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

• End of Road for Airis v. Saint Louis Science Center

  published Mar 30, 2011

  It appears the battle between Kevin Airis and the Saint Louis Science Center, which Airis claims stole 36 Native American artifacts that had once belonged to his grandfather, Thomas Airis, has come to... More >>

• Water Street Cafe and Cocktail Bar to Open in Maplewood Next Week

  published Mar 29, 2011

  Gabe and Maria Kveton are still slapping paint up on the walls of the Water Street Cafe and Cocktail Bar at 7268 Manchester Road in Maplewood, but the brother-and-sister team vow that the restaurant w... More >>

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  Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

  published Mar 29, 2011

  Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending March 20, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, Pudd'... More >>

• Dr. Pat Wolff to Leave St. Louis Practice to Concentrate on Haiti, Peanut Butter

  published Mar 25, 2011

  It's been a mystery to many how Dr. Patricia Wolff manages to balance running Meds & Food for Kids (MFK), an organization that produces and distributes nutrient-laden peanut butter to malnourished... More >>

• UPDATE: Just Smoke, No Fire at Blueberry Hill

  published Mar 24, 2011

  The University City Fire Department sent trucks to Blueberry Hill late this morning, blocking traffic for at least two blocks in the Delmar Loop. But although the restaurant at 6504 Delmar Boulevard ... More >>

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  Click Here to Learn Amazing Secret for Reducing Belly Fat!

  published Mar 24, 2011

  There are amazing secrets for reducing belly fat, some even advertised on this here blog. Daily RFT has never actually clicked on any of those ads, mostly because we're afraid there will be a giant pa... More >>

• The Latest in Petri Dish Fashion: Designer Intestinal Bacteria

  published Mar 24, 2011

  We all have a vast collection of bacteria in our intestines, a library, if you will. Most of these bacteria are friendly and helpful, allowing us to digest foods we wouldn't ordinarily be able to proc... More >>

• Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

  published Mar 21, 2011

  Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending March 13, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, Pudd'... More >>

• Tattoo Jew Screening at Schlafly Bottleworks This Sunday

  published Mar 18, 2011

  Remember Andy Abramsr This nice Jewish boy from University City has been working for the past few years on a documentary, Tattoo Jew, an examination of the inked Chosen. When Daily RFT last checked in... More >>

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  Battle Corned Beef: The Leopold Bloom Special

  published Mar 17, 2011

  Father Blackie Ryan, the priest/gumshoe hero of a series of mystery novels by Andrew Greeley once claimed, "The Jews and the Irish do not share a heritage, but they do share a psychosis." The Jews ca... More >>

• Death of a Bookstore: Piece of Mind Books

  published Mar 17, 2011

  When you report a feature story, you don't always have the space to put in all the smaller stories you found, no matter how much you'd like to. Here's one of those that didn't make it into this week's... More >>

• [UPDATE] In-N-Out in St. Louis -- Or Pie in the Skyr

  published Mar 16, 2011

  Gut Check is old and cynical and few things get us to bounce up and down in our not-even-close-to-ergonomically suitable desk chair with pure joy and enthusiasm any more. This item from Eater was one ... More >>

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  Band of Bookstores: Facing extinction, indies unite to show us everything they bring to St. Louis that Amazon can't

  published March 17, 2011

  January is a bad month for booksellers — the holiday rush is over, nobody feels like shopping — but this past January at... More >>

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  Global Warming, Version 1.0

  published Mar 15, 2011

  Once upon a time -- well, between 443 and 445 million years ago -- all the land on Earth was clumped in a big mass around the equator and the rest was covered with oceans full of little sea-beasties l... More >>

• Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

  published Mar 14, 2011

  Here's your  weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending March 6, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, ... More >>

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  $1 Bus Ride to Chicagor Get Outta Town!

  published Mar 11, 2011

  March is a depressing time of year. There's no snow (and related fear/excitement), little sun, not as much warmth as one would hope (we did just live through January and February after all) and damn i... More >>

• Ex-Con Sells Art From Inside the Big House

  published Mar 10, 2011

  When an inmate gets out of prison in the movies, he's left with the clothes he came in with, a hundred bucks and not much else. Real life isn't very different. Except that an inmate has debts: restitu... More >>

• Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

  published Mar 09, 2011

  Herewith your first weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending February 27, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street B... More >>

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  Circuit Court Ruling Puts Raw Milk Cheesemaker Out of Business

  published Mar 03, 2011

  The battle over raw-milk cheese has come home to Missouri. On Tuesday the Howell County Circuit Court upheld a ruling by the Missouri State Milk Board that Morningland of the Ozarks, a dairy in Mounta... More >>

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  Wanna Be on the Presidential Ballot in Missourir We Need to See Your Birth Certificate, Please

  published Mar 02, 2011

  Can we just lay the rumors to rest that Barack Obama is not an American citizenr He was born in Hawaii in 1961 -- two years after it became a state. Not Kenya. Hawaii. Even Glenn Beck has shut up abou... More >>

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  Publisher Attempts to Limit E-Book Circulation, Libraries Fight Back

  published Mar 01, 2011

  It's a brave new electronic world we live in, where blogs like this one that you're reading have replaced daily newspapers, e-mail and Facebook updates have replaced letters and phone calls, and the h... More >>

• Collinsville High Suspends Student for Wearing Rosary

  published Feb 28, 2011

  Rodrigo Avila, a Collinsville High School sophomore, has been suspended for five days for carrying a rosary. It's not that Avila has been disrupting classes by reciting his devotions, annoying non-Cat... More >>

• "Did You Know All Women Are Easyr" Why, No. Please Enlighten Us.

  published Feb 25, 2011

  Daily RFT received this missive a few days ago, but we held onto it so the information it contains will be fresh in your mind when you head out to the Friday night meat markets. And hoo boy was it har... More >>

• R.I.P. Jay Landesman, Founder of Crystal Palace Nightclub, Mayor of Gaslight Square, Writer and All-Around Hep Cat

  published Feb 24, 2011

  Jay Landesman, who founded the Crystal Palace nightclub, which became the linchpin of the Gaslight Square hipster/entertainment district, and wrote the novel The Nervous Set, which became the basis fo... More >>

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  RIP Jay Landesman, Founder of Crystal Palace Nightclub, Mayor of Gaslight Square, Writer and All-Around Hep Cat

  published Feb 24, 2011

  Jay Landesman, who founded the Crystal Palace nightclub, which became the linchpin of the Gaslight Square hipster/entertainment district, and wrote the novel The Nervous Set, which became the basis fo... More >>