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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2013 Stories by Aimee Levitt

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  This Thursday, Pay Your Last Respects to Stan Musial

  published Jan 22, 2013

  Thursday afternoon and evening, from 2 to 8 p.m., you'll be able to pay your respects to the late, great Stan Musial at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis, the Cardinals announced yesterday. The fun... More >>

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  Earl Weaver Remembered By His Grandson Mike Leahy, aka Clownvis Presley

  published Jan 20, 2013

  Of all the reminiscences of former Orioles manager and St. Louis native Earl Weaver, who passed away on Friday, few are more touching than the one posted by his grandson Mike Leahy on Facebook. Leahy ... More >>

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  New and Self-Improving: This Week's Bestseller List

  published Jan 18, 2013

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

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  Porn Stars Come To -- Not At -- Wash. U.

  published Jan 18, 2013

  With tuition at Washington University about to rise above the $44,000 mark, including a mandatory student activities fee of $441, you'd think that the organizers of the annual Sex Week would have the ... More >>

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  OMG! Karlie Kloss Gets New Haircut!

  published Jan 17, 2013

  Can we all just agree that the New York Times Style section is the most important source of news in our timer How else would we know about all the ways wealthy, Ivy League-educated residents of Willi... More >>

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  Submit to Fringe! StL's Best Theater Festival Returns for Round 2

  published Jan 17, 2013

  Consider yourself warned: St. Lou Fringe is coming back in 2013, from June 20-24. Due to an unfortunate conflict with Pride last summer, the 2012 edition of Fringe was woefully underpopulated, but it ... More >>

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  Askinosie Chocolate Expands Lunch Program

  published Jan 16, 2013

  No, not to you. The award-winning Springfield-based chocolate company will be using proceeds from two of its products to fund school lunch programs in villages in Tanzania and the Philippines. The P... More >>

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  The Four Worst Traffic Jams of 2013 in St. Louis

  published Jan 16, 2013

  MoDOT, bless its cold, gravelly little heart, announced yesterday the worst traffic jams of 2013, uh, wait, make that its largest construction projects for the upcoming year. Huzzah! It's so rare when... More >>

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  The Mean Gene: Meet NF1, the most common disorder you've probably never heard of

  published January 17, 2013

  Like a lot of nineteen-year-olds, Gina Garbo is uncomfortable lounging on the beach in a bathing suit. The main problem is the long brown spot... More >>

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  The Flu Epidemic is Here

  published Jan 14, 2013

  Should we put an exclamation mark after thatr As in, "The flu epidemic is here!" Last month we only had Christmas to dread. But now you can look forward to a week in bed, in acute misery. The Center f... More >>

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  There's Always a Cardinal on the St. Louis Bestseller List

  published Jan 14, 2013

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

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  Kansas City-Area Library Uses Butchering Demonstration to Lure Patrons

  published Jan 11, 2013

  These are exciting times for library users. Not only can you go to the library to check out books for free, you can also go for a live demonstration of hog butchering! Well, uh, you can do that in O... More >>

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  After 130 Years, St. Elizabeth Academy Will Close in June

  published Jan 09, 2013

  Yesterday afternoon, after Sister Susan Borgel, president of St. Elizabeth Academy in Tower Grove East, announced to the 133 students that the school would be closing at the end of the academic year, ... More >>

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  Do You Want a Handwritten Letter in the Mailr Randy Osborne Will Write You One!

  published Jan 08, 2013

  In the summer of 2011, a mysterious series of 100 letters began making their way from Atlanta to various parts of the United States, including to the office of Riverfront Times. Each letter contained ... More >>

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  Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

  published Jan 07, 2013

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

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  Six Employment Options for Todd Akin

  published Jan 04, 2013

  Yesterday the 113th U.S. Congress convened, and Todd Akin was officially out of a job. Ann Wagner now occupies the seat he abandoned in his ill-fated bid for the Senate. There have been rumors that A... More >>

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  Student Startup Madness: Local Collegians Compete to Be Next Mark Zuckerberg

  published Jan 04, 2013

  Many people come up with the dumbest ideas of their lives during college. But, as Sean Branagan, director of the Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship at Syracuse University, observes, some pretty... More >>

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  [UPDATE] Will Illinois Legalize Gay Marriage During This Week's Lame Duck Sessionr

  published Jan 03, 2013

  Update January 3, 2:15 p.m.: The same-sex marriage bill will not be heard by the state senate until next week, Illinois Senate Democrats said in a statement this afternoon. Several senators whose "yay... More >>

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  Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

  published Jan 02, 2013

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

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  The 2012 Riverfront Times News Challenge

  published January 3, 2013

  The world was supposed to end in 2012. Why and when depended on who you talked to: the election (or re-election) of certain candidates on... More >>