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A browse through the comments at Yelp leads me to believe Filter is one of Chicago’s more polarizing joints. My favorite comment: “Come for the coffee, stay for the Stevie. Leave because of the music.” Having been a barista with alienating taste in music, I sympathize with both parties.
Detroit/Chicago producer and DJ Jeff Mills is opening a new Euro clothing boutique in Wicker Park that sets a new standard for terrible boutique names: Gamma Player Shop. You can hear a couple of Mills’s Detroit house mixes at deephousepage.com (search for “Jeff Mills”).
**I forget, sometimes, not to be too dry on the Web. What do you call that stage of development where a neighborhood goes from sans-Busy Bee Wicker Park to chain banks and generic condos on all the side streets? It’s clearly a significant step more gentrified. I’m going to go with post-gentrification.
