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Answers to the Riverfront Times 2012 News Quiz

In January Riverfront Times published its annual "News Challenge" -- 78 multiple-choice questions testing how well readers paid attention to current events over the past twelve months. Within a week, more than 100 of you submitted your answers to us. A few weeks later a dozen readers e-mailed a simi ... More >>

Minor League Ballpark Sells the World's Most Expensive Hot Dog

brocktonrox.comThis is what an $80 weiner looks like.​Minor league baseball stadiums have some pretty good eats. We've sang the praises of the chow offered at Gateway Grizzlies games and marveled at the enormity of the offerings in Akron. Next up: befuddlement over the world's most expensive ... More >>

Name the Gateway Grizzlies' New Appetizer, Win 2012 Season Tickets

Sauget, Illinois' own Gateway Grizzlies already have some of the best eats in baseball. But bacon cheeseburgers on grilled Krispy Kreme doughnuts and hot dogs buried in cheese, bacon, grilled onions and sauerkraut aren't enough. With the help of Favazza's Specialty Foods*, they're introducing a new ... More >>

Top 5 Fast Food Frankensteins

Alllllllrighty, folks! The theme of this post: These foods shouldn't exist.​Creators of the following high-calorie, mixed-metaphor monstrosities flew a little too close to the sun (remember what happened to Prometheus?), and yet their charred and grease-soaked bastard children of Fast Food Nat ... More >>

Baseball's Best Burger Clobbered by Meat Monster from Akron

Robin WheelerBaseball's best burger? Um, not any more.​And you thought Baseball's Best Burger would be hard to top. The Gateway Grizzlies are proud of their concessions, and we respect that. Last year we respected 'em so much that we sent a writer out to compare three of their offerings head ... More >>

This Week in Gut Check, Regurgitated

Image via ​This week, everybody was talking about recalls and the food supply, Gut Check included. If you need to get caught up, find information on the egg recall here and the Walmart deli meat recall here, and then check out the video of Michael Pollan giving some big-picture perspec ... More >>

Gateway Grizzlies Best of the Best: Baseball's Best Burger vs. Baseball's Best Burger vs. Baseball's Second-Best Nachos

Robin Wheeler​Minor league baseball stadiums have some major league eats, and the Gateway Grizzlies in scenic Sauget, Illinois, have some of the best in the nation. Adam Richman of Man v. Food is a fan, so you know the eats must be over-the-top and worth the price of admission. While Fight C ... More >>

Food Safety Bill Inches Closer to Law

The Senate's reached a "tentative agreement" on the food safety bill. The Hill reports, "'It's a clear signal that this is going to happen when they come back in September,' said Sandra Eskin, director of the Pew Health Group's Food Safety Campaign." The House passed their version of food safety leg ... More >>

Ten Things to Do for $10 This Memorial Day Weekend: May 28-31, 2010

Looking for something to do this Memorial Day weekend? Here's a list of ten events around town that will cost you $10 or less. ​Homecoming: Fluxus and Visual Poetry by Regional Natives (Opens Friday) This new art exhibition opens Friday. Writes Paul Friswold: "Some people will tell you that F ... More >>

Map Locations At A Glance: Miscellaneous

Map Locations At A Glance: Stadiums

Over the Weekend: Bob Dylan on the East Side, DJ Richie Hawton at Koken Art Factory, Counting Crows Under the Arch

The long weekend behind us, here's what you might have missed.Bob Dylan at GCS BallparkPhoto: Roy KastenBob Dylan and Donnie Herron at the end of the nightOn Thursday night, Bob Dylan, John Mellencamp and Willie Nelson performed at GCS Ballpark (home to the Gateway Grizzlies minor league team) in Sa ... More >>

Fight Club Sandwich: Choose the "Battle of the Burgers" Combatants!

The response to this first Fight Club Sandwich contest has been fantastic. All of you provided great ideas for both burgers to try and specific battles to stage. I decided it would be easier to choose from among five different battles -- a few suggested by readers, a few put together from your ideas ... More >>

Monday, June 15: Calendar Pimp Suggests

Photo courtesy Gateway Grizzlies. Shaun Seibert unleashes the other kind of slider.     Sauget's minor league team has been lauded for its concessions, but we're bigger fans of the ticket prices.  

Grizzlies, Man

Three for Three: 7.11-7.13

Summer Sensations: So much to do, so little time. Here's what we recommend you dare not miss.

Your Weekly St. Louis Food Blog Digest

Minor League, Major Honor

Joe makes a pitch for the Gateway Grizzlies

Infield Hit

Ian catches a Slider at the Gateway Grizzlies' GCS Stadium -- and lives to tell about it.

Unreal News Challenge 2006

Week of December 21, 2006

Ballpark Frank

The lowdown on eats at the new ballyard

Summer Wonders

You won't want to miss these hot summer events

Letters

Week of August 3, 2005

3 Nights in June

Strategy, heartbreak, and joy inside the mind of a minor-league hitting coach

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Week of June 8, 2005

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Week of May 11, 2005

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Week of March 2, 2005

Crosstown Clash

Rascals challenge Grizzlies in their den

Funky Town

Smokestacks, strip joints and a seriously solid tax base: Welcome to Sauget, Illinois

Die, Cubs, Die

And then die some more

Classic Rock Clowns

Cars & Guitars benefits Ronald McDonald House

Baseball Been Very Bad to Me

The Frontier League shows the way

Night & Day

June 30 - July 1, 1999

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