Unproven around these parts? Maybe. But we really love beer, and we can’t see why anyone would not want their work environment doused in brew. The joint endeavor of Molson Coors Brewing Co. and SABMiller PLC just signed the papers for its brand new Wacker Drive headquarters, which will reportedly even feature a rooftop beer garden. (“Let’s move this meeting to the roof.”) According to Crain’s, MillerCoors will be Chicago’s twenty-third largest company, and given that alcohol is pretty much the one industry that is recession-proof, we envision long illustrious careers. Yeah, when it comes to taste, we prefer real locals like Goose Island or Two Brothers, but who are we to be overly picky?
Editor's Letter: July 2021 As you'll read in my feature about the new Art Preserve in Sheboygan, I first, and last, visited the area a couple of times on business in the late eighties…
Dime Stories: RNC Night Three: The Volitional Blindness of the G.O.P. starring Mike Pence, Company Man While news, big news, was breaking all across America yesterday regarding the continued violence in Kenosha, Wisconsin over the murders of two Black Lives Matter protesters in the wake of the police shooting of Jacob Blake, you wouldn't have known it from watching the third installment of the Republican National Convention.
Editor's Letter: May 2019 Like the Newcity staff, Breakout Artists now number enough past subjects to constitute its own alumni network of sorts.
