Jerry Berger

10 Best Terms For Jerry Berger's Alleged Act of Sexual Misconduct

Yesterday, Creve Coeur Patch reported a few scintillating details from a public hearing on the sexual misconduct charges leveled at Jerry Berger, the former Post-Dispatch columnist. (And just like Patch, we'll now issue a warning: The following blog post includes adult content and very bad puns.) Th ... More >>

Republican State House Candidate Called Out for Support of Marijuana Legalization [UPDATE]

Update: We just heard back from Chairman of the Boone County Republican Central Committee C. Bruce Cornett. Meet Mitch Richards. He's the crazy young Republican candidate for the 47th House District in Columbia. He's pro-gun, he's pro-life, he thinks big government should butt out. But he also has ... More >>

UPDATED: St. Louis' LGBT Crowd Reacts to Obama's Support for Same-Sex Marriage

Updated Friday at 9 a.m. with reactions from Joan Lipkin and Nancy Novak. In the wake of President Barack Obama's historic endorsement of gay marriage, here's what some locals in the LGBT community had to say: Joan Lipkin, playwright and artistic director of That Uppity Theatre CompanyI am cautiousl ... More >>

Araka Is Not Closing, OK?

Did you hear the rumor that Araka (131 Carondelet Plaza, Clayton; 314-725-6777) is closing? It's false. Araka is not closing. Funny thing is, Gut Check didn't hear this rumor until we received an email from Araka's PR rep telling us that this rumor (which, again, we hadn't heard) was false. Confus ... More >>

Tidbits from Tony's and Vino Nadoz

Tony's bidding adieu to this dining room?​- The venerable Jerry Berger was the first to report that St. Louis institution Tony's (410 Market Street; 314-231-7007) has put aside a possible relocation to the renovated Cheshire Inn and is now pondering a move to the former Busch's Grove location at 9 ... More >>

Report: AB-InBev Outraged Over World Series Bet Excluding Budweiser

Cardinals and Budweiser: Nothing to make light of.​St. Louis gossipmeister Jerry Berger writes this week that Anheuser-Busch InBev "is pissed" with a friendly wager that Mayor Francis Slay made with Arlington Mayor Robert Cluck over the World Series. The bet would have Slay winning some Texas stea ... More >>

Jerry Berger Finds an Additional Home at St. Louis Magazine

Berger: What's not to love?​Gossip columnist extraordinaire Jerry Berger has found one more place to hang his hat on the Internetz. After a five-year absence from "columnizing," the former society-set scribbler for the Globe Democrat and Post-Dispatch returned to his craft in 2009 when he founded ... More >>

Albert Pujols on 60 Minutes?

Rumor has it that Pujols will hit baseballs off Andy Rooney's eyebrows.​Gossip columnist Jerry Berger reports that Albert Pujols could be featured in a segment of 60 Minutes this coming Sunday. As of this writing, the show's website mentions nothing about the Cardinals' first baseman appearing on ... More >>

News Tidbits from Sansui, Harvest

Jennifer SilverbergHarvest executive chef Nick Miller​I poke my head up from Other Projects here at Gut Check International Headquarters to acknowledge some of the news tidbits that our friends around town have reported:George Mahe reports on Feast Relish that Wasabi will purchase Sansui (9983 Man ... More >>

International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Targets New Ozzie's Restaurant

Ian FroebUnion electricians aren't doing backflips for the new Ozzie's Restaurant & Sports Bar.​The inimitable Jerry Berger posted an interesting item on his Berger's Beat blog last item: "the presence of an informational picket of electrical workers" outside the new Ozzie's Restaurant & S ... More >>

Emily Pulitzer on Selling the Post-Dispatch: "We Saw The Handwriting On the Wall."

Berger's on the P-D beat.​Jerry Berger is out with a mini-profile of the one-and-only Emily Pulitzer, former owner of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and, by extension, his former boss.The ol' gossip actually gets Mrs. Pulitzer to respond to the oft-muttered criticism that she screwed the pooch by se ... More >>

RFT readers rush to Sarah Palin's defense, and they're not ready to kiss off Jerry Berger, either

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

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 He ... More >>

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 Pos ... More >>

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-Disp ... More >>

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'Tool ... More >>

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 Berge ... More >>

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 B ... More >>

Best Newspaper Columnist

The Shadow

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

Letters

Week of April 21, 2004

Letters

Week of 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

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

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

Slayer

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

Watch This

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

Wal-Mart World

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

Let's Have a Berger

This week, a tribute to the king of twinkling ellipses

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

Week of September 18, 2002

What's in a Name?

Let's hear it for the unfriendliest stores in town

Gimme, Gimme

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

Citizen Callow

The mayor names a PR wiz to a city board and ends up with a PR problem

Best Newspaper Columnist

Dolores Shante, St. Louis American

Best Hair On a TV Personality (Female)

Keryn Shipman, KDNL-TV (Channel 30)

Grand Guy

Vince Schoemehl is a politician, which is just what Grand Center needs

Letters

Week of August 1, 2001

Jerry's Stringer

Just how many items in Jerry Berger's column come from PR man Richard Callow?

Dead Heat

Efforts to tie attempted voter fraud to the Bosley campaign haven't stuck

Harmon Agonistes

You don't need a weatherbird to tell which way the wind is blowing

Send in the Marinos

Longtime Pasta House man Tony Marino opens up his own place in Ballwin

Overt Operation

The Boogie Knights and That Girl throw the party of the year in Operation: Get Down

Best Underground (Figuratively) Restaurant

Beffa's

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

The armadillo, Texas' best-known critter, migrates to Missouri

Two Steps Forward

In the wake of controversy over the city's lagging health initiatives, the family of a lead-poisoned child wins a settlement and the city's health director steps down

The Deal of the Century

Convention and Visitors Commission honcho John Ferrara gets hot and bothered about the RFT's treatment of the Trans World Dome deal; plus, other St. Louis follies and foibles

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

Push is coming to shove in a dispute over Aldermanic President Francis Slay's polling tactics in his bid for mayor

Soldier On