Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Hot town, summer in the city. Only the beer was cold.

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Hot town, summer in the city. Only the beer was cold.:

Hot town, summer in the city. Only the beer was cold.

by Mike Klonsky

Brother Fred and the Carpenter Ukulele Society

It's 4 p.m., another day of 90+ Chicago weather and I'm still trying to get my head straight after yesterday's festivities.

First Jesse Sharkey's C.O.R.E. BBQ Picnic with a few hundred union teachers (you could hear the strains ofSolidarity Forever blocks away) and then on to my brother Fred's retirement party -- back-to-back and luckily within walking distance. Great music at both. Good food and open bar. Lots of CTU'ers came over from the picnic