Chicago -
By Steve Rhodes
The news is weird today, my friends.
1. “Transport Canada says a United Airlines flight from Chicago to Frankfurt, Germany, was diverted to Toronto Monday after the pilot dumped a cup of coffee on the plane’s communication’s equipment.”
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The pilot has not yet commented.
Posted on January 5, 2011
By Steve Rhodes
An awesomely busy night behind the bar last night combined with a pressing need for nourishment and other obligations means you’ll have to wait for what I hope will be both a new column today and a new offering on our politics page.
In the meantime, here’s a bunch of goodness we’ve already posted this morning.
And I’ll be back behind the bar tonight with a special Tuesday appearance. Free pool.
Posted on January 4, 2011
By Steve Rhodes
1. “A two-day New Year’s Eve party at a South Side motorcycle club came to a bloody and tragic end early Sunday when two men were shot dead and five others wounded,” the Sun-Times reports.
“The Hawks – a black motorcycle club that also has chapters in Tennessee, Wisconsin and Mississippi – was hosting members of several other motorcycle clubs at its New Year’s Eve bash, a club member who gave his name as ‘Redman’ said.
“An advertisement for the party on the club’s Facebook page said the party was scheduled to run until 9 p.m. Sunday. It joked that all partygoers needed to bring were ‘alibis.'”
Posted on January 3, 2011
By Steve Rhodes
We’ll continue slouching toward the New Year with a sporadic Beachwood until returning in full on January 3rd.
Oh hell, we’ve got a full Beachwood today!
Posted on December 31, 2010
By Steve Rhodes
When I read Neil Steinberg’s column this week slamming Carol Moseley-Braun, I made a note to myself to comment on his “vitriol for black” people. I thought to myself that Steinberg’s body of work goes beyond not being afraid to criticize minorities to a deep-seated anger toward – and perhaps even a fear of – black people.
I’m not the only one.
In fact, Moseley-Braun has called on the Sun-Times to fire Steinberg.
Posted on December 29, 2010
By Steve Rhodes
Just like last week we’ll be posting sporadically this week as we limp to the end of the year.
Here’s what we have so far today – more to come in all our sections, just getting started.
Posted on December 27, 2010
By Steve Rhodes
Tonight’s the night!
As the story goes, Santa Bob travels the world delivering gifts to bartenders worldwide and is so phantasmagorically superlative that he makes it back to the Beachwood Inn to pull his regular Friday night shift.
Or maybe when Bob goes into the secret back room he’s really leaving on another trip and – due to his special powers – makes it back before the next customer orders an Old Style.
All I know is that I’ll be working as Bob’s First Elf tonight fetching brewskis and making sure the jukebox is operating at peak efficiency. Stop in and join us.
Posted on December 24, 2010
By Steve Rhodes
As noted yesterday, we’re in holiday mode here at Beachwood HQ. That means the Beachwood elves are feverishly putting the final touches on gifts for the naughty and nice while Beachwood Santa and the rest of us sporadically post alcohol-riven ramblings of our wayward staff and I pull some holiday shifts at the Inn to make some money for daddy.
Posted on December 21, 2010
By Steve Rhodes
“More than a year after he took his own life, new details are emerging that show former Chicago School Board President Michael W. Scott had been under growing financial pressure,” the Sun-Times reports.
Here’s the important part as far as the public is concerned:
“About two weeks before Scott’s suicide, a development company that had been paying him $10,000 a month ‘for consultation in regards to future projects involving the possible Olympic Games in Chicago’ canceled his contract, according to new details from the Chicago Police Department that officials previously had refused to release . . .
“The new information about Scott’s consulting contract appears to contradict statements that had been made by Scott and Mayor Daley that Scott wasn’t planning to cash in on his dual roles as an Olympic organizer and a real estate developer.”
Appears to contradict?
Posted on December 20, 2010
By Natasha Julius
Market Update
What’s in a name? Turns out, roughly 90% of your market value. But fear not; for those of you concerned that the failure of one Big corporation will destabilize a lucrative market, the Weekend Desk Bailout Team is here to help. Instead of Legends and Leaders, how about the geographically accurate South(ish) and North(er)?
Plans Afootball
Determined to keep Monday night’s Bears/Vikings game in Minnesota despite worries over the safety of the players, football’s governing body has announced the game will be played in May.
Posted on December 18, 2010
