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Five Amazing, Ridiculous Soap Opera Plots

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This month marks twenty wonderful years since MTV aired the first episode of Beavis and Butthead. Mike Judge's hilarious cult phenomenon originally ran from March 8, 1993 to November 28, 1997, before being retired so that Judge could focus on Fox's animated series King of the Hill. When that show ca ... More >>

Put Down The Night Cheese -- Ben & Jerry's Announces New 30 Rock Ice Cream

When Gut Check learned that season seven of 30 Rock would be the show's last, we were sad to say the least. This Thursday, January 31, we'll say goodbye to 30 Rock for good when it's season finale airs. Here's an excerpt from a memorial Gut Check penned this past spring when the show's final season ... More >>

[VIDEO] "Arrested Development" Mega-Fan Creates Web Series to Score a Part on Season 4 (And It Might Be Working)

Paul Goetz has been in the film business for a while, but he can't seem to get one in the can. Well, that's not completely true. The "Arrested Development" mega-fan has already had some success on the big screen, notably sharing a scene with George Clooney in "Up in the Air." But Goetz, a St. Lou ... More >>

Guerrilla Street Food on Guy Fieri's Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives Tonight; Dates Set for Shaved Duck, Espino's [Updated]

Reminder: Guerrilla Street Food (@GuerrillaStreet; 314-529-1328), RFT's "Best Food Truck" for 2012, will appear tonight on the Food Network's Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives. The episode, titled "Burgers, Noodles and Quahogs," airs at 9 p.m. local time. This is the first St. Louis establishment to appe ... More >>

[VIDEO] Bill O'Reilly: "These St. Louis Post-Dispatch People are Dumb and Corrupt."

In an editorial last Wednesday, the Post-Dispatch lamented public distrust of the media (which is now at a record high, according to Gallup). The daily suggested that both conservative and liberal cable-news hotheads may or may not be totally to blame, but surely don't help the situation. So what do ... More >>

Motherboy's Better Half

Local Harvest Cafe's Chef Clara Moore to Appear on Bravo Cooking Competition

St. Louis-based chef Clara Moore of Local Harvest Cafe & Catering (3137 Morganford Road, 314-772-8815) is scheduled to compete in a new cooking competition TV series, Around the World in 80 Plates, on Bravo. The show premieres Wednesday, May 9. According to the show's website, it features twelve che ... More >>

Controlled Chaos

Ask a Mexican: Am I supporting the Mexican drug cartels if I smoke pot?

Ten Fatty Foods Gut Check Would Buy With Our Biggest Loser Winnings

Image viaThe reward Biggest Loser contestants receive is a big one: $250,000.​Some lucky St. Louisans could be next in line to get their asses kicked into shape by Anna Kournikova. In search of season thirteen contestants, NBC's feel-good weight-loss reality show The Biggest Loser is coming ... More >>

What It's Like To Audition (Unsuccessfully) For American Idol

One of these people might have moved past the first round. Maybe. Photo by Jon Gitchoff.​Ed: The American Idol Season 11 auditions attracted more than 10,000 hopefuls to the Scottrade Center yesterday. Recent Mizzou grad Mallory Gnaegy was one them, and she has agreed to let us publish her ac ... More >>

17th Street Bar and Grill Gets Double Recognition

Image via​Pit master extraordinaire Mike Mills of 17th Street Bar & Grill (1711 West Highway 50, O'Fallon; 618-622-1717 or www.17thstreetbarbecue.com) will be cooking at the famed James Beard House in New York City on July 15. The dinners at the Beard House are hosted monthly by the James Be ... More >>

Who's Winning Now? T-Shirt Shop Says Ashton Kutcher

T-shirt says: Charlie Sheen is apparently not "winning" anymore.​Last month, Baked T's, the locally owned custom T-shirt shop in the Delmar Loop, did a brisk business selling Charlie Sheen tees inscribed with the erratic star's new catchphrase: winning."We sold that one all the time," says Nik Fus ... More >>

Foot Hi Pie at Blue Springs Cafe

Robin Wheeler​Last October Gut Check staged the Great Illinois Pie Fight, with Blue Springs Cafe in Highland taking a sound beating from Mills Apple Farm in Marine. How sound was the beating? But if we ever need to gather ammunition for a pie fight, we're heading straight to Blue Springs. O ... More >>

Missouri Child Labor Bill Takes it on the Chin from Leno

Ha, ha, you Missouri brats! Go get a job!​Oh, that Jay Leno. Always quick with the zing.As we reported yesterday, state Sen. Jane Cunningham (R-West County) thinks that a more Dickensian youth would really get Missouri kids to straighten up and fly right. She's proposed a bill (SB 222) that would ... More >>

Bill Cosby: All By Himself

Slate Debunks the Fox News Lawsuit Against Robin Carnahan

To be blunt, Fox is full of it.​From being represented by a law firm with ties to Republican Roy Blunt to using copyright law for the purpose of political censorship, earlier today Slate published a thorough take-down of Fox News and their "bogus" lawsuit against Robin Carnahan, Missouri's Democra ... More >>

Blagojevich on The Daily Show: 'In the next trial, I hope to testify again'

​Everyone's favorite disgraced ex-governor, Rod Blagojevich, was interviewed on The Daily Show Monday night, and it was, pardon our language, fucking golden. Comedically, that is. "I would like to see you as a victim, but you make it so hard," Stewart told him, after Blago said that he w ... More >>

Joe Buck Live on Life Support Says Buck; HBO May Cancel Talk Show

Buck: Enjoying himself or uncomfortable? You make the call!​It looks like HBO is about to pull the plug on St. Louis broadcaster Joe Buck's talk show, Joe Buck Live. Talking to sports website Deadspin this week, Buck said the network informed him that it's moving away from talk shows. "That's bad ... More >>

Update: Wash. U. Student to Appear on Jeopardy! This Afternoon

courtesy of Jeopardy! Wash. U. junior Nick Yozamp is competing on Jeopardy! this afternoon.​Updated February 10: After overcoming a $5,200 deficit in Monday's game, Yozamp advanced to the Jeopardy! College Championship finals, airing tomorrow, February 11, and Friday, February 12, at 3:30 p ... More >>

KDHX Shuffles Around Schedule, But Keeps Talk Shows On the Air

As of today, KDHX (88.1 FM) has shuffled around its programming schedule. Although the nighttime music shows now start at 7 p.m., and a few have changed slots (including, full disclosure, mine, which is now on Tuesdays at 7 p.m.), the biggest news is that the station's talk shows will remain on the ... More >>

Blago to Compete on Next Celebrity Apprentice

It's been years since "You're fired!", accompanied by a cobra-like flick of Donald Trump's right hand, became a national catchphrase, so long, in fact, that Trump has resorted to casting celebrities instead of regular old celebrity-whores on his reality show The Apprentice.But now we may have a reas ... More >>

Joe Webb Wins Jeopardy, Back Tomorrow to Defend His Title

This morning we reported how Saint Louis University associate professor Joe Webb (a.k.a. Dr. Wizard) was scheduled to appear today on Jeopardy. Now we're pleased to follow up with news that our hometown representative did very well. Webb, an English doctoral student, entered the first commercial bre ... More >>

Video: Conan O'Brien's Twitter Tracker

I know I've blogged this before, but you should be following the RFT's three editorial Twitter accounts: RiverfrontTimes, rftmusic and gutcheckstl. Gotta admit, I find some great stuff in those accounts. For instance, Target Market (the band) tweeted a link to this video, from The Ton ... More >>

F'ing Golden: Patti Blagojevich Eats a Tarantula, Nearly Drowns on Reality TV

Patti Blagojevich, wife of infamous ex-Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, has officially began her stint on the NBC reality TV show "I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here" and she wants you to know she's doing it all for the kids.The potty-mouthed former Illinois first lady took her husband's place ... More >>

Get Smart redux is a rare device: a TV remake for the big screen that works on its own terms

Big Black of MTV's 'Rob and Big' Gets Frank in Q&A

Oliver!

Blake Lewis

Audio Day Dream 
(Arista/J)

The Kids Were Alright

Michael Ruhlman at Viking Thursday

Chef vs. Chef

Our top DVD picks scheduled for release this week:

This Is Entertainment

(No TV required)

Dancing with the Stars tour

7:30 p.m. Sunday, January 14. Scottrade Center (South 14th Street and Clark Avenue).

Rock and Blues

Looking Good

Mon-tell It!

Meet the super-classy Montel Williams Tuesday at the Touhill

The Edge of Treason

Bridget Jones is betrayed by a dumb, dull sequel

Best Hair on a Local TV Personality (Female)

Vickie Newton

Flashmobbin'

Tony Soprano invites you to a sit-down at Frederick's (we suggest you accept)

Gossip Folks

Thanks to The O'Reilly Factor and Pepsi, Ludacris got a bad rap

Rescue 9/11

This year, a handful of shows provided the healing power of laughter

Best TV-News Anchor

Kathryn Jamboretz, KPLR-TV (Channel 11)

Law & Disorder

As one of TV's best and best-loved series launches a new spin-off, its creator grapples with the aftershocks of terror

Back to School

Judd Apatow's Freaks and Geeks grow up, more or less, and move to a dorm

The Product

Heath Ledger's in no rush to be a star. Why's everyone else in a hurry?

Shoot Straight

Chris Carter considers the futures of X-Files and Lone Gunmen

Reel Life

Neal Gabler alerts the masses to the proliferation of entertainment in his book Life the Movie