On The Beat- Monday, April 6, 2026 - From Broadway to Biscayne Boulevard, from the Bird Streets to Euclid Avenue to Lark Street- Any Topic is Fair Game Until it is a Bore…
By Mr. Curmudgeon
In an infamous Chicago jail, a string of inmates overdose on a new synthetic drug which gives older law enforcement officers bad nostalgia of the crack epidemic of the 1990s. Here we go again…Madelyn Cline, the pulchritudinous actress of The Outer Banks, A Map that Leads to You, and I Know What You Did Last Summer (which I still haven’t gotten to see yet) says she would make a good disgruntled reality show housewife. “I’d just say something and wait to see who flipped over the table”… Son of film director “Basti” Van der Woude, Lucca Van der Woude, 18, has gone into hiding after being accused of sexually abusing and racially tormenting a water polo teammate during water polo matches. Not exactly the typical setting to be bullying somebody… Dodger fan Errol Segal has had season tickets for 50 years. But now, he cannot access games because the team refuses to provide paper passes and he doesn’t own a smartphone or computer… Whispers are still heard that Kurt Cobain’s dead wasn’t a suicide at all but a murder. From the outside looking in, as an amateur sleuth, it sure looks that way. But with so many sketchy people in his life, it’s hard to say who did it and why? Jealous? Greed? Hate? Drug-fueled mania?… A hiker was stung over 100 times and had to be air-lifted for treatment. Which is why, along with my phobia of being eaten by a bear, wolf, mountain lion, pack of coyotes, pride of lions, scourge of mosquitoes (would have made a grotesquely awesome Hitchcock film)… Caitlin Clark responds to Portnoy’s concern of her presumably blocking him over with an “LOL”. She explained that she’d been flying at the time he’d been trying to message her… Woman saves a struggling swimmer from drowning snd learns he wanted for a double murder… Conspiracy theorists argue the Artemis II mission is a green-screen hoax. NASA simply ignores their accusations … Michigan wins first national championship in 37 years. Probably wouldn’t have beaten Duke though… Doctor advises Lady Gaga not to perform… Luana Lopes Lara of Brazil is recognized by Forbes as the youngest female billionaire at 29 with a net worth of $1.3 billion. She co-founded prediction market firm Kalshi. Luana, “I do.”… New Riff voted world’s best Bourbon at the World Whiskey Awards and only costs $40 a bottle, unless you live in California or New York… The trailer for The Devil Wears Prada 2 is released… Comic’s Unleashed will take over CBS’s late night dlot starting May 22nd… Sharon Osbourne lists home she shared with Ozzy for $17 million… We present it, you decide…