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Keeping Time

by Lauren Gurley October 30, 2013November 27, 2013

Curtis Black and Doug Mitchell can’t agree on the exact year when their group began its Sunday night jam sessions at Jimmy’s Woodlawn Tap, a Hyde Park bar on 55th and Woodlawn Avenue. Black, the group’s trumpeter and a freelance journalist, claims it was 1992. Mitchell, the drummer and an executive editor at the University of Chicago Press, says 1990. […]

Features, Pilsen

A Hall Reborn, a Neighborhood Altered

by Patrick Leow October 1, 2013October 16, 2013

Wiping her hands on an apron as she strides out of the kitchen, the single employee on duty at Josefina’s Bakery turns down “Vas a Llorar Por Mí,” the latest single from Banda El Recodo De Cruz Lizárraga. The same evening sees students from Benito Juárez Community Academy slouched over benches in nearby Dvorak Park, […]

Food, Pilsen

By Land, By Sea, Buy Beer

by John Gamino October 1, 2013October 6, 2013

If you ever find yourself on 18th Street, and hungry, you can stumble into the closest no-name taquería, order more than your fair share of carne asada, and still leave with no regrets. You can’t eat a taco at Dusek’s, but you can drink a great beer. A full draft list brims with offerings from […]