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Music, Music Review May 22, 2020
Recommended
Rosebud Allday showcases its sunny sound on its first label compilation, Buds Volume 1
- By Jack Riedy
- Tags: Music Review, Rosebud Allday, compilations, Buds Volume 1, Bill Ocean, Jayson Rose, Jsun Rose, neosoul, Odd Future, Wyatt Waddell, Blake Davis, Drea the Vibe Dealer, Ravenswood, pop, pop music, hip-hop, COVID-19, stay home, Recommended

Arts & Culture, Feature Jul 25, 2018
Slideshow
Sara McIntosh teaches shoemaking as a first step toward self-reliance

Here's a look at how students at the Chicago School of Shoemaking craft custom footwear.
- By Jamie Ramsay
- Tags: Feature, Arts, How To..., jamie ramsay, chicago school of shoemaking, CSOS, ravenswood, cobblers, shoemakers, shoemaking, leatherwork, shoes, artisan, handicraft, makers issue, bloomington, indiana, motif, sara mcintosh, Slideshow

News & Politics, Feature Jan 18, 2018
Women are forging a space of their own in Chicago’s manufacturing industry

Local programs are supporting women in their fight for greater representation in the male-dominated trades.
- By Libby Berry
- Tags: Feature, Jane Addams Resource Corporation, Women in Manufacturing Program, Careers in Manufacturing Program, Chicago Foundation For Women, Eleanor Foundation, Ravenswood, Austin, Service Employees International Union Local 1, Arlena Williams

Music, Music Feature Aug 16, 2017
CHIRP sees the transmitter at the end of the tunnel

Ten years after the Chicago Independent Radio Project recruited its first volunteers, it’s finally hitting the airwaves.
- By Kevin Warwick
- Tags: Music Feature, CHIRP, Chicago Independent Radio Project, low-power FM, LPFM, Lumpen Radio, 107.1 FM, transmitter, broadcast, WLUW, Shawn Campbell, Jenny Lizak, Tony Breed, FCC, Federal Communications Commission, Local Community Radio Act, North Center, Ravenswood, Uptown

City Life, Space Mar 20, 2017
Video
A wondrous world of nature hides in plain sight at the Chicago Academy of Sciences collections facility

The natural history haven in North Center contains nearly 300,000 specimens that document the biodiversity of the midwest, Illinois, and greater North America.
- By Laura Pearson
- Tags: Space, Chicago Academy of Sciences, Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, collections facility, specimens, lepidoptera, Robert Kennicott, ornithology, Benjamin Gault, naturalist, herpetologist, natural history, Ravenswood, Video

Blogs, Bleader Dec 22, 2016
Angered by homicides, activists leave coffins at Rahm Emanuel’s home

“Behind each of these deaths is a failure,” activists said.
- By Derrick Clifton
- Tags: Criminal Justice, News, Race, RIP, American Indian Center, Rahm Emanuel, politics, violence, homicide, police, police violence, police accountability, activism, march, Ravenswood, Uptown, mental health, mental health clinics, schools, public schools, education

Blogs, Bleader Jul 25, 2016
Dovetail Brewery’s tour serves up a potent look at the art of making craft beer

The month-old Ravenswood brewery offers a boozy and informative Saturday tour.
- By Julia Thiel
- Tags: Booze, Food & Drink, Dovetail Brewery, Ravenswood, brewery tour, taproom, tasting room, lager, hefeweizen, rauchbier, lambic, coolship, barrel aging, Hagen Dost, Bill Wesselink

Columns & Opinion, On Politics Jun 22, 2016
Mayor Rahm decides it’s a good time to give himself credit for improving CPS

The mayor stops bashing the schools so he can take credit for fixing them.
- By Ben Joravsky
- Tags: On Politics, Rahm Emanuel, Bruce Rauner, Chicago Public Schools, CPS, Crain’s Chicago Business, Ravenswood, Roseland, Sullivan High School, National Assessment of Educational Progress, Nation’s Report Card, Miguel del Valle, charter schools, education

Food & Drink, Restaurant Review May 4, 2016
The Northman is cider central for Chicago

At the city's first cider pub, the food is no match for the juice.
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Restaurant Reviews, Northman, Cleetus Friedman, Ravenswood, Sean Sanders, Fountainhead, Jury's, North Center, Binny's, Publican Quality Meats, Brian Rutzen, Cider Brian, Trabanco Sidra, The Northman

Blogs, Bleader Sep 25, 2014
The raw bar at the Ravenswood Mariano's is shucking some great bivalves

Stumbling upon a terrific $10 lunch special at the supermarket's oyster bar.
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Mariano's, oysters, Todd's BBQ, raw bar, clam chowder, ravenswood

News & Politics, Zoom in Sep 13, 2014
In employing pianists, Mariano's picks up where Nordstrom left off

James Callen and other in-house piano players jazz up the grocery shopping experience.
- By Kerry Cardoza
- Tags: Zoom in, Dominick's, Mariano's, Nordstrom's Oak Brook, Bob Mariano, Entertainment Group, James Callen, Ravenswood, Evanston, jazz, Nordstrom

Columns & Opinion, On Politics Sep 3, 2014
Why Chicago can't afford to demolish another school

Mayor Rahm shouldn't have shuttered Trumbull grammar school; it would be another big mistake to raze it.
- By Ben Joravsky
- Tags: Ben Joravsky on Politics, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Trumbull grammar school, Ravenswood, Edgewater, CPS, school closings, Alderman Patrick O'Connor, TIFs, Dwight Perkins, Bob Remer, Edgewater Historical Society, Walter Payton High School, Obama College Prep, Coonley grammar, Lincoln grammar school

Best of Chicago, Music & Nightlife Jun 25, 2014
Critics' Picks
Best Concert Series in a Recording Studio

Outer Ear at Experimental Sound Studio
- By Peter Margasak
- Tags: Music & Nightlife, Best of Chicago 2014, Ravenswood, Experimental Sound Studio, Outer Ear Festival, Jaap Blonk, Phill Niblock, Sons of God, Laetitia Sonami, Stuart Dempster, Michael Vorfeld, Lawrence English, Audrey Chen, John Butcher, Critics' Picks

Blogs, Bleader Jun 10, 2014
Rahm's alderman explains why Chicagoans will now have to pay more taxes to get less

Ameya Pawar, alderman of the 47th Ward, says the city's pension obligations and budget problems are forcing "really tough choices."
- By Mick Dumke
- Tags: Neighborhoods, Politics, News, 47th Ward, Ameya Pawar, Ben Joravsky, charter schools, Chicago City Council, Chicago Public Schools, Eugene Schulter, governor, Lincoln Square, mayor, neighborhood schools, North Center, parking meter deal, parking meter lease deal, parking meters, Pat Quinn, patronage, pension reform, pensions, privatization, property taxes, Rahm Emanuel, Ravenswood, Richard M. Daley, Richard Mell, selective-enrollment schools, the Hideout

News & Politics, What the hell is this place? Nov 11, 2013
What the hell is this place? Sedgwick Studio

The former substation now acts as a live-in studio for a trio of sculptors.
- By Rachel Graf
- Tags: What the hell is this place?, Brown Line, Michael Young, Ravenswood, Commonwealth Edison, John Adduci, Michael Young, Ted "Sitting Crow" Garner, What the hell is this place?

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

Blogs, Bleader Aug 22, 2013
Reader's Agenda Thu 8/22: Coffee ceramic art, Festa Italiana, and #ShopFest

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Thursday, August 22
- By Tosten Burks
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Lillstreet Art Center, Best Served Hot, Ravenswood, Taylor Street, Festa Italiana, Magnificent Mile, #ShopFest, Christina Hendricks, Jason Derulo

News & Politics, Zoom in Jul 5, 2013
Zoom in: Ravenswood

We get the guided tour of the Truc Lam Buddhist Temple, a formerly dilapidated Masonic lodge turned meeting place for the Vietnamese Buddhist community.
- By Aimee Levitt
- Tags: Zoom in, Buddha, Truc Lam Buddhist Temple, Nathan Buone, Ravenswood

Blogs, Bleader Dec 10, 2012
Video
Beer and Metal: Spiteful Brewing's G.F.Y. Stout

Ravenswood's Spiteful Brewing debuts with the roasty, chocolatey G.F.Y. Stout, which arrived in Chicago stores five days ago
- By Philip Montoro
- Tags: Beer and Metal, Music, Food & Drink, Beer and Metal, beer, metal, Spiteful Brewing, Brad Shaffer, Jason Klein, Ravenswood, G.F.Y. Stout, FOBAB, Pipeworks Brewing, Thrones, Joe Preston, Oso Malo, Anguish of Bears, Black Bear, Hulk Smash, Video

Blogs, Bleader Nov 18, 2012
The Reader's Agenda: Sun 11/18

What's on the Agenda for Sunday, November 18, 2012
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Do This, Saint Luke's Lutheran Church, Park Ridge, Chicago Philharmonic, Russian Masterworks, Anton Arensky, Paul Juon, Sergei Taneyev. Royal George Theater, Tracy Letts, Superior Donuts, Bob Groth, Jenniffer Thuysing, Zac Thompson, Deb Perelman, Book Cellar, Ravenswood, The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook

Blogs, Bleader Nov 7, 2012
The Reader's Agenda: Wed 11/7

What's on the Agenda for Wednesday, November 7, 2012
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Do This, Bottom Lounge, K'Naan, Country God or the Girl, City of the Sun, New York Times, Eric Asimov, How to Love Wine: A Memoir and Manifesto, Book Cellar, Ravenswood, Naked and Raw, Tyla Abercrombie, MPAACT, Solo Jams

Blogs, Bleader Nov 2, 2012
The Reader's Agenda: Fri 11/2

What's on the Agenda for Friday, November 2, 2012
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Do This, Book Cellar, Ravenswood, Anne Moore Elizabeth, Hip Hop Apsara: Ghosts Past and Present, Metro, Wrigleyville, Feat, Leor Galil, Gilbert Gottfried, Zanie's, Old Town

Blogs, Bleader Oct 28, 2012
The Reader's Agenda: Sun 10/28

What's on the Agenda for Sunday, October 28, 2012
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Do This, O'Shaughnessy's Public House, Ravenswood, Dating For Nerds, Freaks and Geeks Halloween Party, Willis Earl Beale Leor Galil, Cat Power, Xray Eyeballs, Challengers Comics

Blogs, Bleader Oct 15, 2012
The Reader's Agenda: Mon 10/15

What's on the Agenda for Monday, October 15, 2012
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Do This, Mark Z. Danielewski, Unity Temple in Oak Park, The Fifty Year Sword, Arrested Development, Double Door, Wicker Park, Serengeti, Organic Flow, The Book Cellar, Ravenswood, Essay Fiesta, 826CHI

Blogs, Bleader Sep 27, 2012
The Reader's Agenda: Thu 9/27

What's on the Agenda for Thursday, September 27, 2012
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Do This, Ray Bradbury, Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury, John McNally, Bayo Ojikutu, Bradbury, Sam Weller, Mort Castle, McNally, Ojikutu, Book Cellar, Ravenswood, Cult, Berlin Nightclub, l DJ Teen Witch, Oakland, Chippy Nonstop, Leor Galil, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potte, Open Books, Growing Up With Harry Potter

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