By Steve Rhodes
Last week’s conditions will still apply this week – on a very tight deadline for a fairly intensive freelance assignment. Posting will be sporadic, but I will try – and I will try to do better than I did Thursday and Friday when I didn’t get much of anything up on the site.
Today, we have some sports offerings to start you off:
* Jim Casey, Cubs Roadie. A retired Greyhound bus driver who didn’t mind logging long hours following his beloved minor league Cubs teams through the sticks to watch the kids he hoped would one day deliver the big team a World Series win is drawing his last breaths, even as the organization that never seemed to love their young ‘uns as much as he did finally starts to build from the ground up. In The Cub Factor.
* It’s Tackle And It’s Real: Chicago’s Female Football Team That Doesn’t Wear Lingerie While Playing Is Undefeated And Advancing To Its Super Bowl.
* How bad was that weekend of baseball? In SportsMonday.
* The White Sox Report will be posted later this morning is up and now we know who’s to blame.
The Weekend Desk Report
The Weekend Desk doesn’t take 2 1/2 months to not skate away from our problems.
Market Update
It seems not every initial public offering is warmly received.
Fighting Flight
A group of researchers has used the Xbox Kinect to study a cannibalistic swarm of locusts. And by “study a cannibalistic swarm of locusts,” we mean play Skyrim.
Walled Mart
Speaking of cannibalistic swarms, it seems Walmart’s controversial competitive practices have become so aggressive it’s now putting itself out of business.
Permanent Vacation
You know who else is enjoying his time away from politics? Humanity.
Choice Cuts
Maybe we should let Gar Forman and Rodney Erickson switch places for the next 72 hours. It’d make Mark Emmert’s life easier, since the Bulls got the death penalty for next season a while ago.
Open Bar
Finally this week, proof that beer really does make life better.
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The Weekend Desk Tip Line: Locusty.
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The Sound Opinions Weekend Listening Report: “Forty years after its release, David Bowie’s The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars gets the Classic Album Dissection treatment. And later in the show, Jim and Greg review the much-anticipated debut by R&B star Frank Ocean.”
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The CAN TV Weekend Viewing Report: CAN TV brings you local, relevant issues from Chicago’s neighborhoods and communities. See what’s happening around the city in education, the arts, government, cultural events, social services and community activities.
both/and
A semi-biographical play that explores the constructed borders between American and Arab.
Saturday, July 21 at 5:45 p.m. on CAN TV19
15 min
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Perspectivas Latinas: Pilsen Neighbors Community Council
Members of the community council look ahead to the family-friendly 2012 Fiesta del Sol festival, which takes place July 26 through July 28 in Pilsen.
Saturday, July 21 at 7:30 p.m. on CAN TV21
30 min
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19th Annual Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Competition
Audience votes determine the winner of this poetry reading contest featuring performances by local artists.
Saturday, July 21 at 9:30 p.m. on CAN TV21
2 hr
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Privatization, Sale of Infrastructure and the Inherent Dangers of the Investment Trust
This community forum explores the potential impact of an Infrastructure Trust in Chicago and whether it amounts to a “privatization” of public goods like roads, schools and bridges.
Sunday, July 22 at 9 a.m. on CAN TV21
2 hr
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Climate Change and Public Health Plan for Cook County
Assistant U.S. Surgeon General Dr. James Galloway speaks at an event focused on a new climate change and public health plan for Cook County that was created by Northwestern students and the Chicago Physicians for Social Responsibility.
Sunday, July 22 at 11 a.m. on CAN TV21
30 min
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Deferment of the DREAM Act
A panel of experts explains the options available to young undocumented immigrants in the U.S. in light of the federal DREAM Act’s failure to pass in the U.S. Congress.
Sunday, July 22 at 11:30 a.m. on CAN TV21
1 hr
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Karl Johnson at St. Margaret’s
Local jazz trio make the piano, bass and drum sing in the halls of St. Margaret’s Episcopal church.
Sunday, July 22 at 9 p.m. on CAN TV19
1 hr
Posted on July 23, 2012