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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2010 Stories by Aimee Levitt

• Can the Negro Leagues Museum Survive the Recessionr

  published Feb 02, 2010

  The count is rising against the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City.Strike one: The recession, which is hurting museums all over the country, but the Negro League Museum, which runs largely o... More >>

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  Just How Ugly Are Missouriansr The Daily Beast Reports!

  published Feb 01, 2010

  Once again, The Daily Beast has figured out a way to make Missourians feel bad. In honor of the Miss America Pageant, the website has decided to rank the best-looking states based on all its residents... More >>

• No Movement Afoot in St. Louis to Ban Dictionary, Even Though it Contains Dirty Words

  published Feb 01, 2010

  One of the easiest ways to educate oneself about unfamiliar terms is to look them up in the dictionary. For many kids, sexual practices fall under the category of "unfamiliar terms". Last week, the Me... More >>

• Holy Crap! Wash. U. Annual Tuition Rises to $39,400

  published Jan 25, 2010

  If you want to go to Washington University next year, you should aspire to be one of the following: 1) A stellar athlete, 2) Someone with phenomenal credit, 3) Super-rich or 4) Really good at proving ... More >>

• Love, Murder, Slavery in Colonial Ste. Gen! Film Screening at Historical Museum

  published Jan 22, 2010

  Under These Same Stars, a film based on a murder investigation in Ste. Genevieve in 1773, will have its premiere at 1:30 p.m.  this Sunday, January 24, at the Missouri Historical Museum. Its crea... More >>

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  Truman State Student Tweets About "Jew Killing Spree," Exercises First Amendment Rights

  published Jan 22, 2010

  Not content with simply observing Hit a Jew Day, Truman State University sophomore Rachel Oetting Tweeted last Monday, r Within a few hours, Oetting had achieved Internet celebrity, of sorts, when her... More >>

• Shocking Revelations in MovieMaker Magazine's List of Top 10 Cities for Filmmakers

  published Jan 21, 2010

  Surely the people behind a magazine called MovieMaker would have seen Up in the Air. Surely those same people, if they were compiling a list of the ten best cities in the U.S. for moviemakers (or Movi... More >>

• SLSO to Dedicate Beethoven Concert to Des Lee

  published Jan 20, 2010

  The Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra has just announced that it plans to dedicate its all-Beethoven concert on Saturday, January 30 to longtime benefactor E. Desmond "Des" Lee who died last week.Lee, wh... More >>

• More Pictures of Antarctica and Poems by Ron Smith

  published Jan 20, 2010

  It's unfortunate that we don't have enough space in our dead-tree edition to publish more photos and poetry by the subject of this week's feature, "Poetry in a Cold Climate: Ron Smith found his muse i... More >>

• Get Born Gets Dead

  published Jan 19, 2010

  rThat's the headline on the blog of the local reading series and poetry 'zine and, frankly, we don't think we can improve upon it. After three years, Get Born has decided it's not needed anymore and w... More >>

• Mudcats No More: Spoon River College Ditches Mascot After Minor League Team Threatens to Sue

  published Jan 19, 2010

  A mudcat is a type of catfish that lives in the Spoon River in west-central Illinois. So it would make some sort of sense that Spoon River College, a community college with four campuses along said ri... More >>

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  Satan Responds to Pat Robertson's Claim That He Struck a Bargain With Haiti

  published Jan 19, 2010

  Satan has finally gotten around to responding to Pat Robertson's accusations last week that a bargain he struck with Haiti 200 years ago is the reason for all of that nation's misfortunes, including l... More >>

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  Poetry in a Cold Climate: Ron Smith found his muse in Antarctica's vast icy wilderness

  published January 20, 2010

  Air Force Colonel Ron Smith keeps his cold-weather gear in the bedroom closet of his sparely furnished apartment in the Central West End. "I... More >>

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  For Most of U.S., it's MLK Day, For Rest of World, Blue Monday

  published Jan 18, 2010

  rToday is Martin Luther King Day here in the U.S. (with a few exceptions, like Riverfront Times world headquarters). And it's a damned good thing, too, because otherwise, we'd be observing Blue Monda... More >>

• Crossroads Alum Killed in Haiti

  published Jan 15, 2010

  Flo McGarrell, an artist and graduate of Crossroads College Prep, was killed in Tuesday's earthquake in Haiti. He lived in Jacmel and specialized in agrisculpture, sculpture constructed from organic m... More >>

• Cast Your Vote Now for Mizzou's Nerd of the Year

  published Jan 15, 2010

  Last January Nancy Moen, a writer for Mizzou Wire in the university's communication department, had an inspiration. It arrived in the form of math professor Peter Casazza, who walked by her office eve... More >>

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  Mall-Walkers Rally to Save Northwest Plaza

  published Jan 14, 2010

  When Northwest Plaza opened in St. Ann in 1963, it was the largest shopping center in the world with five anchor department stores and 185 smaller shops, restaurants and boutiques. Centrally located n... More >>

• New Used Bookstore The Archive to Host Gallery Show, Preview Friday Night

  published Jan 12, 2010

  The Archive, a new used bookstore that claims to be "somewhere between Berkeley and Paris" but is actually at 3213-15 Cherokee Street, will be holding a preview night on Friday, January 15, which will... More >>

• New York Times Analyzes McGwire's 'Roids Reveal Strategy, Finds it Sound

  published Jan 12, 2010

  If one were a professional baseball player, and if one used performance-enhancing drugs, and if one was evasive about it under questioning from members of the United States Congress, and if one were t... More >>

• "It Wasn't Until I Bought Twelve Beef Jerky Sticks That I Realized I Had a Problem": Drury Hotel Ads Rip Off Up in the Air, Sort Of

  published Jan 11, 2010

  Yes, it's true, George Clooney, er, Ryan Bingham would never stay in a Drury Inn. (They don't have luxurious terry cloth robes for him to wear after burrito-ing Vera Farmiga in the sofa cushions.) He ... More >>

• Blago to Compete on Next Celebrity Apprentice

  published Jan 05, 2010

  It's been years since "You're fired!", accompanied by a cobra-like flick of Donald Trump's right hand, became a national catchphrase, so long, in fact, that Trump has resorted to casting celebrities i... More >>

• Wash U. Aims for the Moon by 2019

  published Jan 04, 2010

  MoonRise, a project developed by Washington University researchers, has been named a finalist for NASA's next space science venture, scheduled for 2019.Led by Bradley Jolliff, a professor of earth and... More >>

• Leibman Bids Farewell to Left Bank Books, St. Louis

  published Jan 04, 2010

  If you've ever paid a visit to Left Bank Books, odds are you've seen Barry Leibman. He's the mustachioed gray-haired gent with the owlish glasses who variously rings up your purchases, guides you thro... More >>