The Spanish Channel + Port Brewing Tasting

Posted on June 4, 2013 | Leave a comment

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More delectable Spanish audio treats from DJ, author, writer and music producer Luis Gabriel Aguilera…Plus to top it off, Maria’s is also featuring a super hoppy West coast IPAs tasting at the bar starting from 6-9pm with Port Brewing. ¡Salud!

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Maria’s Five Hour Technicolor Dream

Posted on June 2, 2013 | Leave a comment

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Join us tonight for Maria’s Five Hour Technicolor Dream featuring music of bands associated with the legendary UFO club in London–essentially the best of British psychedelia circa 1967 – 68.  Selections include musical family trees and the broader it/Granny Takes a Trip/Hapsash and the Coloured Coat scene. Featuring music of Pink Floyd, Soft Machine, The Move, Tomorrow, Dantalian’s Chariot, Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, Crazy World of Arthur Brown, The Purple Gang, Procol Harum, Fairport Convention, and others.  Films of Kenneth Anger and Andy Warhol will be playing..

 

 

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Saturday: The Future is Cancelled

Posted on June 1, 2013 | Leave a comment

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Join us at our monthly advanced  dance music night. Occult Electronica, mystical beats, and bass driven demonic powers.

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Friday: Beachy Boys and Girls

Posted on May 31, 2013 | Leave a comment

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“Beachy” is back for 2013. Like true Chicagoans, we dumped our winter sweaters last week and now it’s summer! Umm, well not exactly. But it looks like we’re going to get a mild day for the first Beachy Boys & Beachy Girls edition on Friday. So come join Hector, Kyle and Luis for some suds, classic rock, 60s mod, surf and anything beach related.

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Tricky Release Party

Posted on May 30, 2013 | Leave a comment
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Tonite: – K7 Records presents a listening party for the latest Tricky release “False Idols” – with DJ Joe Bryl on the decks. $2 off all large format bottles..

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Ransom Distillery Tasting Tonight

Posted on May 29, 2013 | Leave a comment

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Our friend Christophe from Ransom distillery will be tasting out a selection of spirits from Ransom’s potfolio. As well as debuting Smalls new flag label bottle. A White Negroni will also be on special featuring Small’s American Dry gin. Join us between 6-9pm.

Enjoy the White Negroni Kenny came up with.

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May 28: Tropical Tuesday

Posted on May 28, 2013 | Leave a comment
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To get one in the mood for hot times in the summertime; Maria’s Packaged Goods & Community Bar is hosting a monthly special summer sizzler appropriately titled “Tropical Tuesday” beginning Tuesday, May 28 (9PM-2AM). Headed by beachcombing and treasure seeking record digger DJ Richard “Tab-boo!” Pierson, “Tropical Tuesday” unearths a megamix of of torrid tunes including Hawaiian style steel guitar, gamelan jazz, Latin Salsa, Cuban Danzon, Argentine tango, Ghanaian high-life, West African Afrobeat, Dominican Bachata and Merengue, Colombian Cumbia and Spanish Nuevo flamenco. Richard will be spinning the eclectic exotica platters that matter featuring rare gems plucked from his collection of crazy bongo rhythms, Calypso soul, steel drumming beats and other cool sounds for this fiery fantasy.
We will also be featuring a new menu of tasty tropical speciality summer cocktails that will transport our intrepid safari-ers to those mythical Shangri-la lands of bliss and harmony. You’ll be easily able to find a bit of paradise with these tantalizing and refreshing taste quenchers that really pack a punch.
Tuesday Tropical Cocktails:  
South Seas Chrysanthemum – $10
Ransom Dry Vermouth, Benedictine & 2 Droppers St. George Absinthe Verte. Shaken. Served neat. Strained into cupe with a lemon peal garnish.
Nightboat to Rio – $9
Cachaca, Cochi Americano, Lime, Demerara Simple Syrup & top with Seltzer. Shaken. Served with ice in a collins glass. Lime garnish.
Port of Pleasure – $9
Mt. Gay Rum, Housemade Passion Fruit Syrup, Lime & Demerara Syrup. Shaken. serve on ice in collins glass. Peach wedge garnish.

The fantasy island event, “Tropical Tuesday” will continue throughout the spring and summer. The May 28 offering will continue its journey on June 25, July 23 and August 27.

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Sunday: post + 6

Posted on May 26, 2013 | Leave a comment

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Maria’s Packaged Goods & Community Bar will be screening the latest work by Andrew Rigsby titled “post +6″ this Sunday, May 26 @ 8PM.

post +6 is the culmination of the first six video in the _post_video series, shown in succession and lasting approximately an hour. Intended as loop, the work carries a theme of travel and memory, invented and psychedelic, internal and external. Referencing the work of experimental film makers like Stan Brakhage and Kenneth Anger, the films exhibit animation composed of photo-stills manipulated into loops, emulating the processes by which we create and recreate memories and mark the manipulation of our emotional responses. The soundtrack to post +6 offers looping tones and effects, with conceptual ties to aural explorations of the body, reverb tonalities and psychological atmosphere.
Andrew Rigsby is an interdisciplinary Chicago-based artist, working with installation, film, painting, and sound. Often exploring the complexity of mnemonic representation through layered  and abstracted animations, shapes, stills, and color forms, Rigsby’s work addresses the landscape as both an internal and external phenomenon, using the lens of popular culture and contemporary archetypes. His current video work,  post +6 is a visual meditation on aural and spatial exploration and is on also on display at Hyde Park Art Center’s “Abstracting the Seam” through September  2013.
For further information on Andrew Rigsby link to: www.andrewrigsby.com.
There is no cover for the screening

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Saturday is Sonorama

Posted on May 25, 2013 | Leave a comment

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The passion of lovers is for death said she

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Tighthead Brewing White Sox Pregame Tailgate Korean Polish BBQ

Posted on May 24, 2013 | Leave a comment

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Enjoy a Craft Beer Week-ending, Friday afternoon White Sox Pre-Game Patio Tapping with Bruce Dir, “Chief Tighthead,” this Friday, May 24th from 4-7 pm.  Enjoy new and limited, locally crafted ales and lagers from Tighthead Brewing (Mundelein, Illinois). Be  regaled with the insty-cult classic “Chilly Water” APA  and, perhaps, the Midwest’s finest  IPA “Irie” and their seasonal Maibock “Mechanics Grove” in a tour de force of fresh, local ales and lager.

Enjoy complimentary tailgate sausages (Maria’s KO PO BBQ!!) and a chance to win (2) Outfield Reserved Seats for that night’s game – as well as the always available and freshly prepared faire from Pleasant House Bakery next door.

 

 

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