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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2011 Stories by Aimee Levitt

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  FEATURED STORY

  Preview: The New Taste

  published Feb 23, 2011

  The official opening for the new Taste at 4584 Laclede Avenue is next Monday, February 28, but the recently relocated-from-Benton-Park spot staged a soft opening this past Thursday, February 17, for f... More >>

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  Thomas Jefferson Was Here -- Or At Least His Books Are

  published Feb 22, 2011

  Thanks to some stellar research by the historians at Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's Virginia estate, Washington University librarians have learned that a cache of 74 books that have sat in the library... More >>

• Gary Busey Chooses St. Louis Nonprofit for Celebrity Apprentice Charity

  published Feb 21, 2011

  Congratulations, St. Louis. You now have an excuse to watch the upcoming season of Celebrity Apprentice, Donald Trump's "ultimate job interview" in which celebrities -- some of whom you may have actua... More >>

• Borders Liquidation Sales Start This Weekend

  published Feb 18, 2011

  It was only two days ago that the Borders Group filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and published a list of the 200 stores doomed to extinction, but the chain means business. This weekend the l... More >>

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  No Hooters Married-Men Discount on Tap for St. Louis

  published Feb 18, 2011

  Word just in from New York City that next week the Hooters in midtown Manhattan will celebrate the institution of marriage -- and, not coincidentally, Hall Pass, the Farrelly Brothers' latest cinemati... More >>

• Why "Healthy" People Have Heart Attacks

  published Feb 18, 2011

  It seems wrong to say that some people are more deserving of heart attacks than others, but when a person with a propensity for smoking and eating slingers and a lack of interest in exercise suffers a... More >>

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  St. Louis Independent Bookstore Alliance Fights Back Against Imminent Doom

  published Feb 17, 2011

  Let it be known that Subterranean Books may be in mortal danger, but it's not going to lay down and die, no sirree. Instead, it's fighting back by forming a superfriends-like coalition with its fellow... More >>

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  UPDATE: Borders to Declare Bankruptcy This Week

  published Feb 16, 2011

  Update February 16, 2 p.m.: Borders in Brentwood has been spared! But on the slated-to-close list are the stores at Central Plaza in Ballwin, Chesterfield Mall and Mid-Rivers Mall in St. Peters. Alon... More >>

• A Few Scenes from Joel King's Real Life

  published Feb 10, 2011

  Now that you've had a chance to read this week's feature story about Joel P.E. King and his latest show, Real Life, you're probably wondering, Gee, I wonder what that show's liker Fear not. Here's a ... More >>

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  It's Official (and Even True!): St. Louis is One of America's Most Romantic Cities

  published Feb 10, 2011

  Last month's craptastic weather may have been good for at least one thing: It helped catapult our fair city onto Amazon.com's list of the Most Romantic Cities in America. St. Louis is now officially t... More >>

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  Prepare Ye: The Launch of Tea Party Review is Nigh

  published Feb 09, 2011

  In case you haven't noticed, the Tea Party isn't particularly pleased with the way it's being portrayed in the mainstream media. Or as Katrina Pierson, a founding member of the Dallas Tea Party, puts ... More >>

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  Joel King takes Real Life from the street to the stage to the nation

  published February 10, 2011

  By six o'clock, curtain time, the Grandel Theatre is packed. It's the Sunday before Thanksgiving, and this is the second and last show in a... More >>

• Wash. U. Scientists Listen to the Mind at Work on Newfangled Brain Radio

  published Feb 08, 2011

  Dr. Eric Leuthardt, who works at the Washington University School of Medicine, has the coolest toys of anybody in St. Louis: first the Monteris Medical AutoLITT System, a laser-tipped wand that zaps b... More >>

• ClaireMcCaskill.com Officially Worth $4,000

  published Feb 07, 2011

  From the Department of Why the Hell Didn't We Think of Thatr: The Post-Dispatch reports that a Columbia-based web designer named Brennan Hobart noticed that Senator Claire McCaskill's website was cal... More >>

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  St. Louis Symphony Announces 2011-12 Season

  published Feb 07, 2011

  It's still only about halfway through the current orchestral season, but the St. Louis Symphony believes in planning ahead. And so, late last week, the orchestra announced its offerings for the 2011-1... More >>

• Kakao Maplewood Open for Business

  published Feb 04, 2011

  Nobody thought it would actually happen, least of all owner Brian Pelletier, but on Thursday, February 3, just two months after signing the lease and two days after an ice storm (and would-be snowpoca... More >>

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  UPDATE: Help Save Subterranean Books From the Evil Recession

  published Feb 04, 2011

  Subterranean Books, the awesome independent bookstore that has graced the Delmar Loop for the past eleven years (and winning Riverfront Times' Best of St. Louis honors several times along the way) may... More >>

• News from Egypt: The Rocks Have Started Flying

  published Feb 02, 2011

  The Snowpocalypse here may have amounted to just a few inches, but the news from Egypt is really just as bad as you've heard. Daily RFT just got off the phone with Alix Dunn, an American who lives in ... More >>

• Egyptian Hardee's Close Due to Revolution, Not Snow

  published Feb 01, 2011

  Another reason to be glad you're in St. Louis today instead of Cairo: Even though there's sleet and snow, you can still go to Hardee's, which remains open, even when other stalwarts like the Courtesy ... More >>

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  Goldurnit, St. Louisans Swear More Than Almost Anybody Else in Missouri

  published Feb 01, 2011

  Cartographer Daniel Huffman just made a new map of the continental U.S. This is a very special map. It tracks the amount people in various parts of this glorious country swear. He did it like a heat m... More >>

• UPDATE: Mayor, Rest of City Get Ready for Impending Snowpocalypse

  published Jan 31, 2011

  Egypt is in total chaos right now, you may have heard. The government has been overturned and there's rioting in the streets. But the Egyptians are way luckier than St. Louisans because even though th... More >>

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  What to Read When You're Snowed In

  published Jan 31, 2011

  A power outage could take your beloved Internet,TV and Wii away from you, but fortunately, there are other forms of entertainment besides Charades. Like books! (That is provided you have a flashlight ... More >>

• Shocker: Study Shows Retired NFL Players Abuse Painkillers More Than The Rest of Us

  published Jan 28, 2011

  Here's some news that will shock you: Retired NFL players, who spent the best years of their lives running and throwing and getting tackled and getting hurt, take more painkillers than the rest of us.... More >>

• Cubs License Plates Go On Sale Today -- In Illinois Only, Alas

  published Jan 26, 2011

  Excellent news for those of you on the east side of the river who are feeling sad that you've never had to spend hours on the phone with your insurance company after you've been rear-ended: The Illino... More >>

• Mizzou Scientists Watch Memories Get Made

  published Jan 26, 2011

  In order to make more money, people who make digital cameras and printer paper will tell you that their products are the only way to store memories. Scientists, however, think they know better. Memori... More >>