Ann Lemons Pollack
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The Book of Moron
To begin with, let us make perfectly clear that The Book of Moron is not a parody of The Book of Mormon. Currently running at the Playhouse at Westport Plaza through New Year’s Day, and performed by its creator Robert Dubac, the subtitle is If Thinking Were Easy Everyone Would Do It. Moron is a
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Flashback: The Original Cyrano’s
While the new Cyrano's in Webster Groves is very nice – I love the food-related wall art, and it's a fine place for post-Repertory Theatre eating and drinking – it's just a different creature than the original mothership. Here's a few words on it; I imagine a lot of readers could say a lot more.
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Yolklore
I suppose, if you will forgive me, this could be called an Eggs-press restaurant. Eggcept all the food is cooked to order, or at least the food you'd expect. (The chocolate cake, for instance, isn't. It'd melt the ganache.) But the food is good, sometimes great, and it's frequently very interesting. I like it a lot.
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Flashback: Layton’s
It's hard to drive by the still-shuttered Layton's on Clayton Road without thinking of Jackie Mason holding court there. But lots of other people did, too.
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Strasbourg and Montreux: Christmas Markets
This time last year, I was heading for Europe and the holidays, both to visit family and friends who are almost like family, and to do a little business. Of course, when your business is pleasure, that’s not too hard, and I had long wanted to sample the European Christmas markets. I wrote about it
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Cajun Sweet Potatoes
Like many small-town Midwesterners and Southerners, I grew up in a world of candied sweet potatoes. Marshmallows were a new-fangled poseur-type thing when they showed in the Eisenhower Administration, not that anyone ever knew that French word. I never saw a recipe for sweet potatoes; like dressing, it was something you, or your mother or
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The Baker’s Store, King Arthur Flour, Norwich VT
Specialization can be a good thing. There are those who bake, for instance, and those who eat what the first group bakes. But some of us live in the gray area in between the two. For us, we want, perhaps even need, lots of things. Inspiration. Motivation. Equipment. Knowledge. The search for those provides a
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Flashback: Gian-Peppe’s
My first visit to Gian-Peppe's – wasn't. My beau, accustomed to the hurly-burly of Boston, felt that in St. Louis one surely wouldn't need reservations at a restaurant, even one who'd recently been reviewed with considerable relish by a certain food critic of the Post-Dispatch. We waited until he, embarrassed, confessed to being too hungry
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Savannah: Gryphon
People who know the visual arts don’t have to be told about the pleasures of Savannah. The city’s architecture is a delight, the proliferation of small squares each a mini-vacation, and the presence of the Savannah College of Art and Design an ever-increasing factor in giving the city continued vitality. Rather than tearing down old
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Fun Home
Fun Home, which just opened at the Fox, has recently begun its first national tour. It’s not quite coming home for the holidays – this is a New York show – but it’s surely visiting the grandparents. Fox Associates, which began with the glorious makeover of the Fox Theatre in 1982, are among the producers