Ann Lemons Pollack
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The Royale
Please don’t skip seeing the Rep Studio’s The Royale thinking it’s just another sports story. Yes, it’s about a boxer on his way to the top. But it’s beyond that. It does harken back to Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion. But it doesn’t feel like a rewrite of Great White Hope. Jay “Sport”
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Zorba
Don’t go expecting Anthony Quinn in Zorba, the current New Line Theatre show. This is the Kander and Ebb musical version, which opened four years after the film Zorba the Greek, in 1968. (Quinn, who did the movie, did, however, star in the 1983 Broadway revival.) It’s a good show for the intimate confines of
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Cleveland Heath
I admit it, I came late to the Cleveland Heath party. Life always gets in the way, but finally it all worked out. Three of us fired up the No Wait app and headed east to Edwardsville. The bar was hopping – and the cocktail menu looks seductive – but it’s not a bar scene,
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Eating Shakespeare
Our boy Will, that multi-tasking, multipurpose guy, is in on another project. SHAKE 38 will have restaurants involved this year. Just who will be involved will be released in three weeks. But for now, here's some details.
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Cod Squad 2017, Week 1
This year’s Cod Squaddery begins with a small – no one riding shotgun for me – visit to Our Lady of the Pillar on North Lindbergh. OLP, as it sometimes refers to itself, is on or at least immediately adjacent to the campus of Chaminade Prep, which means there’s plenty of parking, especially if you’re
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Eating Saigon
How did the chicken cross the road? If the chicken, or the faint-hearted food writer, was crossing the road in Ho Chi Minh City, the answer is VERY CAREFULLY. Ho Chi Minh City, or Saigon as many of us still think of it, is a huge city, more than 10 million in the metropolitan area.
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Carmen
The second of the two performance of Winter Opera St. Louis’ Carmen is Sunday afternoon, March 5 at 3 p.m. It’s particularly approachable in that this is a show whose music has been heard in a hundred places without most of us realizing it was from an opera, so it’s easy to smile at hearing
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Flashback: Trader Vic’s
My first encounter with a Trader Vic's was in the Palmer House Hotel in Chicago when I was 15 or so. Very exotic, especially to a kid from Desloge. Not that we went inside; that was not the sort of foolishness my parents, teachers who'd survived the Depression, cared to be associated with. Eventually it
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BRIEFS
Speaking of reminders of coming events, please don’t forget that the sixth and final BRIEFS Festival of Short LGBTQ plays is coming up. It’s at the new .ZACK Performing Arts Center, which is at 3224 Locust, just east of Grand Center, on March 9-11. Evenings at 8, plus a Saturday matinee at 4 p.m. The