By Steve Rhodes
For completionists, there was no column on Thursday.
An unexpectedly boozy long night on Wednesday screwed up the start of my latest long Weekend at Benny’s, and I’ve been trying to catch up ever since. Almost there.
I’m working on a column to post later today or as a Weekend Desk Report and, as of this writing, at 1 p.m., I just finished recording The Beachwood Radio Sports Hour #261 with Jim “Coach” Coffman. I’ll have that up later today.
5:51 P.M. Update: It’s up!
In the meantime, here’s some placeholder stuff because I hate seeing “The [Wednesday] Papers” up there when it’s Friday.
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ChicagoReddit
Stockpiling of alcohol causing problems for Chicago housewives – Lietuva Newspaper July 18, 1919 from r/chicago
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ChicagoGram
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ChicagoTube
Yvette Young demos the Caroline Guitar Co. Somersault Lo-Fi Modulator at Chicago Music Exchange.
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BeachBook
Volkswagen Cheated On Pollution Standards And Made Thousands Of Kids Sick.
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University Of Minnesota Creates New Reggae Institute.
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Windy City Rehab Teaming Up With New Contractor To Resolve Permit Violations.
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Martha Plimpton Has Left Steppenwolf.
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TweetWood
A sampling.
*Trump lights the Constitution on fire and burns down the Congress*
Democratic strategists: This is just a distraction to draw us into a fight. Ignore it.
— Bree Newsome Bass (@BreeNewsome) July 17, 2019
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Every American should read this thread which asks some typically European questions from a Spanish vantage. Remember, Spain was still a low income dictatorship less than fifty years ago. https://t.co/EWGVrr5eUA
— François Heisbourg (@FHeisbourg) July 18, 2019
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NEW: Federal prosecutors’ decision to end an investigation into hush money payments to women claiming affairs with Donald Trump relied at least in part on longstanding Justice Department policy that a sitting president cannot be charged with a crime. https://t.co/G3wZpS4a71
— Brad Heath (@bradheath) July 18, 2019
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Just stumbled onto “Chicago PD” for the first time. It’s awful.
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) July 18, 2019
First, there was nothing “Chicago” about it, which is fine, but why not just call the show PD? Second, it was like NYPD Blue-lite. I revere NYPD Blue, but there was so much more meat on the bone on that show, from the original, crack writing to the innovative-at-the-time “jiggly” cameras, to the expert direction. And, of course, the performances. Chicago PD is like NYPD Blue for the masses, so to speak, not that NYPD Blue wasn’t quite popular, but it was like a dumbed-down version that took old-fashioned, unambiguous police stories and tried to fit them into a toned-down version of NYPD Blue’s creative frames. In other words, a defanged NYPD Blue. Also, the characters were totally unbelievable. I miss the underrated Chicago Code, which needed more time to sort out its flaws. That was a “Chicago” show – and one that could have played nationally if deployed correctly.
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The Beachwood McRibTipLine: Burn the ends.
Posted on July 19, 2019