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

• UMSL Prof Explains Appeal of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

  published Apr 28, 2009

  It is a truth universally acknowledged that any pop cultural event involving both Jane Austen and zombies is bound to have huge appeal. (It is another truth universally acknowledged that any article o... More >>

• Chess Club Prepares for National Tournament, Rowdiness

  published Apr 28, 2009

  Brace yourselves, St. Louisans. The 2009 United States National Chess Tournament is coming to the Central West End's very own Chess Club and Scholastic Center of St. Louis. Prepare to be disabused of ... More >>

• Signs of Spring: Fir Tree Found Growing in Man's Lungs

  published Apr 27, 2009

  Ah, the smells of spring! The sweet perfume of lilacs and cherry blossoms. The comforting scent of dirt after a gentle rain. Makes you want to inhale deeply, to store up all these evanescent odors to ... More >>

• Watch Out Moles -- This Year Sweeney's Has a Camera!

  published Apr 23, 2009

  For the third year in a row, Sweeney's, the South County-based lawn vermin eradication experts, are sponsoring their "I Hate Moles Because..." contest. It may be hard to top last year's winner, Brenda... More >>

• Final Exit Network's Exit Guide Manual Released

  published Apr 22, 2009

  The Phoenix police have released, at least to the Associated Press, a copy of the training manual for "exit guides" in the Final Exit Network.I wrote about Final Exit in a feature story a couple of we... More >>

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  What's Up With the Laclede's Landing Wax Museumr: A Riverfront Times Investigation

  published Apr 20, 2009

  Here at the RFT, it is our business to keep abreast of community affairs and pass our accumulated knowledge onto you, dear readers. Reporting can be an arduous process. Oh, sure, we make it look easy ... More >>

• More Susan Boyle: "Cry Me A River"

  published Apr 17, 2009

  The Daily Record, a newspaper in Scotland, has found a recording of Susan Boyle singing "Cry Me A River" on a charity CD that came out in 1999. The CD was to benefit Whitburn Academy, a high school ne... More >>

• So You Wanna Be an "It Girl" (Or Guy), Too

  published Apr 16, 2009

  To the legions of tall, skinny girls with amazing metabolisms who read last September's feature on St. Louis model managers Jeff and Mary Clarke and some of their clients, including Karlie Kloss and K... More >>

• Pugilist Turned Pastor is Ready to Preach; Call Him on His Cell Phone

  published Apr 15, 2009

  At the end of 2007, when we asked Ferguson barber and former boxer Charles Oliver what he would do to improve St. Louis in 2008, he told us he wanted to change the way people think. "I would set up se... More >>

• Blagojevich Pleads Not Guilty, Misquotes Theodore Roosevelt

  published Apr 14, 2009

  Rod Blagojevich's recent troubles have been a great joy to anyone who likes a little Victorian poetry mixed with their political theater. Who else would have the audacity to quote Tennyson and, on mul... More >>

• Susan Boyle Restores My Faith in Humanity

  published Apr 14, 2009

  As Annie mentioned yesterday, it's cold and gray and altogether a depressing time to be in St. Louis. Despite all the goodwill that was supposed to be generated by Easter and Passover (rebirth, freedo... More >>

• Transgressions One of Many Gay-Themed Books Stripped of Amazon Sales Ranking

  published Apr 13, 2009

  Transgressions, the M/M romance savagely reviewed by Unreal last month, was among the first books stripped of its Amazon.com sales ranking last weekend. (And, no, it did not reveal its firmly-muscled ... More >>

• Make Your Own Peeps

  published Apr 10, 2009

  Just in case you happen to have a craving for Peeps this weekend, a lot of spare time and no inclination to battle the crowds at Walgreen's or Schnucks, Serious Eats has thoughtfully provided instruct... More >>

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  Why Is This Cooking for Your Cat Different From All Other Nightsr

  published Apr 10, 2009

  RFT staff writer Aimee Levitt and her cat, Bess, continue their culinary adventure.A colleague alerted me to an article in yesterday's New York Times about how the Jewish American Princesses (and Prin... More >>

• Chicago Pizzeria Owners Bitter Over Obama's Perfidious Preference for Pi

  published Apr 10, 2009

  It was only a matter of time. News of President Obama's invitation to Pi's Chris Sommers,  Ryan Mangilardo and Anne Schuermann to cater a White House dinner has reached Chicago, and, according to... More >>

• Newsweek: St. Louis Synagogue "Vibrant," Even Without Hot Rabbi

  published Apr 09, 2009

  Just in time for Passover, Newsweek has revealed its list of the 50 hottest rabbis in America. (We don't see the connection between Passover and rabbinical hotness, either. Butanyway.)"Hotness" in thi... More >>

• Thanking God for the Sun, Funky Shades and Nilla Wafers

  published Apr 08, 2009

  Today is an auspicious day to be a Jew.  It's the last day before Passover, which gives us total license to consume the last of our chametz, or leavened bread, which will be forbidden for the nex... More >>

• Ballwin Man's Nuisance Trial Delayed, Buying Time for Presidential Pardon

  published Apr 08, 2009

  At 1 p.m. yesterday, Lewis Greenberg, his lawyers, his lucky hat, a small group of supporters and a slightly larger contingent of belligerent neighbors gathered in a Clayton courtroom to determine onc... More >>

• Death Watch: Final Exit's clandestine ways have put the assisted-suicide network on life support

  published April 8, 2009

  James Hoggard has helped four people kill themselves. Or, as he and fellow members of the Final Exit Network prefer to say, he has hastened... More >>

• St. Louis Symphony's David Robertson: Kazoo Knewr

  published Apr 06, 2009

  David Robertson, the conductor of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, is a man of many talents, some of which he displayed at Carnegie Hall in New York last weekend.Robertson can sing silly nursery rhym... More >>

• April is the Cruelest Month

  published Apr 02, 2009

  That high-pitched wailing you hear across our nationr Is the sound of hundreds of thousands of high-school seniors bemoaning the cruel fate that did not let them in to their first-choice college.You c... More >>

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  Money Makes Us Happy (No, Literally)

  published Apr 01, 2009

  Thinking about money tends to depress me, mostly because the gap between my salary and my outstanding student loans is so distressingly wide. But now our friends at the New Scientist have published so... More >>

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  Otter in Mourning

  published Mar 30, 2009

  A moment of silence, please, for Splash the otter, who died three months ago at age ten after an infection from an abscessed tooth spread to his heart. And another moment for his brother and littermat... More >>

• Fun Fact of the Day: Potosi's Ties to Austin, Texas

  published Mar 30, 2009

  Stephen Austin, that music-festival-stealing skunk.Potosi, Missouri, was founded by Moses Austin, who later became one of the first Anglo settlers in Texas. Moses died before he could finish ... More >>

• La Dolce Via Festivities Continue!

  published Mar 25, 2009

  Remember La Dolce Via (4470 Arco Avenue, web site), the much-beloved Forest Park Southeast bakery and cafe that recently reopened after a two-month absence for remodelingr Home of the finest scones in... More >>