Podcasts about Western Avenue

This episode of the Town of Brattleboro's podcast covers a regular Selectboard meeting held on May 20, 2025, recaps the Special Representative Town Meeting, and previews a brief, special meeting on May 30 and the next regular meeting on June 3. Show notes: May 20: Agenda, Watch Special RTM: Watch May 30: Agenda June 30: Agenda Apply to join a board or committee here. The Planning Department will be hosting a public forum regarding an intersection study on Western Avenue. 

We meet legendary artist Peter Berlin from his home in San Francisco. Peter Berlin (born Armin Hagen Freiherr von Hoyningen-Huene) is a photographer, artist, filmmaker, clothing designer, model, and gay icon. Berlin started taking self-portraits of himself in the 1970s. By modifying his clothes, choosing various props and settings, and sometimes using double-exposure to create a second image, Berlin would photograph himself in ways that create a hyper-sexualized, overtly masculine image.We explore Mariposa Gallery's inaugural Los Angeles exhibition featuring the groundbreaking photography, art, and personal artifacts of Peter Berlin, an artist who transformed queer self-representation and male eroticism in the 1970s and beyond. The exhibition set to open at 526 N. Western Avenue—in the heart of the Melrose Hill gallery district— is curated by actor and host of Talk Art, Russell Tovey, and will showcase Berlin's iconic self-portraits, unique painted photographs, and items from his personal archive including his own clothing designed by Berlin during his years as a self-styled gay icon. This is the first ever exhibition of Berlin's work in Los Angeles.The exhibition offers visitors a rare view into the life and work of an artist whose influence on LGBTQ+ aesthetics endures. Berlin, born Armin Hagen Freiherr von Hoyningen Huene in 1942, gained notoriety for his daring and meticulously crafted self-portraits, often taken in public spaces across Berlin, Paris, New York, and San Francisco. These images capture Berlin in his skin-tight costumes and signature pageboy haircut, boldly challenging the boundaries of masculinity and public identity.Berlin's focus on “cruising as career” drew him to create self-portraits that explored male sexuality and queer expression, which appeared on the covers of numerous gay publications, cementing his image as an international gay sex symbol. The exhibition will also feature selections from Berlin's '70s and '80s media presence, capturing the evolution of gay aesthetics in this era."Peter Berlin, the fearless and enigmatic, otherworldly icon of 1970s cruise culture, created work that resonates around the world—sparkling, searing, and blazing with vitality. His images burn with eternal desire, offering us the ultimate permission to stare. It's a privilege to share his groundbreaking art with new and familiar audiences alike. Peter Berlin remains a profoundly significant yet often overlooked figure in the history of art." - Russell ToveyBerlin's influence extended to film, including Nights in Black Leather (1973) and That Boy (1974), both now cult classics. A recent 2019 monograph on his work, Icon, Artist, Photosexual, highlights his impact, featuring insights from Michael Bullock, Evan Moffitt, and Ted Stansfield, each celebrating Berlin's singular contribution to queer art and culture. Mariposa Gallery invites the public to step into Berlin's world and experience the legacy of an artist who, through bold self-exploration and defiant artistry, redefined eroticism and individuality in the queer community.Materials on loan from the Peter Berlin Collection courtesy of Armin Hagen von Hoyningen-Huene and with guidance from Gerard Koskovich, the historian and dealer offering the collection for institutional acquisition. For more information, visit www.abaa.org/booksellers/details/gerard-koskovich-queer-antiquarian-books.Follow @PeterBerlinSF and @Mariposa.DriveVisit: https://www.mariposa.gallery/berlin Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Perry didn’t think he’d ever be free from porn as a teen. But there came a day on a sunny, summer afternoon driving down Western Avenue in Cheboygan that he realized he was free. And the freedom didn’t come trying harder. Shawna admits, “All my life I’ve believed the lie, ‘You need more.’ More clothes, more education, more clicks, more follows, more wins.” But she’s finding a way out of the tyranny of this lie! Then, don’t lose heart! And how that’s possible when it’s so hard. Next, Perry’s always looking for open doors to share Jesus. And just this past Sunday a door opened wide and he fell flat on this face. Last, Perry, Shawna, and Ben had a moment in the studio as the first song out the gate was Engedi Music’s “Glory.” No one took off their headphones as the Spirit poured living water into their thirsty hearts.Donate to Moody Radio: http://moodyradio.org/donateto/morningshow/wgnbSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode, Abby is joined by Chicago aldermen Matt Martin and Andre Vasquez to discusses the Western Avenue corridor study, one of the most ambitious planning efforts Chicago has seen in decades. It includes widespread rezoning reform, and it also addresses affordable housing, economic vitality and transit efficiency. The aldermen share their approach to rezoning, emphasizing the importance of a community-first approach. ADDITIONAL SHOW NOTES “Let's fix Western Avenue and make Chicago stronger” by Aaron Feldman, Chicago Tribune (June 2024). There are 6 easy code reforms that city officials can use to bring more housing to their communities. We will release a toolkit to help you implement these changes in February 2025. Get a sneak peek here and join our mailing list to be notified when this resource is available. Abby Newsham (X/Twitter). Theme Music by Kemet the Phantom.

Welcome a new business located along Western Avenue at The Plaza: Club Pilates! We're learning about their style of classes and why you should consider their group workouts. We also visit OSF Little Company of Mary to talk about hospice care. It isn't what you think, and they're leading their field bringing the best to your loved ones. Brought to you by The First National Bank of Evergreen Park!  Find the account that is right for you today! Get the latest news and information concerning everything going on in and around Evergreen Park and stay connected to your neighbors! Evergreen Park residents join Chris Lanuti at his 9-foot homemade basement bar each week. Listen, interact & get all of your free subscription options at theEPpodcast.com​!

#305:  What's the deal with the new mural on Western Avenue? A man holding a flowerpot crawling out of the sky?  That's performance artist Pope L., inviting folks into the new, permanent home of the non-profit formerly known as LAX Art. They've rebranded as The Brick, and their new brick and mortar gallery and exhibition space is formally opening in September. How To LA host Brian de los Santos spoke with artistic director Hamza Walker, and artists in the 3B Collective, to get the scoop on what this space means for contemporary art in L.A.  For more on the artists mentioned: Pope L.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0N7OnQkch7s 3B Collective: https://www.craftcontemporary.org/exhibitions/highway-hypnosis/   Guests: Hamza Walker, the 3B collective

The Bishop Dudley Hospitality House is known to serve as a day and overnight shelter for those in need. Their mission is to serve others and help them get back on their feet. They are at capacity every single night. That's why they are embarking on a new journey and opening a new facility for families at 409 N. Western Avenue in Sioux Falls. Their goal is to have the new family location open by the start of school in 2024. Madeline Shields of BDHH joins the show to tell us about the project and how to donate. Visit bdhh.org for more information about the new building, volunteer opportunities, and how you can donate to the new project.

A college senior applies for internship & tours state of the art Fertility Clinic.By thomas_dean. Subscribe & listen to the Podcast at Steamy Stories. The Western Fertility Clinic:Chapter 1: The Intern.Moving around the examination room naked to keep from shivering, I studied the anatomical illustrations on the wall. "Ms. Warbler," Nurse Rhonda Chafer, a tall, broad shouldered woman in scrubs filled the doorway, "Doctor, will be with you presently." When I pointed to the bundle of clothes in her hands, she assured me, "your clothes will be returned at the end of your tour of the facility."Clothes removed for a perfunctory examination by the nurse, I now awaited Dr. Velour, the operator of a fertility clinic. I had applied for an internship to complete coursework for my degree in Industrial Psychology.The hardboiled female nurse; had her arms cradling the bundle of my street clothing. She apologized for leaving me, "in an unclothed condition." She took a breath. "Ms. Warbler, unfortunately, we're short on those disposable hospital gowns at the moment. They're reserved for patients. Try to make yourself," she paused with as smirk, "as comfortable as possible."I chuckled and replied; "I was sent here as a prospective intern for my college research paper in Industrial Psychology and end up politely plucked of my plumage and palpitating," I made light of my situation.Once Nurse Chafer left the room, I studied the images on the wall which depicted a naked blond woman, smiling as she rubbed her belly through various stages of pregnancy designed to demonstrate the expanding belly and burgeoning breasts.Instinctively, I turned around. A short woman, youngish for a doctor, Eda Velour, smiling pleasantly, arms crossed over her lab coat, stood silently by, observing me. "That's what we do here. We make women who can't or won't manage it the natural way for some reason or another, pregnant. Their reasons would make a fascinating study for your project. Wouldn't it?"In my initial interview with Dr. Velour before the physical, I had been advised, "The clinic has certain privacy and proprietary concerns," Dr. Velour aggressively leaned forward to forcefully assert, "primarily to protect our clientele, but also to protect the business. Virile men, mostly young, college age, many just boys your age; possibly you've seen them about the campus, come here to donate sperm; nubile women come here to be impregnated. You would have to sign a confidentiality agreement, like every employee. In your case, you must surrender editorial control over the contents of your paper."Beginning her examination, Dr. Velour read from her electronic notebook. "Amy Warbler, age 22, Female, Heterosexual, in a relationship, sex 3 or 4 times a week," Dr. Velour looked up, paused to shoot me an evil smile and snickered, "lucky girl. Birth control, preferred position woman on top," the Doctor raised her penciled-in eyebrows noting, "position resolved by wrestling? You may take advantage of our gymnasium to limber up."Gymnasium? I wondered. Where does Dr. Velour hide it? From the street, the clinic appeared to be located in a simple store front."Yes," Dr. Velour commented, "A hearty work out would do you good before you engage in your next round of the battle of the sexes with your partner.""Good exercise, indeed!" I declared. The enthusiasm of my response drew a delayed reaction of momentary shock and amusement when I added, "Jerry likes a stiff challenge.""You're here to study Industrial Psychology up close in a people intensive industry," Dr. Velour, belatedly reacting to my double  entendre with a strained smile, noted."Like you said," I replied with a chuckle, "this business produces people. The women pay to get pregnant. Understanding their motivations could be an important factor in recruiting new business.""Indeed," Dr. Velour agreed. "Can I ask what interested you in performing your internship requirement through the Western Fertility Clinic?""Your Facility," I advised her, "is strategically located between my off-campus apartment and the campus, and within walking distance of both.""Indeed, the role of convenience in making choices, even in the weighty matters of life, boils down to the old saw: location, location, location." Dr. Velour shot me a pleasant smile. "Ok, Nurse Chafer took all the lab work and took your vitals," Dr. Velour, looking down at her electronic notepad, reminded me, "Now, let's get to work. My style of internal examination is different from those you might have experienced." After a pause, Dr. Velour ordered, "Turn around, feet apart, bend at the waist. Nurse lubricated your anal cavity to take a rectal temperature. Just to make things go smoothly," Dr. Velour, a glistening smile sprouting, paused, "I'm going to do it again."I sighed as I steeled myself to send my mind somewhere else. "Despite powerful hands," I, turning my back to the Doctor, recounted, "Nurse Chafer administered a gentle massage with considerable patience." I took a deep breath as my bare feet were gently pushed further apart by a gentle nudge from Dr. Velour's sneakers.I grunted as Dr. Velour announced that "I am conducting a bimanual internal examination of the anal and vaginal cavities." Reflexively, I gasped as I bucked up against her penetrating thumb and fingers."I'm going to," Dr. Velour, leaning over me, implanting her breasts into my back, advised, "palpate your lower abdomen for signs of ovarian, renal or intestinal abnormalities."Hmm, my mind brought me to rolling on the floor with Jerry. When emerging on top, Jerry held me face down for doggy style penetration. Jerry's hands would reach across my belly. "I'm feeling for my cock," he'd whisper, "to jerk myself off inside you."Much like Jerry making love, Dr. Velour, examining me, sent nimble fingers across my pubis. Both hands met inside me long enough to vigorously tease my clit. My breathing became rapid. I ground my ass against her intruding fingers while I softly murmured, "fuck me."I tended to me much louder while I pumped Jerry for his man sap."There," Dr. Velour retracted her fingers slowly softly caressing my clit and vaginal lips on the way out, out, "that didn't hurt a bit. If you're ready for your tour, I'll have the nurse escort you to the employee showers.""Clothes?" I reminded Dr. Velour by holding my hands away from my hips to display my bare body.She promised that "Nurse should see to clothing," I waited for what seemed to be an eternity until the nurse tapped on the door and entered."Ready?" When I requested my clothing, Nurse Chafer touched her notebook and a hidden door behind one of the anatomical charts opened. Though a passageway, we found ourselves upon a steel grated catwalk illuminated by light bulbs dangling from a wire. "First showers," the nurse, pointing to the catwalk, ordered, "shall we go?" Noting my surprise, the nurse added, "Back stage."I sighed when my bare feet touched the steel grid. The nurse chuckling, pointing to either end of the building, "This is called the walk of shame. It connects the lockers with the showers. The fertility clinic is a sterile environment. Employees shower with an antibacterial soap before and after work and in migrating between different zones."Biting my lip, I wondered what had propelled my bare feet forward onto the cold steel grid of the catwalk? Momentarily pausing to look over the rail, I was shocked to see immediately below me the overhead lighting structure for a swimming pool and gym. I looked at my escort in confusion. The clinic's frontage on Western Avenue gave no clue of such an extensive underground operation. Was this an athletic club or a fertility clinic?Nurse Chafer, placing a heavy hand on my shoulder and peering over the rail, noted, "one of the perks offered to the sperm donors, free gymnasium. Some employees use it in their free time. Males exercise with an athletic supporter; swim nude. Females are issued a two-piece.""And genetic male employees who identify as female," I prodded. "Must trans-men wear the jock strap in the gym and swim nude?""The issue of trans-men in the gym has yet to arise," came the curt reply. "Any second thoughts?" the Nurse asked with an evil grin.I sighed. "Going forward isn't solely a question of having already pliantly complied this far. I need this internship to graduate. The incentive of a paycheck is sufficient to endure," I grimaced, "unusual conditions."A bright light, reflecting off glistening tiled walls, shining at the end of the catwalk, marked the showers. "With pressure from local human rights commission upon all employers to provide equality for trans-men," Nurse Chafer explained as we proceeded to the shower. "We don't provide separate lockers or showers for employees reporting in. New employees can be eh; uneasy in the beginning. It wears off."Chuckling at her "interesting choice of words," I suggested, "Guys standing there, drooling at girls; like the silliness in junior high school gym classes.""Some older employees have had more difficulty adjusting," Nurse Chafer positioned me under a spigot, instructing "Stand there." Moving out of the way, the nurse added, "but in this business, we're looking at naked males getting jerked off by a machine and nude females getting eh, stimulated eh, pre-insemination; all day long. Otherwise," the nurse added as soapy water rained down on me, "functional nudity for the coed shower seems ordinary enough."As I toweled off, the nurse handed me a two piece and white athletic socks and sneakers. Holding up top and bottom in front of me and stretching the thong, I remarked, "less than one pass of the shuttle didn't leave much fabric."While I stepped into the thong, the nurse commented, "One size fits all! You'll find the material is very pliable. It expands," she explained while I took a breath to pull the top over my boobs, "to fit most figures."From the employee showers, I was led into the donor's showers where the nurse waived to Alison, a barefoot woman in a skin-tight pastel bikini before we passed down a ramp into the gym. As we passed under the level of the gym's overhead lights, I went blind for a second."You'll get used to it," Nurse Chafer smiled. At the white tiled, gym level we came past three offices. At the first office, the door was closed. The blinds over glass window in the door and the wall were shuttered. The nurse noted, "Dr. Velour's and Dr. Stroker's private office." A smaller office's door was open. "This would be your office. You keep your notes and prepare your paper here. Nothing leaves the building."In the next office, blond-haired Greta, the manager of the gym, rose, muscular thighs flexed, to greet us. "Nurse Chafer, is this our new intern?"Strong arms gripping me, Greta explained, "the gym is a perk for our hearty stallions for a time left unbridled to work off frustration. Employees may workout in their spare time.""Do many employees take advantage of the gym?" I asked."Out of two dozen regular employees," Greta advised, "only two or three, mostly men participate in off duty gymnastic exercise and swimming. What keeps more men on staff away, surprisingly is the nudity. Like patient and donors, to enter the pool, male staff must have body hair depilated. Female patients and employees are welcome but only an occasional woman other than myself or Dr. Velour takes advantage.""Naturally, I suppose. While I'm on the cleaning crew, I suppose I will be working down here, occasionally," I responded."You will be given an hour to record your observations," Greta noted, "and to go over your findings with me or Dr. Velour." Holding her arm out toward the gym, "Shall we tour our state of the art gym?"After a tour of the nicely shined exercise machinery, Greta, taking a few minutes to work dead lifting weights, questioned me, "How much iron do you suppose you can pump?"Transfixed by her powerful deltoids and biceps, I, when prompted, replied, "I never tested myself.""On janitorial staff, you'll have to lift some heavy weights," Greta, spoke without hesitating between reps, "Spend some time working out here. Now, nothing like the pool." Greta stripped off her running shorts and cotton T shirt, revealing a firm body, not an ounce of fat. "Join me," she invited.Nurse Chafer nodded to me to join Greta in the pool. Her glance, searing through the two piece, told me to swim nude. I managed two or three laps. I was standing on the deck covered in a towel shivering with my arms crossed, when Greta triumphantly raised her arms.Leaping out of the pool, Greta did some cartwheels on the deck. Wishing me well with a hug on my project here, Greta assured me, "We'll have some fun together." Palpitating my boobs, Greta whispered, "We'll harden your boobs, firm up that jelly belly and," with a playful whack on the butt, Greta declared, "tighten those muscles of that fleshy derriere!"Back in the shower, rinsing off, I was reminded by Nurse Chafer that in a sterile facility, a shower was required to move between different sections. As I toweled off, I accused Nurse Chafer of "just enjoying watching me naked.""I'm a nurse," Nurse Chafer retorted, "that's my privilege." Throwing me a smock, a thong, loose pantaloons, booties and hood—all a subdued light grey, Chafer noted, "it's a unisex cleaners' uniform."Informed me that the pants were optional, I tossed the pants back. "Jerry and I may wrestle for top position, but still Jerry prefers me to be 100% female. He wears the pants—because I say so."Reflectively, the nurse observed, "Your choice. Employees have a legal right to decide to determine a gender identity.""I've wondered how that works. Suppose a trans-man wants to be impregnated," I, throwing the grey smock over my head, asked, "or a FTM, female-to-male wants to donate sperm?"With a chuckle, the nurse paused to contemplate before formulating her response, "I leave it to the doctors to decide how to deal with the situation in which legal requirements come up against biological impossibility. Perhaps," the nurse's voice turned cheery, "you may play an important role: providing assistance, eh, coming with resolutions, eh, in rummaging through such; er, novel questions."From the employee showers, I was once again in the donor's showers where the nurse waived to Alison, a barefoot woman in that pastel bikini before we passed into male treatment rooms."Generally," the nurse explained, "cleaning in the AM begins here at 5AM. Males are depositing bodily secretions into the treatment rooms from 6AM onward. To prevent spread of disease, each room must be antiseptically cleaned before we open at 6 am and after each use." Escorting me behind the treatment rooms to an observation booth, the nurse suggested, "Let`s, take a peek. Shall we?"A flick of a switch rendered the wall transparent. On the other side of the wall a male was laying face down on a workout bench, muscles tensed, ass burnished red, legs spread across the bench, a darkened face shield enshrouded his head."It's very different from the classical sperm donation clinic," the nurse observed, "Ya know, the places where guys came in to jerk themselves off to pornographic pictures. Here the conditions replicate not only the mechanics of intercourse but also create the warmth of intimacy.""How do you replicate the physical conditions of intercourse?" I asked."The male is comfortably placed, in a sexual position of his choice," Nurse Chafer explained.” Here the male is lying face down; his genitalia is inserted in a sleeve, a thin pouch which is plugged," the nurse lifted her eyebrows and smiled in self-conceit, "into device which simulates the moist warmth and viscosity of a woman's orifice. The machine`s pulsations draw sympathetic responses in the male organs precipitating male orgasm yielding ejaculate.""And the opaque blinder?" I questioned, "aren't men very visual in arousal?""What you call `the blinder' is really a screen which creates a virtual reality either from stock footage or from an original production."

A Northfield man is in stable condition after being struck this weekend by a vehicle while on his bicycle in an intersection in Faribault.  On Sunday night, the Faribault Police Department reported at approximately 7:30 they were dispatched to a car vs. bicyclist injury accident at the intersection of Western Avenue and Highway 60, after […]

ResourceCheck Out Brit PropertiesReal Estate Marketing DudeThe Listing Advocate (Earn more listings!)REMD on YouTubeREMD on InstagramTranscript:So how do you attract new business? You constantly don't have to chase it. Hi, I'm Mike Webster, Real Estate Marketing Dave. And this podcast is all about building a strong personal brand. People have come to know like trust and most importantly, refer. But remember, it is not their job to remember what you do for a living. It's your job to remind them, Let's get started.00:06:09:10 - 00:06:30:05UnknownWhat's up? Ladies and gentlemen, welcome. Another episode of the Marketing Dude podcast. Folks, if you've been following last few weeks, the name of the game right now is thinking outside the box and doing things a little bit differently and opening your eyes to new things. There's lawsuits, there's all kinds of shit going on in the real estate industry, and whenever there's turmoil like this, there's also a lot of opportunity.00:06:30:05 - 00:06:45:19UnknownBut you have to be able to see it and take advantage of it because it's during the shifts that the people from nowhere make big names from themselves, and the ones who are big names end up drowning. And I like to bring a lot of different perspectives onto the show. So I don't know. This guy is from Chicago.00:06:45:20 - 00:07:06:18UnknownThis is two Chicago people in a row. So you're welcome. There's a reason why we're fucking awesome. It's because we work hard. Unlike the people in California. No offense taken. No, we're there. We're going to go out and introduce our guests today. We're going to be talking about industrial real estate, industrial investing. It's much different than what we've typically talked about.00:07:06:18 - 00:07:23:15UnknownDon't think we've ever had this on the show. So I'm excited to see where the conversation takes us today. So without further ado, let's go out and introduce our guests. Mr. Joel, Fred Friedman. FRIEDMAN How do I want to say it? Friedland. Friedland okay, I'm all right. Sorry. I did see the land at the end. Well, how are you doing it?00:07:23:15 - 00:07:43:16UnknownSay hello and now tell us a little bit about yourself. Sure. So I live in Chicago. I grew up in a suburb of Chicago called Highland Park. And when I was 22 years old, I graduated from the University of Michigan, by the way, two years there and before that, two years at San Diego State. So I love San Diego, where you live.00:07:43:18 - 00:08:11:06UnknownCongratulations on your championship. Thank you. Thank you. Big deal. Yeah. Yeah, it was awesome. So right after graduating, I wanted to get into real estate and I thought, I'm going to get into residential real estate because that's what I do. And a friend of mine introduced me to a family that owned a business called Podolski Podolski Family, and they owned 84 industrial buildings and we're looking for a leasing agent.00:08:11:08 - 00:08:39:13UnknownSo and a property manager. So I interviewed them on a Thursday and I started on Friday. And because I was, I think, a pretty good interviewer. Interviewee they hired me right away and said in 1981 interest rates were 17%. They had 84 buildings, ten of them were vacant, and they wanted me to figure out how to do the lease up of their vacant industrial buildings.00:08:39:13 - 00:09:08:21UnknownFirst of all, you have to understand what an industrial building is. An industrial building is is usually in the way they have industrial parks in every city and every town has them. In Chicago, there were 16,000 industrial buildings, but most people never even heard of it. An industrial is where warehousing takes place and distribution. So for today, the famous industrial tenant is Amazon.00:09:08:23 - 00:09:47:01UnknownAnd but every store has a warehouse. Every chain, every restaurant chain has a warehouse. And then there's manufacturing where every product if you look around in the background here at this place, everything the back in my background was made in an industrial building, manufactured or assembled. Your headphones, your hat, your microphone, your shirt, the computer, everything. An industrial, therefore, is really the backbone of the American economy as far as supply chain, logistics and creation of products.00:09:47:03 - 00:10:08:18UnknownI knew nothing about it. So it started out as an industrial real estate agent. I didn't even have a license. Did you ever need one then? In 81. yeah. yeah. And the Podolsky said, You need to go get a license. You're going to act as a broker. We're not going to tell anybody. I think the statute of limitations is up from 42 years ago.00:10:08:20 - 00:10:32:09UnknownSo you're you're saying about a license. We're going to find out if you're even worthy of backing you and having you go out and get a license. So we're going to see what you can do. So Mr. Podolsky, Steve Podolsky, who was my mentor, told me to get in my car and drive to industrial parks and look around and figure out what industrial is.00:10:32:11 - 00:10:56:21UnknownAnd it was summertime and the weather was beautiful and I knew they had vacant buildings. So I drove to a town where they had a number of vacancies called Schiller Park. Where Airport? Yeah, I parked my car on the street in an industrial park and I just started going door to door to companies like big companies where they have 30 employees or 50 or 100 employees.00:10:56:23 - 00:11:19:05UnknownAnd I walked door to door into each building and I'd walk in. And at that time there were receptionists. There's always a receptionist. They were the people who answered the phone and greeted people. And I'd walk up to the receptionist and I'd say, Who do I talk to about whether you guys might want to move your company to a building that's available a block away?00:11:19:07 - 00:11:46:01UnknownAnd I had a stack of fliers with me that had the pictures of the buildings and all the specifications, and by doing that, I actually found tenants who were looking to move. It was a really rough time though. In 1991, there was a really bad recession. It was similar to how it felt in 2008. Yeah, real bad. And people who aren't as old as I am don't remember that because they weren't there.00:11:46:03 - 00:12:12:01UnknownAnd then there was another recession, by the way, in the early 1990s, 1990 and 1991. So I've been through these cycles and I learned that when that first job, that when things are bad, you have to work harder. You have to talk to more people and you have to find more opportunities by just having total perseverance. And after being an agent for the Podolski, I became a tenant rep and a buyer rep.00:12:12:01 - 00:12:50:21UnknownAs a broker. I got my license and I represented tenants. I had some really interesting tenants that made products that, you know of that are out there, your microphone. Is that a Sure this is an idea actually, it's such a good question. I think this the at 2100 is the one I originally had, but I bought new one same model or not also sure sure as a microphone company and I'd say they they take they're a major part of the microphone market and I call on them because they were in Niles, Illinois, and that's where one of the Podolski buildings that was vacant was located.00:12:50:23 - 00:13:09:10UnknownAnd I actually stopped in and I talked to them and I said, Hey, how would you like to move to the warehouse That's about four doors away? And they threw me out. Yeah, I got thrown out of a lot of places. I one place I walked in and there was no reception. So it's just this guy chomping on a cigar at the desk by the front door.00:13:09:10 - 00:13:51:05UnknownAnd I said, Hi, I'm here to see if you might consider moving. He says, Go buy, get out. Yeah, there was a lot of that. So I was just I was a perseverance machine as an agent. And then about nine or ten years in, I decided it was time. Maybe to start investing in industrial real estate. So I put together a syndication, my first one and I raised $560,000 and $20,000 chunks from people that I knew from my family locally, from building relationships with clients who were tenants and owners of companies.00:13:51:07 - 00:14:16:16UnknownAnd we did the first deal, we did the second deal, and now we've done 100 industrial real estate acquisitions. So syndication, what would you say would be the pros and cons to it as opposed to syndicating multifamily? Because I know a lot of a lot of people are very familiar with, if you're not familiar syndicator, multifamily goes watch like 20 shows on this podcast or just just look at Grant Carter like it's all over the place, right?00:14:16:18 - 00:14:41:24UnknownSo what's the difference between in Yeah, walk us through the pros and cons like why industrial over multifamily? Because I would, I think the email is this or is this like the the sleeper cell here because everyone saying, industrial office like people are commercial real estate investing sounds scary right now in the general public. So industrial is the hottest asset class in real estate right now.00:14:42:01 - 00:15:13:16UnknownAnd the reason is because the Internet has caused a need for warehouses, because every time a store sends a warehouse opens. Also, there's a lot of political trouble with China and a lot of products are made in China for American companies and companies who struggled with supply chain issues during COVID and still are. And some of the problems between the United States government, the Chinese government, because we're mad at them for stealing our stuff, Right.00:15:13:18 - 00:15:39:13UnknownAnd for not playing fair. A lot of companies that used to make products in China are now bringing it back to North America, and that's called reshoring. So the two trends, the Internet and reshoring have made industrial the hottest. And it's interesting you say that, cause I just spent a week in Chicago for Christmas and my folks live on the South Side near Joliet and Crest Hill, Romeo Ville area.00:15:39:15 - 00:15:59:00UnknownAnd literally since the last time I've been home to the time I was there, I can't tell you the amount of warehouses from Amazon Target just moved in on Weber Road. Well, Wayfair is right there. Like there's just a tremendous amount of warehouses and they're not very expensive to build. So just like a big vanilla box essentially. And then there's a big box.00:15:59:00 - 00:16:19:00UnknownThey're big boxes, they have little boxes, they have tall boxes, they have short boxes. Some of them have a lot of loading docks for trucks. Some of them just have a few loading docks. Some have a lot of office on one end. Some have almost no office in the middle or on the end. But here's what's great about industrial that people don't know.00:16:19:02 - 00:16:47:19UnknownAnd I'm not trying to say, Hey, everyone get involved in my business. But when people hear this, they really like it. The cap rates are higher because everyone's in residential. So the competition in terms of demand or investments in multiple family, you can find thousands of people who do multifamily work. And if you look at every podcast, there's only three or four industrial podcasts.00:16:47:21 - 00:17:11:06UnknownYeah, I get I get pitched for like real estate investors for this show. Like I get like three a week. It's nonstop is just like a guru every like minute, like popping up. Yeah. So the yields on multifamily because everybody's cramming in and there's too many people in it are running somewhere in the neighborhood. It's been is depending on whether it's on the coasts or whether it's somewhere in the middle of the country or whether it's Nashville.00:17:11:08 - 00:17:44:24UnknownYeah, but the yields, if you invest in a multifamily deal or anywhere between five and six and a half percent and in my industrial deals, I wouldn't take less than 8% of my life depended on it. I'm not interested in that. And there's a reason for that. It's because it's riskier. Usually we buy single tenant buildings. If you have a multi family complex with 300 units and you have ten vacancies in a month, you still can pay your mortgage.00:17:45:01 - 00:18:09:17UnknownWell, we'll get into mortgages because that may not be true as rates have gone up, but there's less risk because there's diversification inside of that one investment with industrial, if I have a tenant and let me give you an example. Comcast was a tenant in one of my warehouses. They have to keep their equipment somewhere and the cable guys have to pick stuff up and they have to drop stuff off at a place to park their vans.00:18:09:19 - 00:18:37:16UnknownSingle tenant If Comcast leaves, I'm 100% vacant, but in the meantime, we own that building for 15 years, and by the 15th year our return was 32% yield per year because it went up every year. That's the other thing about industrial. We have generally built in escalations every year. And here's the third thing. That's that's maybe the best.00:18:37:18 - 00:19:03:01UnknownWe love manufacturing buildings. We love buildings where people have equipment and they put racks up. They can't leave. I was going to say it's like golden handcuffs. It's expensive to leave once you do it. Yeah, they can't go once once they're in, especially manufacturers, because they bring in, let's say, 30 machines into a 30,000 foot building and it might cost $50,000 per machine to move.00:19:03:01 - 00:19:32:07UnknownIt would cost over at least to move. So they just stay and stay and stay. So you've got higher returns. You've got automatic annual escalations, you've got this long term type of tenant. And one of the great things also about industrial is they're really easy to manage. So if you're if you have 100 units, yeah, no one's calling you, no one's calling you to unclog a toilet.00:19:32:07 - 00:19:53:14UnknownThey're no we have what's called now. That's right. What's called net leases and net lease is where the tenant pays everything. It's what I say to a tenant when they walk into one of our buildings, the potential new tenant, and they say, What are we responsible for? My answer is this It's very clear. It's as if you own the building, except you don't own it.00:19:53:14 - 00:20:16:05UnknownYou pay rent instead of owning it. And what I'm saving you is not having to invest the down payment. It's our money that's invested and you don't have to get a mortgage and you don't have to worry about paying all the the things that are behind the scenes that I do. But you pay for the mowing the lawn, you pay for the trimming of the bushes, you pay for the parking lot to be maintained.00:20:16:05 - 00:20:38:24UnknownIf it's Chicago, you pay the snow removal, you pay the taxes, you pay the insurance, you pay the plumbing problems. Everything sounds like a pretty damn good deal for a landlord. It is. So we love being an industrial landlord because our tenants pay everything. So, you know, it's it's the best kept secret. That's not a secret is an industrial is a fantastic asset class.00:20:39:01 - 00:21:09:23UnknownBut the reason that it's difficult is because individuals are afraid to invest in either a 100% occupied or a 100% vacant building. That's why so many syndicators do multifamily, as opposed to what I imagine the acquisition strategy is going to be a little bit different in in in industrial versus multifamily. So if I was if I were syndicating multifamily, I'm looking for value highest and best, something that's partially occupied probably right.00:21:10:00 - 00:21:26:24UnknownI could go in there, still have some cash flow, fix up some of the places and then increase the cash flow over time and then, you know, stabilize it and then exit in five years or so. What would you it sounds like an industrial. Are you already having the tenant located before you go out and invest? This is first one.00:21:26:24 - 00:21:46:02UnknownAs a personal investor, do you have your tenant located before you go out and buy the industrial building? They're going to lease first because that seems super safe. If that's the case, yeah, I've got a really strange niche. This is the most bizarre thing you ever heard because this is sort of like you're being a a voyeur in someone's conversation about something that really happens.00:21:46:02 - 00:22:17:09UnknownThe background that nobody knows about unless they're wealthy families, own businesses. The reason is Grandpa started the business like I've got a company that makes fruit juice concentrate in two of my buildings in Chicago, right on the Chicago River at Belmont Avenue, very close to Western Avenue now, right here, That's a it's a beautiful location on the river where one day we think the industrial buildings will be torn down and maybe, Yeah, it's going to be all lofts.00:22:17:11 - 00:22:41:08UnknownYeah. Condos overlooking the river with a water feature. Right. I actually had a lot of listings at 2911 Northwestern, and that's like the only loft building on the river. I know exactly what you're talking about. It's such a beautiful location, and the tenant's been there since the 1990s. But let me explain what happens. Grandpa was in the fruit juice business in Melrose Park with his brother.00:22:41:10 - 00:23:15:11UnknownThe brothers had a fight, so they sold the business to get rid of each other. And Grandpa went and started a new business doing the same thing that he knew how to do, which was make fruit juice concentrate. The first company was called home Juice Company, very big company, and they're still around. But this family sold it. The grandpa and the son and the daughters started a new fruit juice company in Chicago near where they lived and built it up in a nine years.00:23:15:11 - 00:23:43:06UnknownThey sold it to the Rockefeller and the Mellon family that had a private equity group out of New York. So they sold that for millions of dollars. But the building was still there and the family still owned the building and the private equity company didn't want the real estate. They hate real estate. They only like operating companies that they can throw some fairy dust and fix them up and hire some people and make some profits and then sell it again.00:23:43:08 - 00:24:18:09UnknownSo this private equity group bought it from Grandpa and the kids. And what happened next was even more fascinating. The company that bought their company sold their company to a group called Hutchins, which is a conglomerate that owns 400 stores and seven companies. But who's the landlord? The family is still the landlord. So grandpa dies. Now it's the widowed wife, smart, and the three kids and they want to get rid of the building and get rid of each other.00:24:18:10 - 00:24:48:11UnknownThey no longer want to be tied together after all these years. So I find families that used to own the business, that now own the building where the tenant who's in there is the company that they started and don't own. Wow. It's a crazy niche. Yeah, I'm buying a building right now from a family who started a business that makes telephone emergency telephone posts.00:24:48:13 - 00:25:13:16UnknownYou ever go and university campuses and garages? Yeah, Like the little yellow phone. Yeah. So it's called Top of phone. It was started by Grandpa. The kids never went into business. Grandpa had a partner. The partner had no kids in the business. So the two older guys in their seventies and eighties sold the business to a private equity group.00:25:13:22 - 00:25:40:09UnknownAnd now the family's on the property and they want to get rid of it and no longer be partners with each other. So let me ask you a question on that. That's interesting and I just want you guys listening. Just the principle he just outlined will apply to anything. It's not just like industrial, like, you know, he's developed a niche and I'm guessing you developed that type of you figured out who that avatar was probably after you bought your fifth or eighth building or something, you're probably like, Wait, hold on a second.00:25:40:09 - 00:25:55:08UnknownLike, you're realizing that, right? And it's no differently for you guys. Like look at your own last five closings. You had your last five listings. Where are they coming from? Because people don't double down ever. They never focus in because we're like squirrels, right? Everybody just goes. We cast a wide net because we think we should be relating to everybody.00:25:55:08 - 00:26:19:00UnknownBut the riches are always in the niches, aren't they? Yeah. And Chicago, because we've got 1.5 billion square feet. It's a gigantic market. Yeah, it's, it's centralized. So we have, you know, we have rail, we have highways running everywhere. So it's in the middle of the country. So every industrial company has to be here and wants to be here in Chicago.00:26:19:02 - 00:26:47:06UnknownAnd so our niches laser focus only on Chicago, knowing the market inside out, knowing the tenants, knowing the building owners and knowing all the industrial brokers. There's 300 industrial brokers in the Chicago area. And that's a lot. That's a lot. And all of them are experts and most of them are fantastic. And so they give us all of our data, our information, because they're in the market every single day.00:26:47:06 - 00:27:27:14UnknownSo we talk to the brokers every day. And what we do that's really bizarre is we buy these buildings all cash and no mortgage. So it's it's different. You syndicate every building you purchase. Is everything always syndicated? Are you buying up your own funds now? Yeah. Yeah. And three out of every four are no debt. And the reason that we do no debt is because I've been through the cycles and right now I have friends who are being so badly hurt by what's happened with interest rates at some floating rate debt and they have locked in rates yet and now the rates are super high and tenants during COVID, if it was not an A00:27:27:14 - 00:27:47:12Unknownproperty, if it was a B minus or a C property, tenants couldn't pay and then they told their neighbors they weren't paying and then the neighbors didn't pay rent. And so then 20% of all the tenants are paying rent, plus rents aren't going up, plus the mortgage doesn't make sense and it comes up for refinancing and so debt kills.00:27:47:12 - 00:28:12:23UnknownBut listen, there's two things about debt. Either you become rich because you use debt when your timing's good, when rates are low and when cap rates keep going down. But when cap rates go up, interest rates go up, Refinancing difficult. Having debt can be you know, I say debt of debt is death. Debt is death when things go against you.00:28:13:00 - 00:28:34:07UnknownHowever, when it goes for you and in it, you happen to be in a lucky period where debt works, you get rich. So like look at the rate which are 2% in the last market. If you got it, would you do it at a 2% rate? No, I would not go cash. What would be your look? What are the costs of maintenance for an industrial building?00:28:34:07 - 00:28:59:07UnknownLike if you have a debt free, what's your what's your liability there? What's your exposure. Ten. It pays at all. Yeah. So is there any is there any. So you don't really care like it doesn't matter that the market could crash tomorrow and you're still insulated. I right now I'm feeling so comfortable that we we may be stupid because we can't get rich, but my investors are the kind of people who don't want to lose their money.00:28:59:07 - 00:29:20:07UnknownThey've already made a lot a lot of these family businesses that have sold that. I buy buildings from there. The same kind of families that invest with me. The members are already wealthy because grandpa started a company and the son came in and ran it and sold it for $300 million. And now to them, a small investment is 2 million or 3 million.00:29:20:07 - 00:29:45:23UnknownSo I have our minimum investments, 25,000, because not everybody is that rich. But we we really have a a network of wealthy people who love our stuff because there's no debt and they feel safe. Yeah. But they also know that if they want to gamble, they can go to other people. Someone who's in multifamily with a lot of debt can make a lot of money.00:29:45:23 - 00:30:07:24UnknownSo so I'm not saying and everybody should put all their money in something that has no debt, that's industrial, that's got a higher risk profile when when a tenant leaves. But most tenants do stay for an average of 18 years in our buildings. What's a year is this? This is long term hold. You have like a five year exit strategy or anything like this, or you want to hold these and you want hold these forever.00:30:07:24 - 00:30:26:24UnknownAnd this is just mailbox money. Yeah. And if someone wants to get their money back, I have enough investors that I introduce party to party B and I have them talk to each other and one buys the other one out. We do that about, you know, three or four times a year. Someone calls me and says, Hey, Joel, I need my money.00:30:27:01 - 00:30:49:00UnknownI'm here in California. I've got a son who's struggling and I need to buy him a condo because I'll never have a job. And, you know, I need to get my million out. So I introduce Jim in California to Steve in Boston. And Steve says, I know it's worth a million, but I only pay you 900,000 for your investment.00:30:49:02 - 00:31:11:16UnknownAnd so Jim says, okay, make it 950. So that's called rule 144. From a security standpoint, it's not selling securities because I'm not offering it to the public. It's when one party buys out another party. And so rule 144 is how people get out. But when they get in, I tell them this we're long term holders for a good reason.00:31:11:18 - 00:31:30:07UnknownThe rent goes up every year, the tenants stay. And how do you replace when we find a great building like the the Tampico fruit juice building on the river, how are we going to find a better building than that? Why would you got a lot of money and you have an exit strategy too. So you're right. Someone in that location will eventually pay.00:31:30:07 - 00:31:51:24UnknownI need the developers in the condos. Yeah, and you could review it at the time. You know, it's an option. We have a seven year lease with Tampico, so they're there for seven years from the purchase and there's one next question. What's a typical what kind of lease terms are favorable in this when you when you especially out an acquisition like and you have a new tenant coming in, what is the standard like?00:31:51:24 - 00:32:12:04UnknownWhat's the what do you typically look at for something like that in terms of what lease terms like time, length of lease, specifically, our average lease is seven years, a new lease with a new tenant. The seven years when we buy a property, sometimes we get three or four years that are left on an a longer lease that's already burned up a little bit.00:32:12:06 - 00:32:31:07UnknownSo the risk is the tenant. The risk is look is analyzing the tenant and accepting the right one, because if they go out of business and it's manufacturing, I'm trying to get them the hell out of there. yeah. And I have I have nightmare stories that I get about getting rid of tenants. And you'd be surprised at who the bad tenants are.00:32:31:09 - 00:32:47:21UnknownThe worst tenants are the automotive guys. They're they're tough guys. They have to be because people don't trust them. Hey, you're telling me something's wrong with my car or my truck and it's not really wrong and you're lying to me. And then they charge them a lot and then they don't want to pay them and they have to wait to get paid.00:32:47:23 - 00:33:27:03UnknownSo the automotive guys are the most difficult. And actually, of the five tenants that I've ever evicted out of hundreds and hundreds of tenants, three were auto guys repair either body shop or repair guys. One guy right now was not paying rent. I love the guy. He's a great guy, but he does custom painting wheels. Like if you buy a really fancy BMW that's all souped up, you might want the the wheels, which are really nice too, to be like a metallic blue, right?00:33:27:04 - 00:33:41:05UnknownYeah. So he does the painting of those wheels. And I talked to him this morning and I said, Look, you've got to get out of the building. You owe me three months of rent. And I said to my son, I work with my son and I have them come over to your house and paint all your damn wheels.00:33:41:07 - 00:34:00:07UnknownNo, no, he is right. 7000 a month. It's a little building. His rent, 7000 a month. Plus he pays the insurance, taxes, the maintenance. He hasn't paid anything for three months. So this morning I was on the phone with them and I said, You got to get out of the building. We're going to evict you. He says, okay, okay, I'll pay.00:34:00:07 - 00:34:15:10UnknownI'll pay. Hey, you know, we had to get tough. We don't do that. We are really good to our tenants. Yeah, but he hasn't paid rent for three months. I have to take a stand. So just a final question in that scenario, because there's no debt on the building, who cares? You know, there's no risk like the investors might not.00:34:15:10 - 00:34:36:02UnknownI mean, there I mean, you obviously care, but there's not like, holy crap, we're losing $20,000. Are you just not generating cash flow? No, actually, it's worse. How do you know? I guess because he's supposed to be paying the taxes, insurance and maintenance. God. And consider those. Right? So the building's a little tiny building. It's 10,000 square feet.00:34:36:04 - 00:35:01:24UnknownThe taxes, insurance and maintenance all together. All of that is it's probably $40,000 a year, which is four bucks a foot. But that's $3,000 plus per month. So he owes 9000 in expenses that we have to pay. If he doesn't pay it, plus the rent that we don't get, you know, thank God we don't have a mortgage and nobody to our neck because banks have no sense of humor.00:35:01:24 - 00:35:19:08UnknownYou have to pay them right at a mortgage. We we'd be gone. my God, How are we going to pay the mortgage? The guy's not paying the rent. But here's what's happening. I told the investors that we have a projected return of 10% on their money. So if someone puts in 100 grand, they're going to get ten grand a year.00:35:19:14 - 00:35:40:09UnknownWe pay it quarterly, so they get 2500 a quarter. And I had to explain to them at the end of the year, this past year, why they didn't get their distribution at the full amount. And so how long is this going to happen, Joel? I mean, I put 100 grand with you so I could make the 10,000 a year.00:35:40:15 - 00:36:04:20UnknownYeah, didn't make 5000 this year. And by the way and to, to release it, I have to pay a brokerage commission probably to an industrial real estate broker who brings a new tenant. Chances are I have to do a paint job in the office, maybe carpet the office and any little things. And by the way, they may ask for a month or two of free rent is a concession to sign a five year lease and say it's going to take me time to get set.00:36:04:20 - 00:36:23:08UnknownI need some free rent. So retesting is expensive and not collecting is bad. But can you imagine how awful it would be if we had a mortgage? Yeah, that would get ugly. Do you always. Why do you locate the tenant first, or would you buy something with an existing tenant in there and let's say their leases up in two years?00:36:23:10 - 00:36:46:08UnknownWe do all of that. All that we bought buildings with one year left, with two years left, with five years left with seven. My preference is to buy a building that's got five or seven years left. It gives us a lot of time to do a lot of things. Sure, Yeah. Very interesting, Joel. I like it. Any other.00:36:46:09 - 00:37:15:11UnknownWhat would you tell someone listening right now? Just sort of thinking about, you know, maybe they're looking at there's a lot of people making career shift within real estate right now. I think you sort of made a good claim, at least a good pitch for the industrial industry here today. Yeah. Yeah. The other thing I'd like to say is that I love real estate, and in 42 years of career in real estate, I have been so lucky to build these relationships with investors and tenants.00:37:15:13 - 00:37:38:21UnknownIt's all about the relationships and that's really the main thing. And I've heard you say that. I've heard you say that. I've listened to you say that that is your main thing. Yes. It's agree with it and it makes sense. And I'm completely on board with all that matters, is taking care of your people and making sure that you care about what's the old saying is Dale Carnegie, Nobody cares how much you know until they know how much you care.00:37:38:23 - 00:37:59:24UnknownYeah, all of that. Good way to end it. That's right. It doesn't. And this is a relationships and anything in life. I mean, I can't tell you without relationships. There's nothing there. And speaking of relationships, for these guys who are listening, you need to check out my new software referral suite, because that's all it does. It helps you manage, nurture and stay in front of those relationships so they stop forgetting who the hell you are.00:38:00:01 - 00:38:14:03UnknownBecause regardless of what business you're in, you have to maintain those relationships. So nobody hires the person they don't feel comfortable with. Everyone hires the person that they're recommended to they know personally or that they've used in the past. And if they are a stranger and they don't know that person, trust me, they're doing a little bit of recon on you.00:38:14:08 - 00:38:30:13UnknownThey're looking online and they're asking people about you so called lead generation, at least in the real estate business. It's so highly relationship based. It's a big investment. So people can do that with someone they know they can trust. Awesome. Dude, I appreciate you having coming on the show. Love having fellow Chicago people on and thanks for sharing your insights.00:38:30:13 - 00:38:47:12UnknownI'm going to actually check out a lot more industrial stuff. You open my eyes are to a lot of different ways to look at that and look at it from this point of view. But you opened my eyes in a different light. So I appreciate that. Thanks for listening. I will see you guys next week and another episode of See you then and A's.00:38:47:15 - 00:39:11:13UnknownThank you for watching another episode of the Real Estate Marketing Do Podcast. 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Capital District Border Watch holds its second annual Make Room at the Inn Vigil on International Human Rights Day. December 10th marks the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The vigil will be at the corner of Fuller Road and Western Avenue, in front of Stuyvesant Plaza on Sunday, December 10 from 2 to 3 PM. Richard Horan of Border Watch talks to Mark Dunlea for Hudson Mohawk Magazine.

Bruce Finkelman decided on a late night drive down Western Avenue to open his iconic Chicago music club, The Empty Bottle. So he took the $942 he had in savings and made the plunge. Thirty years later, he's transformed that into the hospitality collective, 16 on Center, which includes a host of music venues and restaurants. Thalia Hall, SPACE, The Salt Shed, Longman & Eagle, Dusek's, Revival Food Hall and much more. We talked with Bruce about his love of music and how this all came about. And, of course, we talked about Chicago.Time Stamps:2: Walk us through the idea of opening The Empty Bottle5:37: How do you start to build momentum at The Empty Bottle?10: How did you find the next location for The Empty Bottle?12: When did you feel like The Empty Bottle became a thing?14:45: Why do you think people revere The Empty Bottle so much?19:40: When did you decide The Bottle isn't challenging enough for me, I need to add some more things to my plate?22:16: Have you ever chosen a space that ended up not working?25: I like that on your website you list other places in the neighborhood of your venue26:10: How did you originally get connected with Craig?31:54: How does what Salt Shed looks like now differ from what your initial vision of it was?34:05: How do you decide when it's time for the next project?36: Now that you've done a lot of projects, does it get easier working with the city of Chicago?37: Does the city of Chicago appreciate the independent music club owners?39: How is Chicago staying as independent as it is when it comes to venues?42:26: Merch cuts - How do you handle that?45:45: Thick or thin crust pizza fan?47:45: Favorite venue to see a show at in Chicago?48:15: What makes the Chicago music scene unique?50:19: What is your go to cheap drink?53: Anything you want to plug on your way on out of here?

#lakeforestillinois #lakeforestpodcast #tocco #BrunoAbate here is a clip from  @EnjoyLakeForest  from the City Counsel meeting 11-7-23 in which Catherine Czerniak, Director of Community Development presented the case for a "SUP" Special Use Permit for TOCCO restaurant that will be moving next to Duffers on Western Avenue in Lake Forest Illinois https://tocconorth.com/about-us Bruno Abate Born in Naples, Italy and raised in Milan, Bruno Abate was inspired at an early age by his parents for his passion for food and fashion. Bruno opened his first company in Milan, selling fish and caviar to high-end restaurants. His extensive travels around the world helped him appreciate fine food and design and eventually led him to Chicago in 1999, where he combined his passions. In Chicago, Bruno brought together his vision to marry authentic Italian cuisine with a modern design when he opened his first restaurant Follia, in the meatpacking district and currently, Tocco in Winnetka. The concept was simple, make authentic Italian Cuisine with the finest ingredients and give diners an experience like they were in Italy. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lakeforestpodcast/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lakeforestpodcast/support

Neil Byers (Horse Thief Hollow Brewery) and John Brand (Open Outcry Brewing) sit down together and talk about the very active Beverly-Morgan Park neighborhood, how two breweries can share Western Avenue peacefully, the wonder of Oktoberfest season and the beers they love. We're also talking about the absurd cost of concerts these days while preparing for a big weekend of festivals, free live music and events around the South Side in "30 Minutes of Good!" Brought to you by Family Waterproofing Solutions! Recorded at a 9-foot homemade oak bar in a basement on the South Side of Chicago. Let's talk food, drink, concerts, events and local news. Pull up a stool and have a drink with Chris, Bill, Mike, and a cast of Southsiders! Call us at 708-459-8406 anytime and leave a message anytime! Subscribe today everywhere podcasts can be found and always at SouthSidePod.com!

Talented Trends, has a new location at 6152 S. Western Avenue in Chicago, Illinois. Unapollagetic Podcast, is on location celebrating with Latrice and Armondo Reddick (co-owners) for this special occasion. You can now walk into Talented trends to order personally, take classes, and rent out the space with Talented Trends taking care of all your decorative needs. We get the exclusive on Talented Trends road to a storefront location. No where, but up from here for these black Business Owners!

Resources: Christa Pike | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers Christa Gail Pike v. State of Tennessee :: 2011 :: Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals Decisions :: Tennessee Case Law :: Tennessee Law :: US Law :: Justia STATE v. PIKE (1998) | FindLaw Christa's Story | My Site 1 (mercyforchrista.org) The Sacrifice and Mutilation of Colleen Slemmer | by Rivy Lyon | Medium Motorcyclist dies after hit-and-run on Western Avenue | wbir.com A Case Almost Too Gruesome To Mention: Christa Pike - YouTube A love to die for : Patricia Springer : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Interview with Tennessee murderer Christa Pike Part I - YouTube Interview with Tennessee murderer Christa Pike Part II - YouTube Interview with convicted Tennessee murderer Tadaryl Shipp Pt I - YouTube

In 1995, a troubled young woman, jealous of one of her peers, enlists the help of two others to eliminate her enemy. But when the full and horrifying details of the plan emerge, the public is aghast at how a young woman could be capable of such depravity.  Resources: Christa Pike | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers Christa Gail Pike v. State of Tennessee :: 2011 :: Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals Decisions :: Tennessee Case Law :: Tennessee Law :: US Law :: Justia STATE v. PIKE (1998) | FindLaw Christa's Story | My Site 1 (mercyforchrista.org)  The Sacrifice and Mutilation of Colleen Slemmer | by Rivy Lyon | Medium  Motorcyclist dies after hit-and-run on Western Avenue | wbir.com A Case Almost Too Gruesome To Mention: Christa Pike - YouTube A love to die for : Patricia Springer : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Interview with Tennessee murderer Christa Pike Part I - YouTube Interview with Tennessee murderer Christa Pike Part II - YouTube Interview with convicted Tennessee murderer Tadaryl Shipp Pt I - YouTube Links:  CrimeCon UK - CrimeCon, the ultimate true crime event, is coming to London, June 10 and 11th, 2023! Get your tickets at www.crimecon.co.uk and use our offer code ONCEUPON to score your discount.  Find your new place Apartments.com  Watch Once Upon a Crime on YouTube! - https://www.youtube.com/onceuponacrimepodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Artist Hannah Chavez and gallery owner Tony Fitzpatrick join Rick Kogan to talk about her new show, “On Standby.” The art show is located at The Dime Chicago at 1513 N. Western Avenue.

Fox's Pizza, Guinness, the Cork and Kerry Irish Pub, Madden Funds and Flood Brothers Disposal present the Hibernian Radio Hour as we continue on our First Responders Tour at The Cork and Kerry Pub on Western Avenue and this week we welcome retired DEA agent and old pal from ‘The Skinny and Houli Show' days, […]

Fox's Pizza, Guinness, the Cork and Kerry Irish Pub, Madden Funds and Flood Brothers Disposal present the Hibernian Radio Hour as we continue on our First Responders Tour at The Cork and Kerry Pub on Western Avenue and this week we take a look back at one of our favorite shows this year with brothers Dennis […]

Fox's Pizza, Guinness, the Cork and Kerry Irish Pub, Madden Funds and Flood Brothers Disposal present the Hibernian Radio Hour as we continue on our First Responders Tour at The Cork and Kerry Pub on Western Avenue and this week we welcome back 30 year retired Sgt. Eileen Guest to the show. Eileen attended Queen […]

#lakeforestillinois #lakeforestpodcast #treelighting Rick Amos with the FRIENDS OF LAKE FOREST PARKS AND RECREATION https://lfparksandrec.com/friends-foundation ====== DONATE ====================== https://www.gofundme.com/charity/friends-of-lake-forest-parks-and-recreation/donate ======================================================================= joins John Powers, Skoo Walker and Pete Jansons to give the details of the Lake Forest Illinois Annual Tree Lighting Holiday Celebration Friday November 25 2:30 to 7:30 pm at Market Square details below We also talk about: Ellen Stirling from the Lake Forest Shop and her sudden passing Lake Forest College Football Foresters undefeated season and beginning of the playoffs Way to go Coach Catanzaro!! Deep Fried Turkeys TREE LIGHTING HOLIDAY CELEBRATION - 11.25.22 Time: 2:30 PM Location: Market Square Friday, November 25 2:30 - 7:30 pm Market Square The Thirty-Eighth Annual Lake Forest Tree Lighting Holiday Celebration returns to historic Market Square on Friday, November 25 from 2:30-7:30 pm. Enjoy an afternoon and evening of live music, kids' activities, food and beverages, carolers, Lake Forest Dance Academy dancers, Santa Claus, and more at this beloved Lake Forest tradition. Presented by The Friends of Lake Forest Parks and Recreation Foundation and sponsored by Lake Forest Bank & Trust Company, this year the celebration features new and exciting activities for all ages. Schedule of Events 1:00 pm: Holiday movie at Gorton Community Center 2:30 pm: Kids Activities Area featuring: Cookies courtesy of Lake Forest Bank and Trust Arts and crafts activity for kids courtesy of Sage Explorers Holiday goodies for sale at the Friends of Lake Forest Parks and Recreation tent Donuts and coffee provided by the Oertel Group and more to be announced! 3:00 pm: Food and Beverages for sale including the event's signature Yeti cups 3:00 - 7:00 pm: Visits with Santa 3:30 - 4:15 pm: Lake Forest Civic Orchestra and Lake Forest High School Festival Brass Ensemble 4:45 pm: Caroling concert by the Lake Forest High School Choristers 5:00 pm: Lake Forest Dance Academy performance begins, and just after, the lights will be set aglow! 5:30 - 7:30 pm: Music by Hello Weekend Please note there will be road closures on Friday, November 25 before and during the event. All streets and sidewalks will remain accessible to pedestrians for the entire day. Western Avenue will be closed to vehicular traffic between Forest Bootery and Westminster Avenue starting at 10 am. Market Square and Western Avenue (between Deerpath and Westminster Avenue) will be closed to vehicular traffic starting at 1 pm. Cars left after 1 pm will be blocked in for the duration of the event. All City parking lots are free and open to the public. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lakeforestpodcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lakeforestpodcast/support

In this minisode, Hobert takes a wintery jaunt through Chicago on his day off to see Black Adam at a distant multiplex. Catch Hobert as he wanders, enjoying a chicken sandwich before seeing DC's most recent slug-fest and rates the solo-cinema experience. Recorded live on Western Avenue in Chicago!

Fox's Pizza, Guinness, the Cork and Kerry Irish Pub, Madden Funds and Flood Brothers Disposal present the Hibernian Radio Hour as we continue on our First Responders Tour at The Cork and Kerry Pub on Western Avenue and this week we welcome back one of our favorite guests, James “Duke” Lynch AKA: Alamo! Alamo is […]

Fox's Pizza, Guinness, the Cork and Kerry Irish Pub, Madden Funds and Flood Brothers Disposal present the Hibernian Radio Hour as we continue on our First Responders Tour at The Cork and Kerry Pub on Western Avenue and this week Houli is back! We also welcome back local CPD legend and good pal of the […]

Fox's Pizza, Guinness, the Cork and Kerry Irish Pub, Madden Funds and Flood Brothers Disposal present the Hibernian Radio Hour as we continue on our First Responders Tour at The Cork and Kerry Pub on Western Avenue and this week we welcome back our special guest host, Paddy Houlihan who is presenting the show for […]

Fox's Pizza, Guinness, the Cork and Kerry Irish Pub, Madden Funds and Flood Brothers Disposal present the Hibernian Radio Hour as we continue on our First Responders Tour at The Cork and Kerry Pub on Western Avenue and this week we welcome special guest host, Paddy Houlihan who will be presenting the show while Houli […]

Fox's Pizza, Guinness, the Cork and Kerry Irish Pub, Madden Funds and Flood Brothers Disposal present the Hibernian Radio Hour as we continue on our First Responders Tour at The Cork and Kerry Pub on Western Avenue and this week we welcome Krissie Ewers nee Kenneally to the show. Krissie grew up in St. Thomas […]

Part 2: Seeing red? Women and color have power. Listen in as the conversation continues with artists Michelle Boll, Margaret Emerson, Becky Gibb, and Anne Plaisance. Becky and Margaret each describe decisions about thier work, including the use of color to express their responses to the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision in the show "Overturned: Roe v Wade." The show is on view through November 7, at Western Avenue, in Lowell Massachusetts. This is a two-part conversation, and images may be found at bostonredcloaks.com and on our instagram page. The show is open to the public, and extends across five gallery spaces. Of note: Western Avenue is home to the largest artists community on the eastern seaboard of the U.S. For more information about: Becky Gibb: https://beckykisabethgibbs.com Anne Plaisance: https://www.anneplaisance.com Margaret Emerson: https://margaret-emerson.squarespace.com Michelle Boll: https://micheleboll.com Western Avenue Studios: https://westernavenuestudios.com

Part 1: Meet four dynamic artists, Anne Plaisance, Becky Gibb, Margaret Emerson, and Michelle Boll, as they discuss their responses to the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe vs. Wade. With work on view in "Overturned: Roe v Wade" through November 7 (at Western Avenue Studios in Lowell Massachusett), each artist speaks about her work. In Part 1, co-curators Michelle and Becky describe the origins of the show, and listeners will learn more about Michelle and Anne's paintings. In Part 2, Becky and Margaret describe their work, and the group engages in a thought-provoking discussion. This is a two-part conversation, and images may be found at bostonredcloaks.com and on our instagram page. The show is open to the public, and extends across five gallery spaces. Of note: Western Avenue is home to the largest artists community on the eastern seaboard of the U.S. For more information about: Becky Gibb: https://beckykisabethgibbs.com Anne Plaisance: https://www.anneplaisance.com Margaret Emerson: https://margaret-emerson.squarespace.com Michelle Boll: https://micheleboll.com Western Avenue Studios: https://westernavenuestudios.com

Fox's Pizza, Guinness, the Cork and Kerry Irish Pub, Madden Funds and Flood Brothers Disposal present the Hibernian Radio Hour as we continue on our First Responders Tour at The Cork and Kerry Pub on Western Avenue and this week we take a look back at one of our favorite interviews from 2019 when we […]

Fox's Pizza, Guinness, the Cork and Kerry Irish Pub, Madden Funds and Flood Brothers Disposal present the Hibernian Radio Hour as we continue on our First Responders Tour at The Cork and Kerry Pub on Western Avenue and this week we welcome an old pal to the show, John Kass. John is a columnist, radio […]

Fox's Pizza, Guinness, the Cork and Kerry Irish Pub, Madden Funds and Flood Brothers Disposal present the Hibernian Radio Hour as we continue on our First Responders Tour at The Cork and Kerry Pub on Western Avenue and this week we welcome an old pal of the show, the infamous James ‘Skinny’ Sheahan. These two […]

Fox's Pizza, Guinness, the Cork and Kerry Irish Pub, Madden Funds and Flood Brothers Disposal present the Hibernian Radio Hour as we continue on our First Responders Tour at The Cork and Kerry Pub on Western Avenue and this week we welcome back retired CPD Commander Patricia ‘Patty’ Casey. Patty grew up in St. Ita's […]

Fox's Pizza, Guinness, the Cork and Kerry Irish Pub, Madden Funds and Flood Brothers Disposal present the Hibernian Radio Hour as we continue on our First Responders Tour at The Cork and Kerry Pub on Western Avenue and this week we welcome our pal, Brian McCann. Brian grew up in St. Laurence parish and later […]

Fox's Pizza, Guinness, the Cork and Kerry Irish Pub, Madden Funds and Flood Brothers Disposal present the Hibernian Radio Hour as we continue on our First Responders Tour at The Cork and Kerry Pub on Western Avenue and this week we welcome two very special Law Enforcement guests, Tim Perry and Gene Roy. Tim is […]

Fox's Pizza, Guinness, the Cork and Kerry Irish Pub, Madden Funds and Flood Brothers Disposal present the Hibernian Radio Hour as we continue on our First Responders Tour at The Cork and Kerry Pub on Western Avenue and this week we welcome back a regular guest on the show,  James “Duke” Lynch AKA: Alamo! Alamo is […]

Fox's Pizza, Guinness, the Cork and Kerry Irish Pub, Madden Funds and Flood Brothers Disposal present the Hibernian Radio Hour as we continue on our First Responders Tour at The Cork and Kerry Pub on Western Avenue and this week we welcome very special guest, Ryan Clancy who is the brother of recently fallen Police […]

Fox's Pizza, Guinness, the Cork and Kerry Irish Pub, Madden Funds and Flood Brothers Disposal present the Hibernian Radio Hour as we continue on our First Responders Tour at The Cork and Kerry Pub on Western Avenue and this week we welcome another one of our honorary Irishman, Roberto ‘Junior’ Guerra. Junior spent 27 years […]

This week's "30 Minutes of Good" from The EP Podcast includes an interview with new Central Middle School Principal Dr. Joe Zampillo, a "Margarita Crawl" with Open Outcry & upcoming local festivals and events! Dr. Joe Zampillo talks about changing the perception of Central Middle School, the new challenges this generation of students face & what kind of principal he wants to be. John Brand of Open Outcry Brewing just made two employees part of ownership just as a Margarita Crawl is breaking out on Western Avenue all this month. The American Legion Car Show is fast approaching, along with free live concerts & more in Evergreen Park. Brought to you by The First National Bank of Evergreen Park!  Find the account that is right for you AND get your FREE EP Podcast Car Magnet there today! Get the latest news and information concerning everything going on in and around Evergreen Park and stay connected to your neighbors! New On-Demand Podcasts release on Mondays, with weekend specials on some Fridays. Every week Evergreen Park residents join their neighbor Chris Lanuti at a 9-foot homemade basement bar. Listen, interact & get all of your free subscription options at theEPpodcast.com​!

Fox's Pizza, Guinness, the Cork and Kerry Irish Pub, Madden Funds and Flood Brothers Disposal present the Hibernian Radio Hour as we continue on our First Responders Tour at The Cork and Kerry Pub on Western Avenue and this week we welcome two very special guests, Cornelius “Neil” Maas and Jim Smith. Neil is a […]

Fox's Pizza, Guinness, the Cork and Kerry Irish Pub, Madden Funds and Flood Brothers Disposal present the Hibernian Radio Hour as we continue on our First Responders Tour at The Cork and Kerry Pub on Western Avenue and this week we welcome Bruce Quintos AKA, Rico Quinn. He was born on the west side in […]

Fox's Pizza, Guinness, the Cork and Kerry Irish Pub, Madden Funds and Flood Brothers Disposal present the Hibernian Radio Hour as we continue on our First Responders Tour at The Cork and Kerry Pub on Western Avenue and this week we begin the show by discussing the latest tragedy to hit the CPD. Officer Danny […]

Fox's Pizza, Guinness, the Cork and Kerry Irish Pub, Madden Funds and Flood Brothers Disposal present the Hibernian Radio Hour as we continue on our First Responders Tour at The Cork and Kerry Pub on Western Avenue and this week we welcome 22 year CFD Paramedic, Jennifer “JJ” Walsh to the show. JJ lives in […]

Fox's Pizza, Guinness, the Cork and Kerry Irish Pub, Madden Funds and Flood Brothers Disposal present the Hibernian Radio Hour as we continue on our First Responders Tour at The Cork and Kerry Pub on Western Avenue and this week we welcome CPD’s Eleanor Reardon. Eleanor is a retired Detective Sergeant who worked 30 years […]

Fox's Pizza, Guinness, the Cork and Kerry Irish Pub, Madden Funds and Flood Brothers Disposal present the Hibernian Radio Hour as we continue on our First Responders Tour at The Cork and Kerry Pub on Western Avenue and this week we welcome very special musical guest Michele McGuire. Michele was a regular guest on The […]

Fox's Pizza, Guinness, the Cork and Kerry Irish Pub, Madden Funds and Flood Brothers Disposal present the Hibernian Radio Hour as we continue on our First Responders Tour at The Cork and Kerry Pub on Western Avenue and this week we welcome back Sergeant Sue Kenny. Sue has been working with CPD for 23 years […]