CHICAGO NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS - GOLD COAST, LINCOLN PARK, LOOP, NORWOOD PARK, OAK PARK
GOLD COAST
Bob Patrizi and Greg Levy are expanding their chain of
Halo [for Men] salons from three to six, despite the state of the economy.
"Everybody's going to need a haircut, and our clientele is people who are
doing well," Patrizi, Halo's owner said.
Hiis customers don't mind spending $45 for a styling with include
extras, such a scalp massages.
Building out the 3,000-square-foot Gold Coast space cost $175,000 in 2007. Male patrons can indulge in a movie, play a
game on the Wii or
read a magazine by the koi pond.
Click here to
read about future plans and locations.
LINCOLN PARK
Baking bread at home can be a most satisfying way to spend
an afternoon, especially when it is shared at mealtime or given as gifts for
friends or neighbors.
With just four major basic ingredients, yeast, water, flour and salt, how you
prepare it is key.
We've come up with a list of essential, simple home baking with
professional-like results. We asked
bread experts to share a few of their best tips for breadmaking.
Chef Laurent Gras along with his team bake up to seven different breads per day
for the dinner menu at Lincoln Park's
L20. His secret for creating
crisp-crusted, deeply colored loaves?
Click here to
read more.
LOOP
The Chicago Tribune recently
sought out bumper stickers throughout the Loop
and up and down the lakefront, and discovered that the vast majority of cars
did not display any.
Of the 1,050
vehicles examined in the quick survey, only 55 had at least one sticker. The bumpers on the
other 95 percent were bare.
Elsewhere there are
still a lot of bumper stickers. In Ohio, Jeremy Wallach, a
cultural anthropologist at Bowling
Green State University, says he still sees many
stickers promoting political candidates, but the numbers are declining.
Gill Studios Inc. based in a suburb of Kansas
City, Kansas, is the
facility where the modern bumper sticker was invented in the late 1940s. They continue to sell millions of stickers
each year, says chairman Mark Gilman.
Sales have dropped a bit. Even he
has noticed the lack of use of the stickers on bumpers.
Why has sticker usage on bumpers apparently dropped? No one seems to know for sure.
Click here for additional
information.
NORWOOD PARK
The
Norwood Park Train Station Foundation is asking hundreds of runners and walkers around Norwood Park's
Circle Avenue Oct. 25 to join in its annual 5K fundraiser for "Going in
Circles."
The event is scheduled
to step off at 11 a.m. from the intersection of Northcott and West Circle
avenues, rain or shine. The course will
have runners and walkers making three revolutions around the "track" and
will end where it began.
Last-minute
registrations are still available. The
registration fee is $20 if you register online ahead of time at www.runrace.net. The fee on the day of the race is $35.
There is no charge for children 11 years old or younger. Participating runners will receive a free
T-shirt upon payment.
Proceeds will benefit
the Norwood Park Train Station, which was originally built in 1907. A $1 million renovation project was completed
earlier this year, and the rehabilitated station was reopened. In addition to that, a portion of the money
collected will be donated to Breast Cancer Research.
Click here to get involved.
OAK PARK
In 1970, Jim Caron, a
1963 Fenwick High School grad, was traveling across
the country in a Volkswagen bus covered in peace symbols. It broke down in Missoula, Montana
and that is where he stayed. Later he
went on to found the Missoula Children's Theatre.
Thirty years later,
Pam Voth, a 1982 Oak Park-River Forest High School grad, left the corporate rat
race in San Francisco, California
and moved to Missoula
in order to seek a career in wildlife filmmaking.
The journeys of these
two former Oak Parkers have overlapped in a way that's charming audiences
across the country. Caron's children's
theatre is now the focus of the award-winning documentary "The Little Red
Truck," which was produced by Voth and is directed by her husband Rob
Whitehair.
"The Little Red Truck" has received
acclaim by both The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times for its warmth and
unbeatable storyline chronicling the work of the theatre.
Each year, Missoula Children's Theatre sends
out a fleet of red trucks into 1,200 communities. The trucks are packed with
everything needed to produce a professional musical in six days -- except a
cast of 50 children.
Click here to read to
read the article.
JENNIFER ARCAND & DEAN'S TEAM CHICAGO
