Subject: The White House

• The Morning Brew: Tuesday, 4.15

  April 15, 2008

• The Morning Brew: Tuesday, 4.29

  April 29, 2008

• The Morning Brew: Tuesday, 5.20

  May 20, 2008

• Plant Power: Local Harvest Café embodies a welcome new concept in sustainable chowing-down

  April 1, 2009

• MP3: Bob Case, "Devil in the White House"

  November 3, 2008

• Who's Going to be Obama's White House Chef?

  November 10, 2008

• Happy Thanksgiving from Gut Check

  I can only hope that, next year, there is a picture of President Obama and the pardoned White House turkey that is this awesome. On the eve of Gut Check's favorite holiday, I wish you and yours a wonderful Thanksgiving. Safe travels to those headed out of town. Gut Check will return Monday to kick off the last month of 2008, which will feature the second annual Gut Check Year-End Bonanza. - Ian Froeb Photo: www.distantocean.com

  November 26, 2008

• The Morning Brew: Monday, 1.19

  In today's news: don't eat peanut butter snacks, look back at White House chefs and consider raccoon.

  January 19, 2009

• The Morning Brew: Wednesday, 1.21

  In today's news: the dispute over the White House chef, a new study on willpower and food and recreating restaurant dishes at home

  January 21, 2009

• Anyone Catch that Blago Speech Today? Bizarre.

  The governor wasn't exactly Perry Mason there in his closing arguments this morning before the Illinois Senate. Unfortunately, I could only catch bits and pieces of the speech on KTRS (550 AM), which annoyingly kept cutting to commercials every five minutes, but what I did hear wasn't good. The governor's argument that White House chief-of-staff Rahm Emanual and even President Barack Obama should also lose their jobs seemed a tadbit strange.  So, too, was that whiny talk about how he fought

  January 29, 2009

• Presidents & Food: George H. W. Bush

  Wikimedia Commons In honor of Presidents' Day, Gut Check celebrates great moments in presidential food history.How will history remember George H. W. Bush, 41st President of the United States? If you say badly, then there's a good chance you're a broccoli fan. In one of the oddest controversies to engulf a president, Bush the Elder enraged farmers -- and delighted kindergartners -- with the following statement:I do not like broccoli and I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother m

  February 16, 2009

• Obama Predicts Early Exit for Mizzou, Illini in Tourney

  Wikimedia CommonsIn perhaps the biggest sports media coup in history, the worldwide leader got the leader of the free world to post his March Madness bracket on ESPN.com rather than the site for NCAA tournament sponsor CBS.Obama agreed to the deal way back in October during an interview with ESPN's Andy Katz and there's there's no denying that reading the president's hand-scrawled bracket, complete with indecisive strike-throughs on a few picks, is fascinating.By now you probably know that the m

  March 18, 2009

• Is Governor Nixon Taking Cues From That Other Nixon -- "Tricky Dick"?

  Wikimedia CommonsAs history has shown, Richard Milhous Nixon was an extremely paranoid man. The 37th president installed a secret taping system in the Oval Office that allowed him to record conversations and phone calls and then use those tapes to strong-arm anyone -- friend or foe -- who dared to go back on their word.  Nixon's tapes would also be his downfall. The so-called Smoking Gun tape released to federal investigators during the Watergate probe revealed that Nixon knew about the cov

  March 23, 2009

• A Glimmer of Hope for Missouri Auto Industry

  smithelectricvehicles.comNationally the news ain't good for the beleaguered U.S. auto industry. Just yesterday, in fact, the White House forced the resignation of General Motors' chairman Rick Wagoner and told Chrysler to seek a partnership with Italian car maker Fiat if it wanted any more government assistance.Closer to home, though, there was a bit of good news last week. In Kansas City on Friday, Smith Electric Vehicles announced it planned to begin producing electric trucks this summer in a

  March 30, 2009

• TOOTING BUSH'S HORN: IS THIS THE NEXT CLINTON?

  August 25, 1999

• Wednesday, April 1: Calendar Pimp Suggests

  I found myself driving past convenience stores ... that weren't on the way home.     I tried to stand up and fly straight, but it wasn't easy with that sumbitch Reagan in the White House. I dunno. They say he's a decent man, so maybe his advisors are confused.

  April 1, 2009

• Pi Delivers to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue

  Ian FroebThen-Senator Barack Obama, shortly after falling in love with Pi.As George Mahe first reported on Feast last week, President Barack Obama has invited Delmar Loop pizza restaurant Pi (6144 Delmar Boulevard; Web site) to cook for him at the White House. Sommers dropped me a line today to report that plans are proceeding for himself, Pi managing partner Ryan Mangialardo and Anne Schuermann to cook for about twenty in the White House next week.The president fell in love with Pi's pizza whil

  April 3, 2009

• This Week in Gut Check, Regurgitated

  This was the week that Gut Check jointed Twitter. What more do you need to know?OK, so that's not all. Maplewood Farmers' Market opened, Pi is headed to the White House -- ! -- and the fried-chicken special at OB Clark's ain't half bad.Java Enabled showed that local coffee houses are handling the recession fairly well, the Noble Writ profiled Bon Vivant Wines, the Sneak snuck into MOBOT and the Dive Bomber met a fat cat.That's all for this week. Next week: Hoo boy. Just wait.Have a great weekend

  April 3, 2009

• Ballwin Man's Nuisance Trial Delayed, Buying Time for Presidential Pardon

  photo by Kit KellisonLewis Greenberg and a small sampling of his art.At 1 p.m. yesterday, Lewis Greenberg, his lawyers, his lucky hat, a small group of supporters and a slightly larger contingent of belligerent neighbors gathered in a Clayton courtroom to determine once and for all whether Greenberg would be allowed to keep the art exhibit he calls The Holocaust Revisited on display in his Ballwin yard.The only person missing was the judge.Associate 21st Circuit Judge Lawrence J. Permutter, it t

  April 8, 2009

• The Good Doctor: William Chignoli, who spent the last decade constructing a safety net for local Hispanics, recently turned 70. But he's far from retiring.

  April 1, 2009

• RFT readers love Laurell K. Hamilton's vampire stories, Albert Pujols, and foodie trivia

  November 26, 2008

• Drink of the Week: Long Strange Tripel

  Newstead Tower Public House
  4353 Manchester Avenue
  314-535-7771

  October 29, 2008

• Look out, aliens

  July 2, 2008

• Mr. Ed-sident

  April 23, 2008

• Mano a Mexicano

  March 19, 2008

• Assassins fires a seldom-seen blast from the Sondheim canon

  March 12, 2008

• The Harlem Car Bomb

  January 9, 2008

• And the Most Asinine Comment on the Post-Dispatch's Pi Article Is...

  By a landslide, the winner is "mednek," whose comment on the Post-Dispatch article about Pi cooking pizza at the White House managed the trifecta of being racist, inaccurate and off-topic. The nature of the winning comment seems especially appropriate given the national attention that Post-Dispatch commenters are receiving for another recent article.

  April 15, 2009

• Bad Folk
  Bad Folk/Rats and People

  "That Great Atomic Power Scared Charlie Louvin More than God" 7"
  (self-released)"Saw a Circus" / "I Sang to Heather Nethereye" split 7"
  (self-released)

  November 7, 2007

• Film Openings

  Week of June 15, 2005

  June 15, 2005

• "Brokedown Palace"

  August 9, 2006

• All Hail the Musical!

  January 3, 2007

• Turn It Up, Mr. Prez!

  B-Sides unearths some tight presidential tunes, finds the softer side of the Simpsons' notorious bully and knows way too much about the Spin Doctors

  December 14, 2005

• No news is good news.

  April 4, 2007

• Pi's Chris Sommers Deep-Dishes on Cooking at the White House...and the Controversy

  User "Wadester16," Wikimedia CommonsChris Sommers, owner of the Delmar Loop pizza restaurant Pi (6144 Delmar Boulevard; Web site), will appear on Fox & Friends tomorrow morning to set the record straight on his visit to the White House to cook pizza for President Barack Obama. The interview should air around 6:30 a.m. local time.The background, in case you just awoke from a coma: Obama raved about Pi's pizza when in town for his rally beneath the Arch in October of last year. Sommers, managi

  April 16, 2009

• Film Openings

  Week of April 20, 2006

  April 19, 2006

• If You Were to Croak in Your Residence, How Long Before Somebody Would Find You?

  Week of November 6, 2002

  November 6, 2002

• Best Bowling Lanes

  Arcade Lanes

  September 25, 2002

• If You Could Walk a Mile in Anybody's Shoes, Whose Would They Be?

  Week of September 25, 2002

  September 25, 2002

• Emmy or Not to Emmy?

  October 24, 2001

• EYE OF THE NEEDLE

  January 5, 2000

• WHO DO YOU THINK DESERVES TO GET A LUMP OF COAL IN HIS OR HER STOCKING THIS YEAR?

  December 15, 1999

• GHOSTS OF MISSOURI

  August 18, 1999

• Short Cuts

  May 19, 1999

• Letters to the Editor

  January 6, 1999

• This Week in Gut Check, Regurgitated

  Who knew it would be such a political week here at Gut Check International Headquarters? We called out some Post-Dispatch commenters for their ridiculous (and sometimes racist) takes on Pi traveling to the White House, and then we chatted with Pi's Chris Sommers about the trip and the fallout.Speaking of fallout, Dave Lowry of St. Louis Magazine had a bone to pick with last week's review of El Borracho. This week's review of the Shaved Duck steered clear of film criticism.This week we also paid

  April 17, 2009

• St. Louis Veterans' Group Calls For Obama Administration to Release Photos of Torture

  St. Louis-based Veterans for Peace is circulating a letter it plans to to send President Barack Obama demanding that the White House release photos of abusive treatment of detainees at the hands of U.S. troops. Obama had supported the release of the pictures to the public, but changed his mind in May, saying that he would try to block the court-ordered release of the photos. Obama's reversal came after U.S. commanders feared that the pictures depicting abusive treatment of detainees would cause

  July 2, 2009

• Will a Budweiser Make Buds Out of Henry Louis Gates Jr. and that Cambridge Cop?

  ​For years Anheuser-Busch has used the slogan, "Making Friends is Our Business." But could a recent (and much publicized) feud prove too powerful for even the "King of Beers" to mend? That's the topic under intense debate in the nation's capital, where President Barack Obama this week plans to invite Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Cambridge police officer Jim Crowley to the White House to share a beer. The idea for the meeting reportedly came up last week when Obama called Crowley

  July 28, 2009

• It's Official: Obama to Drink Bud Light at Today's Beer Summit

  ​Earlier this week we speculated on which brew President Barack Obama would enjoy at today's "Beer Summit" called to diffuse the tiff between Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Cambridge police officer James Crowley.Gates is said to be partial to the Jamaican beer Red Stripe. While Crowley prefers microbrew Blue Moon. After much speculation (and jostling among brewers) we now know what Obama will have. Yesterday White House spokesman Robert Gibbs confirmed: "The president will drink a Bud Light." But t

  July 30, 2009

• A Man Alone

  November 4, 2009