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Go 'Bobbing for Burgers' at the National Hamburger Festival

If, like the little old ladies in those Wendy's commercials, you ever wondered, "Where's the beef?," the answer is in Akron, Ohio. The city will be bombarded with delicious beef when its hosts the fifth annual National Hamburger Festival on July 17 and 18. The city claims to have invented the beloved sandwich, though in the 2006 Hamburger Hearings, an online vote declared Seymour, Wisconsin, as the burger birthplace by a narrow margin.

There's lots of ground beef and buns to be had at the fest—which saw more than 25,000 burger lovers last year—so you Hamburglars will get your fill. Twenty restaurants will flip more than 50 different burger varieties and compete for titles, including best creative burger, best cheeseburger, best veggie burger and best burger toppings/special sauce.

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Save Your "Brass In Pocket" For Pretenders Restaurant

From Planet Hollywood to Britney Spears' short-lived club/eatery NYLA, restaurants opened by celebrities are hardly exempt from the same pressures that cause most new establishments to go under. Let's hope The Pretenders' Chrissie Hynde has some savvy partners or advisers to stand by her when she opens VegeTerranean, a new health-food joint in her home city of Akron, Ohio.

Hynde's meatless kitchen will open September 15, according to the reports, which promises a concert by the owner herself. In response to the increased competition, Robert DeNiro will pick one lucky table every night at the eatery he co-owns, New York's Tribeca Grill, to be the lucky receiver of a Travis Bickle-style interrogation.

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