By Steve Rhodes
Plus: High School Culture Still Sucks, I Don’t Care About The Weather, and The Tribune Company Reporter Who Let The CIA Edit His Stories.
SHOW NOTES
:00: Strawberry Rock Show.
:53: Operators at Schubas on Saturday night.
2:20: The Lemons at the Empty Bottle last Wednesday night.
4:05: I Don’t Care About The Weather.
6:18: Cecile McLorin Salvant at Millennium Park for Jazz Fest on Sunday night.
7:10: Tribune Company Reporter Let CIA Edit His Stories.
* Jack Fuller: News Values: Ideas for an Information Age.
* I hated that book.
* Juvenile Court: Michael Brown Had No Most-Serious Felony Convictions Or Pending Cases.
20:40: Reigning Sound at the Empty Bottle on Monday night.
21:58: Bruce Rauner Is Immensely Wealthy. So What?
* Bruce Rauner’s ‘Wine Club’ Is More Like A Wine Dude Ranch.
* Was wearing $18 watch when he wrote that $100,000 check.
* Bruce Rauner Loves To Shoot Doves Dead.
* But let’s not privilege doves.
* How many journalists are “out of touch” with “regular” people? Almost all of them.
35:05: The Floozies at the Concord for a North Coast Music Festival aftershow on Sunday night.
* Wild Belle.
* Dr. Dog.
37:18: Lay Off The Activities, Nicole Bankowski!
* See item No. 3.
* I worked in college, too. And in graduate school. Many did not.
* Plus, M*A*S*H reruns kept me up a lot.
* Democracy, unlike other forms of government, demands an informed citizenry. That’s why education in a democracy is supposed to be about something bigger than job preparation; it’s about citizenship, humanity and intellectual capabilities including most importantly critical thinking.
* High school culture is still insane.
* “I don’t see part-time job on that resume.”
* The problem with working at McDonald’s.
* They need more than minimum wage; they need better jobs.
* Are you picking up what I’m putting down?
* Tim’s not an old man. He’s in his 40s – and way younger (in the best way) than that in his soul.
* Even college has been gentrified.
* See the item Job Fair.
1:07:28: Sweet Talk at the Empty Bottle on Monday night.
1:08:11: The Beachwood Radio Sports Hour #16: Double Nickel On The Bears’ Dime.
* The Beachwood Radio Network.
1:09:00 Beachwood Photo Booth: Dumpster Still Life.
1:09:15: Local Book Notes: Portraits Of Chicago, The Walmart Republic & Unknown Americans.
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Posted on September 6, 2014