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By Steve Rhodes
Plus: Spotlight interview with Robeson’s High School’s after-school activities director Tanis Seats.
Also: Cowboy Nate’s Rainbo Boilermaker.
And: Jim “Coach” Coffman on the Bears’ draft, the Blackhawks’ change of fortune [before Game 5], and the continued comical stylings of the Cubs.
Posted on May 12, 2014
By Tuffy And The Angry Aussie
This week: Rob Ford in Chicago. Gerry Adams in the dock. The Ukraine on the edge. The election in India that America is ignoring. So you think you’re better than Donald Sterling. Mel Reynolds: The Movie. Blame it on Rio.
Posted on May 6, 2014
By Steve Rhodes
Plus: White Parents Don’t Send Their Kids To Chicago Public Schools. Xerox Is Watching You. Remembering DJ Rashad. The Consterning Case Of Chicago’s Best (14-Year-Old) Rapper. Our Magic City Council. Chicago Newsroom vs. Chicagoland.
Honorary Mention: Dick Mell and Patti Blagojevich doing what they do.
Music: Yo La Tengo, Sons of Hippies, When Wealthy Fell, I Am Icarus, Eleven Fifty Two.
Posted on May 5, 2014
Plus: At Least The Eating At The Cell Is Competitive
So Taco Bell has finally caught on to taco & whiskey thing, spinning off a fast casual version of themselves complete with the now-familiar iconography of hipster Mexican.
In other words: Taco Bell Spinoff Explicitly Branded With Death Symbols.
This can’t end well.
Posted on May 1, 2014
Weekend At Nerdie’s
Roundups from last weekend’s Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo.
1. By Deathstar’s Random.
Posted on April 30, 2014
By Steve Rhodes
This week segments include:
* Exposing Chicagoland: Access To Bullshit.
* Rahm’s Receipts: How Englewood Pays For His Hotel Mini-Bar.
* Exclusive! Inside Obama High: Where Detention Is Off-Site And Indefinite.
* Bill Daley Never Cared About You: And Now He’s Coming For Your Job.
* Transit R Not Us: At Least Not Until 2015 – If Ever.
* Weirdest Chicago Sports Week Ever? Cubs Can’t Even Get Cake Right.
Guests:
* Coffeehouse Correspondent Jeff Linnane.
* Transit Correspondent Natasha Julius.
* Sports Chief Jim “Coach” Coffman.
Music:
* Neil Young.
* Bobby Bare Jr.
* Gemini Club.
* Billy Bragg.
* Elvis Costello.
Posted on April 29, 2014
By J.J. Tindall
GOTHAM
A city of dreams must exist in the night
in a dark glass dome under an inland sea.
We strain to sink
into our warm, soft tombs
to escape, to dream,
to heal the day’s fresh wounds.
Posted on April 28, 2014
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