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Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature Nov 24, 2020
Tony B’s Steak Chips, you were a mistake

Tony Balestreri's meat snacks were inspired by jazz cabbage.
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Food & Drink Feature, Food & Drink, Food Chain, Tony Balestreri, Tony B's Teak Chips, Snack Collective, Marz Community Brewing, Kimski, Antique Taco, Off Premise Liquors, @grubtubtony, snack, steak, chips, jazz cabbage, Antique Taco Bridgeport

Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature Jul 7, 2020
The Wurst has the best meats

A small northwest Indiana butcher shop makes a go of it mid-pandemic with small farmers, small slaughterhouses, and naturally raised beef, pork, chicken, and lamb.
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Food & Drink Feature, Marz Community Brewing, Dumpling Wars, Ricky Hanft, the Wurst, Publican Quality Meats, Josh Applestone, Local Butcher Shop, Steve Howe, Mangalitsa-Berkshire, Griffith, Indiana, Aaron and Monica Rocchino

Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature Jun 12, 2020
Marz Community Kitchen is the future

Restaurants should embrace community food stability during patio season, and beyond
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Food & Drink Feature, Booze, Food & Drink, Food Chain, Brian Jupiter, Ina Mae Tavern, Frontier, Erick Williams, Virtue, Ed Marzewski, Marz Community Brewing, Randi Howri, Kelly Ijichi, Mom’s, Mick Klug Farm, Won Kim, Kimski, Pizza Fried Chicken Ice Cream, Eat Free Pizza, Pretty Cool Ice Cream, Closed Loop Farms, Crescent Bakery, Reader Recipes: Chicago Cook and Drinks at Home, Community Kitchen, Community of the Future Market, Public Media Institute

Arts & Culture, Lit Feature Apr 2, 2020
Holding it together during the quarantine

The Quarantine Times is virtually helping folks keep their cool.
- By S. Nicole Lane
- Tags: Lit Feature, The Quarantine Times, Lumpen, Ed Marszewski, Nick Wylie, Marz Community Brewing, Marc Fischer, Quaranzine, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Brandon Alvendia, Public Media Institute, Amanda Klonsky, Evidence of Life, Stephanie Manriquez, Jamie Trecker, Logan Bay

Music, Gossip Wolf Feb 11, 2020
Video
The U. of C. Folk Festival celebrates 60 years on Valentine’s weekend

Plus: Polo G headlines a stacked Metro benefit before the NBA All-Star Game, and Mississippi Records throws the first Marz Record Fair.
- By J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, University of Chicago, Folklore Society, Folk Festival, U. of C. Folk Festival, 60th, Ida Noyes Hall, Mandel Hall, Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass, Jimmy Breaux Trio, Bill & the Belles, Medicine Line, Orquesta Charangueo, Mariachi Sirenas, NBA All-Star Game, Joe Freshgoods, Metro, Polo G, G Herbo, Calboy, NLE Choppa, Ann Marie, Tink, Dreezy, SBG Kemo, Amateur Athletic Union, Boys & Girls Club of Chicago, Erika’s Lighthouse, Mississippi Record, Marz Record Fair, Marz Community Brewing, International Anthem, Black Pegasus, Maximum Pelt, Tone Deaf, Electric Jungle, Shady Rest, Video

Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature Jan 23, 2020
Augment beereality with Tech Noir at Marz Community Brewing

These beer cans make music.
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Food & Drink Feature, Booze, Food & Drink, Food Chain, Marz Community Brewing, M1 Interactive, Tech Noir, beer, IPA, augmented reality, Terminator, Di Warzau, Domestik, Fetter, Kurt Vise and DJ Logan Bay, Winston Lasker, Flux Bikes, Potions, The Chandeliers, DJ Lawrence Peters, Marz Community Brewing Company Taproom

Arts & Culture, Art Review Jan 14, 2020
‘You Will Die’ reminds us of our mortality

Metal art breaks into the white-wall gallery.
- By S. Nicole Lane
- Tags: Art Review, You Will Die, Public Works Gallery, Scott Shellhamer, American Heritage, Josh Zoerner, Noelia Towers, Justin Bartlett, Marz Community Brewing, Kuma's Corner, Hatebreed, Gwar, Aghora, Hangman, Artizan, Eliran Kantor, The Pain That Keeps On Giving, Straight Line Stitch, Myrkur, Agoraphobic Nosebleed, metal

Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature Oct 10, 2019
Recommended
Joe Guzzo is sweet on complexity, not so much on sugar

Marz Community Brewing's nonalcoholic drinks are just as wild as its beers.
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Food & Drink Feature, Marz Community Brewing, Joe Guzzo, nonalcoholic brewmaster, Liquid Dreams Festival, Rare Tea Cellar, shrub, kombucha, yerba mate, Marz Mate, Flower Power, Outre Kombucha, Tokyo Drift, Bridgeport, Marz Community Brewing Company Taproom, Recommended

Reader, Reader events Jun 28, 2019
Chicago Reader Pride Block Party 2019
- By Reader staff
- Tags: Reader Events, Pride, Chicago Reader Pride Block Party, Marz Community Brewing, Chicago Reader, Drag Queen Story Hour, Lucy Stoole, DJ Duane Powell, Sandra Antongiorgi, Nue Vodka, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Ms. Blakk for President, Old Town School of Folk Music, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Sprint, Vocalo, Young Chicago Authors, Windy City Times, Erik Kommer, Leni Manaa-Hoppenworth, Marz Community Brewing Co.

Music, Gossip Wolf Oct 30, 2018
Video
Hip-hop site Ruby Hornet throws its first show in years

Plus: Local emo trio Mollow drop their debut on Worry Records, and Lumpen Radio teams up with Sonorama for a bumping Día de los Muertos party.
- By J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Ruby Hornet, Boathouse, Empty Bottle, Ajani Jones, Closed Sessions, Alex Fruchter, RTC, Jared Lanell, Lorde Fredd33, Worry Records, Rust Ring, Retirement Party, Regular Oatmeal, Mollow, Small, Subterranean, Calaveras y Palmeras, Día de los Muertos, Day of the Dead, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Lumpen Radio, Sonorama, Sonido Gallo Negro, Julian Donk, Peace & Rhythm, DJ Bongohead, DJ Garrincha, Tropical Diaspora Records, Marz Community Brewing, Sobremesa Supper Club, Video

Music, Music Feature Jan 18, 2017
Video
Lumpen Radio amplifies voices from the margins

This Bridgeport-based low-power station provides an on-air home for diversity and dissent.
- By Erin Osmon
- Tags: Music Feature, Lumpen Radio, WLPN, WLPN 105.5 FM, Lumpen magazine, Public Media Institute, Mash Tun, Co-Prosperity Sphere, low-power FM, community radio, LPFM, Version festival, Ed Marszewski, Edmar, Logan Bay, Bridgeport, Marz Community Brewing, Local Community Radio Act, WCYC 90.5 FM, Melanie Adcock, Tech Scene Chicago, Divisive, Yollocalli Arts Reach, Wattz Up!, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, DACA, Democracy Now!, Sandra Treviño, Stephanie Manriquez, the Ponderers, DJs, Craig Harshaw, Leah Gipson, Keith Brown, Radio Arte, noncommercial educational, FCC, CHIRP, Video

Blogs, Bleader Sep 8, 2016
Worlds collide in the Korean-Polish street food of Kimski

The extension of Maria’s Packaged Goods & Community Bar serves up Korean-Polish under the direction of street artist and one-time Food Network star Won Kim.
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Food & Drink, Food Chain, Kimski, Polish food, Korean food, Maria Marszewski, Maria Marszewski, Ed Marszewski, Maria's Packaged Goods & Community Bar, Marz Community Brewing, Lumpen, Bridgeport, Kaplan's Liquors, Won Kim

Music, Gossip Wolf May 20, 2015
Lumpen Radio raises funds to build a low-power FM station in Bridgeport

Plus: Francophone pop group the Ye-Ye's lose a member to Berlin, and Jim Magas launches a new record label.
- By J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Public Media Institute, Ed Marszewski, Lumpen, Marz Community Brewing, Bridgeport, WLPN, Lumpen Radio, the Ye-Ye's, Heather Perry, Subterranean, Rachele Eve, Rambos, Fee Lion, Jim Magas, Asia Argento, Midwich, Moon Pool, Dead Band, MEQ, Heads Plus

Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature Mar 12, 2015
Meet Maria of Maria's Packaged Goods & Community Bar

Long before she became the Duchess of Bridgeport, Maria Marszewski was a churchgoing hairdresser in South Korea.
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Food & Drink Feature, Bar Issue 2015, Maria's Packaged Goods and Community Bar, Maria Marszewski, Kaplan's Liquors, Ed Marszewski, Mike Marszewski, Marz Community Brewing, Bridgeport, Maria's Packaged Goods & Community Bar

Blogs, Bleader Dec 15, 2014
Yes, Marz Community Brewing aged a mushroom stout in soy-sauce barrels, and I drank it

If you've got any room in your heart at all for bizarro stunt beers, you owe it to yourself to try Umami Stout.
- By Philip Montoro
- Tags: Beer and Metal, Music, Food & Drink, Beer and Metal, beer, metal, Marz, Marz Community Brewing, Ed Marsziewski, Tom Piekarz, Against the Grain, Takeshi, Takeshi Yutsomashi, Umami Stout, soy sauce, brandy, barrels, shiitake, Eli Espinoza, Jungle Boogie, Stargazer, A Merging to the Boundless, Mournful Congregation, Cauldron Black Ram

Blogs, Bleader Oct 27, 2014
CHAOS Brew Club celebrates Learn to Homebrew Day

The local nonprofit collective opens up its brew house for free introductory brewing demonstrations.
- By Philip Montoro
- Tags: Beer and Metal, Music, Food & Drink, Beer and Metal, beer, metal, CHAOS Brew Club, home brewing, Steven Lane, Learn to Homebrew Day, American Homebrewers Association, Blichmann, Tower of Power, Heineman, Marz Community Brewing, Pete Alvarado, Eli Espinoza, Jamie Proctor, Usnea, Random Cosmic Violence, Chaoskampf, Relapse Records

Blogs, Bleader Sep 8, 2014
Video
Marz Community Brewing launches with a small space, a big crew, a great party, and a memorable lineup

This new Bridgeport operation has a crowd of brewers on deck, and takes advantage of their varied talents to produce a broad range of solid beers.
- By Philip Montoro
- Tags: Beer and Metal, Music, Food & Drink, Beer and Metal, beer, metal, Marz, Marz Community Brewing, Bridgeport, Maria's, Ed Marszewski, Mike Marszewski, Eric Olson, Mash Tun, Pete Alvarado, Tim Lange, Kazys Ozelis, Tom Piekarz, Johanna Wawro, Eli Espinoza, Alex Robertson, Mike Redwick, CHAOS Brew Club, Bubbly Creek, the Machine, Bridgeporter, Winobacillus, May of '68, Smoke Wheat Every Day, the Corrupt, Albino Berzerker, Lake Effect, DryHop, Bill Kim, Arnie Palmer Meets the Dragon Lady, Antithesis Brewing, Chris Jacobsen, Harvest IPA, Chris Jacobsen, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Overdrive, Ufomammut, Flaming Lips, Take Me ta Mars, Video

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Tony Balestreri's meat snacks were inspired by jazz cabbage.

A small northwest Indiana butcher shop makes a go of it mid-pandemic with small farmers, small slaughterhouses, and naturally raised beef, pork, chicken, and lamb.

Restaurants should embrace community food stability during patio season, and beyond

The Quarantine Times is virtually helping folks keep their cool.

Plus: Polo G headlines a stacked Metro benefit before the NBA All-Star Game, and Mississippi Records throws the first Marz Record Fair.

These beer cans make music.

Metal art breaks into the white-wall gallery.

Marz Community Brewing's nonalcoholic drinks are just as wild as its beers.

Plus: Local emo trio Mollow drop their debut on Worry Records, and Lumpen Radio teams up with Sonorama for a bumping Día de los Muertos party.

This Bridgeport-based low-power station provides an on-air home for diversity and dissent.

The extension of Maria’s Packaged Goods & Community Bar serves up Korean-Polish under the direction of street artist and one-time Food Network star Won Kim.

Plus: Francophone pop group the Ye-Ye's lose a member to Berlin, and Jim Magas launches a new record label.

Long before she became the Duchess of Bridgeport, Maria Marszewski was a churchgoing hairdresser in South Korea.

If you've got any room in your heart at all for bizarro stunt beers, you owe it to yourself to try Umami Stout.

The local nonprofit collective opens up its brew house for free introductory brewing demonstrations.

This new Bridgeport operation has a crowd of brewers on deck, and takes advantage of their varied talents to produce a broad range of solid beers.

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