The wheels of justice grind slowly, as the saying goes: And the wheels of the judges in McLean County momentarily stopped the other day.

Because of road construction along Madison Street in downtown Bloomington, none of the judges could get into the Law and Justice Center parking lot.

On the Marx: It was a page out of the '80s the other night at Biaggi's, the B-N dining spot.

Sitting there, enjoying a quiet meal along with his 15-year-old son, were singer Richard Marx - he had a string of hit singles in the late '80s and early '90s - and actress wife Cynthia Rhodes, who acted and sang in three movies out of the same era, most notably the 1987 hit "Dirty Dancing."

Residents of Chicago, the Marxes were simply "passing through."

The '80s were awhile ago, too.

No one reportedly bugged them.

Then there's this 'breaking' news: And so, after nine months of anticipation, WHOI-TV anchor Jen Christensen gave birth to a new boy the other day.

TV upshot: For the first time since WHOI began its "shared news effort" with WEEK-TV in March, you're likely to see more Channel 25 mainstays on 19 News.

Noontime 25 anchor Eric Shangraw, for an example, was doing 19's news this week.

In the meantime, reporter Ashley McNamee, at 25 since January 2008, is expected to be a more full-time 19 anchor replacement … until Christensen returns.

Not so good while it lasted: On another front, the "experiment" is apparently over at WEEK for way-far-away weekend weather guy, Jason Meyers.

As viewers might recall, in a cost-cutting measure begun in March among Granite stations, Meyers began doing "live" Peoria/Bloomington weekend weather from a sister station 250 miles away, in Fort Wayne, Ind. It was an awkward set-up that occasionally had Meyers chirping about how beautiful it was here when it was, in fact, pouring rain.

No more, apparently.

Calling the setup "nonsensical," WEEK's newsroom/production union filed a grievance and word handed down last week was that arbitrators agreed, and the Meyers' gig was a silly setup.

It didn't play in Peoria.

No whining there: CUB Foods is known for many things - low prices, nice produce, a busy parking lot - but David Walsh, a Bloomington shopper, looked up at a sign in the store the other day and did a double-take to discover a lesser-known facet.

"CUB Foods, Your Home For Ménage à Trois," it read.

Chuckled David: "I may be hanging around there more."

Ménage à Trois is a popular wine, by the way.

Well, at CUB, at least.

Someone will no doubt steal the idea: There's all sorts of new marketing strategies out there today to lure young customers in a hard-to-snag world of 120 cable channels, ad-less satellite radio and commercial-free iPods.

Here's surely one of the most inventive:

Being hung out on clothes hangers at random spots across the U.S. by "young adult strike teams" are T-shirts that read, "People steal the weirdest stuff."

They are successfully getting stolen, too. And that's the point.

Once the T-shirt is taken, a hanger sleeve is exposed that reads "save your stuff with State Farm renter's insurance."