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.
SHOW NOTES
00: Strawberry Rock Show
1:13: Yo La Tengo at the Concord.
3:28: White Students Getting More Spots At Top CPS High Schools.
4:49: Federal Judge Ends Chicago Schools Desegregation Decree.
* ProPublica: The Disintegration Of Desegregation.
12:34: Eleventh Dream Day at the Hideout.
13:43: Ousted Red-Light Camera Operator Rakes In Windfall In Contract’s Final Months.
17:10: Sons of Hippies at the Double Door.
17:46: SPOTLIGHT: Our very own Tom Chambers on The Near Total Demise Of Thoroughbred Horse Racing.
* A Derby Lament.
* Lost Faith In A Ruined Sport.
* The Kentucky Derby Presented By Yum! Brands.
* Angels, Devils & Drugs.
* The Near Total Demise of Thoroughbred Horse Racing.
* PETA Accuses Two Trainers Of Cruelty To Horses.
* Churchill Downs Incorporated.
* Secretariat Jockey Ron Turcotte Says Kentucky Derby Snubbed Him.
* Normandy Invasion Owner Vents At High Costs To Attend Kentucky Derby.
* Coach Q’s Midnight Hawk.
1:04:04: When Wealthy Fell.
1:05:31: I Am Icarus.
1:06:00: Dick Mell with Patti B.
1:07:02: Remembering DJ Rashad.
1:11:52: The Mouse That Roared.
* Derrick Rose’s High School Grades Changed.
* Derrick Rose Failed The ACT Three Times In Chicago; Passed In Detroit.
* NCAA Penalizes Memphis Because Derrick Rose Cheated.
* Yummy Sandifer.
1:18:25: City Council Report: “A super-stealth parliamentary maneuver literally when nobody was looking.”
1:21:30: Madigan Ally Seeks To Derail Democracy.
1:22:35: Stealth not required; city council is in your face.
1:26:09: Eleven Fifty Two at Mojoes.
Note: Kid Rock took the Southern rock and mixed it with the hip-hop.
1:28:07: Rahm’s Chicagoland Response Requires Suspension Of Disbelief.
* Credulous vs. incredulous.
1:35:15: Chicago Newsroom vs. Chicagoland.
Stoppage: 44:36
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Posted on May 5, 2014