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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2012 Stories by Aimee Levitt

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  Todd Akin's Greatest Hits -- Coming Soon to a Mailbox Near You!

  published Oct 18, 2012

  Forget Mitt Romney's "binders full of women." The joke will be totally passe by next week. But Todd Akin -- now that is a gift to Democrats that keeps on giving. From his explanation of "legitimate ra... More >>

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  [UPDATED] Hey, How About Turning Union Station Into...A Soccer Stadiumr

  published Oct 17, 2012

  Update October 17: Alert reader Mike M. from Arlington, Virginia, has written in with a hopeful message about St. Louis' prospects for a Major League Soccer team. Find out what it is at the end of th... More >>

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  Wash. U. Scientists Identify Gene That Causes Rare Respiratory Disease

  published Oct 16, 2012

  You probably haven't heard of primary ciliary dyskinesia. It's a genetic disorder that affects only one in 20,000 babies, mostly by causing chronic respiratory problems. What makes it even trickier is... More >>

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  Akin: Evolution is "Not Even A Matter of Science"

  published Oct 12, 2012

  Todd Akin, Missouri's Republican Senate candidate, trained engineer, member of the U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on Science, Space and Technology and self-appointed expert on female reprodu... More >>

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  Frances Madeson's Madison Co. Crier Will Make You Ashamed to Be a Liberal

  published Oct 10, 2012

  Frances Madeson was a Missouri girl who moved to New York City. After her marriage ended, she left the big, bad city and moved to Farmington in Madison County, about an hour and a half south of St. Lo... More >>

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  Wash. U. Archaeologist Discovers Tomb of Mayan Warrior Queen

  published Oct 09, 2012

  At the end of the seventh century, the Mayan queen K'abel was the most powerful ruler in northwestern Peten, Guatemala. Not only did she reign with her husband K'inich Bahlam for nearly twenty years, ... More >>

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  Jonathan Franzen's Dramatic Adventures in Webster Groves Real Estate: The Play!

  published Oct 08, 2012

  A new play based on Jonathan Franzen's essay "House For Sale" opens this Saturday, October 13, at the Duke on 42nd Street, a theater in New York. Actually, it's just previews; the official opening is ... More >>

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  Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

  published Oct 08, 2012

  Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending September 30, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, P... More >>

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  The Final Chapter in the University of Missouri Press Saga

  published Oct 05, 2012

  Remember how the University of Missouri Press decided to "modernize" itself last spring by laying off the entire staff and replacing it with a group of grad students led by an English professorr Well,... More >>

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  BREAKING: Birth Control Leads to Fewer Abortions. Also, Sky is Blue

  published Oct 05, 2012

  Here's some absolutely shocking news for all you abstinence supporters and abortion fighters out there: Women who use birth control have fewer unplanned pregnancies and fewer abortions than women who ... More >>

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  17 Missouri Women Who Could Kick Todd Akin's Ass

  published Oct 04, 2012

  Or, Why You Shouldn't Be Ashamed to Be a Female Voter in Missouri It's become pretty clear over the past few weeks that Todd Akin hates women. Oh, he hasn't said that in so many words -- which is act... More >>

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  Mark Twain...Live!: Check Out Short Film Shot by Thomas Edison

  published Oct 02, 2012

  A long, long time ago, around the turn of the last century, Missouri-born writer Mark Twain got to be buddies with Thomas Edison, the inventor of, among many other things, the light bulb, the phonogra... More >>

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  Someone Still Loves You, Todd Akin

  published Oct 01, 2012

  You'd think that after "legitimate rape" and "unladylike" (and the fact that the two terms have become so infamous, we don't even have to explain them), plus the new thing about how companies should b... More >>

• Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

  published Oct 01, 2012

  Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending September 23, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, P... More >>

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  If More Kiddie Authors Had Written Books For Adults

  published Sep 28, 2012

  J.K. Rowling's first novel for adults, The Casual Vacancy, arrived in bookstores yesterday. According to advance reports, the new book contains lots of sex (in the form of "a miraculously unguarded va... More >>

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  Extreme Library Makeover: Presenting the New and Improved Central Library

  published Sep 26, 2012

  For the past two years, we've been waiting to see the results of the Central Library's full gut renovation. Twice Daily RFT has gotten to put on a hard hat and go inside to check out the construction ... More >>

• Just As We Thought -- Wash. U. Students Dine in Splendor [Updated]

  published Sep 24, 2012

  Update: Alert reader Micah Herstand has informed us that we were mistaken in our reporting. Unlike many of the other institutions mentioned in the Daily Meal's rankings, Wash. U. does not have 24-hour... More >>

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  Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

  published Sep 24, 2012

  Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending September 16, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, P... More >>

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  Curtis Comer: Vital Voice Columnist Publishes First Essay Collection

  published Sep 21, 2012

  Curtis Comer will turn 47 this year. Although he still feels like a 26-year-old, he has been forced to endure some unanticipated consequences of aging. For one thing, he found that instead of going ou... More >>

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  YOU Can Restore Missouri's Tarnished Political Reputation: MOLLI's List Benefit Tonight

  published Sep 20, 2012

  Since the bust of Rush Limbaugh went up in the state capitol, Todd Akin offered up his theories of "legitimate rape" and the legislature overrode Governor Nixon's veto of the bill that would allow emp... More >>

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  Gawker Shares Terrifying News: Mass Rabbit Slaughter in South City!

  published Sep 19, 2012

  Terror and silence reign in the Villanova neighborhood this week. Residents report that the rabbits, who usually hop merrily through the shrubbery, have been turning up dead. The matter is of grave e... More >>

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  RFT's Guide to Grocery Shopping in St. Louis

  published September 20, 2012

  "Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are." The French gourmand Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin said that. Well, the Iron Chef said... More >>

• Em Piro: Fringe Mastermind Already Plotting for 2013

  published Sep 13, 2012

  Em Piro has learned her lesson. St. Lou Fringe 2013 has been scheduled for June 20-24. That is not the weekend of Pride. It is the weekend before. 2012 firmly established that if there's going to be... More >>

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  Inside the World of Edward Deeds, the Electric Pencil

  published Sep 12, 2012

  This week's Riverfront Times feature, "The Electric Pencil," tells the story of Edward Deeds, a patient at Missouri State Hospital No. 3, a mental hospital in Nevada, who created a pile of 283 colored... More >>

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  The Electric Pencil: A long-lost cache of sketches by a state mental hospital inmate finally yields up some of its secrets

  published September 14, 2012

  Two hundred eighty-three drawings: all done in crayon and colored pencil on ledger paper bearing the imprimatur of Missouri State Hospital No.... More >>