16/01/2023
Rhodes Resume 2023.
Creative journalist with tons of experience (Chicago Tribune, Newsweek, Chicago magazine) including the visionary Chicago-centric news and culture review, The …
There's no bright side, so you can stop expending energy looking for it. The world's wittiest Chicago-centric news and culture review.
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Rhodes Resume 2023.
Creative journalist with tons of experience (Chicago Tribune, Newsweek, Chicago magazine) including the visionary Chicago-centric news and culture review, The …
Tweaked my LinkedIn page.
I'm available for work:
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So while I have accounts on Post (yuck) and WT Social (yay), I guess I'll settle in on Mastodon (aka The Elephant) because that's where everyone else seems to be going. I hate going along the crowd, because they're wrong, we should support WT Social, but I have to go where the people I criticize go, as well as my followers. So meet me at the Elephant!
25 Posts, 116 Following, 85 Followers · Editor & Publisher of The Beachwood Reporter, the world's wittiest Chicago-centric news and culture review. Previously: Minnesota Daily, Lakeland Ledger, Waterloo Courier, Media Management Center, Chicago Tribune, Newsweek (before it was nuts), Chicago Magazi...
I forgot how awful Facebook is at distribution if I don't pay to boost posts, which is the same system Elon Musk is bringing to Twitter.
So today I'll start posting to Mastodon as my Twitter alternative & see how it goes, but frankly I'm leaning toward WT Social as my new alternative.
Me at Mastodon: https://newsie.social/
Me at WT Social: https://wt.social/u/steve-rhodes
Welcome to the user profile of Steve Rhodes. A WT.Social community member.
During an October bargaining session, deputy managing editor Cliff Levy arrived before the Times’ company lawyers from Proskauer and lavished praise on reporter and bargaining committee member Frances Robles for her coverage of Hurricane Ian, an apparent attempt at forging coziness, a person familiar with the matter told Confider.
While Robles was congenial in thanking him, she pulled no punches in expressing her frustration to Levy during a Nov. 15 bargaining.
“Every single time communication goes out to the staff, there is info that is demonstrably untrue,” Robles said, according to the notes of the meeting. “Cliff, what the [Times] has done to your reputation breaks my heart. And it should break your heart. I feel really bad that these negotiations have turned a man who built his career on trust into a liar.”
The signs for last week’s dramatic culmination were apparent over the last few months.
"Royko declined to be interviewed and did not answer questions about if he was backing the duo challenging Moreno’s candidacy. He also did not answer questions about Ramirez’s challenge to his petitions."
Two neighbors of candidate Sam Royko are challenging Moreno's bid for office in part because of his criminal history, while a longtime backer of the former alderperson also is trying to get Royko tossed from the race.
"Amazon benefits from local poverty through exploitative subcontracts."
Amazon benefits from local poverty through exploitative subcontracts, experts say.
"Notably, in 2020, RinkWatch released a report showing that the number of quality skating days had declined in all of the Original Six NHL cities (Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Montreal, Toronto, and New York)."
A citizen science program called RinkWatch encourages backyard rink makers to submit data on ice and weather conditions.
Fame, journalism, McCartney.
It was a bad move, probably the worst thing he could have done at the moment. Paul McCartney, the most publicity-savvy of the Beatles, knew that the instant he hurled a bucket of kitchen scraps at …
"Don't just run on what you believe. Cynically position yourself in such a way in which we can win. Here's the formula."
OK, but with all that he only lost by 5 points?
The state of Arizona has 7.3 million people, which is about 2 million people less than the Chicago metro area.
Here's the Bankman-Fried indictment.
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"Meadows’ exchanges shed new light on the extent of congressional involvement in Trump’s efforts to spread baseless conspiracy theories about his defeat and his attempts to reverse it.
"The messages document the role members played in the campaign to subvert the election as it was conceived, built, and reached its violent climax on Jan. 6, 2021.
"The texts are rife with links to far-right websites, questionable legal theories, violent rhetoric, and advocacy for authoritarian power grabs."
White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows exchanged text messages with at...
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“I strongly believe in journalism's critical role to public accountability and a healthier and more informed citizen dialogue. I wouldn't know about half the things I know and care about without journalists.” -Claire, Pasadena
Featuring Chicago's Shana Wills and her REACH organization.
Organizations around the world are helping refugees feel welcome via wilderness immersions—and with a record number of displaced people, this movement couldn’t come at a better time
If you don't want to watch the whole two-hour show, you can watch the trailer for my best line. https://youtu.be/z_Gr6qXt_zo
This is the story of my family and it’s available Saturday Jan 29th on the Reelz network
I'll be making an appearance on this show tonight.
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TrackNotes: Back To The Future
By Thomas Chambers
Will Bob Baffert ever go away? Churchill Downs Inc.: It's just what they do. Dickie D. dead. Cliches can shape your biorhythms. Double-teaming justice. You look just like. We asked one person, me.
Will Bob Baffert ever go away? Churchill Downs Inc.: It's just what they do. Dickie D. dead. Cliches can shape your biorhythms. Double-teaming justice. You look just like. We asked one person, me.
Our Final Show!
The Beachwood Radio Sports Show #388: More McCaskey Malpractice
By Jim Coffman and Steve Rhodes
We end the podcast much as we started it. Including: Same Process, Same Results; Bulls Eye; Blackhawks Down; Soccer, You Bet; and much, much more.
We end the podcast much as we started it. Including: Same Process, Same Results; Bulls Eye; Blackhawks Down; Soccer, You Bet; and much, much more.
A self-described Impressionist, she hawked her art on Michigan Avenue in the 1970s and ’80s and lived mostly outdoors. But her work is in museums.
Did ya know that Urge Overkill coined the term Guyville, later used by Liz Phair, to describe the Chicago music scene? In this interview, we cover that topic and hit up two other big moments for the band: their Pulp Fiction breakout with "Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon," and their tour with Nirvana in 1991.
https://www.songfacts.com/blog/interviews/urge-overkill
Media failure in CTU walkout resembled media failure of 2019 strike.
The union's rhetoric was frequently relayed to readers, but not questioned in the way it would have been had it come from City Hall.
With an appearance by Illinois' Laurie Jo Reynolds and Darrell Cannon.
Katie Kitchen wanted to live up to her progressive ideals. Her own family tragedy presented a chance.
'Finally somebody said it.'
Struggling to constantly promote herself online, Chelsea Cutler posted that she’d rather just be a musician and a performer. Artists everywhere told her they feel the same way.
My favorite dressing, btw.
Under the FDA's "standard of identity," French dressing had to contain vinegar, lemon or lime juice, with vegetable oil making up at least 35 percent of the product’s weight.
What if I asked for some other designer 'brand' on my organs? A good selling point!
The United Kingdom’s Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service determined the doctor’s actions were “borne out of a degree of professional arrogance.”
The World's Greatest College Football Report Pt. 5: Lunch Pails, Cheez-Its, Webfoots & Our New COVID Toteboard!
New Era Pinstripe Bowl Maryland Terrapins (6-6) vs. Virginia Tech Hokies (6-6) December 29, 1:15 p.m. Yankee Stadium Bronx, New York
'We’re simultaneously fascinated by their strange biology and unfamiliar lifestyles and repulsed or frightened by their stingers, toxins and the diseases they may (or may not) carry. Not to mention their sheer scuttling, swarming numbers.'
Through history and across cultures, bugs have inspired artists and challenged viewers to shift their perspective
The World's Greatest College Football Report Bowl Series 2021 Pt. 4: Hell's Half Acre
Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl Missouri Tigers (6-6) vs. Army Black Knights (8-4) December 22, 7 p.m. Fort Worth, Texas
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