Arts
Miss Wicker Park ’11 Details, Plus Footage/Pics from Last Year’s Pageant
By chicago-pipeline at August 19, 2011 | 2:03 pm | 1 Comments
The Miss Wicker Park Pageant is back for its second year at the Double Door. It's free to sign up; registration ends Sept. 27. Finalists will advance to the Double Door's stage Thurs. Oct. 27. Check out details here. The Pipeline was on the scene for last year's inaugural pageant, where we interviewed founder Rich Seng, on the back patio (of the now sadly closed) more...
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Short Take: Tom Robinson on Built Festival
By chicago-pipeline at August 17, 2011 | 12:36 pm | 0 Comment
A new art Initiative, Built Festival, is a city being created out of shipping containers this summer in Chicago’s Wicker Park Neighborhood. The shipping containers were given over to Chicago’s contemporary artists and curators to transform into alternative or ‘guerilla’ venues. This past weekend Aldi’s parking lot was transformed into an 'Art lot.' I more...
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Chicago’s Only Community Darkroom to Host Grand Opening Reception this Friday Night
By chicago-pipeline at August 15, 2011 | 4:45 pm | 0 Comment
While digital photography has impacted the way we snap and share images, and opened up what was once an expensive craft to the masses, there is something to be said for the age-old adage, "Life's about the journey, not the destination," as it applies to the photographic process, which, for folks like this writer old enough to remember what it was like to sit in a more...
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Come, All Ye Writers: Join us Wednesday Night (8/17)
By chicago-pipeline at August 15, 2011 | 12:12 pm | 0 Comment
Here at Pipeline central, we are working on this week's issue (lots of fun stories and pictures!!!), to be sent out on or before Wednesday. Meanwhile, our dry erase board keeps filling up with story ideas, so much so that we are almost afraid to leave our apartment, because every time we leave, we meet someone or see something that could become yet another story... Did more...
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Newsflash: Marc Hauser is Not our Dad but We are Proud to Be Cousins
By chicago-pipeline at August 13, 2011 | 11:26 am | 0 Comment
In the past couple weeks, as portrait photographer Marc Hauser rises again, with a collection of three decades of portrait photography (check out some of the images from Marc's book release party last month, which we've included in this post), a GroupOn, and new gigs and shows, we, as in we The Pipeline, whom happen to have the same last name as Marc's, are getting at more...
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15 Things You Could Do Today (and 2mrw) in the ‘Hood
By chicago-pipeline at August 13, 2011 | 9:12 am | 0 Comment
Sat. Aug. 13 10AM-1PM: Volunteer Gardening with WP Garden Club (Park Grounds, 1500 N. Damen) [caption id="attachment_3530" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Aldi Parking Lot, Spring 2010"][/caption] 11PM-10:30PM: Built Festival (Aldi Parking Lot, 1767 N. Milw.) We wrote about this festival back on June 30th, during its 'call for Artists,' and, more...
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Words and Images: Thursday Night in Wicker Park
By chicago-pipeline at August 12, 2011 | 1:46 pm | 0 Comment
Last night was a lot of fun. Jack Silverstein, a neighborhood writer committed to community news, had arranged/organized an informal 'Meet-and-Greet with First Ward Ald. 'Proco' Joe Moreno, with the purpose for the gathering being to bring together the community with their alderman in a nonpartisan way, surrounded by art, live music by jazz quartet Eyes Manouche, and more...
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Linkypoos, Aug. 9
By chicago-pipeline at August 10, 2011 | 5:16 pm | 0 Comment
Via Rich G. of Everyblock, we learned that the Makisu space, at 1725 W. Division, might soon become "an upscale sports bar," More on who's reportedly behind it here. Earwax is closed, per this sign on the window. Read more speculation in this Eater.com post by Ari Bendersky. [caption id="attachment_3433" align="alignleft" width="298" caption="The more...
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‘Cross-Disciplinary Experiences’ in The Den Theatre’s Pipeline
By chicago-pipeline at August 10, 2011 | 12:15 pm | 0 Comment
This past December, The Den Theatre, Wicker Park's newest performance space, located in a spacious third floor loft, above a retail storefront, at 1333 N. Milw., opened to the public with its first show, the classic play, Bus Stop, by William Inge, which Gaper's Block theatre critic Kelly Reaves observed to be, "...a good ole-fashioned feel-good play in a really nice new more...
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Phlash Sees, He Shoots Everything…
By chicago-pipeline at August 8, 2011 | 11:32 pm | 0 Comment
... and then downloads 976 images onto our computer, before dashing off. Philin Phlash can't be bothered with photo editing. Why waste your life sitting in front of a computer?! Here's a sampling of the 'best of Phlash,' snapped pre-Lallo, and photo-edited by yours tired and truly. Expect Lollapalooza pictures from Phlash next. The poor guy is still recovering. Off the more...
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