Short items and notices from around Evanston.
The 28th annual Evanston Ethnic Arts Festival runs noon to 7 p.m. July 20-21 at Dawes Park with 125 artists, two stages of music and dance, and food from many cuisines.
Alex Añón left architecture to repair and sell reconditioned bicycles. His Evanston shop, Bucephalus Bikes, now occupies a 4,000-square-foot space on Lake Street.
Pivot Point International, founded in Chicago in 1962 by Dutch-born stylist Leo Passage, runs its global beauty-education business from downtown Evanston.
CMS Expo returned to the Orrington Hotel in Evanston in May 2013 with sessions on Drupal, WordPress and Joomla and a Northwestern talk on higher-ed sites.
Oliver’s Trains and Toys, open on Central Street since 2012, planned a second Evanston shop at 710 Main St. for late summer 2013 inside Good’s of Evanston.
NorthShore University HealthSystem, based in Evanston, made Truven Health Analytics’ 100 Top Hospitals list for a record 16th time in the award’s 20 years.
Architect Andrew J. Spatz designs, builds and manages his own Evanston rental buildings, from the METALHouses on Main Street to a planned Oak Street project.
Evanston convened medical, fitness and wellness businesses at the Civic Center on April 12, 2013, to discuss making the city a model for healthy living.
Cody Modeer, bar manager and partner at Ward Eight on Howard Street, was named to Zagat’s 2013 list of Chicago food and drink up-and-comers under 30.
A utility program offered Evanston small businesses free energy assessments and incentives up to 70%, as the city joined a Nicor Gas efficiency challenge.
An Atlantic Cities analysis of census data put Evanston among the ten Chicago-region locations with the highest concentration of creative workers.
Evanston scheduled a Feb. 8, 2013 seminar where the city, Northwestern, both school districts and Rotary International explained bidding to local firms.