Ann Lemons Pollack
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Thoughts on Visiting Clementine’s Creamery
National Ice Cream Day was this past Sunday. Wise of them to do it on a Sunday, don’t you think? A Sunday afternoon stroll or drive? Maybe a post-prandial cone in the evening? Americana at its best, one of the universal experiences. Clementine’s Creamery just opened its second location, on DeMun with the green park
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All Shook Up
It’s amusing to ponder what the Twenty-somethings are thinking if they see All Shook Up!. It opened Thursday at the Muny. Certainly the story, which is very, very loosely based on Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, talking about love among the young (and even the not-so-young) might appeal to them. But how does the music of five
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Evangeline’s
This is not a review. It was going to be, but things happened. I had brunch with four friends at Evangeline’s Bistro and Music House. I’ve had brunch there before, and was happy with the food, the service, and of course the music. I wrote about that here. But: Our food arrived 90 minutes after our
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Albert Herring
Those who mutter about opera being too serious, too heavy, should hie themselves to Union Avenue Opera’s current offering Albert Herring, good lighthearted stuff in the heat of mid-July. Victorian morals cross swords with a mamma’s boy in the tale of a shy grocer. Albert is named King of the May after none of the
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On Golden Pond
On Golden Pond is rather more disconcerting than its general reputation implies. The play, by a 28-year-old Ernest Thompson, shows us a long-term marriage between a retired English professor and his patient wife. There’s a certain aww, cute aura about it that the play’s script frequently knocks off-kilter, if not intermittently obliterates altogether. Insight Theatre
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Just One Bite: Kansas City Barbeque
An overnight run to Kansas City last week found my pal and me knocking back ‘que at Fiorella’s Jack Stack. They’ve been around since 1957, and there are five locations, all rather large. We hit the one in Country Club Plaza – only in Kansas City would there be a barbeque spot in such an
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LaBute New Theater Festival 2017, part 1
St. Louis Actors’ Studio’s LaBute New Theater Festival has opened. As usual, there’s a new LaBute short play and six other plays from their competition. Also as usual, the Festival is in two parts, each composed of the LaBute offering, this year called Hate Crime, and three of the winners. Hate Crime is classic LaBute,
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
It’s true that no one walks out of a theater humming the scenery. But on leaving the Muny’s A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, there were a couple of people merrily singing “Everybody Ought to Have a Maid.” It’s that kind of a show, and it was that kind of a
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The Taco and Ice Cream Joint
The Taco and Ice Cream Joint is way too much fun. On Cherokee Street a few blocks west of Jefferson, it’s a great combination of old and new in a setting definitely falls into the New category, brick walls, barn siding and more kinds of Mexican ice cream than you can shake a churn at.
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Dim Sum Tips: How to Eat
Regular readers know that, on the whole, I don't post links except to my own work. But I just came across this video from Tasting Table. It's from the third generation of the family that owns the Nom Wah Tea Parlor in New York. Nom Wah has been operating just shy of a hundred years;