Daily Northwestern : "Filling Chicago's Communal Cup"
Coagulate your talents.”
That’s what’s written next to the smoothie prices and coffee selections on the menu board, one of the first things you notice when you walk in the door. Then you notice the enormous three-headed dragon puppet dangling on the wall, all grinning, glittering gold and red and purple. Chairs of every shape and size — wicker lawn chairs, sections of church pews, mod molded plywood stools, overstuffed parlor chairs — cluster around glass-topped tables. You can’t quite tell how many rooms there are, because they seem to ramble into one another, their walls covered in paintings and blue plaster molding. Here there’s a chandelier, there a trampoline is stuck to the wall. In this room there are about 10 little mobiles hanging from lightbulbs right at eye-level — in that room there are microphones and speakers — everywhere is color and light.