’s picture on the wall. On a residential
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This Week’s Wine, May 8, 2011
In Australian slang, a "stickybeak" is like a "nosy parker" or a "busybody" or maybe a "Jerry Berger"–a person whose nose is usually in someone else's business. It is not necessarily a name to put on a wine label, but Australian slang has a style all its own, and while Old Bridge Cellars is an
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Dark Matters
Would you buy milk from a guy who's unshorn and unshaven, red-eyed from lack of sleep, and used to live in Washington, D.C.? That's the least of the problems that Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa presents in "Dark Matters," which opened last night in a Stray Dog Theatre production at Tower Grove Abbey, to run through May 21.
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The Princess of Montpensier
This review is reprinted from an earlier date because the movie’s opening was delayed With flashing swords and heaving bosoms, we go from battlefields to boudoirs in “The Princess of Montpensier,” based on a 1662 novel about the Wars of Religion, the struggle between French Catholics and Protestants that took up most of the second
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In A Better World
Is an-eye-for-an-eye the right way to live? Is turning the other cheek a correct way to build relationships? Or do we just stagger through life, blind and slap-happy, in a search for proper behavior? "In a Better World," the Danish movie that won the Academy Award for best foreign-languge film and which opens here today,
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White Irish
If "White Irish Drinkers" is based, at least in part, on the boyhood of writer-director John Gray, it certainly was a miserable childhood. But it should have been a better movie. Unfortunately, we get awful cliches and sentimental claptrap. Dad beats Mom and bullies his children. Mom defends Dad ("I married him for better and