Ann Lemons Pollack
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Joey B’s On The Hill
Now that the Hampton Avenue overpass into Forest Park has reopened, traffic on the avenue has picked up again, although our guess is that it didn’t much affect Joey B’s On The Hill. Even early in the week, when we’ve visited, the joint is jumping. Located in what was until last year Bartolino’s, at the
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Annie Gunn’s: The BLE
We had lunch at Annie Gunn’s not long ago, and overall things were, not surprisingly, very tasty. But one dish stood out. Even visually, it was enough to make us gasp when the server placed it in front of us. Described on the menu as a BLE, it begins with a base of a large
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Barrymore
One-person shows, especially about actors, are major problems for small theater companies. With few exceptions, these are about great actors, and small St. Louis companies don’t have great actors. They have very good actors, like John Contini in "Barrymore," which opened over the weekend as a production of the Avalon Theatre Company at its space
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This Week’s Wine June 28, 2009
We’ve always been great fans of California’s Sonoma County, and not just because of its wines. We like the fact that it’s a little more relaxed than Napa, just across the mountains to the east. We are awed by Sonoma’s fertility and the great abundance of crops in addition to grapes. We enjoy fact that
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Cheri
Michelle Pfeiffer, as Lea, is uncommonly beautiful, glittering like a diamond and equally hard. As an actress, she’s sometimes satisfactory, mostly inadequate, as she shows (but never too much, in terms of skin) in "Cheri." On the other hand, Kathy Bates, as Charlotte, may be plus-sized and voluptuous, but she’s a splendid actress, and her
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O’Horten
Odd is his name and odd is his movie. "O’Horten," a Norwegian film that opened here yesterday, is a very different film, which is the kindest way to describe a movie written and directed by Bent Hamer. Odd Horten, played with wonderfully dead-pan skill by Baard Owe, is an engineer on the Oslo-Bergen railroad line,
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Food, Inc.
The surest way for a critic to cripple attendance at a movie he thinks is important is to say, "This is an important movie!" And yet, I’m going to have to chance it, because "Food, Inc.," which opens here today, is an important movie. It’s a very important movie, one that may have an effect
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My Sister’s Keeper
It’s a perfect entertainment trifecta: A hospital drama, a courtroom drama and a dying child.What more could anyone ask for summer movie-going? Certanly not "My Sister’s Keeper," which opens here today. Someone should have taken this overwrought, dishonest tear-jerker and drowned it in the nearest bathtub. Of course, it’s based on a Jodi Picoult novel,
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Coco Louco Brasil
Weekend samba-ing is now possible in the Central West End and caipirinhas are available seven nights a week. Such are the benefits offered at Coco Luoco, now located at the northern end of the Euclid strip. Jorge Carvalho of the late Café Brasil in Rock Hill has set up shop in larger premises, minus the
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Atlantic City
A couple of years ago, we raved about the food of chef Stephen Kalt when we ate at his Corsa Cucina in Las Vegas. Kalt has moved on, and this week, he told us that he’s opening a restaurant in Atlantic City in the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa. Named Forneletto, its menu – and