This acoustic-based pop/funk band or musical group flourished in 2004-09--2 Skinny Dorks, later just Skinny--playing colleges and clubs/pubs in Ohio, Illinois, and in the east. In 2007 the group included frontmen Jake Blazer and Eric Penrod, plus Matt Corey, Eric Daniels, Joel Luggo.

For an example of their music, see YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWQpvcmnOF0

See also: http://www.myspace.com/2skinnydorks

and http://midwestconcertguru.blogspot.com/2007/06/skinny.html

Lake Forest College's Coffee House, non-alcoholic, existed from the mid 1990s to the mid 2000s in the lower level of Commons, prior to construction in 2006 of the Mohr Student Center and the reconfiguration of the Stuart Commons.