In honor of Labor Day weekend I am giving you eight songs about working. These work songs come from the coal mines, chain gangs, and the bawdy houses. There are so many songs about work, this list could easily have been a hundred songs long, so please add your own in the comments.
Tennesse [...]
Noel Burkman and his partners started the website Coin That Phrase in July. Since then his products have been nominated for a Chicago Innovation Award, put in the Emmy Gift Bag, and stood at the center of a growing online community. But, what those products are, is hard to explain. I’ll let Noel do it.
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This post will cover murderous crack addicts, benign Bouncers, and the ego of a graffiti writer, if you want to skip to the crack heads just play the audio.
Good Morning this is Casey Brazeal for North and Clark. An interview blog that “holds a microphone to Chicagoans who don’t often make the media spotlight” (Gapers [...]
Today, as promised, the recipes for the three beers that I am making or drinking right now.
First, a brief disclaimer: I didn’t come up with any of these recipes on my own everything I brewed was either suggested to me or at least tweeked by the good people at Brew and Grow (Lincoln Park’s friendly [...]
This afternoon I was astonished to find an ad for Bing in the Google Adsense Ads on my website.
When Microsoft launched Bing its search engine the target was clear. Bing is Microsoft’s attempt to take some of Google huge share of the search market. It would seem like a conflict of interest for Google to [...]
If you can make tea, read a thermometer, or a book you can brew beer.
When I first heard of homebrewing it was from a bio-chemist and I mistakenly assumed that it was some complex and technical undertaking that only the truely dedicated could bring off. Not so.
Beer is almost as fun and easy to make [...]
Darius Dennis is an artist, a friend, and a consummate Chicagoan. He is has a classical training and is competent working in oils, acrylics, pastels or aerosol cans. He currently works as part of the Novem Collective, and his works are hanging on the the backs of Chicagoans from 110th to up past Devon.
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