Ann Lemons Pollack
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South Pacific
It was truly an enchanted evening at the Fox Theatre last night as "South Pacific," in all its tuneful glory, opened a two-week run with the splendor and style that have made big Broadway musicals such an exciting part of the American theatrical canon. The touring company of the 2008 Broadway revival (the first Broadway
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This Week’s Wine November 9, 2010
With the holiday season coming over the horizon, it's time to prepare for visitors, for groups (some would say hordes) of friends, relatives and neighbors, dropping by to wish you well. They may be carrying empty wassail cups in hopes of receiving a refill, in the style of a friend from Dallas who used to
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City Diner at the Fox
The big thing to remember about the City Diner at the Fox is that it's a diner. Despite the delightfully retro décor, lava lamps and all, this is not a tongue-in-chic “interpretation of” a diner. Located next door to the Fox Theatre, it's open late and serves breakfast at all hours, more diner qualities that
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Welcome Back, Marcel
His smile is as wide, his English as fractured. His hair is grayer, his cooking skills as comforting and refined. Marcel Keraval is in the kitchen at Chez Leon, which means the joy of classic French cuisine has returned to St. Louis and a great weight has been lifted from the shoulders of owner Leon
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Long Day’s Journey Into Night
The dysfunctional families described in plays by Edward Albee, Harold Pinter and Tennessee Williams are extremely dysfunctional, but they can't hold a candle to the Tyrones, created–and lived–by Eugene O'Neill in "Long Day's Journey Into Night." The searing drama opened last night in a solid production by Muddy Waters Theatre, and will run through Nov.
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Inside Job
Horror movies are always popular–torrents of blood, talons tearing flesh, nubile young women menaced by creatures leaping from graves. Given that, here's what I consider the most frightening horror film of 2010, "Inside Job," opening today, and audiences will be slim to non-existent. People will stay away on droves. Why? Well, "Inside Job" is a
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Last Train Home
“Last Train Home” is a mind-boggling documentary that one must see to even comprehend. In China, millions upon millions of people work in communities far from their homes, living in uncomfortable dormitories, working long hours in factories. Once a year, around Chinese New Year, they get a few days off to go home and see
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For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf
It could only be a match made in Hollywood–on one side, the huge ego of Tyler Perry, whose every previous film starts with his name introducing the title, whose movies reek of fake sex and faux religion, who seems to pander to an African-American audience at its lowest common denominator on one side. And on
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Macon, MO: los Jimadores
We were in Macon, MO, not long ago as we played tourist for a couple of days. We viewed the northern part of Missouri by crossing the state on US 36, which runs from Hannibal to St. Joseph. The highway intersects with US 63, which heads north to Iowa, south to Columbia, and there seemed
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Excellent News
St. Louis theater-goers and concert fans scored a major ethical victory, and a financial bonus, to celebrate the new month on Monday. Grand Center parking meters now end at 7 p.m., cut back from the 10 p.m. established a few months ago. Vince Schoemehl, president of Grand Center, phoned me at 10 a.m. Monday to