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By Steve Rhodes
A weekly look at the magazines lying around Beachwood HQ.
Fashion Flub
Neko Case appears in Men’s Vogue wearing an Ann Demeulemeester vest, Juicy Couture jeans, and Calvin Klein shoes.
Noooooooooooo!
Say it ain’t so, Neko!
Posted on August 30, 2007
By Connie Nardini
Connie Nardini begins her occasional series of book reviews and other news as she sees fit.
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Heavier Than Air: A Collection of Short Stories
By Nona Caspers
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Short-story writer Nona Caspers creates a tapestry of small towns – mostly of her native Minnesota – and chronicles the lives of people living there who have a hard time coming down to earth. They either don’t want or seem to know that they’re “heavier than air” because they live in unreal worlds of their own making.
Posted on August 29, 2007
By Steve Rhodes
August 25 – 26.
Publication: Tribune
Cover: “Assault. Murder. Corruption. The mob. DNA. Death Row. Does it all add up to a compelling tale in The Chicago Way?”
It turns out the answer is No.
Posted on August 27, 2007
By Steve Rhodes
August 18 – 19.
Publication: Tribune
Cover: Barack Obama for an incredibly weird review by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette executive editor David Shribman of Tribune reporter David Mendell’s Obama.
Posted on August 22, 2007
Coming soon. Submissions welcome. Send your reviews or sites you’d like to see reviewed to srhodes@beachwoodreporter.com.
Posted on August 21, 2007
By Steve Rhodes
A weekly look at the magazines lying around Beachwood HQ.
Vanity Ad Fair
* P. 185: “Knowing the Rules Makes Her a Schooled Musician. BREAKING THE RULES Makes Her a Jazz Musician.”
– Diana Krall for Rolex
* P. 253: “Whatever’s on your list of things to do in life, do it better with Visa Signature.”
– Elvis Costello for Visa
Do they really need the money that bad?
Posted on August 15, 2007
By Steve Rhodes
August 11 – 12.
Publication: New York Times
Cover: A bunch of very tall, thin Harry Potters. For “The Boy Who Lived,” Christopher Hitchens’ review of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
Yes, that Christopher Hitchens
Posted on August 13, 2007
By The Beachwood History Club
“I thought the patronage was an institutional theft of city resources.
– Leon Despres, April 2005
In 2005, former Ald. Leon Despres published Challenging the Daley Machine, his memoir of opposing the reign of Richard J. Daley. He once said of the book, “I am describing the last of the great urban political machines in America and the birth of a new globalized political machine with its permanent campaign and high-tech politics and government, but with the same old-fashioned patronage, nepotism, and corruption which characterized the first Daley Machine.”
Posted on August 12, 2007
By Steve Rhodes
A weekly look at the magazines lying around Beachwood HQ.
Error in the Code
“He was a gregarious child, whose hands seemed to hate him,” Richard Preston writes in The New Yorker. “Over time, his fingers had got inside his mouth and nose and had broken out and removed the bones of his upper palate and parts of his sinuses, leaving a cavern in his face. He had also bitten off several fingers.”
This is Lesch-Nyhan syndrome, “the far end of a spectrum of self-injurious behavior.”
In which a man’s right hand will literally try to stop his left hand from tearing himself apart.
American Code
This is a nation tearing itself apart.
Posted on August 10, 2007
By Steve Rhodes
August 4 – 5.
Publication: Tribune
Cover: Some crayon thing; it’s a kids issue or something.
Note: I found absolutely nothing to read in this issue. Let’s take a look at the Trib’s books coverage online.
Wow, this page really sucks.
Let’s try the TribBooks blog.
Wow, this blog really sucks.
Posted on August 6, 2007
