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

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  This Hanukkah, Walmart Balducci's Suggests You Try a Ham!

  published Dec 06, 2010

  This photo was taken at a Walmart in Scottsdale, Arizona: Correction: Thank you, alert reader Flamingo Montoya, for pointing out that these photos were actually taken three years ago at Balducci's,... More >>

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  Sweet Valley Confidential, Confidentially

  published Dec 03, 2010

  Daily RFT recently got its hands on a review copy of Sweet Valley Confidential: Ten Years Later. (Don't ask us how -- we'd have to kill you.) If you weren't a pre-pubescent girl in the late eighties o... More >>

• Disabled Artists at Turner Center for the Arts Display, Sell Their Work Tomorrow Night

  published Dec 02, 2010

  If you're interested in buying your loved ones some art this holiday season and don't happen to be a millionaire, head on down to the Turner Center for the Arts' annual holiday exhibition in Maplewood... More >>

• Monsanto to Glenn Beck: We Are Not Evil and Sinister and Manipulative, Unlike You

  published Dec 01, 2010

  As Ian noted over on Gut Check, Senate Bill 510, the food safety bill, passed yesterday morning with a vote of 72 to 25. This, despite the best efforts of Glenn Beck. Beck took to the airwaves Monday ... More >>

• Not Just a Bookstore Re-Opens Saturday in the Grove

  published Dec 01, 2010

  If you've been to the Grove lately, you may have noticed that there have been a few additions besides the garish neon sign at the intersection of Manchester and Chouteau Avenues. For one thing, there'... More >>

• This Month in Science

  published Nov 30, 2010

  Here in St. Louis, lots and lots of people are working tirelessly to explain the meaning of life -- not in the philosophical sense, but literally: How does the universe workr Here are some of the disc... More >>

• Never Mind Concert Tickets -- The St. Louis Symphony Has the Perfect Holiday Gift

  published Nov 30, 2010

  It's still 25 days till Christmas, but Hanukkah starts tomorrow, and hoo boy does the St. Louis Symphony have a gift for you! No, it's not music. Which would actually be pretty nice. No, the Symphony ... More >>

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  Wash. U. Researcher Plans to Use Bee Venom to Stop Pregnancy, HIV

  published Nov 29, 2010

  We've known for years now that unprotected sex can lead to both pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV. We've also known that condoms do a pretty good, but by no means perfect, job... More >>

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  Gut Check Conjures the Ghosts of Thanksgivings (Far) Past

  published Nov 25, 2010

  On November 29, 1900, the Park Avenue Hotel in New York City hosted a Thanksgiving dinner. While Good Housekeeping advised the masses to stick to roast turkey, cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, tomato... More >>

• This Holiday Season, Give 'Em an Animal Farm (Not the Orwellian Kind)

  published Nov 24, 2010

  Have a horrible fear of crowdsr Feel like sleeping late on Black Fridayr The Humane Society of Missouri has the solution for you! Instead of hiking out to the mall, sit down at your computer (you don'... More >>

• Jonathan Franzen Expresses His Love for the Mekons In -- Surprise -- A Verbose Way

  published Nov 24, 2010

  We've written so much about Jonathan Franzen over on Daily RFT, it's finally reached critical mass and overflowed to infest A to Z. So here we go: Didja know the famous novelist (author most recently... More >>

• How Mark Twain Nearly Became the Grinch Who Stole Thanksgiving

  published Nov 23, 2010

  On November 30, 1905, Mark Twain turned 70. That blessed occasion was marked by interviews with fawning reporters, equally fawning newspaper articles and plans for an elaborate birthday dinner at Delm... More >>

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  Wash. U. Students Set Guinness World Record for Biggest Nerf Gun Battle

  published Nov 22, 2010

  Let it not be said that students at Washington University are not overachievers. Over the weekend, recent graduate Priya Sury was named a Rhodes Scholar. Also, 468 current students shot at each other ... More >>

• Franzen Nominated for Another Prestigious Award

  published Nov 22, 2010

  Jonathan Franzen's latest novel Freedom may not have been nominated for the National Book Award (though it sold way more copies than the eventual winner, Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon -- which Daily... More >>

• Final Performances of Real Life at Grandel Theatre This Weekend

  published Nov 19, 2010

  This Sunday, November 21, is your last chance to catch Joel P.E. King's hip-hop/pop/gospel musical Real Life at the Grandel Theatre. There will be two performances, one at 2 p.m. and one at 6 p.m., an... More >>

• Orthodox Synagogue Wants You to Know: Kosher Food Can Be Fun!

  published Nov 19, 2010

  About ten years ago, a certain reporter toiled as an editorial assistant at an educational publisher. The publisher was working on an anthology of Jewish literature, and, since it was a small and demo... More >>

• How to Answer That Awkward Holiday Question "Are You Pregnant Yetr"

  published Nov 19, 2010

  Ah, the holidays! Time of happiness and cheer and family togetherness. And who knows better how to ask the most awkward and embarrassing questions than your familyr Fortunately, Dr. Elan Simckes of t... More >>

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  County Animal Control Staffed by Underqualified, Overpaid Incompetents

  published Nov 19, 2010

  Dr. Helen Kamp did not phrase her complaints in such strong language when she resigned from her job as a veterinarian in the animal control department at the St. Louis County Department of Health last... More >>

• The Queen of Hearts Showing Tonight at SLIFF

  published Nov 16, 2010

  The Queen of Hearts Directed by Valerie Donzelli 9:15 p.m. Tuesday, November 16, and 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, November 17, at Plaza Frontenac If the French film The Queen of Hearts gets remade in America... More >>

• Postal Worker Stole $2,500 in Birthday Money From Wash. U. and Fontbonne Kids

  published Nov 16, 2010

  Thomas Riner, who sorted mail at the U.S. Postal Service processing center downtown, was convicted in a federal court last Wednesday, November 10, of nine counts of mail tampering and one count of mai... More >>

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  Mizzou Researchers Discover Beer is Nicer if it Comes in a Fan Can

  published Nov 15, 2010

  Remember the Bud Light Fan Cansr They were Anheuser-Busch's great marketing ploy in the early days of the 2009 college football season. The brewery produced special colorful cans of Bud Light that str... More >>

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  Is the RFT Hauntedr

  published Nov 12, 2010

  Way, way back in the day (well, the early 90s), before the Loop became a nice place again and the Riverfront Times was still by the river front, the Tivoli building housed a movie theater, three floor... More >>

• After Horror Show, Ivory Theatre is Alive and Well

  published Nov 11, 2010

  As of last Friday, November 5, the homepage for the Ivory Theatre went dark, sparking rumors of the troubled theater's demise. But those rumors are unfounded says Scott Steele, the new general manager... More >>

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  Citizens of Columbia Finally Atone for 1923 Lynching of Mizzou Janitor

  published Nov 11, 2010

  Back in the spring of 1923, someone raped fourteen-year-old Regina Almstadt, the daughter of a professor of German literature at the University of Missouri. Regina told Columbia police that the rapist... More >>

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  One Lucky Elephant

  published November 11, 2010

  One Lucky Elephant Directed by Lisa Leeman One Lucky Elephant is, essentially, a love story. For sixteen years, David... More >>