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You're Not the Only One Obsessed With Jon Hamm's Enormous Penis

Sometimes, St. Louisans get national and international attention for their great accomplishments -- Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, for example, may someday run New York City! But this afternoon, we bring you news of another St. Louis celeb who is captivating all of America, with a really huge accompli ... More >>

Lindsay Lohan and Aide to Illinois Congressman Tussle in NYC Hotel; Charges Dropped

A D.C.-based aid to Illinois representative John Shimkus has been released by police with dropped charges after actress/mess Lindsay Lohan accused him of assaulting her in a swank New York hotel over the weekend, according to about a thousand media reports. Lohan had been tripping the night fantasti ... More >>

Post-Dispatch Refreshes Year-Old RFT Story on Plastic Surgeon, Boobs

RFT related content: Plastic Surgeon Posted Nude Pics Online, Patients Claim in Lawsuits w/UPDATEJane Doe Lawyer: Nude Boob Pics Are Still Online We weren't going to say anything, but our Google Alerts just won't let it go. We keep getting bombarded by notifications about Monday's front-page articl ... More >>

Latonya Davis: St. Louis Mother Charged After Posting Toddler Fistfight on Facebook

Related content:[VIDEO] St. Louis Mother Encourages Toddlers to Fight: "Ya'll Better Ball Up Some Fists!"Here's a follow-up to a story Daily RFT brought you early last month. Latonya Davis, a 21-year-old mother from the 4800 block of Bessie in north St. Louis, has been identified as the person who p ... More >>

[VIDEO] St. Louis Mother Encourages Toddlers to Fight: "Ya'll Better Ball Up Some Fists!"

KTVI (Fox 2) broke the story on Tuesday. It's sensational enough that New York Daily News ran with it yesterday. A video (below) posted this past Sunday onto Facebook shows two toddlers fighting as a mother of one of the girls eggs the children on. "Ahh, shit. Got some action! Got some action!" the ... More >>

Mob Testimony Gives Panera Bread Awesome Ad Opportunity

Panera Bread, a.k.a. St. Louis Bread Co., doesn't run very high-profile ad campaigns. Come to think of it, Gut Check can't recall ever seeing a television ad for Panera, or if we did, it made exactly zero impression. That could -- and should -- change, thanks to an unlikely event: the recent testim ... More >>

New Yorkers All Pissy Over P-D's No-Hitter Asterisk; St. Louisans Bask in Attention

Johan Santana pitched a no-hitter for the New York Mets last Friday, the first in the franchise's history. Perhaps you heard the rumblings of rejoicing and self-satisfaction rolling out of New York over the weekend? It's OK if you didn't -- the losing team was the Cardinals, after all, and, as the ... More >>

Ten Musicians Who Support Occupy Wall Street

Adbusters​"Occupy Wall Street" started out as a 1,000-person mid-September protest in a New York City park against, among other things, financial disparity and corporate influence. Since that time that protest has grown into a nationwide movement, spurring on the creation of "Occupy" spinoffs ... More >>

9/11 Anniversary Brings Questionable Food Tributes

Wikimedia CommonsWe will never forget. Unless we overdo it on the 9/11 commemorative wine.​In the decade since the 9/11 terror attacks, there's been no shortage of commemoration. Some touching and beautiful. Others ham-fisted but heartfelt. And some that were blatantly out to make a buck on a ... More >>

The Seven Deadliest Music Festivals

wikimedia commons​It has been a particularly grim summer already in music festival fatalities, with one death over the weekend at Electric Daisy and two more at Bonnaroo a couple weeks ago. But this is hardly a new phenomenon: The combination of crushing crowds, heat and mind-altering substanc ... More >>

The Return of Lady Gaga's Meat Dress

​You thought Gut Check was finished with its exhaustive coverage of the dress made from raw meat worn by intermittently intriguing pop megastar Lady Gaga.Honestly, Gut Check thought Gut Check was finished with its exhaustive coverage of the dress made from raw meat worn by intermittently intriguin ... More >>

Dairy Queen Builds World's Biggest Ice Cream Cake

Dairy Queen CanadaCelebrating 10 tons of Dairy Queen ice cream cake with .... ice cream cake!​ Oh, Canada! You've created the world's largest ice cream cake! In honor of the Dairy Queen ice cream cake's thirtieth birthday, volunteers in Toronto built a 10.13-ton ice cream cake. It beats the ... More >>

High Soars! -- and Then Sinks! -- on Broadway

Post-Dispatch readers could be forgiven for believing High soared for all of 13 hours on Broadway.Jerry Naunheim Jr.​What a difference a day makes!Yesterday, the Post-Dispatch reported breathlessly that the Repertory Theater of St. Louis's Broadway debut, the premiere of the Kathleen Turner star v ... More >>

Michael Jackson's Posthumous Michael and R. Kelly's Long-Awaited Love Letter: New Releases Highlights for December 14

(New albums are typically released on Tuesdays, i.e., today. What can you spend your hard-earned pennies on this week? Find out below.) Ryan Adams and the Cardinals' III / IV​*Ryan Adams & The Cardinals, Cardinals III/IV The Consequence of Sound review of III / IV sang its praises: "This year ... More >>

Duncan Hines Pulls Questionable Rapping Cupcakes Ad

Thanks to a piece in Mother Jones, "Are These Cupcakes Racist?", Duncan Hines has pulled a YouTube video featuring chocolate-glazed anamorphic rapping cupcakes. Apparently, people think that white cupcakes burstingt into hip-hop beats once they're coated in chocolate might perhaps be a bit questiona ... More >>

Dumbass Arrested in Boston Market Creamed Spinach Prank

California teen arrested for pulling a really jackass stunt at a Boston Market drive-thru. The Sacramento Bee reports that last week, a car full of upstanding youths decided to put a new spin on the viral Fire in the Hole prank. Instead of throwing a soda into the drive-thru window at an employee, t ... More >>

Food and Fashion Get Friendly

First Gwyneth went to Spain with Mario. Then Barney's New York unveiled their chef-filled holiday window display. What's up with the marriage of fashion and food? The Wall Street Journal explores the connection that's leading to Momofuku's David Chang attending Fashion Week parties, designers like R ... More >>

Heart Attack Grill Gives Free Bypass Burgers to Obese Customers

Fat? Eat for free! The aptly-named Heart Attack Grill in Arizona is giving free food to people who weigh over 350 pounds. The New York Daily News reports that the medically-themed restaurant features burgers named after heart surgeries, waitresses in sexy nurse uniforms, no diet soda, and fries cook ... More >>

Poisoned Candy, Free Lifetime KFC, and Other Halloween Food Horrors

What's scarier - urban legends about psychos contaminating Halloween candy with poison and sharp things, or dressing up as Colonel Sanders to win a lifetime supply of KFC? The Atlantic debunks spooky tales of razor blades and cyanide in treats, giving evidence that most "Halloween sadist" stories ar ... More >>

Hershey's Closes Original Factory

Due to increased globalization, NPR reports that Hershey's is closing its original Pennsylvania factory. The company is opening a new, faster, smaller factory down the street, and laying off 500 employees. The original factory, which was a part of Milton Hershey's "workers paradise" with inexpensive ... More >>

Another Day, Another Meat Dress

Screenshot: www.nydailynews.comProsciutto is often paired with melons.​Oh, yes, it's the Week of the Meat Dress here at Gut Check International Headquarters. First, it was intermittently interesting pop megastar Lady Gaga draping meat over herself at MTV's Video Music Awards.Now, via the New York ... More >>

Lady Gaga's Meat Dress Draws Scorn of PETA, Butchers

Screenshot: www.usatoday.com​Fact: Intermittently interesting pop megastar Lady Gaga wore a dress made out of meat at MTV's Orgy of Irrelevance Video Music Awards. The blogosphere observed, snarked and was prepared to move on. Shockingly, not everyone wanted to let the matter drop.First, we have P ... More >>

Feds Crack Down on Undocumented Kitchen Workers

A San Diego restaurateur stands up for illegal immigrants working in kitchens. The New York Times goes in-depth on the hush-hush issue of illegal workers, the blind eye that's been turned, and the sudden upswing in crackdowns by federal investigators. Despite a federal indictment last April, San Die ... More >>

Costco Condemns Veal

Costco condemns veal producer at urging of animal rights group. The Associated Press reports that the Washington-based wholesale club was presented a video of Buckeye Veal Farm in Ohio, made by animal rights group Mercy for Animals. The video shows calves chained in pens too small for them to lie do ... More >>

Take That Quarter Pounder with Cheese with a Side of Statin.

The daily Quarter Pounder with Cheese and milkshake got your cholesterol out of whack? U.S. News and World Reports has a great idea, courtesy of a study in the American Journal of Cardiology: serve statins with fast food. The drugs counteract the cholesterol bomb of such meals and costs about the sa ... More >>

The Morning Brew: 6.25

Powered by pizza. The New York Daily News brings us Matt McClellan, a Florida pizzeria owner who's biking his way up the east coast, eating nothing but pizza along the way to prove its health benefits. What kind of peach is that? Why don't we know? The Los Angeles Times takes a look at the history ... More >>

The Morning Brew: 6.17

Which is unhealthier: a Big Mac or a Chipotle burrito? The answer might surprise you. The Atlantic did a little compare-and-contrast and discovered that the all-natural burrito might be packing more fat, calories and a lot more sodium than diners expect. The arguments have already begun. How does ... More >>

The Morning Brew: 3.15

​Arabic food arrives at the U.S.'s biggest Marine base. A combination of veterans returning from the Middle East with a taste for the cuisine outweighs the fear wrought by the Fort Hood massacre, making a Lebanese-American's shawarma stand a hit. (Wall Street Journal) Lower prices on healthy ... More >>

The Morning Brew: Wednesday, 12.30

​ Bar stages protest with PBR-can guillotine. (New York Daily News)Low milk prices leave dairy farmers in need. (MSNBC)The year's weirdest booze marketing. (Bloomberg.com)The year in lunch. (Midtownlunch.com)Top sustainable food stories of the year. (Change.org)

The Morning Brew: Friday, 10.11

​ Food companies give excuses for the amount of air in packaging. (The New York Times)Coffee doesn't have a sobering effect. (BBC)There's a new wine club. In a British high school. (New York Daily News)Florida oranges are shrinking. (Bloomberg.com)University of Virginia class experiment finds ... More >>

The Morning Brew: Monday, 11.16

​ Butchering gets hip in new Brooklyn shop. (New York Daily News)How to lie when the food sucks. (Chicago Tribune)Manufacturers must prove caffeinated alcoholic beverages are safe. (Los Angeles Times)What's for dessert? Passion fruit and Viagra. (Associated Press)

The Morning Brew: Thursday, 10.29

​ Author thrives on a candy-filled diet. (The New York Times)Halloween wines: trick or treat? (San Antonio Express-News)How to throw a dinner party. (Cleveland Plain Dealer)University of Illinois gets a nod for being vegetarian-friendly. (Daily Illini)Septuagenarian lobster spared in NYC re ... More >>

That Didn't Take Long: Black NFL Players Say They Won't Join Limbaugh-Owned Rams

Limbaugh: Said to favor a "conservative" game. Likes plays to develop on the right -- far right. ​A few days after Rush Limbaugh publicly announced his intention of buying the St. Louis Rams (and just 48 hours after Limbaugh again made another borderline derogratory/racist comment about black athl ... More >>

The Morning Brew: Friday, 9.11

​ Can't make it to Munich for Oktoberfest? Live vicariously. (Los Angeles Times)The CSA concept moves to seafood in North Carolina. (Treehugger.com)Wine and food pairings require a little information and a lot of instinct. (The Buffalo News)Economic woes affect Mario Batali. (The New York Da ... More >>

The Morning Brew: Friday, 8.21

​ Contaminated food recalls, corporate farming horrors, chemical over-saturation, antibiotic-resistant cooties ... America's in a deep food crisis. (Time)Don't bother catching your own fish for dinner, unless you like mercury. (USA Today)Fourthmeal? Fifthmeal? How many meals a day does this ... More >>

The Morning Brew: Wednesday, 7.29

The food dye that makes blue M&Ms blue could also help spinal injuries. (New York Daily News)U.S. meat firms want China to have a chance to import chicken here. (Reuters)What's so great about Chick-Fil-A, anyway? (Eat Me Daily, via Eater)

The Morning Brew: Wednesday, 7.22

A different kind of food safety: Don't eat and drive. (New York Daily News)Did Julia Child approve of blogger Julie Powell's movie-inspiring attempt to cook the famous chef's recipes? (Publishers Weekly)More on the Julia/Julie controversy from famed cookbook editor Judith Jones. (Slashfood)

The Morning Brew: Monday, 1.5

In today's news: calls for a "50-year" farm bill, the iconic Rainbow Room is closing and the case of smuggled monkey meat.

Who's Going to be Obama's White House Chef?

The Morning Brew: Thursday, 7.24

The Cheesesteak of Suffering and the $175 Burger

The Morning Brew: Tuesday, 11/27

See Me, Hear Me, Read Me

Ethical issues take a back seat to synergy and branding in local sports media

Today, Dammit!

The first host of America's morning show hailed from U. City -- read all about it!

Best Radio Personality

J.C. Corcoran, KLOU (103.3 FM)

Stars of David

The Jewish Film Festival lights up St. Louis

THE BASEMENT TAPES

Visiting the people under the stairs at the St. Marcus Theatre

TOOTING BUSH'S HORN: IS THIS THE NEXT CLINTON?

FOUND IN THE TRANSLATION

Esperantists convene to talk up the virtues of their international language