Ann Lemons Pollack
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Evita
Only two nights remain to see the New Line production of ":Evita," at the old CBC on Clayton Road, and it's worth trying to get there. Every performance for the last week has been sold out, so it may not be easy, but I highly recommend it. With John Sparger a wonderful, sardonic, sarcastic Che
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Countdown to Zero
The horrors of a nuclear Holocaust, a ticking warning in the back of almost everyone's mind, are ever-present, perhaps ever-closer whenever a terrorist, or a rogue state, or someone less fair and balanced than even Fox news, discusses the possibility of an atomioc bomb getting loose. Lucy Walker's excellent documentary, "Countdown to Zero," is just
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Great Directors
Like almost all documentaries, the success of "Great Directors" depends on how interested one is in the subject matter, and since this one involves movies, I liked it. Angela Ismailos' film includes 10 interviews with some of her favorites, people like Bernardo Bertolucci, Catherine Breillat, Liliana Cavani, Stephen Frears, Todd Haynes, Richard Linklater, Ken Loach,
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King Doh
King Doh has been around for 31 years in its Warson Woods space, which makes it one of the longer-running Chinese restaurants in the community. It proudly displays a large handful of reviews, including a couple of very old ones from a former Post-Dispatch critic. Only a few people read them, we’d guess, but we
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I-70 Eats: Richmond, IN
Returning home from a driving trip East, we stopped for lunch in Richmond, IN, just this side of the Ohio line. On the ground floor of a rehabbed factory, brick walls showing the patina of age, Ghyslain Maurais, a Quebecois chef who married an Indiana girl, is serving lunch (and dinner Friday and Saturday) and
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Fela!
There's as much drama as dance, as much pain as pleasure, in "Fela!" the strong, flashy, throbbing musical directed and choreographed brilliantly and with his usual flowing imagination and imagery by Bill T. Jones. I saw it in New York recently, and can highly recommend it to St. Louisans planning vacations. The rhythmic, pulsating Afrobeat
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I-70 Eats: Columbus, OH
Driving east from St. Louis on I-70, Columbus, Ohio, makes a mid-afternoon stop for us, or an overnight if we’re running late. But we recently found a reason to violate all rules of sensible eating at Jeni’s, a short, easy detour from the interstate and a place we won’t pass up ever again. Ice cream
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Promises, Promises
For all its glitter and brightness, for all its Neil Simon one-liners and the talent exploding on the stage of the Robert G. Reim Theatre, there's an underlying bitterness and sadness to "Promises, Promises," the Stages St. Louis production that will run through Aug. 15. Ben Nordstrom inhabits the body and mind of Chuck Baxter
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No More Salad at Penn Station?
As America–and food writers–continue to wrestle with the problem of obesity, another restaurant chain has done its bit to make things worse. Penn Station, which serves an acceptable cheesesteak sandwich, along with many variations on the sub/grinder theme, has stopped offering salads (and wraps, too). Removed from their menu boards, removed from their website. It
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Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky
I cannot recall ever seeing a movie more strikingly beautiful than "Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky," a fictionalized account of a love affair between the composer and the designer in the 1920s, when the world was recovering from "the war to end all wars." Marie-Helene Sulmoni is credited as production designer, and her work is