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The Hardscrabbler: 4Art Gallery Starts an Art Scene

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Sunday, July 26, 2015. 4Art Gallery Starts an Art Scene. Robin Monique Rios first became a gallery owner in 2003, when she and Jerod Schmidt opened the 4Art Gallery in Pilsen within 6 months of finishing art school. That part is important, that she felt successful in the corporate world, or at least valued and well paid, with an active social life on the side, because after about 10 years of it, she fell into a depression anyway, and she says it was because “I wasn’t living my life.”. Then one night she ...

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The Hardscrabbler: December 2014

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Thursday, December 25, 2014. They Call Me Mister MGB. Al Ribskis' MGB in the Victory Lane at Road America. Al enrolled at UIC for 2 years after high school, but says he was distracted by a youthful bout of cynicism. Cynicism is a word that’s hard to reconcile with Al Ribskis now - he describes it as a nagging a sense of pointlessness: good grades came easy, but he really had no idea what he planned to do with himself. And in retrospect, maybe his doubts weren’t all wrong. Over the next 13 years, the comp...

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The Hardscrabbler: August 2012

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Monday, August 27, 2012. Notes from Neighborhood Watch. Our regular CAPS beat meetings used to be held at Wentworth Gardens, the public housing complex on the other side of the viaduct. After the Parnell murder in October, there was a special CAPS meeting held at Nativity of Our Lord on Lowe. Over 400 people filled the church basement. The 9th District CAPS officer, the District Commander, the Alderman and the Chicago Police Department’s second in command, all came to address their fears. These were both...

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The Hardscrabbler: April 2015

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Sunday, April 26, 2015. A Field Vision of Art. A few weeks ago Daniel Davidson came into Bridgeport Coffee excited about a review he’d just read in. A British arts journal. He didn’t agree with it – he was stimulated the way you are when you stumble across a clear articulation of something you know to be deeply wrong. The essay described a new exhibition of Malevich’s. An avant-garde painting first shown in 1915. The title is accurate: Black Square. With content. It’s filled with carefully draw...On one ...

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Bridgeport Village Development Chicago: Bridgeport Chicago's next artist colony?

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Bridgeport Village Development Chicago. Tuesday, January 15, 2008. Bridgeport Chicago's next artist colony? Sunday, May 22, 2005 No comments posted. CHICAGO Over the years, Oskar Friedl's art gallery has moved from one pricey Chicago neighborhood to the next. But he thinks he's found a permanent home for his business: the fledgling artists' community in Bridgeport. The South Side neighborhood is famous for its meat-packing industry, its White Sox and its Democratic Machine politicians. Laura Weathered, a...

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The Hardscrabbler: March 2013

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Sunday, March 17, 2013. Bob Dain Brings Vintage Guitars and Local Equipment Back to Bridgeport. 312 Vintage Guitars has only been open for 4 months, and it is already on the map. It’s been featured on DNA Info. Mentioned in TimeOut Chicago. And this Tuesday, March 26, it will play host to a live segment for the Y ou and Me This Morning. In 1999 Eric Clapton auctioned 100 of his instruments to raise money for a drug and alcohol recovery center, and set record prices. One of his Fender Stratocasters ra...

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The Hardscrabbler: June 2014

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Sunday, June 1, 2014. A New Generation of Live Work Space on Halsted. On the outside, this building looks like a lot of the mystery buildings on Halsted Street, like someone has forgotten they own it, or like they’ve inherited it from their grandparents and they aren’t sure if it’s worth anything yet. When renovations are finished in July, there will be 2 second floor apartments, a maker of traditional Italian sausage in the basement, and a giant live work space on the first floor. The building they fina...

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Bridgeport Village Development Chicago: Stay Green with Orange Line El Commuting Convenience

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Bridgeport Village Development Chicago. Friday, June 8, 2007. Stay Green with Orange Line El Commuting Convenience. If you do not like to drive to work from Birdgeport Village you can take a few steps across archer, to the Ashland Orange Line. Stop 5 Mins for fast walkers, 10 Minutes for slow walkers, and people with small children. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Stay Green with Orange Line El Commuting Convenien. Tribune Response to Sunday Paper Article. Positive Spin on an Positive Community.

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Bridgeport Village Development Chicago: Tribune Response to Sunday Paper Article

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Bridgeport Village Development Chicago. Thursday, June 7, 2007. Tribune Response to Sunday Paper Article. The image of what is arguably the best planned community of single family homes in the City,. Bridgeport Village, was unfairly tarnished on the front page of last Sunday's edition. As a homeowner and resident of. I don't pretend to understand the murky reality of 11. Once the City of. Undoubtedly, many readers were left with the impression that all of the homes in. Share the same problems, are flawed...

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Bridgeport Village Development Chicago: Response to Tribune

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Bridgeport Village Development Chicago. Monday, June 11, 2007. VOICE OF THE PEOPLE. Politics should play no part in development. Published June 11, 2007. First, the article describes supposedly "flawed" homes - downplaying the fact that when I was managing the project until June 2005, reputable engineers vouched for their structural soundness. In the 11th Ward? The opening sentence claims "a gusty wind" tore apart "a two-story home in the later stages of construction.". The homeowners should be assured, ...