When Steve Baskerville cheerfully delivered the weather forecast for Honolulu during WBBM-Channel 2's 5 p.m. newscast Monday, he wasn't just shilling for the premiere of "Hawaii Five-O" that night. He was taking part in a well-coordinated plan to prostitute the newscasts of CBS-owned stations nationwide.
Mostly, life at the Whittier Bilingual Elementary School field house is pretty quiet. There’s time for gossip and food and music. And hugging. There’s an unbelievable amount of closeness at Whittier. If you are uncomfortable with people touching you warmly, holding your hand, expressing gratitude, or caring about you, for sure you will want to find a different cause to support that is not the Whittier Bilingual Elementary School Library.
The year 1973 brought us the Oil Crisis, Agnew's resignation, the first season of Schoolhouse Rock...and the above rendering depicting a rejuvenated south State Street in Chicago's downtown.
Evelin has been explaining to me that the building now known as “La Casita” has been in regular use for at least the last seven years.
We have documentation to prove that CPS knew that it was in use, that we have programs here. We gave them the schedule of programs, and we told them, Here’s our programs that we have here.
They said, Oh, you guys can use it the whole summer. Then they said that on September tenth they were going to demolish it.
Whittier Bilingual Elementary School's growing library (Tuesday)
Serious pastrami sandwich from
2nd Ave. Deli (photo: Steve Dolinsky)
I know Manny's has been around a long time, and the 11 City Diner surely tries to keep tradition alive, albeit in a modern setting, but it's really hard to compare the Jewish deli experience in Chicago with what is available in New York City. ‚
Given the lavish praise heaped upon the self-titled debut by Grinderman in 2007 -- it was my choice for the best album of that year, and its intensity has diminished not a whit since -- let's get this out of the way right up top: The second album from Nick Cave's extra-Bad Seeds side project with violinist and guitarist Warren Ellis, bassist Martyn Casey, and drummer Jim Slavunos is not quite as great as the undeniable garage-blues eruption of that explosive introduction.
