The Chicago City Council considers a bill allowing restaurants to allow owners to bring their dogs to outdoor cafes today. If it passes, Brasserie Jo says has the perfect way for Fido to celebrate.

Doggy beer.

Yes, depending on the outcome, tomorrow the restaurant will provide coupons for Happy Tail Ale, which will be redeemable at the restaurant next alfresco season (the law won't go into effect until 2008) attatched to a house-made doggy biscuit.

What is Happy Tail Ale? According to the manufacturer's web site, beerfordogs.com, the drink contains "malted barely and filtered water, fortified with glucosamine and vitamin E, with natural beef flavoring."

Well, if your dog is trying to cut back, don't worry--there's no alcohol in it.

UPDATE: The City Council passed the oridance (See bottom of this story)

Thanks to Extrovert reader Brian Houdek eating on a cicada. OK, maybe not eating so much as chomping then spitting -- sort of like the insect version of chewing tobacco?

Got a video of you eating one? Send it along! clamorte@tribune.com

<<-After reading the article on cicada cuisine in today's Tribune, we're dying to try a chocolate-covered cicada, but it seems  none of Chicago's many chocolatiers have discovered the joy of the crispy little critters.

"It sounds terrifying," said the person we chatted with at Vosges. Well, since the cicadas have only just emerged, maybe we'll find some for you in the coming weeks. In the meantime, we want to know: Have you eaten any of the bugs -- raw or otherwise? Would you dare? (And if you're looking for an alternative, check out the mole-drenched crickets at Tepatulco.)

Is it just us, or is that a 60-foot inflatable black phallus sitting in front of the Equitable Building (401 N. Michiagan Ave.)? What's that you say? It's supposed to be a bottle of Axe "bodyspray"? Oh, same difference. The "men’s grooming product legendary for helping guys get girls" -- as its likes to refer to itself --is probably a little more "famed" for its juvenile marketing campaigns that stoke the fantasies of adolescent boys. But now the product takes things to a whole new level with this stunt -- that thing is five stories high after all. From 12:30 p.m.-1:30 p.m. the inflatable, um, spray can will serve as Moonwalk inside of which "Axe Angels" will bounce up and down. (What's an Axe angel? "Think attractive girls," says the press release. Yeah, we'll think real hard.) But to add to some sort of -- we assume -- timely element to the stunt, a group of Chicago CPAs (get it? Tax Day? CPAs?) will join in the bouncy, bouncy fun. We hope they're wearing pocket protection.

OK, this isn't really Chicago-related news, but we couldn't resist posting it. We already knew Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards was off his rocker, but this is just too much.

From the AP: "Keith Richards: I snorted my father."

4/5/07 UPDATE: Richards: Geez, I was only joking.