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

• Patric Chocolate Wins Good Food Award From Slow Food Nation

  published Jan 26, 2011

  Patric Chocolate, one of the two Missouri bean-to-bar chocolate makers profiled in Riverfront Times last year, is officially good food. That is, Patric's In-NIB-itable Bar won a blue ribbon in the ina... More >>

• Totally Adorable Black Rhino Calf Born at Saint Louis Zoo

  published Jan 25, 2011

  Congratulations to Kati Rain and Ajabu, two black rhinos at the Saint Louis Zoo, on the birth of their new calf. The calf, a male, arrived on January 14 and weighed 120-1/2 pounds. He's still unnamed,... More >>

• Askinosie Chocolate Goes to Tanzania, Gets Noticed by Oprah

  published Jan 25, 2011

  When Riverfront Times visited the Askinosie Chocolate factory in Springfield last winter, founder and proprietor Shawn Askinosie promised he would take members of the Cocoa Honors program at the facto... More >>

• Newsflash: If You Play With Your Kid, It Won't Be Depressed!

  published Jan 21, 2011

  A team of child psychiatrists at Washington University has made an amazing discovery: The best way for parents to relieve depression in their toddlers is to play with them! This would seem to be a pr... More >>

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  Review: Chuck Berry and the Postelles at the Blueberry Hill's Duck Room, Wednesday, January 19

  published Jan 20, 2011

  After Chuck Berry collapsed during a show in Chicago on New Year's Day, fans began to worry. Was this it for the duck-walking oner Would they forever regret that they never bothered to catch one of hi... More >>

• Heart Failure Gene Discovered...In the Kidney

  published Jan 20, 2011

  Researchers at Washington University have identified a gene sequence that indicates a person is at risk for heart failure even before there are any outward signs, like high blood pressure. Surprisingl... More >>

• Gerald Early Weighs in on New-Style Huck Finn

  published Jan 19, 2011

  It's been about two weeks since NewSouth Publishing announced its plans for a new version of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn that replaces the word "nigger" with "slave." There was outrage througho... More >>

• Airis Family Loses Appeal to Get Native American Artifacts Back

  published Jan 19, 2011

  Kevin Airis isn't going to get his grandfather's missing Native American artifacts back from the Saint Louis Science Center anytime soon. Yesterday the Missouri Appellate Court upheld an earlier judgm... More >>

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  Barnes Doctors Experiment With Cool New Toy That Kills Brain Tumors

  published Jan 19, 2011

  The doctors at Barnes Jewish Hospital have a new toy to play with and use to kill brain tumors: the Monteris Medical AutoLITT System. It's not an especially catchy name, but it sure does look cool: a ... More >>

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  Kosher Soul Food: The Recipes

  published Jan 19, 2011

  On a recent morning, Andria Simckes and her mother Evelyn Lard invited Gut Check to Simckes' Creve Coeur kitchen to give us a crash course in their specialty: kosher soul food. The results were delici... More >>

• UPDATE: Last of the Steam-Powered Trains May Puff Into Town -- If You Cast Your Vote

  published Jan 18, 2011

  Update, January 18: The Little Rock Express beat out the Tuscola Turn, 76,217 votes to 73,175. Daily RFT apologizes to Tuscolans who cannot take a little trash-talking in the name of friendly competit... More >>

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  Kosher Soul Food: Uncommonly Delicious!

  published Jan 18, 2011

  Few cuisines would appear to be as incompatible -- nay, irreconcilable -- as kosher food and soul food. It's not that Jews don't have soul -- it's just that they're strongly discouraged (OK, forbidden... More >>

• Rams Coach Spagnuolo Wins Ass Clown of the Week

  published Jan 17, 2011

  The Rams may be absent from the playoffs this year, but Coach Steve Spagnuolo is still a winner...of the highly-coveted Ass Clown of the Week! Last week, you may recall, the coach fired longtime equi... More >>

• Urgent Care Chain Adds Links in St. Louis Area

  published Jan 17, 2011

  Doctors Express, a chain of urgent care facilities, has just opened its first St. Louis-area location at 11648 Manchester Road in Des Peres, right down the street, it turns out, from another independe... More >>

• Danielle Nierenberg: Former Resident of Defiance Reports on State of the World from Africa

  published Jan 11, 2011

  Danielle Nierenberg, a former resident of Defiance, Missouri, now a project manager at the Worldwatch Institute, a think tank in Washington, DC, spent the past year and a half traveling through sub-Sa... More >>

• St. Louis Officially Nation's Ninth Most Literate City

  published Jan 10, 2011

  Rejoice, St. Louis! There's been another list ranking America's cities and this time we didn't totally embarrass ourselves! Central Connecticut State University has released its annual rankings of the... More >>

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  The Central Library: Behind the Scenes of a Transformation

  published Jan 07, 2011

  On January 6, 1912, 99 years and one day ago, the Central Library downtown opened its doors for the very first time. Designed by the architect Cass Gilbert to look like an Italian Renaissance palace a... More >>

• Mizzou Scientists Experiment With Homegrown Replacement Joints

  published Jan 06, 2011

  It would be convenient if human bodies were like starfish, able to regenerate missing limbs or anything else they need. We can't yet, but a team of researchers at the University of Missouri and Columb... More >>

• "I Was Wondering Why All the Birds Are, Like, Dying": 911 Calls From Beebe, Arkansas

  published Jan 05, 2011

  It's still unclear why several thousand birds fell from the sky over Beebe, Arkansas, on New Year's Eve and whether this is, indeed, an early sign of the impending apocalypse. Mysterious bird deaths h... More >>

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  Homophobe Physicist's Solution to Gulf Oil Spill Was Right in Your Kitchen Cabinet

  published Jan 05, 2011

  Last spring, you may recall, Washington University physicist Jonathan Katz got kicked off a panel assembled by Secretary of Energy Steven Chu that was supposed to figure out how to stop the BP oil spi... More >>

• An Explanation for New Year's Eve Birdstorm

  published Jan 04, 2011

  Good news! It's not the first sign of the end of the world! Instead, scientists have come up with a more, um, scientific explanation for why more than 3,000 red-winged blackbirds fell on the town of B... More >>

• Huck Finn Gets 21st-Century Makeover

  published Jan 04, 2011

  You all remember Huckleberry Finn, rightr That 1830s Missouri urchin who finds himself adrift on the Mississippi River with a black slave named Jim and learns to appreciate Jim's fundamental humanity ... More >>

• Can Freedom Save Your Lifer

  published Jan 03, 2011

  Another year in the most dangerous city in America. Gunshots went off everywhere at midnight on New Year's Day, and nobody gave you a bulletproof vest for Christmas. (Not that you asked for one. But s... More >>