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

• Wash. U. Building Among World's Greenest

  published Oct 18, 2010

  The Living Learning Center at Washington University's Tyson Research Center has just been designated one of the first the first two Living Buildings by the International Living Building Institute (ILB... More >>

• The Health Benefits of Celebrity Journalism

  published Oct 15, 2010

  Fabulous news, celebrity magazine addicts: All those hours you've spent lolling around on the couch with bags of Chee-tohs and the latest copies of Us Weekly, In Touch and Life & Style aren't totally ... More >>

• On November 2, Cast Your Vote for Rich Whitey

  published Oct 14, 2010

  Uh, sorry, that's Rich Whitney, the Green Party's candidate for governor of Illinois. Unfortunately, his last name is showing up as "Whitey" on electronic voting machines in 23 Chicago wards, about ha... More >>

• Can it Ber National Book Award Thinks Freedom is Not the Greatest Novel of Our Time

  published Oct 13, 2010

  It's a tragedy beyond words: The National Book Award nominees were announced today -- and Freedom is not among them! Instead, the five nominees are Great House by Nicole Krauss, Parrot and Olivier in... More >>

• Grove Neighborhood Wants to Tell You, "You Are Here!"

  published Oct 13, 2010

  The Grove, formerly known as Forest Park Southeast, has been rumored for past ten years or so -- ever since they cleaned up the crack pipes that used to cover the sidewalks -- to be the most up-and-co... More >>

• Dana Loesch Takes Over as Editor of Breitbart's BigJournalism

  published Oct 12, 2010

  Dana Loesch, the blogger, radio host, Tea Party speaker, conservative lightning rod and Riverfront Times cover subject, has taken on yet another role: editor-in-chief of Andrew Breitbart's BigJournali... More >>

• Pig Shit to Paved Roads: Ain't Science Wonderfulr

  published Oct 12, 2010

  Innoventor, an Earth City-based company, got a $1 million grant from the Environmental Protection Agency last year to build a pressure cooker-like contraption that reduces pig waste into bio-oil that ... More >>

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  Son of Avowed Wash. U. Homophobe Comes Out in Post-Dispatch

  published Oct 11, 2010

  Back in 2003, Washington University physics professor Jonathan Katz published an essay on his departmental web page called "In Defense of Homophobia". In a stroke of what some might call poetic justic... More >>

• Just How Tall Were the Dinosaursr

  published Oct 08, 2010

  Everybody knows the dinosaurs were super-tall, but a University of Missouri anatomy professor has just proven everybody wrong. The dinosaurs weren't just super-tall. They were super-duper tall. The ex... More >>

• Pupocalypse Nowr: Local Blogger Imagines Disastrous Repercussions of Prop B

  published Oct 07, 2010

  We've got less than a month to go till Election Day now, when Missourians will go to the polls and determine the fates of Robin Carnahan, Roy Blunt, Ed Martin and thousands of puppies. If Prop B, offi... More >>

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  For Sale: The True Truman House

  published Oct 06, 2010

  One of the biggest attractions in Independence, Missouri, is the Harry Truman House. The elegant Victorian mansion at 219 North Delaware Street is, indeed, a house fit for a President, and the Nationa... More >>

• Franzen Frenzy: Why Couldn't This Have Happened Herer

  published Oct 04, 2010

  Catastrophe befell Jonathan Franzen this afternoon at the launch party for Freedom (aka The Greatest Novel Of Our Time) in London: The thief escaped by jumping into the Serpentine in Hyde Park (whe... More >>

• Local Musicians' Union Thwarted in its Plot to Undermine Kansas Show at Family Arena

  published Oct 04, 2010

  The Musicians' Association of St. Louis has threatened to protest Saturday night's Kansas concert at the Family Arena in St. Charles because the band chose to be accompanied by the Truman State Univer... More >>

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  Need to Catch the MetroLinkr There's an App For That!

  published Oct 04, 2010

  Of course there is! Not that everybody doesn't love spending time on the MetroLink platform, but just in case, Todd Sproull, a lecturer at Washington University, has created Metro STL, an iPhone app t... More >>

• Antarctic Sled Dogs (and Ponies) Finally Have Their Day

  published Oct 01, 2010

  When Riverfront Times last checked in with Ronnie Smith, the Air Force colonel and poet was working on several projects relating to Antarctica, where he had served for twelve years. (See "Poetry in a ... More >>

• Study Shows Family, Friends Better Than Doctors at Detecting Early Signs of Alzheimer's

  published Sep 30, 2010

  It seems logical that when someone's brain is starting to deteriorate, her family and friends who see her every day would be more likely to pick up on it rather than a doctor who does a screening once... More >>

• For Your Next Vacation, How About Some Twister Chasingr

  published Sep 29, 2010

  Yes, it's the end of September and summer vacation season is officially deader than the Cardinals' playoff hopes. But it's never too early to start planning for next year. A couple of University of Mi... More >>

• Despite Crappy Economy, St. Louis Symphony Still Had a Good Year

  published Sep 28, 2010

  One of the most awesome things in St. Louis is our world-class symphony orchestra, led by world-class conductor and sometime-kazoo virtuoso David Robertson. Over the past fiscal year, which ended Augu... More >>

• On This Day in 1817, Charles Lucas Learned You Don't Pick a Fight With Thomas Hart Benton

  published Sep 27, 2010

  The most famous duel in American history was the one in Weehawken, New Jersey, in 1804 where Aaron Burr killed Alexander Hamilton. Burr was, at the time, the sitting vice-president of the US of A, whi... More >>

• It's National Punctuation Day!

  published Sep 24, 2010

  It's finally here: a day devoted to "celebration of the lowly comma, correctly used quotation marks, and other proper uses of periods, semicolons and the ever-mysterious ellipses." As a former teache... More >>

• The Straight Dope on Missouri Tobacco-Smokers

  published Sep 24, 2010

  About 23 percent of Missouri's adults still proudly identify as smokers, according to a new report by Washington University's Center for Tobacco Policy Research (CTPR). That means our state has one of... More >>

• The Truth About Walt Whitman and the North Grand Water Tower

  published Sep 23, 2010

  We uncovered a lot of fascinating stories last summer while we were compiling our Literary St. Louis project, and one of our favorites was that Walt Whitman's brother, Thomas Jefferson Whitman (known ... More >>

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  Wash. U. Finally Gives an African-American Woman Tenure [Updated]

  published Sep 22, 2010

  A clarification: The University wishes to clarify that Parikh is the first female African-American professor to go through the entire tenure track, from assistant to associate professor with tenure, a... More >>

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  In Missouri, Banned Books Week Starts Early

  published Sep 21, 2010

  And by "banned books" we don't mean honoring books that allegedly concerned parents want removed from library shelves so they don't corrupt their sweet little innocents. We mean a concerted effort to ... More >>

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  Jonathan Franzen Comes to Town, Gets Adulation and a Marriage Proposal

  published Sep 21, 2010

  All hail the Mighty Franzen, who finally returned to his hometown last night, just days after his anointment by Oprah. After that and hitting the cover of Time, his Pulitzer/National Book Award and fu... More >>