http://www.chicagomag.com/whet/downtown.jpg
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 1 January 2013 18:54 (eleven years ago) link
Happy new year, friends.
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 1 January 2013 18:56 (eleven years ago) link
E v e r y t h i n g known in music
Happy new year. Who took this picture? It's great.
― passion it person (La Lechera), Tuesday, 1 January 2013 19:16 (eleven years ago) link
Photo source: http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/The-312/July-2011/A-Flickr-Trove-of-Old-Chicago-Photos/
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 1 January 2013 19:43 (eleven years ago) link
Happy New Year peeps.
― courtnoodle, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 15:30 (eleven years ago) link
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-12-31/news/chi-officer-hurt-in-crash-on-northwest-side-20121231_1_police-vehicle-traffic-crash-police-officer
near our place
http://imgur.com//Zi5SI
― dansplaining (dan m), Wednesday, 2 January 2013 15:55 (eleven years ago) link
whoa
― passion it person (La Lechera), Wednesday, 2 January 2013 16:05 (eleven years ago) link
i am thinking about dancedancing tonight if anyone wants to joinrecent playlists look promising
Yikes!
I have a suspicion I'm going to be working v. late tonight.
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 16:24 (eleven years ago) link
We watched Queen of Versailles last night. Spoilers, more or less, I guess:
Y'all were right that the wife is fairly sympathetic. I was less sympathetic to the husband, or to their plight in general (sorry that high-pressure selling bullshit, subprime timeshares mortgages didn't work out for you, you big jerk). ALSO I nearly broke out in hives after they fired most of their domestic employees and the house deteriorated into piles of dirty dishes, discarded toys, and dog shit. Also did that one woman live in a kid's playhouse??!!?! WTF. Also heartbroken for the woman who came to the USA to raise someone else's children while leaving her own child behind to grow up without her.
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 20:05 (eleven years ago) link
Oh, also angry at the entire family for letting their lizard die.
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 20:06 (eleven years ago) link
Other reasons I am unsympathetic to David Seigel: his claim to have secured GWB's presidential victory and his shitty treatment of his kids from his first marriage.
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 20:09 (eleven years ago) link
oh he was definitely a jerk and they pretty much gave up on making him sympathetic during the excruciating scene where she tries to make him a family dinner for his birthday
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 2 January 2013 20:22 (eleven years ago) link
where should we go for a family vacation this year?* seattle & portland* montreal
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 2 January 2013 20:57 (eleven years ago) link
New Orleans
― carl agita (Je55e), Wednesday, 2 January 2013 20:59 (eleven years ago) link
Both good options.
― your damn bass clarinet (Eazy), Wednesday, 2 January 2013 21:00 (eleven years ago) link
seattle/portland was the original plan but my sister and her husband have been persuasive in pushing montreal as an alternative
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 2 January 2013 21:01 (eleven years ago) link
I've heard lots of good things about Montreal (haven't been there as an adult), would put Toronto on the list as it's also very good and easier to get to. Cheap direct flights on Porter Airlines.
― dansplaining (dan m), Wednesday, 2 January 2013 21:09 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, I priced flights to MTL recently on a whim, and they were a little more expensive than I remembered from having gone there in 2006.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 21:11 (eleven years ago) link
^^^ I priced flights at the beginning of last year when the Fire's first game of the season was @ Montreal and yeah, sticker shock for sure compared to a lot of other places.
― dansplaining (dan m), Wednesday, 2 January 2013 21:12 (eleven years ago) link
could theoretically drive, it's about as long a drive as driving to asheville, plus going a direction i've never driven before
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 2 January 2013 21:15 (eleven years ago) link
and go through toronto
Driving in Canada is fun, the speed limit is 100 and everyone still goes faster.
― dansplaining (dan m), Wednesday, 2 January 2013 21:19 (eleven years ago) link
xp to Nick - The family dinner scene was excruciating.
I went to Montreal on a high school band trip. There was a lot of underage drinking involved, so if that's important for you, I would say Montreal.
I've never been to Seattle but I would really like to go. I have been to Portland and I had a good time, but it's been a long time and I can't remember anything specific about.
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 21:25 (eleven years ago) link
Seattle was fun, but I really didn't explore it like I should have.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 21:56 (eleven years ago) link
i have never been to pacific NW or canada at all
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 2 January 2013 22:11 (eleven years ago) link
This is a screenplay apparently making the rounds in H'wood right now:
MAN OF TOMORROWJeremy SlaterIn an alternate 1940s reality, the US Government makes a deal with an indestructible gangster to kill Hilter in exchange for the city of Chicago, which he will build into his own utopia. Unfortunately his model city never comes to fruition and both he and his Bureau liaison get much of the slack for destroying one of America’s greatest cities and now the government wants him dead.
In an alternate 1940s reality, the US Government makes a deal with an indestructible gangster to kill Hilter in exchange for the city of Chicago, which he will build into his own utopia. Unfortunately his model city never comes to fruition and both he and his Bureau liaison get much of the slack for destroying one of America’s greatest cities and now the government wants him dead.
― jaymc, Thursday, 3 January 2013 04:43 (eleven years ago) link
I'm assuming that should be Hitler, not Hilter.
― jaymc, Thursday, 3 January 2013 04:44 (eleven years ago) link
Alternate reality, he spells his name differently.
― Jeff, Thursday, 3 January 2013 12:39 (eleven years ago) link
Frankie Hilter, German immigrant to Chicago and minor supervillian
― carl agatha, Thursday, 3 January 2013 13:45 (eleven years ago) link
I say Montreal because I imagine Nick walking by Les Foufounes Électriques and then, when folks say "How was Montreal?", saying "Well, we went to Les Foufounes Électriques."
― sandwich shortage (Eazy), Thursday, 3 January 2013 14:29 (eleven years ago) link
FYI - dancedancing was fun -- music was acceptable, i had a good timestill putting the finishing touches on my mix and waffling over sequencing, though.
― bish borscht (La Lechera), Thursday, 3 January 2013 20:14 (eleven years ago) link
Anyone have opinions on the L0cal 0ption? I've never been, but I was looking at their website and it has some weird imagery (lots of skulls, lightning bolts, some quasi-stars-and-bars southern stuff, etc).
― dansplaining (dan m), Friday, 4 January 2013 18:18 (eleven years ago) link
i don't even know what that is
― bish borscht (La Lechera), Friday, 4 January 2013 18:20 (eleven years ago) link
I've been there a lot. Great tap list and it changes very frequently. They have some of the best beer events too, 30+ taps and get some really good rare imports. The aesthetic of the places is similar to Kuma's, but it's a nice bar.
― Jeff, Friday, 4 January 2013 18:30 (eleven years ago) link
Food is solid too, not great. I like their muffaletta and fish tacos.
Checking my stats, I've consumed 30 beers there.
― Jeff, Friday, 4 January 2013 18:32 (eleven years ago) link
I really like it. They have a really good beer selection and tasty, cheap food. The decor feels a little contrived, I think, but it's not terrible. My main problem is that they write their beer list on a chalkboard at the front of the bar, and whoever writes it has absurd handwriting, and between that, my eyesight and glare, it's really hard to read. Sure, write that shit on a board if you don't want to incur the costs of printing a new list (their selection changes a lot) but get somebody with legible handwriting to write it ffs.
While the bartenders have always been very kind and welcoming to me, I've seen them get a little attitude with other college-student-looking people in the bar. I chalk that up to its location in the middle of DePaul's campus and some subsequent gatekeeping.
But yeah, overall a good place. I would go more if it were a smidge closer to public transit.
― carl agatha, Friday, 4 January 2013 18:32 (eleven years ago) link
Also, it is a good trick to go the day after a big beer event because they often have beers leftover.
― carl agatha, Friday, 4 January 2013 18:33 (eleven years ago) link
The owner friended me on facebook for reasons unknown to me. I don't drink there that much.
― Jeff, Friday, 4 January 2013 18:34 (eleven years ago) link
Probably one of my top 3 chicago bars.
― Jeff, Friday, 4 January 2013 18:37 (eleven years ago) link
I'd like to try it.
― sandwich shortage (Eazy), Friday, 4 January 2013 18:40 (eleven years ago) link
Another thing to note is they don't put prices/ABV/descriptions on their menu. Most of the beers are going to be from 6 to 9 dollars. Some people will probably find this annoying. They do keep their Beer Menus page updated though: http://www.beermenus.com/places/1255-local-option
― Jeff, Friday, 4 January 2013 18:49 (eleven years ago) link
Needless to say, but LMK if you want to grab a drink there one day. I'll gladly go there just about any evening/weekend.
― Jeff, Friday, 4 January 2013 18:51 (eleven years ago) link
I've been once. My main gripe was that the beer list had no information beyond the names of the beers. Fine if you're serving fairly common stuff, but most of it was unfamiliar to me, and I'd have liked to know the style and the price, at the very least, if not also the ABV. As I recall, the prices were on the high side (average $7). Also the atmosphere reminded me of a divey rock club.
That said, the beer and food were both pretty good. I'd go back, with Beermenus.com loaded on a smartphone.
― jaymc, Friday, 4 January 2013 18:56 (eleven years ago) link
(xxpost)
My only complaint is when a bar isn't clear about whether a beer is served in a pint glass or a snifter. I like a good big pint o' beer.
― sandwich shortage (Eazy), Friday, 4 January 2013 18:57 (eleven years ago) link
I'd go back, with Beermenus.com loaded on a smartphone.
Whose smartphone, who knows.
― jaymc, Friday, 4 January 2013 18:57 (eleven years ago) link
You'd better take your wife or Jeff or me, just to be safe.
EZ - the higher the alcohol content, the less likely you are to get it in a pint glass, if that helps.
― carl agatha, Friday, 4 January 2013 18:59 (eleven years ago) link
Beer menus has the size of the glass too.
― Jeff, Friday, 4 January 2013 19:00 (eleven years ago) link
I'd vote for any governor that makes a Simpson reference. You got vote Pat!
― Jeff, Thursday, 9 January 2014 18:50 (ten years ago) link
Given his animosity towards AFSCME and his own employees, I find some of that disingenuous (a politician??? Disingenuous???) but it's not like I would everrrrrr vote for a Republican gov so whatever.
― carl agatha, Thursday, 9 January 2014 18:59 (ten years ago) link
http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2014/01/100-days-of-summer-episode-one-recap
― Jeff, Thursday, 9 January 2014 19:17 (ten years ago) link
guys I've spent the last 3 minutes witnessing a Chicago cop in a marked SUV try to free himself from a snowbank on my street, almost hitting a stop sign, a car, and another cop in the process
it's beautiful
― |$̲̅(̲̅ιοο̲̅)̲̅$̲̅| (gr8080), Friday, 10 January 2014 02:08 (ten years ago) link
a woman just loaned him a shovel
― |$̲̅(̲̅ιοο̲̅)̲̅$̲̅| (gr8080), Friday, 10 January 2014 02:09 (ten years ago) link
I'm 2 for 3 on push-outs this year.
I heard a majority of CPD SUVs are 2WD which is totally lol in the winter.
― dan m, Friday, 10 January 2014 05:24 (ten years ago) link
badass
― mh, Friday, 10 January 2014 06:50 (ten years ago) link
Temp goes above 32 for the first time in 2014 today. On my way to summer. Suck it winter.
― Jeff, Friday, 10 January 2014 13:17 (ten years ago) link
this woman rules: http://voices.suntimes.com/news/humboldt-park-woman-sick-of-dibs-shovels-entire-block-nodibs/
― dan m, Friday, 10 January 2014 20:48 (ten years ago) link
I bet she was sore the next day! Bless her.
We've got a new washing machine! It's all fancy and HE and has actual working temperature controls and a real delicate cycle.
― carl agatha, Friday, 10 January 2014 21:14 (ten years ago) link
https://scontent-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/1511157_10152153229645056_1918672601_n.jpg
― dan m, Friday, 10 January 2014 21:22 (ten years ago) link
xp I was at sisut's family's place over the holidays and I swear their washer/dryer combo has some kind of wifi connectivity.
― dan m, Friday, 10 January 2014 21:25 (ten years ago) link
Snow --> deep freeze ---> rain ---> we now live in the middle of a lake of dog urineso gross out there
― mambo jumbo (La Lechera), Friday, 10 January 2014 23:02 (ten years ago) link
Ugh and the appliance guy wore his boots to walk through the house.
― carl agatha, Friday, 10 January 2014 23:13 (ten years ago) link
Okay, can we go back to the -40 degree weather now? It doesn't seem all that bad in light of Slushpocalypse. Seriously considered just going ahead and taking my effing shoes off on the way home this evening.
― Greasy Wallet (Old Lunch), Saturday, 11 January 2014 00:10 (ten years ago) link
i for one hope we get some more sub-zero weather, and not only because i just got my down coat
― |$̲̅(̲̅ιοο̲̅)̲̅$̲̅| (gr8080), Saturday, 11 January 2014 00:26 (ten years ago) link
sweet fucking christ I think I went knee-deep in a slushpuddle
― mh, Saturday, 11 January 2014 00:30 (ten years ago) link
I wear 8" water proof boots. Slush is no problem. It's snow dying and I enjoy it.
― Jeff, Saturday, 11 January 2014 01:18 (ten years ago) link
well I didn't see you out at the bar so nyeah :P
― mh, Saturday, 11 January 2014 06:10 (ten years ago) link
No one told me where to go!
― Jeff, Saturday, 11 January 2014 09:23 (ten years ago) link
not sure how accurate this is, but its a map depicting the fate of former Dominicks
https://mapsengine.google.com/map/edit?mid=zYxrjPM9r5dw.kgZ1rPyFShok
the one in streeterville is turning in to a whole foods
― |$̲̅(̲̅ιοο̲̅)̲̅$̲̅| (gr8080), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 16:34 (ten years ago) link
as i suspected, closing or unknown :(
― mambo jumbo (La Lechera), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 16:40 (ten years ago) link
I walked by that one and wondered what was up. rip Dominicks, I guess
― mh, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 16:41 (ten years ago) link
Only one that is relevant for me is the one off of Fullerton becoming a Whole Foods, which is great. Well it will be if they have a bar.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 16:54 (ten years ago) link
mh are you still here
jeff-- is that the one by the CTA red/brown/purple stop?
― |$̲̅(̲̅ιοο̲̅)̲̅$̲̅| (gr8080), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 17:17 (ten years ago) link
no, I left saturday
I will sneak off from this thread now, like a thief in the night
― mh, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 17:18 (ten years ago) link
out with ye
― |$̲̅(̲̅ιοο̲̅)̲̅$̲̅| (gr8080), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 17:21 (ten years ago) link
so has anyone been to any cool wedding spots that were cheap and affordable and won't cost a lot of money? also cheap
― bnw, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 17:34 (ten years ago) link
my brother got a good deal here, but prob because of winter: http://ravenswoodeventcenter.com/
― |$̲̅(̲̅ιοο̲̅)̲̅$̲̅| (gr8080), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 17:35 (ten years ago) link
worth booking an appointment, the sales/management staff are cool people and will be realistic about your budget, etc
― |$̲̅(̲̅ιοο̲̅)̲̅$̲̅| (gr8080), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 17:36 (ten years ago) link
http://www.dankhaus.com/ was our first choice for a Chicago wedding before we decided on a destination wedding.
― dan m, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 17:40 (ten years ago) link
I've also been to a wedding at the Ravenswood center and it was pretty classy.
Jeff and I got married at marriage court in the county building in the Loop. So cheap it was free.
We had our reception at the Hopleaf which really was cheap - two (three?) hours of open bar and a really nice selection of food for I think 25 people (maybe 30?) for about $2k. I don't know if they still do that kind of private party anymore or if it would still be that cheap. This was in 2005, pre Check Please and remodel.
IME the best way to get married on the cheap was to keep it small.
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 17:48 (ten years ago) link
jaymc and NA and their brides both got married in lovely locations that I think were budget minded, but they'll have to say where bc I forgot.
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 17:50 (ten years ago) link
i just looked at this place for my brother's rehearsal dinner. their private party room is pretty great, but only big enough for about 45 guests total, and the food costs are way way lower than most event spaces:
http://bigbrickschicago.com/catering-and-parties
― |$̲̅(̲̅ιοο̲̅)̲̅$̲̅| (gr8080), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 17:54 (ten years ago) link
Big Bricks is good. I would get married there.
Private party rooms in restaurants are good bc you don't have to rent a bunch of chairs and plates and crap.
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 17:56 (ten years ago) link
iirc the big savings at Dankhaus was on booze, because you could stock your own bar (i.e. not pay ridic inflated prices from their vendors) and they would provide a bartender.
― dan m, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 17:57 (ten years ago) link
at big bricks you have the option of an open bar or having a cash bar, and there's no bartender fee either way
the food menu is per item too, and not per person
― |$̲̅(̲̅ιοο̲̅)̲̅$̲̅| (gr8080), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 17:59 (ten years ago) link
keeping it small and keeping the rehearsal dinner very small are definitely the initial strategies. thanks for the input
― bnw, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 18:09 (ten years ago) link
Oh wow, the former Dominick's by my workplace is turning into a Whole Foods. And it'll be kitty-corner to a current Mariano's.
― Je55e, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 18:13 (ten years ago) link
Gr8, yes.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 18:16 (ten years ago) link
http://www.chicagomag.com/dining-drinking/January-2014/Links-TapRoom/
I'd just like to say I had a vision for a bar almost exactly like this about 3 years ago.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 18:25 (ten years ago) link
You say to yourself, "It's good to be alive," when you make a reservation at C@tch 35.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoTdFb9QI1U
― Je55e, Sunday, 19 January 2014 18:02 (ten years ago) link
http://www.suntimes.com/news/cityhall/25080385-418/divvy-supplier-files-bankruptcy.html
― tbd (Eazy), Tuesday, 21 January 2014 15:12 (ten years ago) link
Unlikely to affect anything here. Good post of a dumb site regarding it: http://www.reddit.com/r/chicago/comments/1vpm6k/divvy_supplier_files_bankruptcy/ceuoccc
― Jeff, Tuesday, 21 January 2014 15:23 (ten years ago) link
I miss jibjabbin with you guys. Twitter isn't the same at all.
― mambo jumbo (La Lechera), Tuesday, 21 January 2014 15:25 (ten years ago) link
Maybe we need a new thread? It's not mmxiii anymore, after all.
― ruth rendell writing as (askance johnson), Tuesday, 21 January 2014 15:32 (ten years ago) link
guys last nite's snow was very pretty, i went for a long walk in it
― |$̲̅(̲̅ιοο̲̅)̲̅$̲̅| (gr8080), Tuesday, 21 January 2014 15:42 (ten years ago) link
That sounds lovely. I slept through it, then it killed my home Internet, then this morning I shoveled it.
― mambo jumbo (La Lechera), Tuesday, 21 January 2014 15:52 (ten years ago) link
xxp I did it ✶✶✶✶ Chicago MMXIV ✶✶✶✶
― dan m, Tuesday, 21 January 2014 15:53 (ten years ago) link