Ann Lemons Pollack
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Bixby’s: Brunch
St. Louis Magazine''s online site has our review of the brunch at Bixby's in the Missouri History Museum. You can read about it here.
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Next Fall
There's a lot going on beneath the surface of "Next Fall," the fast-moving, engaging play by Geoffrey Nauffts that opened the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis Studio last night at the Grandel Theatre. But it throws the audience a bunch of questions, some easy, some hard, some solved, some left unanswered, just hanging like Charlie
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The Tillman Story
When it comes to concocting stories to make their organization look good, there are no bigger bumblers than the U. S. Army, and "The Tillman Story," sickening in both origin and execution, is just the latest. It opens today, just another illustration of the sad fact that all through the long, bloody, losing war in
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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest
People don't come much more well-rounded than Lisbeth Salander. She can hack your computer with one hand, break your arm with the other. She can pleasure your body and mess up your mind. To use popular expressions, she's hard as nails, tough as a boot, quick as a wink, smart as a whip. She is,
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Eovaldi’s Deli
Sometimes the charm of The Hill is elusive, and people need to be reminded just what it is about the neighborhood that's drawn St. Louisans (and others) for almost a century. We needed some lunch and knew that serious sandwiches from Eovaldi's would fill the void. But we missed it the first time, seeing “Oldani
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The Chosen
In a community with three Jews there are four synagogues–one for the divergent faiths held by each, and a fourth one to provide the space where none of them would be caught dead. These attitudes, harder than pressed steel or a jilted lover’s heart, are on display in “The Chosen,” a powerful, passionate adaptation of
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The Army of Crime
Based on the exploits of a real group of non-French refugees living and fighting in occupied Paris during World War II, “The Army of Crime,” which opens today, is a powerful, gripping story of man’s inhumanity to man, of dedicated partisans and disgraceful collaborators. It’s a tragedy, as it had to be, but it’s a
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Stone
Hardly anyone portrays evil the way Edward Norton can, and he's at the top of his game in "Stone," which opens today. Paired with Robert De Niro, playing off-type, Norton brings a lot to the title role in a movie that makes us think of Raymond Chandler, James M. Cain and Dashiell Hanmett, those masters
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Conviction
One of the big problems of movies that are based on real stories is that there is not as much suspense as is necessary to keep the motor of the viewer’s imagination running fast enough. It’s fun to think of alternate plot lines, to see a character in a different light, to keep involved in
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Freakonomics
Let me try to explain a little about “Freakonomics,” one of this week’s new movies: When I was in college, a prerequisite for journalism students was a 7:30 a.m., three-day-a-week course called Economics 51, taught by a professor named Harry Gunnison Brown. Brown was a fan of an economist named Henry George, a man who