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AIDS charity hosts

Bill Clinton

DIY: Instructions
for Indie Life
Indie artists
‘Jam Out’

Flock to
‘Skylark’
Restaurant review
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The
Chicago Grid

80’s Prom
The Chicago Grid presents
Instructions for Your
Mission Statement Indie Life................p. 9
The Grid is a monthly
Chicago newsmagazine, which
sifts through local politics, news, ‘Skylark’ review......p. 5
art & entertainment from the mil-

Night
lennial perspective in order to mo- AIDS resource center
bilize a conscious, DIY citizenry. hosts Bill Clinton....p. 6
The Grid redefines our priori-
ties by investigating and spotlight-
Indie artists
ing human rights issues, threats to
liberty, digital memes and local ‘Jam Out’................p. 4
culture.
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tent and advertisements provided company seeks
indie artists to ‘Jam
Queen & King crowned they don’t discriminate on the
basis of sex, race, creed, religion, Out,’ by Kristina
Zaremba...............p. 4
Drinks, DJs color, physical or mental disabili-
ties, or sexual orientation.
Podcast review: ‘Stuff
Visit thechicagogrid.com for more info & tix. Views expressed on the Edito-
You Should Know,’
rial page reflect the opinions of
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Where We Meat—
Skylark, by Kristina
then what are you on? com and should not exceed 400
sponsored, and accompanied by absurd cos-
tumes and, on March 1, 2009, by bagpipers.
Zaremba...............p. 5
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Arts & Culture
Where We Meat:
Reviews of Griditor Meeting Places
Skylark
Genre: Bar and grill
2149 S. Halsted St. at Cermak Road (in the Pilsen
neighborhood), (312) 948-5275

Learn ‘Stuff You
Should Know’
g Podcast delivers fun
lessons on mundane to
mainstream mysteries
By Erica Hohn
Contributor
Stuff You Should Know is one of
the five most popular podcasts on
iTunes, and with good reason.
The world is full of fascinat-
ing things (exploding lakes, face
transplants) you don’t know about,
Photo courtesy: Corinna Nix
and other things (health care reform,
Charles Williams and Corinna Nix play Gallery Cabaret (2020 N. Oakley) with
economic policy) you feel like you
Unearthed. CLICK to see a Grid-original video of Unearthed’s “Drift Away.”
should know about but seem com-
Point of Distinction
Bookish low-lit bar and grill pairs patchwork quilts
and hunting rifles with a pinball machine and retro-style
photobooth while offering many imports, unique domes-
tic brews and chic daily food specials.
Akin to a beatnik’s coffee house without the drag of
poetry slams, you dig?
The Order
Appetizer: Homemade tater tots with ranch, honey
mustard and BBQ dipping sauces.
Entree: Black bean soup served with sour cream and
cheese. Generous slice blackened white bread on side.
Drinks: Newcastle bottle, Hofbrau, coffee.
The Dish
The tots were amazing and the honey mustard dip-
ping sauce kept me from eating a whole handful at once. The vintage photobooth adds character to the quirky
West Side favorite, Skylark bar and grill.
The black bean soup was flavorful and filling, though
it could have been hotter. stand-by of mine, instead.
I had never seen it served with sour cream so that The wait-staff service was fine, but Public Affairs

Jam Out Chicago

was a pleasant surprise and the two played off each other Editor John Campos, who placed the same order about
plicated, boring and impenetrable.
well. The bread was hearty and fresh. 5 minutes after I did, received his food 15 minutes after
Stuff You Should Know intro-
I wanted to try the Pride & Joy beer, but they were mine arrived.
duces the first kind and demystifies
­­—Kristina Zaremba.

seeks indie artists
g Production co. holds shows to promote
music, dance, poetry, visual and culinary arts
By Kristina Zaremba
Editor-in-Chief
Jam Out Chicago is a commu-
nity-funded organization that holds
small-venue and loft-space events to
promote independent artists from all
disciplines.
“The JOC community comes
together to host eclectic art events,
such as the Lady Bird Project,” said
Corinna Nix, creator and CEO.
At any given Lady Bird, patrons
may pay or donate a couple dollars
to experience underground visual
art and spoken word, or take in one
of a half dozen lo-fi musical acts
while munching on a free spread
or sipping cold drinks from the
cash bar. Lady Bird is a successful
promotional and fund-raising tool
for JOC, and several have already
been held since JOC’s establishment
earlier this year.
Donations go to producing artists
such as Nix’s folksy band Unearthed,
R&B singer Mekole Wells, neo-soul
singer-guitarist Ms. Victoria or rock/
pop singer-guitarist Sir Jacob.
Artist management contracts
are three or six months long. JOC
provides its artists with an array of
free and fee-based services including
sound recording and mixing (four-
See “Jam Out,” p. 5
the second with in-depth research
and engaging delivery.
Whether it’s cannibalism, credit
default swaps, toxoplasmosis or
Delta Force, this is the place to be-
gin the search for your next embar-
rassing obsession.
What makes the show a success
is not so much the material—though
it is, with a few exceptions, really
interesting—but the hosts.
Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant
exude great enthusiasm for their
subjects without coming off as pre-
tentious or preachy.
They mention every so often that
they’re working from notes, but the
tone of the show is conversational
and easygoing, with natural, genuine
banter—there’s no pretentious at-
tempt to make the hosts or the show
seem artificially cool.
See “Stuff,” p. 5
tapped out, so I went with a bottle of Newcastle, an old
“Jam Out” from p. 4
track demo $10/hour, or $50-flat),
photography, Web and graphic
design, booking, promotion, man-
agement and legal advice.
JOC’s mission touts that its
model of promotion will provide “all
the necessary tools for the artist to
bloom for well-below industry rates,
if not for free, . . . for all art forms,
in hopes to facilitate the growth of
the independent community [and]
to inspire the re-birth of indepen-
dent businesses, create jobs, and the
promise for a prosperous and hope-
ful future.”
JOC’s Web site (www.jamoutchi-
cago.com) will launch April 3.
Visit it, or e-mail Nix at corinna@
jamoutchicago.com, for upcoming
event and artist information.
“Stuff” from p. 4
You learn a lot, but the content is
actually fun and interesting, exactly
the kind of stuff that you like know-
ing so you can impress your friends
or your date with how knowledge-
able and appealing you are.
It also helps that the topics are
so varied; regardless of your inter-
ests, there’s a good mix of familiar
and unfamiliar information, serious
material and fun material, often in
the same episode.
The show’s earliest episodes suffer
a bit in comparison to the newer
ones, due to both the rotating cast
of co-hosts preceding the current
Golden Age of Josh and Chuck’s
epic, nerdy bromance, and a signifi-
cantly shorter run-time, so unless
you’re the completist type, don’t
bother with most of the episodes
from before August 2008.
While five minutes is long
enough to give listeners a pretty
good overview of the world’s most
expensive toilet, it’s not sufficient
to do more than scratch the surface
of topics like abandoned cities, the
CIA’s torture manual, or the field
of Ripperology (so named for its
subject, Jack the Ripper), though
you should pass on the more recent
discussion of “tinnovators,” unless
you really, really care about Altoid-
tin craft projects.
This show is so awesome, why
are you still reading this instead of
listening to the one about Muppets?
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 10 Things Every Chicagoan Should Know
10: Goldstar.com and ChicagoHalfOff.com portal.chicagopolice.org/portal/page/portal
offer tickets and gift certificates to local restau- and click on link on left nav bar.
rants and merchants for 50 percent off or more. 5: Red Eye’s interactive homicide map—
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HotTix.org has half-price tickets to more than or call 1-800-222-
200 Chicago theatres, or visit their walk-up 1222.
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9: Heated, underground downtown pedway a salary of more
links 40 blocks over 5 miles. Map: egov. than $210,000.
cityofchicago.org/webportal/COCWebPortal/ 2: Wash your
COC_EDITORIAL/Pedwaymapandlegend.pdf pre-packaged, so-
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Former-president Bill Clinton spoke at the Chicago House and Social Service Agency to promote AIDS resources. 6: Chicago’s Most Wanted—visit by Emporis. signed by Jeanne Gang.

AIDS center hosts Clinton,

“
“Chicago House” from p. 6
of services to those in our com-
munities affected by HIV/AID and
ranking lower than it may have been
seeing as Chicago is the third largest
My hope is that we have
city in the United States.
a sense of how [AIDS] Since its founding in 1985, CH

raises funds with bakery “

g Chicago House partners with Sweet Miss Giving’s bakery
By John Campos
Public Affairs Editor
Chicago House and Social
Service Agency hosted its inaugu-
ral luncheon at the Hilton Palmer
House on Nov. 11 to debut its
speaker series luncheons, which fea-
tured former President Bill Clinton
as keynote speaker.
“[Chicago House] is the best ex-
6• The Chicago Grid March 22, 2010
ample anywhere in the country of all
the AIDS outreach efforts that I am
aware of,” former-president Clinton
said at the opening of his speech.
Chicago House (CH) is the first
organization in the Midwest to pro-
vide housing and support for people
living with HIV/AIDS.
The speaker series was developed
to inspire and open new avenues of
dialogue about community concerns
and social responsibility—particular-
ly regarding the issues facing more
than 30,000 people living with HIV/
AIDS in the city.
The luncheon, which sold out
with more than one thousand plates
ranging $150-300 a plate, helped
generate a substantial net profit
estimated around $400,000 that will
further help CH provide a multitude
See “Chicago House,” p. 7
homelessness.
“My hope is that we have a
sense of how [the disease] affects
all of us and a new determination
to combat the issues that we face in
our communities,” CEO Rev. Stan
Sloan said. CH tries to combat that
attitude.
A recent report issued by the
Center for Disease Control stated
that AIDS is 40 percent worse in
America than originally thought—
more that 1,000,000 cases exist in
America, while 56,000 new cases
arise every year.
Only 1 in 5 of HIV-in-
fected Americans have stable
affects all of us and a new
determination to combat
the issues that we face in
our communities.
—Chicago House CEO Rev. Stan Sloan
health coverage in the private insur-
ance market.
The report also stated that the
United States could see an exponen-
tial increase in cases in the next five
years reaching 1980s levels.
Chicago ranks as the sixth biggest
load of cases in the nation.
Though it seems like a high rank,
the work of organizations like CH
can be credited with keeping the
has served more than 1,100 people
annually with services ranging
from basic HIV/AIDS testing and
residential programs that house
the homeless, who are typically
bankrupted by the medical fees, to
its new HIV/AIDS Employment
Initiative with Sweet Miss Giving’s
Bakery.
The partnership between CH and
the bakery, mediated by Harris Bank
as the title sponsor, provides both
a job program and source of funds
for the organization as more than
50 percent of the profits of Sweet
Miss Giving’s Bakery go back to the
people who call CH home.
The Chicago Grid March 22, 2010 •7
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Chick, p. 2
and software.
In the YouMedia lab, teens can
Creampuff, p. 2
browse social networks, mix digital MammaGamma, p. 3
music, share their art with others fan fiction and podcasting.
and attend free workshops on topics Visit www.youmediachicago.org The King and Queen, p. 4
from digital art and game design to for more information.
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 The Chicago Grid cordially invites you to the

Michael Jackson
Memorial Pub Crawl

1958-2009

7 p.m.-Midnight
Sat., June 26
Bars & admission TBA
Registration open soon. Visit thechicagogrid.com often for updates.