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By Steve Rhodes
It’s a busy, busy week. Things will be touch-and-go the rest of the way. Party preparations are underway.
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THIS JUST IN: The world’s most dangerous acapella punk rock choir, The Blue Ribbon Glee Club, is now confirmed to perform at BeachFest at 9 p.m.! Plan accordingly!
Posted on June 20, 2017
By Steve Rhodes
It’s happening – this Friday!
You don’t need to be invited to attend! It just means you’re not a Facebook friend of me or the site, and/or not on any of my other contact lists. You are invited! You are also encouraged to RSVP directly to me so we can get the best sense possible of how many folks to expect. (We have several different RSVP mechanisms, so the number of attendees you see on the Facebook page or EventBrite are drastically underreported! It’s gonna be . . . possibly big. You won’t want to miss it!)
Featuring: Take Your Photo With Adam West. (We’ve arranged it.)
And: The Blue Ribbon Glee Club will perform a couple of choice selections.
Also: Door prizes!
Finally: Bring a map. Of anything.
Posted on June 19, 2017
By Steve Rhodes
For completists, there was no column on Friday.
Chicago now has a gourmet marshmallow cafe. I’m not sure how I feel about this, because I love marshmallows (and s’mores), but . . . I mean . . . you know. C’mon.
Comments welcome.
Posted on June 17, 2017
By Steve Rhodes
People, can we crowdfund for this? We could rebrand it as a Beachwood property and . . . Beachwoodify it.
Posted on June 15, 2017
By Steve Rhodes
We’re having a party and you’re invited.
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Related: Take Your Photo With Adam West!
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Also:
BREAKING: We’ve just signed up the Blue Ribbon Glee Club to perform a couple songs at our party. Look ’em up, they’re super fun and good. https://t.co/oABH1uYw7g
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) June 13, 2017
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Truly, everyone is invited. We’d love to see you – even if you hate me or think I hate you! Life is too short.
RSVPs welcomed only so we can know how many miles of fun to plan for.
Because I’m an idiot outside of my chosen profession, I used an evite thingy for the first time and mistook EventBrite for E-Vite, or whatever, and let me just say EventBrite is confounding. So not everybody got onto that contact list. Nonetheless, you can RSVP via EventBrite (I think by “buying” a free ticket), or via the EventBrite posting on the Beachwood Facebook page, or personally to me.
If you didn’t get an invite via one of my contact lists, no problem! That was just a starter set. Again, y’all are invited. Just let us know. Hope to see you.
Posted on June 14, 2017
By Steve Rhodes
[White] Opioid Addicts Find an Ally in Blue.
“Police leaders are assigning themselves a big role in reversing a complex crisis, and not through mass arrests.”
vs.
Police Are Less Respectful Toward Black Drivers, Report Finds.
“Police officers are significantly less respectful and consistently ruder toward black motorists during routine traffic stops than they are toward white drivers, a paper released this week found.”
Posted on June 12, 2017
By Steve Rhodes
“The U.S. Justice Department said Wednesday that it has not reached an agreement with the city of Chicago on federal oversight of police reform as Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s administration has suggested,” the Tribune reports.
“When Emanuel’s office trickled out the news late Friday that the mayor was backing away from a written commitment to seek federal court oversight of police reform, the administration characterized a new arrangement with President Donald Trump’s Justice Department as ‘an agreement in principle.’
“But Justice Department spokesman Devin O’Malley said Emanuel’s office had just sent the proposal to Washington that same day, and that the Trump administration had not agreed to anything, including using a memorandum of agreement as the approach for police reform.”
So Rahm . . . lied?
Posted on June 8, 2017
By Steve Rhodes
‘That idea of riding through the backyards and back porches of the city – by front windows – is still very much the same experience that people would have had 100 years ago.’
Posted on June 6, 2017
By Steve Rhodes
“Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Monday portrayed a memorandum of agreement to have an independent monitor oversee Chicago Police reform as the next best thing to court oversight opposed by U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions,” Fran Spielman writes for the Sun-Times.
“Emanuel said he’s not backing away from his January commitment to negotiate a court-enforced consent decree with the U.S. Department of Justice.
“He’s simply recognizing the political reality that Sessions’ decision to review and retreat from police reform agreements nationwide has left the Chicago Police Department on the dance floor without a partner.”
We know that virtually no one connected to the police reform process agrees with Rahm, but nary is heard a dissenting word in Spielman’s account.
Posted on June 6, 2017
