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Our Partners

1. BEER:  Half Acre (Chicago, IL) Visit Website

   We brew classic american micro styles, weighted barrel offerings, and wyld beers that traverse the landscape of mixed fermentation. Our aim is to brew technically raw beer for the collective odyssey.

2. BEER: Dovetail Brewery (Chicago, IL) Visit Website

   Dovetail merges continental European styles and techniques with American creativity to produce the kind of beers found in small, family-run breweries in Europe.

3. BEER: Off Color Brewing (Chicago, IL) Visit Website

   WE BREW BEER. SOMETIMES WE DO OTHER STUFF, BUT NOT AS WELL.

4. CIDER: Eris Brewery & Cider House (Chicago, IL) Visit Website

   Making beer, hard cider and a restaurant all under one roof in Chicago's Old Irving Park!

5. COFFEE: Dark Matter Coffee (Chicago, IL) Visit Website

   Dark Matter Coffee joins us again to keep us caffienated while we pore through the stacks, searching for that perfect record. In their words: "In a world driven by technology and science, we are the gravitational resistance rooted in skill and philosophy. An innovative culinary family fueled by community and passion to deliver the most intellectually honest coffee you will experience."

6. DJ Scary Lady Sarah (Chicago, IL) Visit Website

7. DJ Suzanne Shelton (Chicago, IL)

   Suzanne created Chicago's legendary Neo nightclub, playing punk and new wave. She was head DJ there 1979 - 1982, playing records from 9 PM to 4 AM four nights a week. She still plays vinyl for fun whenever she can.

8. FOOD: First Slice (Chicago, IL) Visit Website

   Sometimes you need to feed the soul. And sometimes feeding others salads of local greens and fresh tomatoes, maybe spinach-squash lasagna and chocolate-peanut butter pie does just that, especially for the cook. Just ask chef Mary Ellen Diaz whose desire to give back led her to create First Slice, a self-funded charity to feed the needy and homeless, more than a decade ago.

9. LIVE MUSIC: 8-bit crEEps (Chicago, IL) Visit Website

   A psych-wave quartet in a polygamist marriage with new-wave synths, fuzzed out guitars and big beats. New sounds from old circuits, for your daily bread and circus.

10. LIVE MUSIC: Axons (Chicago, IL) Visit Website

    Axons' new album, I Object to Everything, is inspired by the true story of how two federal prisoners escaped from the Metropolitan Correctional Center in downtown Chicago by rappelling 17 stories down the side of the building on ropes fashioned from braided bedsheets sewn together with dental floss in December 2012.

11. LIVE MUSIC: Bloodhype (Chicago, IL) Visit Website

    Hailing from Chicago, Bloodhype is the mostly-solo project of Maureen Neer. Made late at night when no one's listening.

12. LIVE MUSIC: Blue Ribbon Glee Club (Chicago, IL) Visit Website

13. LIVE MUSIC: Clamor & Lace Noise Brigade (Chicago, IL) Visit Website

    Clamor & Lace Noise Brigade is a glam marching band in Chicago, Illinois that is working to bring music written and/or performed by people of marginalized genders to the forefront of Chicago’s brass band scene.

14. LIVE MUSIC: Gal Gun (Chicago, IL) Visit Website

15. LIVE MUSIC: Judson Claiborne (Chicago, IL) Visit Website

    Judson Claiborne is the folk-rock music project of Chicago-based songwriter and DJ Christopher Claiborne Salveter. Raised in a Missouri river town-turned suburb, his earliest musical influences were oldies radio and MTV’s 120 Minutes. The Chicago indie record labels and bands of the late 90s beckoned him to relocate there in 2000. Soon after, he started the group Low Skies, who released four records and toured as the support act for Neko Case, Explosions in the Sky, and Band of Horses. Low Skies’ final record, All the Love I Could Find (2006) received an 8.1 on Pitchfork.

16. LIVE MUSIC: Neptune’s Core (Chicago, IL) Visit Website

    Neptune’s Core is a Chicago alternative indie rock band composed of two sets of sisters that write, arrange, and perform all their own original music.

17. LIVE MUSIC: The Purcells (Chicago, IL) Visit Website

18. Toast & Jam DJs (Chicago, IL) Visit Website

    Toast & Jam DJs specialize in making people dance by working closely with our clients to create customized playlists that reflect their tastes. We reject line dances, props and other gimmicks in favor of perfectly planned and well-timed soundtracks that appeal to every partygoer. That means no Hokey Pokey and no Chicken Dance. At Toast & Jam, we believe that a thoughtful mix of pop favorites, hip-hop bootyshakers, Motown classics and timeless standards are a fun and self-respecting alternative to those embarrassing and played-out dancefloor clichés.