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Arts & Culture, Feature Nov 6, 2013
The great puppet caper

How a Wicker Park building full of "creepy wooden dolls with strings" led a young documentarian to (almost) reunite a prolific puppeteer with his life's work
- By Gwynedd Stuart
- Tags: Feature, Ralph Kipniss, puppeteers, puppets, William Morris, Michigan City, Indiana, marionettes, Wicker Park, apartments, Joseph Lewis, documentarians, Noble Square, Puppet Parlor, landlords, Kickstarter, Elephant & Worm, educational theater, Ravenswood, Lou Ennis, Bryn Mawr Theatre, Belden Wire, Royal European Marionette Company of Chicago, puppet theater, Kungsholm Miniature Grand Opera, River North, pole puppets, Swedish restaurants, Marilyn Giedraitis, Arnold Giedraitis, Old Orchard Country Club, theater, Pulaski Park Advisory Council

Music, Gossip Wolf Jun 25, 2013
Gossip Wolf: The Evens play Logan Hardware (for old times' sake)

Plus: Kommandant's former front man lands in Stone Magnum, and Come does an in-store at Saki.
- By J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Dischord, the Evens, Amy Farina, Ian MacKaye, Logan Hardware, Jim Zespy, Fugazi, John Loder, The Odds, Nick Hernandez, Kommandant, Stone Magnum, Michigan City, Indiana, From Time . . . to Eternity, Nite Cap, Cardiac Arrest, Radiation Sickness, Come, Saki, Empty Bottle, Adam Reach, Carrot Top, Touch and Go

Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature Jun 6, 2013
Who does Brandon Baltzley think he is?

A chef whose mesmerizing creativity is deserving of fame? A drug addict in recovery who rightly eschews sobriety? A twentysomething memoirist whose brief history is worth your time? Or is he none of those things?
- By Sarah Nardi
- Tags: Food & Drink Feature, Brandon Baltzley, Leigh Hansen, pop-up dinners, chefs, WD-50, New York, memoirs, addiction, books, Rock 'n Roll Ghost, Wylie Dufresne, Hugh Acheson, Top Chef, Empire State South, restaurants, chef personalities, 6th Street Kitchen, Jacksonville, Florida, Grant Achatz, Alinea, Schwa, Michael Carlson, Mado, Rob Levitt, Allie Levitt, Eater, blogs, online comments, David Richard, Essex Inn, cocaine, drugs, Twitter, Kevin Pang, Chicago Tribune, Tribute, Andy Warhol, Emily Belden, smoking, rehabilitation, ICM Partner, talent agencies, Pittsburgh, Michigan City, Indiana, Steve Newman, TMIP, happiness, sex, sobriety, drinking, Crux, farms, Cherry, Illinois, Kevin Sousa, Salt of the Earth, Stagioni, Bar Marco, zoning, licensing, business

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