Ann Lemons Pollack
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A couple of historical plants and their fruit, all with strong Missouri/Midwestern connections, brought us to "The Book of Difficult Fruit". https://www.stlmag.com/dining/the-book-of-difficult-fruit/
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The Glass Menagerie
It is, surely, heresy to compare Tennessee Williams to William Shakespeare. And yet every summer that Carrie Houk’s brainchild, Tennessee Williams Festival St. Louis, comes to fruition, it’s hard to resist the urge. The range of human experience, American-style, is evoked in lovely and unlovely ways, the conflict between aspirational dreams and everyday necessity drawn
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‘ART’
Nobody has to explain outdoor theatre to St. Louisans, one would think. Not with our century-long tradition of the Muny, and the now-established popularity of Shakespeare Festival-St. Louis with its increasingly varied venues. But somehow, the side lawn of Tower Grove Abbey feels new and different. Stray Dog Theatre is offering ‘ART’ – while adhering
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The Sound of Music
The Sound of Music: Is it a musical theatre cliché? For those who’ve seen it many times, it surely might be. It verges on teeth-on-edge sweet. It’s not the best of Rogers and Hammerstein’s scores. And having it played over and over via video recordings may have put some folks over the edge. (Not that
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Tiny Beautiful Things
Advice columns are a secret vice for a lot of people who think they’re a little too close to tabloid material. But who among us can resist the occasional chance to overhear, so to speak, stories out of other people’s lives? That’s what the columns give us, whether it’s questions about heartburn or heartache. Cheryl
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Smokey Joe’s Cafe
It’s the Muny. The full-strength Muny. The only thing missing was the pre-show dinners at the Culver Pavilion, a small price to pay for a surprisingly pleasant weather-wise evening of The Real Thing. Yes, they suggest masks. But it was obvious in the way Mike Isaacson, artistic director and executive producer was greeted for his
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Roadrunner:
The movie about Anthony Bourdain opened this weekend. What a fascinating, out of control personality he was. I wrote about it here in Dining on the St. Louis Magazine website: https://www.stlmag.com/dining/roadrunner-anthony-bourdain-movie-opens-st-louis/
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Now Playing Third Base for the St. Louis Cardinals…Bond, James Bond
Didn’t grow up in St. Louis? Don’t speak baseball? Never saw From Russia with Love? Never mind; you’ll probably still enjoy Now Playing Third Base for the St. Louis Cardinals…Bond, James Bond, the current offering from The Midnight Company. Joe Hanrahan, Midnight’s co-founder wrote this out of his own St. Louis youth, and performs the
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Throwback Mondays!
Pepe Kehm, of Peno Italian Soul Food, has come up with a swell way to celebrate the return to whatever normal looks like post-lockdown. One Monday a month for six months, he's bringing back some well-known chefs of St. Louis' past. Some of them are still working a little, others are living in an active
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Feast
What becomes a legend most? That was one of advertising’s most famous lines from the mid-Twentieth Century. The campaign for Blackglama mink used wonderful Richard Avedon photos of celebrities who – mostly – qualified as legends. All of them, of course were in the dark, lush and hard-to-photograph fur. Fur coats were probably a given