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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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Here Lies Henry
Small-house theater has returned, too. Joe Hanrahan’s The Midnight Company (which even did a show in November) is working at the Kranzberg Black Box, with Here Lies Henry. As usual with The Midnight Company, and Hanrahan in particular, it’s a quirky work. It’s a solo piece, sometimes referred to as a one-hander from playwright Daniel
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Thanks, Jordan
From Jordan Palmer at S. Louis Mag: https://www.stlmag.com/dining/ann-lemons-pollack-s-newest-book-iconic-restaurants-of-st-louis/
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From Auntie Beeb
I'm happy to report that the BBC has discovered Bulrush, Rob Connoley's restaurant in Grand Center! https://www.stlmag.com/dining/rob-connoley-s-bulrush-featured-in-bbc-travel/?utm_source=second-street&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2020_04_12+The+Current
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West End Grill & Pub
Not just for patrons of the Gaslight Theatre, and to the delight of regulars, WEGAP is back. https://www.stlmag.com/dining/west-end-grill-and-pub/
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Photograph 51 – West End Players Guild
When I was younger, I thought office politics happened only in offices, like in Mad Men (or, for another generation, The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit). Then I went to work at a university hospital and began hanging out with physicians and researchers, often merrily referring to themselves as lab rats. After a while
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Farragut North
Farragut North is a Metro stop in Washington, DC, just off K Street, NW, the home of big-time lobbyists, law firms and other consultant-type outfits. Farragut North, the current show at St. Louis Actors’ Studio, however, is about an Iowa presidential caucus season in 2008, although it isn’t specifically about that particular contest. Stephen Bellamy
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Tribes
Tribes, the current offering from St. Louis Actors’ Studio, is definitely not a comedy. It’s a drama with some very funny lines, the sort of unsettling combination that makes audiences sit up and pay close attention. It’s engrossing enough that the night I was there, at the end of the first act, the audience was
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End of the Rainbow
Eng of the Rainbow is no lighthearted whimsy, let’s establish that right away. The last few months of Judy Garland’s life come to us unvarnished, in all their spangled, stumbling glory. We are in, mostly, a suite at the Ritz Hotel in London – not a Ritz-Carlton, but an original Ritz, established by Cesar Ritz
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Regina
Opera Theatre of St. Louis brings us the relatively unknown work titled Regina. But this is a story and characters film and theater buffs will recognize as Lillian Hellman’s play The Little Foxes, later made into a film with the redoubtable Bette Davis as the lead. Marc Blitzstein wrote the music and libretto with much