Super GemChicago Exclusive Gem✨ Good Vibes$$That fascination sent him to film school, where he formed a production company called Standing Passengers Inc. specifically to document the culture he loved, eventually releasing a 2006 documentary called I Write on Stuff about the history of Chicago graffiti. The coffee shop that carries the same name opened in 2016, and street art still visibly shapes its whole aesthetic.
In December 2024, a genuinely tiny record shop called Somebody Else's Records opened inside, just six crates of vinyl curated from local DJs and collectors spanning Chicago house, jazz, and Afrobeat — Rosengren, who's taught himself to DJ in recent years, spins sets there on Friday nights. The coffee itself comes from Dark Matter, a respected Chicago roaster, and the free retro gaming setup — SNES, N64, Sega Genesis, actual Atari — turns a coffee run into something people linger over for hours.
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