Ann Lemons Pollack
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Barb Jungr
No Cole Porter. No Rodgers and Hammerstein. No Duke Ellington. No Steven Sondheim. At an evening billed as cabaret? Will you trade them for Bob Dylan? Or Paul Simon? Or Bruce Springsteen? Or Hank Williams? Barb Jungr did, editing "The Great American Songbook" into her latest album, "The Men I Love: The New American Songbook,"
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Truffles
When Truffles opened, just over a decade ago, within earshot of the venerable Busch’s Grove, it looked to many people that Charles Cella and his daughter were tossing a red challenge flag at the fading jewel next door. Well, they won. The space to the east, now a grocery store, can be described as Busch’s
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Steve Ross
Steve Ross exemplifies style and grace like few other people, and he displayed it before a full house last night at the Kranzberg Arts Center. He will repeat tonight (Saturday). The apparently ageless cabaret singer is in an "out-of-town" run with his new show, "Rhythm and Romance," which is scheduled to open at the Algonquin
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This Week’s Wine, November 27, 2010
I hope you had a happy Thanksgiving. And now that the niceties are out of the way, we can get down to the serious business of fun and frolic during the holiday season. I was filling out a questionnaire the other day, sent by a wine p.r. person to wine writers, and she asked, "What
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127 Hours
The all-time, absolutely perfect, first-date movie opens here today. I can hear the dialogue now: Boy: Hi, would you like to go to the movies tonight? Girl: Sure. Where shall we go? Boy: It's a new movie. It's called "127 Hours." Girl: Sounds awfully long. What's it about? Boy: It's about a guy who cuts
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Eclipse
We’re great proponents of late-night dining, since both of us have spent many years in jobs that weren’t 9-to-5, so when we walked into Eclipse a little before ten and found the joint jumping, it was a splendid feeling. While the bar of the handsome restaurant in the Moonrise Hotel was considerably busier than the
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Yummy Architecture
To kick off the holiday season, we'd like to share a little architecture we recently inspected. We haven't been traveling; this is local. And it's different. We encourage the departments of architecture at the local universities to check out these houses and consider the possibilities. Lydia's House, a St. Louis group that provides transitional housing
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Elise LaBarge
There was a most auspicious debut in St. Louis last night. Soprano Elise LaBarge, showing more of a feel for the world of cabaret than singers twice her age, offered her first program, about 75 minutes of Kurt Weill music delivered in an unassuming manner, but with great promise for the future. Young and attractive,
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1
They're getting a little old to remain as the Magical Three Mouseketeers, but Harry, Hermione and Ron are back again, continuing the transformation of the magical series from light, optimistic and beautiful fantasy to just another horror story, with almost-continual explosions to serve as punctuation. "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part I," opens today,
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A Film Unfinished
The more that long-hidden evidence is revealed, the more horror is found. "A Film Unfinished," which opens today, is true to its title. It never was finished. But what there is shows scenes of unspeakable cruelty that took place in Warsaw, in May, 1942. It's a German film, shot in the Ghetto, whose purpose was