Ann Lemons Pollack
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Top Dog/Underdog
Are you familiar with three-card monte? If you've seen the "hat dance" at Busch Stadium, that's the basic premise of how it works, but unlike the sliding batting helmets, three-card monte is a scam. The most common place to see it is on the streets of New York, where a dealer sets up on
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Tuesday In the Park With Sid
It looked like a movie set: The sky was blue, the grass and trees were lush, plenty of people – not a crowd but not just a few – were soaking in the sun, walking or talking or sipping drinks. Small children swooped around, giddy from being released temporarily from their strollers. I was in
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Pierce’s Pitt Bar-B-Que
Williamsburg? What do you eat there? It's been too many years since my tourist visits for me to discuss places like The Trellis and Chowning's Tavern. But there's one spot that draws me back and rewards anyone who takes my word for it and stops by. I think my first visit to Pierce's Pitt Bar-B-Que
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The Original Pancake House
The coffee is good and plentiful, there's a delight of an orange juice machine (anyone remember Rube Goldberg?) and breakfast for lunch is easy-peasy. Take a look at the OPH's second location in the area, in the Ladue Marketplace. http://www.stlmag.com/St-Louis-Magazine/August-2013/The-Well-Seasoned-Life-The-Original-Pancake-House/
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Entertaining Mr. Sloan
The mysterious visitor has long been stock-in-trade for theater. So have dysfunctional families. They intersect in "Entertaining Mr. Sloan", currently playing at HotCity Theatre, and the result may well be the occasional gasp. But then one expects nothing less from the work of Joe Orton. The cadre of Angry Young Men of British arts were
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Parade
“Parade”, which opened this weekend at the Ivory Theatre, isn’t for folks who need cheering up. But nevertheless, it’s a worthwhile experience for those who understand we must remember history, even with artistic liberties, to avoid re-living it. The musical, whose book is by Alfred Uhry, who wrote “Driving Miss Daisy”, tells the story of
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Famous Szechuan Pavilion, Chapter 2
When I first wrote about Famous Szechuan Pavilion, I said it would possibly be a review in chapters, so intrigued was I by the menu. And so it has come to pass that I've returned. It's not that this is a long menu, by Chinese restaurant standards. The food and the dishes are so different that it
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Another Potato Salad
It’s not too late. You can still do a very good potato salad for Labor Day. The original potato salad I started out with (having grown up in a potato-salad-free home, I was left to my own devices) was a three-day affair, or at the least two, cooking the potatoes, seasoning them while still warm
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Eclipse: Brunch
Eclipse has moved its brunch to the rooftop, probably a good idea, but this past weekend their elevators died so the assembled motorcyclists and Washington University dropping-off parents made do with the space-y dining room of the restaurant, no great hardship. A fairly simple and reasonably priced ($15 for adults, including non-alcoholic beverages) brunch, but
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An Italian Chicken Salad
This is a very different sort of chicken salad. No dried cranberries, no curry powder, no slices of celery. I found it in some food magazine years and years ago, and they traced its ancestry to Harry's Bar in Venice, where it was used in little sandwiches, the Venetian tramezzini, crustless triangles with the filling