Guess what day it isn’t? It’s not Friday so let’s get through the next few days the best way we know how which is do this to anyone that tries to ruin your day. Chicago’s weather today calls for rain and high of 46˚.
♦ Rober Feder reports on a young anchor who is making his dream of being a news anchor happen even if it involves him driving 4 hours to Lima, Ohio. Also check out the comments, shots fired Ron Magers-pow!pow! [Robert Feder]
♦ Just so close, we’ll get ’em next time. The Chicago Bulls lost 99-101 last night in the United Center and are down 0-2 in a best of 7 first round playoff game. They head to Washington to face game three. Let’s #seered
♦ Chicago Cubs beat the Arizona Diamonbacks 9-2 while the Whitesox lost to the Detroit Tigers 6-8.
♦ An investigation into a case linked to serial killer John Wayne Gacy has led to the crime being solved and it wasn’t a Gacy crime. “Investigators have identified the remains found in a forest preserve in 2008 as those of 22-year-old Edward Beaudion of Chicago. They also say they know the identity of his now-deceased killer. Authorities believe Missouri resident Jerry Jackson killed Beaudion in 1978.”
♦ No mo sippin on sizzurup. Actavis the pharma company that makes Promethazine Codeine cough syrup of choice for lean sippers has decided to cease all production and sales of its product. According to TMZ, “before Actavis pulled the plug on the product, the street value of a pint bottle hovered around $800.” Who’s the pusha man?
♦ Amy Dubois Barnett is OUT Mitzi Miller is IN. Miller, former EIC of Jet Magazine has been named the Editor in Chief of Johnson Publications’ Ebony Magazine. She’s been instrumental in the revamp both in print and digitally of the weekly mag and can’t wait to see how she turns the Ebony brand around.
♦ That’s one way to rack up your AMEX points, put a strip club tab totaling $135,303 on your card and then deny the transaction using the old, “I have never been there and if I did I was drugged” excuse. The strip club SCORES is suing Dr. Zyad Younan
♦ Brazil’s Senate unanimously approved groundbreaking legislation on Tuesday that guarantees equal access to the Internet and protects the privacy of Brazilian users in the wake of U.S. spying revelations Reuters reports.
♦ Social media gone wrong!! Just like past social media failures like #AskRKelly in the past, the NYPD decided to let their twitter followers share feel pics of them with their men in blue “Do you have a photo w/ a member of the NYPD? Tweet us & tag it #myNYPD. It may be featured on our Facebook.” What ensued after is a huge lesson to be learned. Not only did upload pictures that were less than nice, it shot up in trending topics quickly. Not everything needs to be a # NYPD. Check out the tweet #MYNYPD
♦ People Magazine’s ‘Most Beautiful Woman’ 2014 is….
