|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
The [Wednesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Inside Urlacher's contract.Posted on July 23, 2008
The [Tuesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
The new kind of foreign policy experience.Posted on July 22, 2008
The [Monday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Hollywood Hendon's after-school specials.Posted on July 21, 2008
The Weekend Desk Report
By Natasha Julius /
Salsa and Chips, Beer and Pork.Posted on July 19, 2008
The [Friday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Conditions at the Cook County Jail are literally murderous. Plus, Clout Kids and Toni Preckwinkle as the anti-Obama local hero.Posted on July 18, 2008
The [Thursday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Sheesh, you'd think Chicago had never experienced a rise in crime before.Posted on July 17, 2008
The [Wednesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
How the Trib is like the Chicago Police Department.Posted on July 16, 2008
The [Tuesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Ann Marie Lipinski's departure as Tribune editor is not a surprise. Gerry Kern as her replacement is.Posted on July 15, 2008
The [Monday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Blago will ruin your day; Chris Berman will ruin your night.Posted on July 14, 2008
The Weekend Desk Report
By Natasha Julius /
The dog-eat-dog world of high school politics and our favorite rogue state gets un-decertified.Posted on July 12, 2008
The [Friday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Obama throws African American leaders under the bus. Mike North throws himself under the bus. Daley throws Weis under the bus. Amy Jacobson throws herself under the bus.Posted on July 11, 2008
The [Thursday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Jesse Jackson is right about Obama. Plus, Oakland says bye to Harden and the Onion's Jimmy Carter scoop.Posted on July 10, 2008
The [Wednesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Olympic boss doubts anything bad will affect Chicago bid. Plus, meet Billy Daley Jr.!Posted on July 09, 2008
The [Tuesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
The governor is not a sociopath. Chicago's It Girl. Wrapping up R. Kelly.Posted on July 08, 2008
The [Monday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Blago's pardons. O'Hare Towing. Roeper on Oprah. Mike Royko. Lenny Bruce. Al Gore. The Shriners.Posted on July 07, 2008
The Weekend Desk Report
By Natasha Julius /
Reading this column may make you less free, but what the hell? Let's bust out the sparklers and celebrate our independence!Posted on July 05, 2008
The [Fourth of July] Papers
By The Fourth of July Desk /
Miss Manners, Kids in America, Well-Regulated Militia, The Redacted Banner.Posted on July 04, 2008
The [Thursday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Mike North, Steve Stone, United Airlines, Vince Foster, Craiglist and Olympic Day.Posted on July 03, 2008
The [Wednesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
The left gets wise to Obama.Posted on July 02, 2008
The [Tuesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Obama's third Bush term. Alejando Escovedo & The Boss. McWrigley jumps the shark.Posted on July 01, 2008
The [Monday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
The Beachwood loves L.A.Posted on June 30, 2008
The Weekend Desk Report
By Natasha Julius /
It could be the end for the Triumvirate of Terror. Then again, it could be the end for us all.Posted on June 28, 2008
The [Friday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Obama challenges reporters. Reporters fail.Posted on June 27, 2008
The [Thursday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Obama challenges Chicago reporters. They fail.Posted on June 26, 2008
The [Wednesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Lewis Lazare, Dawn Turner Trice, Second Life, Arne Duncan, the Flintstones, Seinfeld, Barry Angel, Mike North, Don Imus, Nancy Pelosi and Michael Keaton.Posted on June 25, 2008
The [Tuesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
I don't believe today's generation is dumber than those who came before because they don't read newspapers. I think newspapers are dumber.Posted on June 24, 2008
The [Monday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Jay Mariotti, Liz Phair, Barack Obama, Ferris Bueller, Todd Stroger, Geovany Soto and George Carlin.Posted on June 23, 2008
The Weekend Desk Report
By Natasha Julius /
Drama at Illinois High.Posted on June 21, 2008
The [Friday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
A crosstown classic.Posted on June 20, 2008
The [Thursday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Just die already, newspapers. Just die.Posted on June 19, 2008
The [Wednesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Another reason to hate Petey Wentz. And comparing online and print gatekeepers.Posted on June 18, 2008
The [Tuesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Scalloped.Posted on June 17, 2008
The [Monday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
A Father's Day farce.Posted on June 16, 2008
The Weekend Desk Report
By Natasha Julius /
Whitey makes us building a Bridge to Nowhere.Posted on June 14, 2008
The [Friday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Doing less with less.Posted on June 13, 2008
The [Thursday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
For the children. Of the mayor. And his pals.Posted on June 12, 2008
The [Wednesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Richie Daley cares more about children than anyone! Plus, Burge is back. The impeachment memo. Wrigley Field Follies. And HEARTING the Dells.Posted on June 11, 2008
The [Tuesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Four aldermen debate the Children's Museum. Guess which side acted like children?Posted on June 10, 2008
The [Monday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Sox fans and the food they eat. The long lost lakefront El. And newspapermen who hate gay people.Posted on June 09, 2008
The Weekend Desk Report
By Natasha Julius /
Corporate America gets a clue and Big Brown gets a fashionable advantage.Posted on June 07, 2008
The [Friday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
The Sun-Times and Tribune - stupid in their own distinctive ways.Posted on June 06, 2008
The [Thursday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Scenes from the Rezko verdict. Plus, the Sun-Times sportswriter who ranks homosexuals with pedophiles.Posted on June 05, 2008
The [Wednesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
How Obama did it.Posted on June 04, 2008
The [Tuesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Hey Bo Diddley. Father Mike Stand. Nerds.Posted on June 03, 2008
The [Monday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Michael Pfleger blames YouTube for Michael Pfleger.Posted on June 02, 2008
The Weekend Desk Report
By Natasha Julius /
Yes, they are out to get you. Even Sir Charles.Posted on May 31, 2008
The [Friday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Missing the point about Daley's commencement speech. Plus, Rezko at Caesar's!Posted on May 30, 2008
The [Thursday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
The old Scott McClellan would feel right at home with the Obama campaign. Plus, how AT&T wants to screw you. And please, make SITC madness stop, before I kill.Posted on May 29, 2008
The [Wednesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Pardoning George Ryan. Honoring Earle Hagen. Dissing Stella Foster. Ridiculing Rod Blagojevich. Explaining Barack Obama. And a whistling parrot.Posted on May 28, 2008
The [Tuesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Plastic cocktail drink monkeys.Posted on May 27, 2008
The Weekend Desk Report
By Natasha Julius /
A calorie count won't make you healthy, and being healthy won't make you right.Posted on May 24, 2008
The [Friday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Memorial Day sendoff.Posted on May 23, 2008
The [Thursday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
The usual suspects.Posted on May 22, 2008
The [Wednesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Controlling the delegate narrative.Posted on May 21, 2008
The [Tuesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Quorom is the word of the day. Plus, International Pickle Week!Posted on May 20, 2008
The [Monday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
A Beachwood investigation shows the city council is hardly working.Posted on May 19, 2008
The Weekend Desk Report
By The Beachwood B Team
Pete Wentz vs. Taylor Hicks.Posted on May 17, 2008
The [Friday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
The Chicago Plan Commission overwhelming passes one of the most unpopular plans in city history.Posted on May 16, 2008
The [Thursday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Back on the menu: A diseased, rotting organ of an abused animal.Posted on May 15, 2008
The [Wednesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Punch lines ripped from the headlines.Posted on May 14, 2008
The [Tuesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
No condos at Wrigley. Chicago City Council's foreign policy. Reinsdorf responds. And the Zen of Bobby V.Posted on May 13, 2008
The [Monday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Let's put the adults underground and leave the children alone.Posted on May 12, 2008
The Weekend Desk Report
By Natasha Julius /
Christmas comes early for the CTA this year.Posted on May 10, 2008
The [Friday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Beachwood history.Posted on May 09, 2008
The [Thursday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
The dance that's stayin' alive.Posted on May 08, 2008
The [Wednesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Does Indiana suck?Posted on May 07, 2008
The [Tuesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Slump-busting Daley and Blago.Posted on May 06, 2008
The [Monday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Stupid is as stupid does.Posted on May 05, 2008
The Weekend Desk Report
By The Weekend Desk Affairs Desk /
A unified field theory of the Kentucky Derby and American politics. Plus, Lindsay Lohan.Posted on May 03, 2008
The [Friday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Grounding Air Blago. Hating on Emil Jones. And facing up to Abu Ghraib again.Posted on May 02, 2008
The [Thursday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
The Children's Museum's muscle, Wright wronged, and Melrose Park's Stern Pinball.Posted on May 01, 2008
The [Wednesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Anatomy of a break-up, starring Barack Obama and Jeremiah Wright.Posted on April 30, 2008
The [Tuesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
The problem isn't whether Obama shares Jeremiah Wright's views, it's whether Obama is telling the truth.Posted on April 29, 2008
The [Monday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Welcome to Chicagoland's Premier Foreclosure Tour.Posted on April 28, 2008
The Weekend Desk Report
By Natasha Julius /
The insufferable airs of the Nouveau Pauvre.Posted on April 26, 2008
The [Friday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Here and there.Posted on April 25, 2008
The [Thursday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Karl Rove, the Tree Trimmer, Garfield, the Mosquito, Lauren Conrad, 50 Cent, the Artful Dodger, and Michael McDonald as Jeremiah Wright.Posted on April 24, 2008
The [Wednesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
It's all about NBC5 today.Posted on April 23, 2008
The [Tuesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
A primary monologue.Posted on April 22, 2008
The [Monday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Lyin' and Cryin' Brian Urlacher.Posted on April 21, 2008
The Weekend Desk Report
By Natasha Julius /
We went to bed in Illinois and woke up in California.Posted on April 19, 2008
The [Friday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Yes, that was an earthquake we all felt this morning.Posted on April 18, 2008
The [Thursday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Obama had a terrible night, not only because he seemed despondent for some unknown reason, but because he was caught several times making statements that simply were not true.Posted on April 17, 2008
The [Wednesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
CTA: Cover Their Ass. Plus, Daley Doinked.Posted on April 16, 2008
The [Tuesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Barack Obama met with an Iraqi investor as a favor to Tony Rezko.Posted on April 15, 2008
The [Monday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Like a good neighbor, the Spindle could be there.Posted on April 14, 2008
The Weekend Desk Report
By Natasha Julius /
Following directly behind the [Friday] Papers.Posted on April 12, 2008
The [Friday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Allstate's museum play, Olympic obnoxiousness, and the tyrannical tracking of teens.Posted on April 11, 2008
The [Thursday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Looting, waffles and ethics.Posted on April 10, 2008
The [Wednesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Todd Stroger resists his own ideas. Plus, Tax Irony Financing.Posted on April 09, 2008
The [Tuesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
The Tribune wins a Pulitzer. The Sun-Times pouts.Posted on April 08, 2008
The [Monday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Obama disses King. Daley teaches a valuable lesson. And a way to save the toboggan slides.Posted on April 07, 2008
The Weekend Desk Report
By Natasha Julius /
Drink your way to a better economy. Or, at least, a less-memorable one.Posted on April 05, 2008
The [Friday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
The fix is in. The deal is done. And it's the mayor and museum officials who are acting like children.Posted on April 04, 2008
The [Thursday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
The mayor's racial riffs get short shrift.Posted on April 03, 2008
The [Wednesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Vallas for governor. Daley for retirement.Posted on April 02, 2008
The [Tuesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Stuart Levine, I wanna party with you!Posted on April 01, 2008
The [Monday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Opening day web gems.Posted on March 31, 2008
The Weekend Desk Report
By Natasha Julius /
You'll never have to fear the long, unmanicured arm of the law again.Posted on March 29, 2008
The [Friday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
The governor spews more bullshit, but not nearly as much as the president of the Chicago Children's Museum.Posted on March 28, 2008
The [Thursday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
I'm not sure if the city has a Ministry of Parks yet, but it's getting awfully heavy-handed when it comes to its vaunted green space.Posted on March 27, 2008
The [Wednesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Rev. Jeremiah Wright has bigger problems than Obama. He's lost Oprah.Posted on March 26, 2008
The [Tuesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Progress: African-American women who hold political office in Chicago are sleazy too.Posted on March 25, 2008
The [Monday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Stroger's Friends & Family Plan gets an extended run.Posted on March 24, 2008
The Weekend Desk Report
By Natasha Julius /
Jesus saves the plunging dollar.Posted on March 22, 2008
The [Friday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Don't smother Facebook out of desperation. Plus, a review of the Sun-Times's march to war.Posted on March 21, 2008
The [Thursday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
The war records of the Tribune editorial page and Obama's campaign might surprise you.Posted on March 20, 2008
The [Wednesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Obama was forced to give this speech. Like the man, it mixed inspiration and promise with subtly-seeded cynical politics.Posted on March 19, 2008
The [Tuesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Shit's bad, people. Plus, the new edit acid test and cop shop intrigue.Posted on March 18, 2008
The [Monday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
A corn flake shaped like the state of Illinois is being offered for sale on eBay. And the Cubs season is already a circus.Posted on March 17, 2008
The Weekend Desk Report
By Natasha Julius /
Did you hear Barack Obama's important announcement?! Of course not, you were coincidentally drunk at the time.Posted on March 15, 2008
The [Friday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Cow tongue, Obama's ears, chimps in suits.Posted on March 14, 2008
The [Thursday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Sam Zell vs. Chicago.Posted on March 13, 2008
The [Wednesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Today's media story du jour is wonderment over why political wives stay with their straying husbands.Posted on March 12, 2008
The [Tuesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
The Daleys play Todd Stroger for a fool. Plus, Stella's booty and Pitchfork' genius.Posted on March 11, 2008
The [Monday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
J-Fed, Baloneyvich, The Milk Dud and Chicago's best burger.Posted on March 10, 2008
The Weekend Desk Report
By Natasha Julius /
You can't handle the truth. And thanks to the Italian court of appeals, you won't have to.Posted on March 08, 2008
The [Friday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Okay, where's Ashton Kutcher? Is Cook County getting Punk'd?Posted on March 07, 2008
The [Thursday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Wheel of Fortune, the Milk Dud, and jury duty.Posted on March 06, 2008
The [Wednesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Paging Tina Fey.Posted on March 05, 2008
The [Tuesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Fan backlash is part of the Cubs brand. And the Tribune is really good at it. Plus, Sam Zell: Mobile home czar.Posted on March 04, 2008
The [Monday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Of course the name of Wrigley Field shouldn't be sold to the highest-bidder. I thought that'd be a no-brainer, but maybe I overestimated the amount of heart left in a beaten-down populace.Posted on March 03, 2008
The Weekend Desk Report
By The Weekend Desk B Team /
World Leader Rehab With Dr. Drew.Posted on March 01, 2008
The [Friday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
The Friday funnies.Posted on February 29, 2008
The [Thursday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Chicago's best bands. Starbucks' three-hour coffee break. Re-judging John McCain.Posted on February 28, 2008
The [Wednesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
There's no way you can convince me that anyone covers debates better than we do.Posted on February 27, 2008
The [Tuesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Maybe Obama should buy the Sun-Times. But then, why buy the cow when you're getting the milk for free?Posted on February 26, 2008
The [Monday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Michael Jordan clouts his kid into a magnet school while CPS holds other kids back.Posted on February 25, 2008
The Weekend Desk Report
By Natasha Julius /
The Weekend Desk's official Oscar picks and all the latest from the Triumvirate of Terror.Posted on February 23, 2008
The [Friday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Redirection play.Posted on February 22, 2008
The [Thursday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
More spooky good fortune for Obama. Plus, Showergate and Tony Rezko's underwear.Posted on February 21, 2008
The [Wednesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
The Sun-Times outsources its advertisers.Posted on February 20, 2008
The [Tuesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Fidel Castro will not release his superdelegates.Posted on February 19, 2008
The [Monday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Reading stories from the bottom up to get the real news.Posted on February 18, 2008
The Weekend Desk Report
By Natasha Julius /
This year's Olympics will be truly breath-taking and Hanoi Jane bombs again.Posted on February 16, 2008
The [Friday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
"It was weird he walked through there, but nothing seemed wrong until the shots went off."Posted on February 15, 2008
The [Thursday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
I don't know if privatizing Midway Airport is a good thing or not because I'm not getting the full story. Plus, the best love letter of the day.Posted on February 14, 2008
The [Wednesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
The fight over superdelegates and the Michigan and Florida delegations is purely political, not an audacious defense of democracy.Posted on February 13, 2008
The [Tuesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Monetizing boredom and confusing Facebook with journalism. Plus, Laski on Daley, and Zorn fails to get a Lincoln endorsement for Obama.Posted on February 12, 2008
The [Monday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Grammy grannies. The coattails of change. Novak's myths. And The Curse of Sam Zell.Posted on February 11, 2008
The Weekend Desk Report
By Natasha Julius /
Pimping Chelsea Clinton, Mitt Romney, Amy Winehouse, Britney Spears, Angelina Jolie, Eli Manning, the State Department, and your tax rebate.Posted on February 09, 2008
The [Friday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
The media was blindsided by Anita Alvarez, but the political professionals knew exactly what was going on.Posted on February 08, 2008
The [Thursday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
The media shouldn't be so surprised that Anita Alvarez won. Plus, Daley's latest childish rage and the publisher of the Sun-Times demonstrates why the paper is in trouble.Posted on February 07, 2008
The [Wednesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
The election judges kept insisting they were trained to hand out magic pens. And other notes from Super Tuesday.Posted on February 06, 2008
The [Tuesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
No cheerleading in the press box. No voting in primaries.Posted on February 05, 2008
The [Monday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
The Giants, Prince, Tom Petty, fags, Jews and Democrats.Posted on February 04, 2008
The Weekend Desk Report
By Natasha Julius /
How the economy is like Britney Spears and Amy Winehouse.Posted on February 02, 2008
The [Friday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
A dome over Chicago. Daley's lies. The Kennedy myth. And Super Bowl predictions.Posted on February 01, 2008
The [Thursday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
No Papers, but great tips for your Super Bowl party.Posted on January 31, 2008
The [Wednesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
The Sun-Times is more important to the city than Millennium Park and the Olympics.Posted on January 30, 2008
The [Tuesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
It turns out Obama did favors for Rezko after all. Plus, a Baloneyvich Sandwich!Posted on January 29, 2008
The [Monday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Who would Jesus endorse? Obama and Huckabee.Posted on January 28, 2008
The Weekend Desk Report
By Natasha Julius /
Presenting the patented Beachwood Reporter Weekend Desk Super Bore Sunday Distraction List, to get you through the annoying bye week before the big game.Posted on January 26, 2008
The [Friday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Heath Ledger, Amy Winehouse, Kenickie, Huckabee, Dick Mell and Lisa Madigan. Plus, what's the deal with airline food?Posted on January 25, 2008
The [Thursday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
If the Chicago media says they love Obama, check it out.Posted on January 24, 2008
The [Wednesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Obama and Rezko were closer than the senator has indicated.Posted on January 23, 2008
The [Tuesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Did Barack Obama really say that? Plus, the most naive judge on the federal bench and how Tribune Company has rolled the press.Posted on January 22, 2008
The [Monday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
What more in the name of love.Posted on January 21, 2008
The Weekend Desk Report
By Natasha Julius /
Take the tendons, give the points.Posted on January 19, 2008
The [Friday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
A programming note.Posted on January 18, 2008
The [Thursday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Sam Zell's employee handbook, Barack Obama's Reagan fixation, and the mayor's budget priorities.Posted on January 17, 2008
The [Wednesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
If only the police department were a TIF. Plus, Lipinski's Law and YouTube trumping the press.Posted on January 16, 2008
The [Tuesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Coincidentally, a race war breaks out just before South Carolina.Posted on January 15, 2008
The [Monday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
If anyone is crying crocodile tears, it's Barack Obama.Posted on January 14, 2008
The Weekend Desk Report
By Natasha Julius /
Expanding the new CTA free-ride program.Posted on January 12, 2008
The [Friday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Rod Baloneyvich strikes again. Reform is off at the police department. And all hail Pat Dowell.Posted on January 11, 2008
The [Thursday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Unpleasant tasks and chores.Posted on January 10, 2008
The [Wednesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Obama thought he was done being vetted. But it's really just starting.Posted on January 09, 2008
The [Tuesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Missing Gravel and Biden. Fact-checking Obama and the Sun-Times. Perplexed by Jody Weis.Posted on January 08, 2008
The [Monday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Robert Novak - and Barack Obama - are provably wrong.Posted on January 07, 2008
The Weekend Desk Report
By Natasha Julius /
If a market plunges in the forest . . .Posted on January 05, 2008
The [Friday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Empty rhetoric and media softness win again.Posted on January 04, 2008
The [Friday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Empty rhetoric and media softness win again.Posted on January 04, 2008
The [Thursday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Radar O'Reilly chooses a president.Posted on January 03, 2008
The [Wednesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Outdoor hockey and indoor horoscopes.Posted on January 02, 2008
The [New Year's] Papers
By The Beachwood Banana Creme Pie Affairs Desk
The existential Bears and the Kinky Entrapment Bowl.Posted on December 31, 2007
The Weekend Desk Report
By Natasha Julius /
The lower ring of Hell is now open.Posted on December 29, 2007
The [Friday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
The discussion about Obama that isn't taking place in Chicago.Posted on December 28, 2007
The [Thursday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
The University of Illinois president's teachable moment continues. And so does Obama's hypocrisy about lobbyists.Posted on December 27, 2007
The [Wednesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Seasons greetings and more stupidity from a black-and-white, unlinked and disconnected media.Posted on December 26, 2007
The [Christmas] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
You have been served your Christmas papers. Now get out.Posted on December 25, 2007
The [Christmas Eve] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Have a rap-rocking, anarchist, faithless Christmas.Posted on December 24, 2007
The Weekend Desk Report
By Natasha Julius /
Public figures are warned.Posted on December 23, 2007
The [Friday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
People in power are lying to you.Posted on December 21, 2007
The [Thursday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Tribune Co. executives are looting their company just as Conrad Black and David Radler looted theirs.Posted on December 20, 2007
The [Wednesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Like father, like son. Daley caught dead to rights and on the warpath.Posted on December 19, 2007
The [Tuesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Sam Zell, Ben Eason, Barack Obama and Richard M. Daley do not have your best interests in mind.Posted on December 18, 2007
The [Monday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Newspapers are dead. Not because of shifting reader habits and the Internet. They will have died at their own hands, spurred by cowering, closed-minded, frightened and immature minds.Posted on December 17, 2007
The Weekend Desk Report
By Natasha Julius /
President Bush urged the public not to jump to any conclusions about players named in the Mitchell Report until they had been properly detained and interrogated.Posted on December 15, 2007
The [Friday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Patrick Daley had a secret deal with the city. Blago's gaming adviser was indicted on gambling-related charges. And Sam Zell tries to screw you.Posted on December 14, 2007
The [Thursday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Why is Mike Ditka getting such a free pass?Posted on December 13, 2007
The [Wednesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
All hail Tom Latourette, the Beachwood and Google.Posted on December 12, 2007
The [Tuesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
The mayor hopes the Burge settlement puts an end to "that type of error."Posted on December 11, 2007
The [Monday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
There is a chance that historians will examine this period in American history and wonder if journalism left the field.Posted on December 10, 2007
The Weekend Desk Report
By The Weekend Desk /
A new report on Bush's intelligence. Plus, torture home and abroad. And, Mormon Country.Posted on December 08, 2007
The [Friday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
The Reader carpet-bombs its staff and readers and tries to pretend otherwise.Posted on December 07, 2007
The [Thursday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
A chronic internal failure to deal fairly with complaints against rogue police. Plus, the police chief we deserve is in Miami.Posted on December 06, 2007
The [Wednesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Law enforcement officials at all levels, from the detectives who investigate cases to the superintendent, as well as the state's attorney's office, have failed to properly police the police, the Tribune finds.Posted on December 05, 2007
The [Tuesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Even if the Sun-Times insists upon being tabloidish, several options existed for playing the Iran story with headlines blazing instead of just ignoring it.Posted on December 04, 2007
The [Monday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
We know next to nothing about our new police chief because the press is asking the wrong questions.Posted on December 03, 2007
The Weekend Desk Report
By Natasha Julius /
The Evel Knievel Memorial Edition honors Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Rod Blagojevich for daredevilry in crisis conditions.Posted on December 01, 2007
The [Friday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Chicago has a new police chief, about whom we learned next to nothing this morning outside his love of bicycling.Posted on November 30, 2007
The [Thursday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Another ethically challenged insider Obama deal. And recent tough stands by the Sun-Times editorial page.Posted on November 29, 2007
The [Wednesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
The search for a new police chief is in as much disarray as the department he or she will lead.Posted on November 28, 2007
The [Tuesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Oprah on the outside, illegal PAC donations on the inside. The latest Obama scandal.Posted on November 27, 2007
The [Monday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Drew Peterson headlines you may have missed. Plus, Devin Hester, baby Jesus, Tom Tunney and Harold Washington.Posted on November 26, 2007
The [Thanksgiving] Papers
By Bethany Lankin /
Not even Whole Foods carries fresh praying mantis. Or pink tricorne beets from shores of Atlantis!Posted on November 21, 2007
The [Tuesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Props to Avril Lavigne, blowing Hastert and a recipe for change.Posted on November 20, 2007
The [Monday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Why Clinton and Obama are both wrong about drivers licenses for illegal immigrants.Posted on November 19, 2007
The Weekend Desk Report
By Natasha Julius /
The Sad Irony Sweepstakes and Our Teenage President.Posted on November 17, 2007
The [Friday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
The presidential debates are fun. Invite some friends over and see for yourself. Plus, the Sun-Times can't even do tabloid right.Posted on November 16, 2007
The [Thursday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
The mayor is caught in a lie while playing his sly CTA game.Posted on November 15, 2007
The [Wednesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Mayor Giggles separated at birth from Nelson Muntz. Plus, a mayoral coup of the police board and why Cardinal George is a dick.Posted on November 14, 2007
The [Tuesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
The Beachwood Media Company means business.Posted on November 13, 2007
The [Monday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Developer Allison Davis is today's Worst Person in Chicago. Former state Rep. Calvin Giles places a close second.Posted on November 12, 2007
The Weekend Desk Report
By Natasha Julius /
Hitting rock bottom.Posted on November 10, 2007
The [Friday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Barack Obama and Richard M. Daley pretend. Plus, Big Horse, the Inn, Loud Lucy and the Replacements.Posted on November 09, 2007
The [Thursday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
The textbook lessons of the Sun-Times. Jim Thompson's black thumb. Tasin' Daley. And the Tribune tips its hand about the poor.Posted on November 08, 2007
The [Wednesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
George Ryan searches for the real killer.Posted on November 07, 2007
The [Tuesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Stale radio, TIFs under attack, and the Republican field reassessed.Posted on November 06, 2007
The [Monday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
The Sun-Times's tabloid fantasy come true, Obama's glass house, and what Illinois's First Lady shares with Brian Urlacher.Posted on November 05, 2007
The Weekend Desk Report
By Natasha Julius /
The governor's Homecoming. Plus, the writers' strike and your world.Posted on November 03, 2007
The [Friday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Obama's double-talk and Chicago Tonight's F-bomb.Posted on November 02, 2007
The [Thursday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Barack Obama writes the Republicans' script - and embellishes his own.Posted on November 01, 2007
The [Wednesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
My So-Called Halloween.Posted on October 31, 2007
The [Tuesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
The decrepit CTA is proving more of an Olympic obstacle than defecting boxers and a botched marathon. Plus, Obama's strategic error.Posted on October 30, 2007
The [Monday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
The Sun-Times comes out against defection and in favor of exploiting missing kids.Posted on October 29, 2007
The Weekend Desk Report
By Natasha Julius /
Gloriously phony competes with masterfully stupid.Posted on October 27, 2007
The [Friday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
The doll is still dead. And George Ryan's appeal is on life support.Posted on October 26, 2007
The [Thursday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Same as yesterday.Posted on October 25, 2007
The [Wednesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
A primer on the sort of insider deal the Daley administration thrives on. Plus, lying about the police and a dead doll.Posted on October 24, 2007
The [Tuesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
I didn't realize the Sun-Times was actually on the Chicago 2016 Committee. I thought they were just kissing its butt.Posted on October 23, 2007
The [Monday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Is this the beginning of the Olympic Tax? Plus, the Bears' winning drive and a better alternative to Millennium Park.Posted on October 22, 2007
The Weekend Desk Report
By The Weekend Desk Affairs Desk /
Unforeseen circumstances at the Weekend Desk.Posted on October 20, 2007
The [Friday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
The Mad Men of Illinois politics.Posted on October 19, 2007
The [Thursday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
A perfect storm of taxation. Get the pitchforks.Posted on October 18, 2007
The [Wednesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Tom Tunney digs himself in a little deeper. Jesse Junior makes us wistful. Daley's spores sedate a city.Posted on October 17, 2007
The [Tuesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Ald. Tom Tunney is today's Worst Person in Chicago.Posted on October 16, 2007
The [Monday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Devin Hester is ridiculous. Again. So is the mayor. And Obama with his phony ad.Posted on October 15, 2007
The Weekend Desk Report
By The Weekend Desk B Team /
Al Gore is winning. America is losing.Posted on October 13, 2007
The [Friday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
The mayor cries and lies; the Democrats mandate a moment of silence.Posted on October 12, 2007
The [Thursday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
The mayor's mysterious tax hike.Posted on October 11, 2007
The [Wednesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
The rogue police unit Daley just defended is disbanded. His facts on the marathon are wrong. And his statement about the Olympics is a lie.Posted on October 10, 2007
The [Tuesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Chicago Marathon officials screwed up, no matter what they say.Posted on October 09, 2007
The [Monday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
A tragic Chicago Marathon.Posted on October 08, 2007
The Weekend Desk Report
By Natasha Julius /
Larry Craig looks like a lock in the Blackwater USA Overstayed Welcome event.Posted on October 06, 2007
The [Friday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Cub fans don't want to hear the truth. City Hall doesn't want to tell it.Posted on October 05, 2007
The [Thursday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
What Britney Spears and Radiohead have to do with the Cubs.Posted on October 04, 2007
The [Wednesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
The mayor's secret police force.Posted on October 03, 2007
The [Tuesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
The mayor might have put on a Cubs cap, but he wouldn't be caught dead in one from the CTA.Posted on October 02, 2007
The [Monday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
The Cubs will be the death of us all.Posted on October 01, 2007
The Weekend Desk Report
By Natasha Julius /
Baby bonds will mature. Stroger, Bush and Daley may not.Posted on September 29, 2007
The [Friday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
For more than a year insiders have buzzed about an elite police unit drenched in scandal.Posted on September 28, 2007
The [Thursday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Bill Wirtz is dead. TribCo's gifts to pols. Cave in a park.Posted on September 27, 2007
The [Wednesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
The Tribune Company is offering the same sort of gifts to pols it prohibits its reporters from accepting.Posted on September 26, 2007
The [Tuesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
We're all better off for having had Ahmadinejad speak at Columbia.Posted on September 25, 2007
The [Monday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
The Bears, Cubs, Children's Museum, Obama, Whole Foods, Daley, Burge and the Adler.Posted on September 24, 2007
The Weekend Desk Report
By Natasha Julius /
Shit's bad, people.Posted on September 22, 2007
The [Friday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Chicagoans love Grant Park more than they hate corruption.Posted on September 21, 2007
The [Thursday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
The loudest voices are racial: those of Mayor Daley and Gigi Pritzker.Posted on September 20, 2007
The [Wednesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Let's rename the Children's Museum after Daley because he's acting like a child.Posted on September 19, 2007
The [Tuesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Who's afraid of a bunch of kids? The mayor.Posted on September 18, 2007
The [Monday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
It's Daley's CTA - has been for 18 years.Posted on September 17, 2007
The Weekend Desk Report
By Natasha Julius /
The War on Death, The War on Transit and The War on Hotties.Posted on September 15, 2007
The [Friday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
The mayor deflects federal criticism of a CTA under his control for 18 years.Posted on September 14, 2007
The [Thursday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Dealmakers and dealbreakers.Posted on September 13, 2007
The [Wednesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
The mayor rides bikes in Paris while the CTA burns.Posted on September 12, 2007
The [Tuesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Regarding 9/11: We blew it. And the Connie's Pizza story as Chicago morality tale.Posted on September 11, 2007
The [Monday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
The Univision debate vs. Britney Spears.Posted on September 10, 2007
The Weekend Desk Report
By Natasha Julius /
NASA will be monitoring your weekend.Posted on September 08, 2007
The [Friday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Rep. Jerry Weller's business is none of yours. Plus, hooves and rock chicks.Posted on September 07, 2007
The [Thursday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
The Sun-Times bombs its B-52 story. The media is still afraid of tattoos. And the mayor's woman at O'Hare.Posted on September 06, 2007
The [Wednesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
The skinhead who wasn't. Plus, Zambrano and Patterson.Posted on September 05, 2007
The [Tuesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Carlos Zambrano is such an idiot it's not even fun joking about him. Plus, the Segway scoops and editorial pages gone wild.Posted on September 04, 2007
The Weekend Desk Report
By Natasha Julius /
The next White House resignation will hit closer to home.Posted on September 01, 2007
The [Friday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
There's no place on Earth you should rather be than at a Detroit Cobras show. Plus, Fran Spielman's Wi-Fi Infidelity.Posted on August 31, 2007
The [Thursday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
The media has utterly failed to learn anything from Richard Jewell, Hilly Kristal or Fat Joe Scapini.Posted on August 30, 2007
The [Wednesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Lance Briggs has taught us all a valuable lesson: If you crack up your car while stinkin' drunk, flee!Posted on August 29, 2007
The [Tuesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
New from Beachwood Labs.Posted on August 28, 2007
The [Monday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Bush to Nation: Just a flesh wound. Plus, Blago builds half a bridge. And the Trib hates Hillary.Posted on August 27, 2007
The Weekend Desk Report
By Natasha Julius /
Bob Murray's evil mountains, Nick Saban's evil condos, and the evil of the Big Mac.Posted on August 25, 2007
The [Friday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
The Sun-Times: Yesterday's news tomorrow. Plus, BP, Schmich, Buerhle, Garofalo, and the Bears Kool-Aid quiz.Posted on August 24, 2007
The [Thursday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Jennifer Hunter is in way over her head. This time the victims are the Obamas.Posted on August 23, 2007
The [Wednesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Another Sneed exclusive that isn't. Plus, Mary Schmich beats another silly narrative into the ground.Posted on August 22, 2007
The [Tuesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
The complications of her case are exactly the reason why Elvira Arellano was the face of illegal immigrants in America.Posted on August 21, 2007
The [Monday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Governor Baloneyvich strikes again. So does the easily impressed, politically inexperienced Jennifer Hunter. And Gwenyth Paltrow validates us.Posted on August 20, 2007
The Weekend Desk Report
By Natasha Julius /
Keeping an eye on the stock market's stupidity bubble, Tony Snow's last Big Lie - until he returns to Fox News - and the whiners at Metra.Posted on August 18, 2007
The [Friday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
A giant red star is zipping through the Milky Way 300 times faster than a speeding bullet, with a turbulent tail stretching trillions of miles across space. Plus, requiem for Max Roach and the truth about Dennis Hastert and Jose Padilla.Posted on August 17, 2007
The [Thursday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Let Elvira Arellano go to Washington. Then arrest her.Posted on August 16, 2007
The [Wednesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
A wistful Joey the Clown takes the stand. The guv gives himself a raise. And Obama campaigns as a Christian.Posted on August 15, 2007
The [Tuesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Karl Rove's dirty Chicago trick. Michael Cooke's Sun-Times circus. Steve Huntley's surge of stupidity.Posted on August 14, 2007
The [Monday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Love the El, hate the CTA. Ghetto truths. And Thornton Mellon teaches the University of Chicago business school a lesson.Posted on August 13, 2007
The Weekend Desk Report
By Natasha Julius /
Tracking more lead-filled Chinese exports, that nutso mine guy, and George W. Bush's transformation into Todd StrogerPosted on August 11, 2007
The [Friday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Chicago's homeless disappear. Chicago's casino reappears. And gay marriage spurs Democratic fears.Posted on August 10, 2007
The [Thursday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
A better use of the front page would have been a huge frickin' headline saying "Angelina: Buy Our Newspaper!"Posted on August 09, 2007
The [Wednesday] Papers
Everything we said Tuesday still stands.Posted on August 08, 2007
The [Tuesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Torturing the truth out of Gonzales. Perry Farrell's inner Reagan. And the newspaper industry's slow-motion suicide.Posted on August 07, 2007
The [Monday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Until last week, the Tribune editorial page had never heard of the Daily Kos. Next week they discover The Daily Show. Plus, Obama's lobbyist hypocrisy and Murdoch spins the Trib.Posted on August 06, 2007
The Weekend Desk Report
By Natasha Julius /
We'll be moving between the AT&T and Adidas Stages at Coporatalooza while the Chicago police and NBC News will work the MySpace Stage.Posted on August 04, 2007
The [Friday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Joyless Judy Baar Topinka. The Many Moods of Neil Steinberg. And Obama's Foreign Policy Follies.Posted on August 03, 2007
The [Thursday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Neil Steinberg offends white people. The mayor's toys recalled. And The Obama Doctrine revealed.Posted on August 02, 2007
The [Wednesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes
Nearly 2,000 people were asked why they had sex. Researchers found 237 reasons, from 'I wanted to feel closer to God' to 'I was drunk.' Plus, remembering Bergman, Walsh, and Snyder.Posted on August 01, 2007
The [Tuesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Nearly 2,000 people were asked why they had sex. Researchers found 237 reasons, from 'I wanted to feel closer to God' to 'I was drunk.' Plus, remembering Bergman, Walsh, and Snyder.Posted on July 31, 2007
The [Monday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
A mattress dealer? That's the best the Trib could do for its first front page ad? Maybe times are tougher than I thought.Posted on July 30, 2007
The Weekend Desk Report
By Natasha Julius /
Cheney will undergo minor surgery to replace the battery in his cold, metal heart. Bush will assume control of the nation during the procedure. Plus, Lilo!Posted on July 28, 2007
The [Friday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
Coming Soon: Aquafina Mercury, BP Twist, and Indiana Green Tea. Sludge-enhanced. Plus,Posted on July 27, 2007
The [Thursday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
The Kwik-E-Mart boom. Saving the Spindle. Obama's special interests. Friends make you fat. And Dusty Enabler Baker.Posted on July 26, 2007
The [Wednesday] Papers
By Steve Rhodes /
You wouldn't know it by reading your local papers, but Barack Obama has really stepped into it.Posted on July 25, 2007