Email Author Aimee Levitt

Awards

• 2011 - National Association of Black Journalists Awards, published November 4, 2010

  "Kevin Jackson Wrote the Book..."

• 2011 - National Association of Black Journalists Awards, published June 30, 2010

  "Dr. Peanut"

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards

  "Literary St. Louis"

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2009 Stories by Aimee Levitt

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  FEATURED STORY

  Post Secret Reading Apparently Good Place to Troll for a One-Night Stand

  published Sep 30, 2009

  Looks like somebody got lucky at last year's Post Secret reading at UMSL. (The Daily RFT did not.)r It sounds like the correspondent is trying to say, "I won't be wearing any underwear," but don't a b... More >>

• Happy One Hit Wonder Day!

  published Sep 25, 2009

  Today marks that most significant of festivals: National One Hit Wonder Day. It's time to celebrate "The Macarena" and "What I Am" and "Come On Eileen" and "I'm Too Sexy" and "Afternoon Delight" and "... More >>

• SLSO Continues to Make Money, Reduce Deficit

  published Sep 25, 2009

  The Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra ended its fiscal year August 31 with an increase in fundraising and a decrease in its deficit. Added to the increase in ticket sales reported at the end of the conce... More >>

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  Retailers Feeling Flavored Cigarette Ban

  published Sep 23, 2009

  A guy walks into HSB Tobacconist in the Delmar Loop on Wednesday afternoon and asks Rick, the store manager, for a pack of Djarum Black Cloves.Rick laughs. "You living in a caver Monday was the last d... More >>

• Clydesdales Elected to Madison Avenue Advertising Walk of Fame

  published Sep 22, 2009

  It should probably have come as no surprise that there is an Advertising Walk of Fame on Madison Avenue in New York, but we were unaware until this morning. That was when we received a press release... More >>

• RFT talks with the St. Louis nurse who kept Saddam healthy until it was time for him to hang

  published September 23, 2009

  St. Louisan Was Saddam's Nurse Five years ago Robert Ellis was charged with the most memorable assignment of his life: keep Saddam... More >>

• Behold the World's Creepiest Kiss

  published Sep 21, 2009

  If we learned one thing from seeing WALL-E, it's that robots have feelings, too. Of course, it's one thing to see cute Pixar robots fall in love. It's another to see a simulation of the same thing in ... More >>

• Ladies: Rams Provide an Introduction to the Super-Complicated Game of Football

  published Sep 18, 2009

  Football is a really, really hard game to understand and guys just hate it when you interrupt and ask them to explain stuff. They hate it even more than when you  walk in front of the TV during a... More >>

• Say Goodbye to the Mizzou "Fan Can"

  published Sep 18, 2009

  Anheuser-Busch yesterday agreed to stop producing the black-and-gold Mizzou Bud Light "fan cans" that were a source of concern to the university's administration because they were said to promote unde... More >>

• What to Expect When You're Expecting Economic Recovery

  published Sep 15, 2009

  In an interesting piece in the October Atlantic, Benjamin Schwarz surveys a collection of books about daily life during the Great Depression in an attempt to glean some lessons from the past about wha... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Group Demands Recognition of U. City Tiger

  published Sep 15, 2009

  For years now, University City has been awash in secrets and lies. It's widely believed that a lion and a lioness guard the west end of the Delmar Loop. The lion is, after all, the city's symbol, and ... More >>

• We Love Our Cheap Gas!

  published Sep 14, 2009

  You may not be aware, but there are high and low seasons for gasoline consumption. (Yeah, it was a surprise to us, too.) The summer driving season ended last week, on Labor Day, and in the resulting p... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  St. Louis Public Library Employee Gets to See Own Book on Shelves

  published Sep 11, 2009

  The number of short-story collections about St. Louis is embarrassingly small; offhand, we can only think of two: The Middle of the Night by Daniel Stolar, out in 2004, and now Joe's Black T-Shirt by ... More >>

• U. City Gets Really, Really Serious About Parking Tickets

  published Sep 11, 2009

  Nearly two years ago, University City became aware of its reputation for laxity toward parking tickets -- and how much it had lost in revenue -- and decided to do something about it. The fines would i... More >>

• FoodWire: La Dolce Via Joins in Health Care Debate

  published Sep 08, 2009

  Bill McClellan devoted his column this past Sunday, September 6, to telling the story of Marcia Sindel, owner of La Dolce Via (4474 Arco Avenue; website). Sindel has no health insurance, is in debt fo... More >>

• Wash. U. Closes Biology, Math Libraries, Ponders Future of Books

  published Sep 08, 2009

  Oh, brave new world, with your 24-hour Internet access and ubiquitous empty wallets and red-soaked ledgers! You have encroached even upon the rarified campus of Washington University -- yes, even that... More >>

• Real Men of Genius: Mizzou Chancellor Kindly Requests A-B to Quit Selling Bud Light in Black and Gold Cans

  published Aug 31, 2009

  Add Mizzou to the list of schools that fail to see the "genius" of the Bud Light Fan Can. Chancellor Brady Deaton has officially registered his disapproval.As Chad reported last week, Fan Cans, ... More >>

• St. Louis Designers Mix Vintage Hot Rods and High-End Man-Fashion

  published Aug 27, 2009

  It must be said that most people's idea of hot-rod fashion comes from the Fonz and the "Go Greased Lightning" number in the movie Grease, that is, leather jackets and shop-class jumpsuits, both worn o... More >>

• Chad Garrison wages a lonely protest, while a newlywed takes a bummer of an acid trip in a Fenton park

  published August 26, 2009

  Me Thinks Thou Doth Protest Too Much Ijust wrote a 1,000-word essay on the bizarre political rhetoric of the last few weeks. But then I... More >>

• That Little Light At the End of the Recession Tunnel is Actually Five Years Away

  published Aug 25, 2009

  Last month, Macroeconomics Advisers, LLC, a Clayton-based economic consulting firm predicted that the recession should be ending just about now, with a significant caveat: We won't actually start to f... More >>

• Elvis Lives in Collinsville! (Sort Of.)

  published Aug 24, 2009

  The sublimely Onion-esque headline in Saturday's Post-Dispatch probably says it all:r But let's elaborate.The local man is named Bill Cherry. He hails from Collinsville. On August 13, at the culminati... More >>

• U.S. Snooze: Wash. U. Remains Best University in Missouri, Still Number 12 Nationwide

  published Aug 21, 2009

  Yesterday, just in time for the arrival of this year's freshman class at Washington University, U.S. News and World Report released its annual college rankings for 2010. Wash. U. came in at number 12,... More >>

• Keep Your Wallet Far From Spazio's Westport Tonight

  published Aug 19, 2009

  A Texas Internet-type company called iJango is holding a meeting at Spazio's in Westport tonight to attract St. Louis-area investors, and the Better Business Bureau is warning St. Louisans to be wary,... More >>

• Even in Recession, Bread Co. Continues To Take Over the World

  published Aug 18, 2009

  rThe St. Louis Bread Co. -- known to the outside world as Panera -- is the subject of a story in today's Wall Street Journal, which explains how the chain managed to increase its profits in the seco... More >>

• Pudd'nhead Books is Gett'n Some Love

  published Aug 18, 2009

  For years, Left Bank Books and Subterranean Books have duked it out for St. Louis' independent book-selling supremacy. But last fall, a third rival entered the mix, Webster Groves' Pudd'nhead Books.La... More >>