Subject: Jerry Berger

• 1998: The Year in Dining

  January 6, 1999

• Short Cuts

  June 16, 1999

• THE RACE IS ON ... AND THE WINNER LOSES ALL

  September 15, 1999

• Send in the Marinos

  December 6, 2000

• Overt Operation

  November 1, 2000

• Best Newspaper Columnist

  September 29, 2004

• Jerry Baby!

  We try to track down Jerry Berger, investigate what Carnahan is doing on the Flipside and learn about a Cosmological Flight Machine; plus, Bill Haas dishes the dirt and Unreal gets schooled at a "Rock, Paper, Scissors" tourney

  August 4, 2004

• Letters

  Week of April 21, 2004

  April 21, 2004

• Letters

  Week of April 7, 2004

  April 7, 2004

• Berger Bit

  Unreal bids fond farewell to Jerry Berger, witnesses a presidential Opening Day and a six-foot-tall termite and gives out a very, very special award

  April 7, 2004

• Patty Dukes

  Unreal steps into the Thickburger fray, gets good gossip at Pujols' fête and seeks dream interpretation -- and hey, keep your dirty pictures away from Ameren UE

  May 5, 2004

• Bush Strikes Out

  Our commander in chief takes to the mound, Missouri gets its very own dinosaur, an Old Kid on the Block remembers when he was New, and Unreal learns a little something about love and basketball

  March 31, 2004

• Rock On and On and On and On

  Make Sweet Meat proud in the KSHE 95 March Bandness: Tournament of Rock; plus, give us your juiciest Berger Bite, check out some cranky public art and a Branson Idol hopeful -- and don't pack heat in Dierbergs

  March 10, 2004

• Beat Regeneration

  When audiences dug the dexedrine-fueled, pot-stoked Nervous Set at the Crystal Palace back in 1959, St. Louis was like cool, man, cool

  March 3, 2004

• Cowboy Him

  A hometown boy's skills on the open range could win him $25K, Mariano Favazza offers a money-back guarantee, and Unreal gets to the seat of the issue at the new ballpark; plus, won't someone from the STL break the marathon-bowling record?

  January 21, 2004

• Know News?

  The year in review: A quiz (For answers, see last page)

  December 31, 2003

• Slayer

  Could the mayor's uncanny habit of making enemies wreck the charter-reform effort?

  August 27, 2003

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  August 13, 2003

• World Cappuccino

  A soccer field the size of a postage stamp

  July 9, 2003

• Watch This

  Netflix.com fills the gap left by the demise of St. Louis' best video stores

  April 30, 2003

• Wal-Mart World

  Callow's handiwork in Maplewood may spell money trouble for the city

  November 20, 2002

• Let's Have a Berger

  This week, a tribute to the king of twinkling ellipses

  November 6, 2002

• Best Newspaper Columnist

  Richard Callow

  September 25, 2002

• Who Would Win in a WWE-Style Smackdown Between Jerry Berger and Julius Hunter?

  September 18, 2002

• What's in a Name?

  Let's hear it for the unfriendliest stores in town

  September 11, 2002

• Gimme, Gimme

  Badges and fire hoses trump affordable housing and health care for the poor

  July 10, 2002

• Channel Change

  February 20, 2002

• Citizen Callow

  October 17, 2001

• Best Newspaper Columnist

  September 26, 2001

• Best Hair On a TV Personality (Female)

  September 26, 2001

• Grand Guy

  September 5, 2001

• Letters

  August 1, 2001

• Jerry's Stringer

  June 27, 2001

• Dead Heat

  February 28, 2001

• Harmon Agonistes

  February 21, 2001

• Best Newspaper Columnist

  September 27, 2000

• Best Underground (Figuratively) Restaurant

  September 27, 2000

• Is This a Good Omen or a Bad One for G.W. Bush?

  August 2, 2000

• Two Steps Forward

  April 26, 2000

• The Deal of the Century

  February 23, 2000

• GLOBAL VIEW

  October 27, 1999

• Soldier On

  January 6, 1999

• Gossip Columnist Jerry Berger Returning Online

  www.bergersbeat.comJerry Berger​Former Globe-Democrat and Post-Dispatch society columnist Jerry Berger plans to return to his craft this month. Since stepping down from the Post in 2004, Berger has been a virtual no-see-um, but those days are over writes the columnist on his new website Berger's Beat: "After a five-year hiatus and many hours of Lawrence Welk re-runs, Captain and Tennille music and devouring pastrami at Protzel's, I found it necessary to return to columnizing."The columns will

  August 4, 2009

• St. Louis Food Blog Digest: 9.5-9.11

  Gut Check dishes on our favorite St. Louis food blogs.Becky and the Beanstock: Becky finally reveals her secret dish - vegetarian hot dogs in pretzel dough blankets. Sounding My Barbaric Gulp: Kelly went wild with spiced dove breasts.Bruno's Dream: Bruno made carrot gelato for LiveSTRONG Day. One Hot Stove: Out of desperation, Nupur concocts spaghetti with chocolate sauce.

  September 11, 2009

• Jeez Berger: Unreal Takes the Pulse of the STL via Jerry Berger (October 30 Edition)

  ​Our years apart have not dimmed the torch Unreal carries for former Post-Dispatch gossip columnist Jerry Berger. (Now that we think of it, make that "former Post-Dispatch and Globe-Democrat gossip columnist Jerry Berger"!) Yet we realize that not every St. Louisan follows the Bergermeister's journalistic peregrinations as loyally and breathlessly as we do.So for those who don't regularly check in on JB's newish website, bergersbeat.com, we offer highlights of Berger's most rece

  October 30, 2009

• FoodWire: Tidbits on A'mis, Chris' Pancakes, Firemen

  Ian FroebTumo's, soon to be come A'mis​A few restaurant tidbits that my colleagues around town have posted: Joe Bonwich of the Post-Dispatch notes that Italian restaurant A'mis will open its third location at 6419 Hampton Avenue, the former location of Tumo's. Bonwich also reports on Phelim O'Toole's, a new firefighter-themed (and firefighter-owned) restaurant opening at the old Soda Fountain Square location in Lafayette Square.Finally, in his latest gossip column, Jerry Berger includes a smal

  November 3, 2009

• Jerry Berger Banned from Post-Dispatch for "Inappropriate Behavior"

  bergersbeat.comJerry Berger​Former Post-Dispatch gossip columnist Jerry Berger has been banned from his old place of employment. Berger -- who retired from the St. Louis daily in 2004 and recently debuted his own online gossip column -- has remained a somewhat regular fixture at the Post-Dispatch over the years, turning up in the newsroom every three or four weeks. Recently, though, Berger's visits have gotten a bit -- shall we say -- touchy. Late last week the paper sent the erstwhile em

  November 12, 2009

• Kiss, Kiss! Unreal Invites Jerry Berger to Work for Riverfront Times!

  bergersbeat.comJerry Berger​Back when we was a pup, men were men and what happened in the newsroom stayed in the newsroom. That's why Unreal coughed up our morning tequila shot when we read Chad Garrison's scoop about 76-year-old Gossip Column Emeritus Jerry Berger getting banned from the Post-Dispatch premises for allegedly feeling up the male help."After a recent newsroom visit, we received several complaints from staff members about inappropriate behavior directed at them from Jerry,"

  November 16, 2009

• FoodWire: Brasserie by Niche Opens Tonight, Tuesday, 11.17

  Brasserie by Niche, the latest restaurant from Gerard Craft of Niche and its still shiny-and-new sibling Taste by Niche, opens for service this evening at 5 p.m. at 4580 Laclede Avenue in the Central West End. As its name implies, Brasserie serves classic French brasserie cuisine, with chef Perry Hendrix -- most recently of North Carolina, he worked with Craft in Salt Lake City -- in charge of the kitchen. Buzz from last week's invitation-only soft opening has been pretty strong, so don't be sur

  November 17, 2009

• Jerry Berger gets the boot, Gant Bloom gets a green light, and Sammy Sosa's in a whiteout

  November 18, 2009