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St. Louis Food Blog Digest, 05.13-05.20

Gut Check dishes on our favorite St. Louis food blogs. Rhubarb and Honey: Kimberly lists the eats, treats and television she's currently "crushing on." Eat. See. Home.: Amanda visited Gringo (398 North Euclid Avenue; 314-449-1212), the new Mexican concept from the restauranteurs behind Pi Pizzeria ... More >>

Hardee's Fish Slutburger to Arrive Just in Time for Lent

Long known for pressing thick, squishy burgers into the hands of famous females who are neither thick nor squishy, St. Louis-based Hardee's (a.k.a. Carl's Jr.) is mixing it up a little bit for this year's Super Bowl commercial. Fret not: It's still porn-y.

Dennis Cabanting, Iraq Veteran, Returns To St. Louis, Reports Wife for Embezzlement

Dennis Cabanting, 38, spent eighteen-and-a-half years in the military and returned home to live with his mother in St. Louis last week. But his troubles aren't over -- and now it's his wife who is causing him the most grief. So says Cabanting's mother, Julieann Najar, who is accusing her son's wif ... More >>

7 Tips for Living a Really Long Life (from a Really, Really Old Illinois Woman)

Mayetta Epps-Miller of East St. Louis died on New Year's Eve. She was 111 years old. That made her the oldest person living in Illinois, and also one of our nation's elite supercentenarians, (meaning she was at least 110 and a superhero).  Epps was born in April of 1901. It's hard to get your h ... More >>

Band Mom is The Man: Five Musicians with Politician Parents

Sen. Daniel Inouye, who passed this week, was present for some of the 20th Century's pivotal events. Born in Hawaii in 1924, he witnessed the Pearl Harbor attack as a medical volunteer. He enlisted in the Army and fought in World War II; there he lost an arm and still stayed in the service until 194 ... More >>

U.S. Deer Collision Map Curiously Similar to Red State, Blue State Divide

West Virginia leads the nation in something. And, no, we're not talking about obesity or smoking or party schools. West Virginia is the most likely place in America for motorists to crash into deer!  According to State Farm insurance claims and statistics from the Federal Highway Administratio ... More >>

Breastaurant Uniforms Owner Terra Watson: The Gut Check Interview

Last year, Gut Check noted that St. Louis was far ahead of the emerging national trend in breastaurants. (If you can't figure the term out for yourself, it refers to Hooters, The Tilted Kilt and their ilk.) This week, the Associated Press reported that the breastaurant industry is positively booming ... More >>

Battleship: Because every generation needs an Armageddon

The Bachelorette Season 8: The St. Louis Guy Calls Himself "Wolf"

So there's a guy from St. Louis on The Bachelorette Season 8, which began airing last night, and and he calls himself, "Wolf." His real name is just John. (Almost nobody in reality television has a last name.) He's a data destruction specialist. We have no idea what that means, and we're not going t ... More >>

Snow Time Like Christmas

The Cards Go With the Wong Guy in First Round of Draft

Ah, Hawaii. Land of white beaches, blue water, beautiful palm trees, and, um, second basemen, apparently. ​Day one of the draft is in the books, with the first and supplemental rounds completed. The Cards had but a single selection, and I can give you this bit of good news about the player they se ... More >>

Blue Moon Belgian White, Tower Pub

science.nasa.gov​Once, many moons ago, Drink of the Week was young and in love. She sat on a balcony drinking cheap wine and making moony eyes at the object of her affections. The young lovers ran out of wine, so they went to the store to get more. When they returned to the balcony, they notic ... More >>

The History of Hawaii, Told in Plate Lunches

Hipster historian/author/NPR voice/Violet from The Incredibles Sarah Vowell has a new book, Unfamiliar Fishes, that hits bookstores March 22. The book explores the history of Hawaii, which Vowell previews in a trailer (since when do books have trailers?), filled with slides of Hawaiian plate lunches ... More >>

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

Can we just lay the rumors to rest that Barack Obama is not an American citizen? He was born in Hawaii in 1961 -- two years after it became a state. Not Kenya. Hawaii. Even Glenn Beck has shut up about this, maybe because the claims are so ridiculous the Supreme Court doesn't want to waste its time. ... More >>

Lucky You: You're Worth $34.75 in Earmarks This Year

image via​We all know that our junior senator, Claire McCaskill, is outspoken about the need to eliminate earmarks and pork barrel legislation. Of course, this doesn't mean that all of Missouri's congressional delegation ascribes to this same kosher view of government spending. (No pork, get it?)C ... More >>

Kids Going Hungry in Missouri? Let Them Eat Hardee's 2/3 Pound Monster Thickburgers!

Just in time for the Fourth of July, Health.com presents "50 Fattiest Foods in the States," which we quickly bookmarked for our next road trip. Representing Missouri: Hardee's 2/3 Pound Monster Thickburger, which weighs in at "[a] mind-blowing 95 grams of fat and 36 grams of saturated fat -- more th ... More >>

St. Louisans Fleeing to the Coasts

Forbes.com just published a handy tool today where folks can track population migration from county-to-county based on data the Internal Revenue Service collected from 2008. Here's the migration pattern for St. Louis city: Image source​The black lines show where people came to St. Louis from ... More >>

Quantifying the Extent of the Gulf Oil Spill. Where Does it End?

Oil, oil, everywhere, and not a drop to drink.​There appears to be no limit to the ways in which the media has tried to help us all visualize the extent of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. There've been reports that the amout of oil gushing into the Gulf would cover all of Manhattan, Ch ... More >>

How Big is the Gulf Oil Spill in Comparison to St. Louis?

Pretty damn big, as this Google Earth mock-up reveals:That's an oil spill, not a Rorschach test.​Thee map reflects the size -- about 2,500 square miles -- of the Deepwater Horizon spill as of May 6. The leak is still gushing out at least 200,000 gallons of crude oil per day with no end in sight as ... More >>

USA Today Highlights Taverns Nationwide that Ignore Smoking Bans

​USA Today today (I love saying that) turns it attention to bar and restaurant owners who flout their local smoking bans. The article opens at a watering hole in Chicago where smokers donate $5 to the "smoke jug" -- a collection pot that the tavern owner uses to pay fines when he's busted for viol ... More >>

Don't Let It Bring You Down, But Missouri Is Actually a Pretty Miserable State

flickr.com/photos/blazin glory ​We have an enduring preoccupation with happiness. It's an American art form.  Pollsters are constantly probing our psyches, measuring our mood swings, tracking our current level of contentment. Interestingly, though hardly surprising -- as T ... More >>

Throwback of the House: The Taboo of Polynesian Green Beans

When I was a kid, my dad often drank soda and iced tea from a big avocado-green tiki mug. That thing scared the hell out of me. I'd seen those Hawaii episodes of The Brady Bunch enough times during after-school reruns to know that idols = increased odds of getting whacked on the head with a surfboar ... More >>

Finally, A Survey that Says St. Louis is Tip-Top

economicsociologist.files.wordpress.com​Or at least we're the top tippers.The food/travel guide Zagat published its annual "America's Top Restaurants" edition last week and the book includes a survey of which cities leave the biggest tips by percentage. St. Louisans beat out the highfalutin cheaps ... More >>

The Audacity of Sneak

Fernando de Sousa, Wikimedia Commons Show: Up, Pixar's latest gorgeous, visually engaging attempt to make me laugh while feeling a little guilty. Total success on both counts.Food: Mochi ice cream, mango flavored.Difficulty: Moderate. This is the easiest form of ice cream to bring into the movies, ... More >>

Sole Proprietors: At long last, St. Louis gets a McCormick & Schmick's. Was it worth the wait?

Newspaper Titans in Secret Meeting to Decide Their Future -- and Yours

fllickr.com/photos/Fish EnterTop executives from Lee Enterprises, owner of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, were among a select group of newspaper heavyweights who assembled in secret Thursday for a series of hush-hush discussions, including the possibility of charging for Web content. The meetin ... More >>

Sports Agent In Rough After Conning Sponsor, Local Golf Channel Celeb

golf.about.comAndrew Moss, a Hawaii based sports agent, has pleaded guilty to a wire fraud charge for embezzling from a local golf sponsor. United States Attorney Catherine Hanaway announced the guilty plea today.Moss represented Edwardsville golfer Scott Yancy III, who gained notoriety a few year's ... More >>

Please Pass the Placenta: Unreal deduces the reason placentas are clogging sewers in Illinois

Placenta for Lunch, Anyone? How About You There In Urbana?

Wikimedia CommonsIf you haven't already eaten lunch today, stop reading now. Seriously. Go eat, come back, then dive into something that's sure to make you lose your appetite.Unreal was browsing news of the weird yesterday when we stumbled upon this whopper of a headline: "Placentas Found In Sewage ... More >>

Missouri a Red State in Ways We Hadn't Thought Of

In between watching our admittedly already crappy retirement account go further down the crapper along with the Dow yesterday, Unreal happened upon this nifty USA Today feature that plots a 2009-'10 jobs forecast on graphs and maps.Always a sucker for graphs and maps, we clicked around awhile....USA ... More >>

Show Review Photos Setlist: Broken Social Scene at the Gargoyle, Saturday, October 18

Jason Segel uses his balls to great effect in Forgetting Sarah Marshall

Food & Wine: January 2008

Our top DVD picks for the week of March 1.

The Elected

Sun Sun Sun (Sub Pop)

Go West (and North and South and East), Young Men

A local band has some big tour plans this summer

This War, That War

A student production at Webster bridges the gap

Imperfect Unions

A new documentary sells gay marriage as the only answer to discrimination

Wet Kisses

Riding Giants gushes over the legends of "big wave" surfing

Joia to the World

It's all fun and games for St. Louis' favorite Brazilian percussion ensemble

Film Openings

Week of August 14, 2002

Kill Your Radio

Week of May 1, 2002

Kong King

Wonton King deluges diners with an almost limitless selection of Hong Kong-style dishes

What Annoys You About Your Co-Workers?

Week of November 28, 2001

The Other Richard

Week of November 21, 2001

Bora! Bora! Bora!

Pearl Harbor's sound and fury signify nothing but a new kind of war porn

Does a Major Plane Crash Discourage You from Air Travel?

Published the week of September 20-26, 2000

Kind of Blue

The Big Muddy Blues Festival cascades over Laclede's Landing

Medeski, Martin and Wood

Wednesday, Nov. 10; Mississippi Nights

Would You Keep or Sell McGwire's No. 500?