Take Our Beer, Please

Qik-n-EZ is advertising a special for lovers of imitation, beer-like beverages. Coors Light is selling 18-packs for $10.99 with, get this, a $7 mail-in rebate offer. Not accounting for the devaluation of the dollar in the time it takes for the rebate check to arrive, that comes to $3.99 per 18-pack or [...]

Don’t Shoot! It’s Rennie Stennett
The solution to maritime piracy would seem to be the arming of merchant ships. The method with which pirates board a ship, using hooks and ropes to scale the side, does leave them vulnerable to being picked off or winged. Yet with most solutions that involve fire power, there is a [...]

My cousin found these pictures of my grandparents and had them restored.
Andy and Francis Corcoran owned the Mecca, a tavern located at 2001 N. 11th Street, just off Peoria Road. Today, the building is home to Dude’s Saloon. I don’t know Dude, nor have I visited his saloon, but I doubt his bartenders wear [...]

I Am Complete
For some, it’s scaling a mountain summit; for others it’s kicking heroine. As for me, I conquered one of my life’s goals by completing a Sunday New York Times Crossword Puzzle. I’ve come close many times, even completing it once, only to discover an error. But this time, I was perfect. Granted, it [...]

Don’t be a boor
My column this month is on practicing etiquette in everyday situations. The proper thing for you to do, gentle reader, after carefully considering my words, is to write a comment congratulating the newspaper for publishing such wisdom and suggest that your life has been made the better because of it and perhaps [...]