By Natasha Julius
Now that Terry Hillard has assumed the role of John Stamos to Jody Weis’s Charlie Sheen, the Weekend Desk can at last reveal the outrageous Weis story lines we never got to use.
- Weis gets maimed by Metra train, uses settlement to pay off CTA.
- Along with Todd Stroger, Weis learns unemployment benefits do not extend to the professionally frustrating.
- Weis feels “horrible and embarrassed” to learn new police vehicles actually provided by brutal international oil cartel.
- Weis fundamentally misunderstands the concept of a Blade Runner sequel.
- Apple store rejects Weis’s proposed Eyebrow App.
- Weis accompanies Sean Penn to Haiti, just to let residents know he’s serious.
- Weis negotiates fair union contract.
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The Weekend Desk Tip Line: Full of #winning.
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Garden Variety Saturday
“A Northwest Side park which has become a hive of urban gardening activity will hold its first garden exchange today, featuring workshops on creating ‘sustainable backyards,'” Curtis Black reports for the Community Media Workshop.
“The event takes place at Kilbourn Park & Organic Greenhouse, 3501 N. Kilbourn, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., and raises funds to support programming for children.
“It’s the Chicago Park District’s only ‘teaching organic greenhouse,’ and it features the only public fruit tree orchard in a major city, along with a prairie garden with native wildflowers, a rain garden, and a popular community garden.
“The garden exchange will offer donated gardening and cooking supplies, tools, books and magazines at cut-rate prices. Organic compost will be for sale along with seeds for early spring plants, and a rain barrel and a composter will be raffled off.”
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The CAN TV Weekend Report
Chicago Clean Power Coalition: City Council Hearing
Dave Kraft of the Nuclear Energy Information Service joins the Chicago Clean Power Coalition to hold an ad-hoc hearing at City Council chambers promoting the Clean Power Ordinance.
Sunday, March 6 at 10:00 a.m. on CAN TV21
Click here to watch video online
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Chicago’s Gangs
The Society of Midland Authors hosts author John Hagedorn and panel of fellow writers to discuss Chicago’s gangs.
Sunday, March 6 at 9 a.m. on CAN TV21
53 min
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Press Conference on Immigrants Rights March and Liberation Square
Activist Jesus Guillen joins a coalition of immigrant rights advocates in a press conference announcing a mass mobilization for immigrant justice on March 10th.
Sunday, March 6 at 1 p.m. on CAN TV21
30 min
Posted on March 5, 2011