We’re an ecosystem of businesses, non-profits, publications, products and people working towards a community-driven future.
Marz Community Brewing Co.
Marz Community Brewing Co. is where everyone gets together — the beer nerds, weirdos, your uncle Steve and buddies we’ve yet to meet.
Public Media Institute
Public Media Institute (PMI) is a non-profit 501(c) 3, community-based art and culture organization headquartered in Chicago’s Bridgeport neighborhood.
Life On Marz Community Club
Part not-so-secret society clubhouse, part distribution center for our various elixirs, potions, and ales; Life On Marz Community Club is our newest nano-brewery located in Chicago’s Logan Square.
Kimski
Located in the expansion facility of Maria’s Packaged Goods & Community Bar in Chicago’s Bridgeport neighborhood, Kimski is a counter service, Korean-Polish street food joint, led by Chef Won Kim.
Co-Prosperity Catskill
Co-Prosperity Catskill is our entre to the East Coast, launching Fall 2021.
SnackWave
Riding the (snack) wave of delicious, scrumptious, choco-tastic, saltitudinal ready-to-eat fun bags, we're excited to introduce Snackwave. Look for our boxes, bags and one-off party favors at your local Marz.
Maria’s
Maria’s Packaged Goods & Community Bar has been operating in Bridgeport since 1986 as a classic slashie – half liquor store, half neighborhood tavern.
LumpenTV
Broadcast never had it so fast. Lumpen TV is our latest media endeavor that partners with our cultural ecology of art activism and performance.
Buddy Store
Buddy is a shop providing artists and small manufacturers in Chicago a place to showcase and sell their goods and artworks to a vast audience of Chicagoans and visitors at the Chicago Cultural Center.
Kim's Uncle Pizza
In our journey to make the best pizza for everyone everywhere we are ready to start our second pizza joint, Kim’s Uncle Pizza. This former Uncle Pete’s Pizza place was owned by an auntie of ours who asked us to take it over.
Lumpen Magazine
Lumpen — noun — people belonging to a low or contemptible segment of social class or kind because of their unproductiveness, shiftlessness, alienation, degeneration, etc.
Co-Prosperity
Co-Prosperity (Co-Pro) is an experimental cultural center located in the neighborhood of Bridgeport. The space is used to showcase work by artists, performers, and cultural workers of all stripes.
Forever Friends
Forever Friends by Jim and Reuben is an apparel company focusing on making the highest quality hand ice tie dyed clothing. Believing ice tie dying is the past present and future of fashion, Lumpen Alumni, James Ewert Jr., joined forces with Reuben Kincaid to create a 21st century shake down street experience.
Quarantine Times
In the face of everything that’s happened in 2020: here we are, together. You are sticking together, working together, and caring for each other like never before.
Lumpen Radio
Lumpen Radio is a low power, community radio station located in the Bridgeport neighborhood of Chicago. You can hear our radio signal throughout Chicago at 105.5FM and tune-in anywhere from our website.
Community Kitchen
The Community Kitchen is a food service program providing complementary box lunches to in-need residents, families and workers in Chicago.
Riso World
Riso World is our low fi printing house partner co-founded by Louie Capazolli and Reuben Kincaid that offers custom printing to anyone, any time. Just call us, we'll prove it.
Mash Tun Journal
Mash Tun Journal is a paean to craft beer. It follows the pleasures and aesthetics of craft beer and how it intersects with food, culture, and society.
Reuben Kincaid
Who is Reuben Kincaid? Some say he's the founding member of the American Society for Successful Failures, an artist manager, real estate agent, karaoke jockey, wellness industry expert, and ice tie dye fashion maven. Reuben gives advice and is a founding partner most of the Buddy System endeavors.