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A Farewell Tribute
“A tribute to the recently closed-down Chicago grocery chain Moo & Oink, best known for its delicious meat products and notorious commercials with an eerie yet memorable jingle (which went like ‘moo & oink! moo moo moo!’ . . .)”
Posted on October 4, 2011
By The Beachwood Rock Local Affairs Desk
“The Tribune Tower’s moon rock is gone – but a new one is expected to be installed after the one displayed since 1999 was removed recently because of an outdated display, a spokesman for Tribune Co. said today,” the Tribune reported last week.
“The new stone will be embedded in an acrylic compound and ‘would be there for everyone to look at,’ just like the more than 100 stones and other objects from historic sites across the world already embedded in the building’s facade, [spokesman Gary] Weitman said.
“Other objects on display at the building include a piece of the Berlin Wall, one from Harvard College’s oldest building and a piece of beam from the wreckage of the World Trade Center in New York City.”
The Beachwood has learned that these rocks are also under consideration for embedding in Tribune Tower:
Posted on October 3, 2011
By David Rutter
1. Walter Payton, WTF?
Thus even our designated gods have ugly warts, which no one much discusses when they are alive because that gets in the way of fawning adulation.
He was a great football player. But we could not allow that to be enough. We must also make him spiritual and noble on the theory that being athletically gifted also confers superior humanness. Fool’s gold. He was not more flawed than many are, but we – and he – could not accept a truth that interrupted the profitable and comfortable illusion. Sports demands a spirit-bending cynicism.
Posted on September 30, 2011
By ChiTownView
“Located on the south end of the loop at Wells and Van Buren lies Cal’s Liquors & Bar. It’s a swell joint; it was in Playboy’s survey of great American bars, Lady Gaga stopped by, the food’s tasty and they have a cool neon sign. Stop in bar and if you don’t have time hit the liquor store.
“Check out our Neon Chicago playlist for more clips of these fast vanishing works of art.”
Posted on September 28, 2011
By J.J. Tindall
DEAD DAISIES
I wish.
I wish my hair
was like the leaves
of a tree, wait,
like a copse
of oak and elm.
Posted on September 26, 2011
By David Rutter
1. Dennis Gannon, WTF?
State Republican leader Tom Cross wants to put an end to this, though you wonder how the law ever got passed in the first place. Oh, wait a sec. It’s Chicago, where armed robbery does not require a gun.
Posted on September 23, 2011
Uploaded to YouTube by GloOmShElLy
On 26th Street last Sunday.
Posted on September 21, 2011
By ChiTownView
“Near the south end of Chicago’s Grant Park stands this beautiful little 120-year-old fountain. It was a bequest from Joseph Rosenberg a one-time Chicagoan who went west and made his fortune. He never forgot his childhood as a newsboy in the area always going thirsty because there were no fountains.”
Posted on September 19, 2011
By David Rutter
1. Sentencing Blago, WTF?
We doubt this will be the ex-gov’s sentence though we can always hope, and we also doubt prosecutors even proposed it to the judge. But gosh, it sure is fun to scare the ever-lovin’ clown pants off Blago, isn’t it? Who said federal prosecutors don’t have a riotous sense of humor.
Posted on September 16, 2011
