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By Steve Rhodes and J.J. Tindall
Chicago’s city council and school board met at the same time this week and the laws of quantum decency were violated in innumerable ways. Plus: Barry Gibb Is Brilliant, Karen Lewis Is Super Smart, David Vitale Is Sleepy and Exene Cervenka Is Batshit Crazy.
Posted on May 31, 2014
By Steve Rhodes
The Chicago Reporter’s Angela Caputo explains the foreclosure crisis through the prism of a single property on a block known as Mortgage Street. Plus: The Neighborhood Issue That Could Bring Down Rahm, Redflex Redux & Downstate’s Dark History. In the weekly podcast of the world’s wittiest Chicago-centric news and culture review.
Posted on May 24, 2014
By The Beachwood Three-Day Weekend Affairs Desk
Here are two things you can do about it.
1. Museum & Library honors veterans with free lineup of events for Memorial Day / Tribute includes exclusive free access to new exhibit on U.S. Navy SEALs.
“The Pritzker Military Museum & Library will celebrate Memorial Day on May 24 with several free offerings for the public, including a military genealogy talk, drop-in oral history sessions, a movie matinee, and free access to the new SEAL: The Unspoken Sacrifice exhibit.
Posted on May 22, 2014
By J.J. Tindall
BLUE LINE BLUES
The train sang
In a whirlwind of tones,
A thousand tongues
Of steel and stone,
A thousand tons
Of brick and bone.
Steel wheels and hot rails
Rocked a rhythm section,
Momentum made maracas
Of the swaying hull
And I lost myself in the music
Of the dynamo hum.
Posted on May 20, 2014
By Tuffy And The Angry Aussie
This week we travel to Qatar, Rio, the Ukraine, West Antarctica, North Korea and Australia to inform and entertain you like no other podcast can.
Posted on May 19, 2014
By Steve Rhodes
This week our segments include:
* Clemente’s Awesome Archers.
* Rahm’s Falling Fortunes with Rahm writer Kari Lydersen.
* I Am A Tour Guide with J.J. Tindall. (And he really is.)
* Why The Chicago Sky with Jim “Coach” Coffman.
* The White Sox’s Changing Of The Guard with Roger Wallenstein.
* A Preakness Preview with Tom Chambers.
Music by Sister Speak and Rodriguez.
Posted on May 17, 2014
By Tuffy And The Angry Aussie
This week the boys tie up loose ends with Donald Sterling, Gerry Adams, Rob Ford and the Rio Olympics before checking in on the New York City trial of accused terrorist and international man of mystery Abu Hamza.
We also discuss Michael Lewis’s expose of our rigged stock market (and the amazing lack of American media coverage thereof), and talk about parachuting planes and virgin auctions in our Australia Is The Florida Of The World segment.
Posted on May 13, 2014
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