Whoa Tender: Two Weeks with Pipeworks

Whoa Tender: Two Weeks with Pipeworks whoatender: The corner of Wabansia & Western smells like beer, and Pipeworks is the reason. I had been biking past their warehouse when I saw eight people standing inside the loading dock, drinking and laughing. So I stopped and talked to the one who most closely resembled a brewer, … Read more

New York Red Bulls 0 – Chicago Fire 2: news roundup

Chicago Tribune: Fire move into 2nd place in East with 2-0 win The victory enabled the Fire to improve to 17-10-5 overall. They have 56 points, leaping over the Red Bulls (15-9-8, 53 points) into second place in the Eastern Conference standings. The win puts the Fire on the doorstep of clinching a berth in … Read more

Tribune nips Reader for best website

Tribune nips Reader for best website [Chicago Media Workshop] ranked the sites in various ways—for specialty news, hyperlocal news, arts and entertainment news, and for aggregated (as in, “we don’t report but we connect you to people who do”) news. But the best-in-show category would have to be “city-wide news sites,” and here the Reader … Read more