Mark Sanchez, quarterback of the New York Jets, is making amends for what some dubbed "Hot Dog-Gate." He was caught on camera stealthily eating a hotd...
Marilia Duffles | Posted 10.15.2009 | Chicago
Leave it to a Wall Street Journal story this week about a Chicago alderman's opposition to Jimmy Andrews' Felony Franks -- a hot dog joint that hires ...
Ed Levine | Posted 10.01.2009 | New York
I have an inviolable rule when I order, particularly in restaurants like Dallas BBQ: If any menu item is described as "the best" or "famous," I have to order it.
Ann Carr | Posted 09.23.2009 | Comedy
AP | By Adam Lisberg | Posted 09.08.2009 | New York
NEW YORK (AP) -- Homeowners aren't the only ones in hot water over overpriced real estate. A New York City hot dog vendor has been evicted from his...
AP | Posted 08.22.2009 | New York
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- Hot dogs may be as American as baseball and apple pie, but an anti-meat advocacy group says they're hazardous to your health and...
Huffington Post | David Vines | Posted 07.31.2009 | New York
Believe it or not, according to archives, the Nathan's 4th of July Hot Dog Eating Contest has taken place every Independence Day dating back all the w...
Ed Levine | Posted 07.24.2009 | New York
Fancypants chefs, French and otherwise, in pursuit of their own American hot dog dreams can't leave well enough alone.
Disgrasian | Posted 06.27.2009 | Style
Juliet could almost make me forget how grotesquely contorted competitive eaters' faces get when they jam 10 hot dogs in their mouths at once, and how, you know, they eat their own puke. Almost.
Dave Astor | Posted 05.28.2009 | Comedy
Given that the team's super-rich owners used taxpayer subsidies to help finance their gilded ballpark, it serves them right that they're losing some revenue.
Dave Astor | Posted 05.06.2009 | Comedy
What's not to like about a sickeningly posh edifice partly funded by massive subsidies from taxpayers who can't afford its ultra-expensive tickets and food?
Craig "Meathead" Goldwyn | Posted 03.20.2009 | Chicago
The best hot dog in the town famous for hot dogs has been chewed up and spit out by the conglomerate that swallowed it whole.
Chicago Reader | Mike Sula | Posted 10.20.2008 | Chicago
My profile on Vienna Beef veep Bob Schwartz a few weeks back prompted a representative of a local law firm to point out that the venerable hot dog con...
Posted 10.28.2009 | Impact