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Had a first date there once. Super chill place with tons of history.

 

I dabbled in Old Town with some friends for Browns games during the NFL season, but I don't really have much need to go there currently.

The weather has been great so far this week. Not ready for it to go back to shit again on Thursday.

 

Some parts of Old Town are great, but that mess of bars at Wells/North is super hit or miss. It dabbles into Wrigleyesque douchedom on the weekends, for sure. Great restaurants there, though.

 

I agree. Love most of food I've had in that area. Topo Gigio and Chicago Q are my faves. I'll avoid the area like the plague after 9 most days though.

 

Chicago Q I've had once and it was incredible.

 

It's tied for Smoque for best BBQ in the city for me...I haven't tried a lot of the new places that have been popping up over the last few years though so my frame of reference might be a bit off.

 

I moved to Skokie about 2.5 years ago from out of the country, i go to shows probably every 2-3 weeks. I always go by myself (I am 34 yrs old, don't really know anyone around here).

Anyone been to the Rochaus in West Dundee yet? They seem to have some good shows there

 

Anyone hitting Propagandhi/Iron Chic tom?

 

I should be there, as well as the G-man after show.

 

Hellz yeah hmu

 

Will do! Are you going to G-man afterwards? That event should be a good time and you should be able to get in free with the concert wristband.

 

Prob not. I gotta drive back to the burbs after lol.

 

Is anyone else at Alvvays? Metro isn't much smaller than Thalia but this show seems so much more crowded

 

It sold I’m pretty sure so that would make sense. I’m over at Beat Kitchen for the Copyrights. Really wanted to catch Alvvays though. Have a good show!

 

Won't be able to make this because I'll be out of the country, but this seems like it'd be a swell time. $35 for this seems reasonable.

 

WHAT?!?!

Def going to spring for that.

 

Weird that it exists

 

Anyone interested in two tickets to the Felix Culpa show tonight at Beat Kitchen? I had a family matter come up and cannot attend.

2 tickets, no charge, take and enjoy.

 

I hate that thing the L does where if there are long delays they turn a bunch of trains into Express, making me even more late. It probably makes sense in the grand scheme of the train schedules but it's super inconvienent.

 

Logistically, it makes complete sense because they need to get the L trains spread out again to get proper traffic flowing again along the lines. It's one of the only things I hated about commuting to work downtown everyday as opposed to doing the reverse commute out to the north suburbs everyday...but my current job is so much better than my old consulting job downtown so I'm ultimately not gonna complain. My move to Des Plaines last year made the commute a lot easier than it was from Jefferson Park (now 20-30 minutes as opposed to 45 min- 1 hour 15 min one way).

 

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Good night, sweet prince.

 

Just had the absolute worst Uber experience of my life.

Trying to ride Pool on the way home from seeing Infinity War in Lincoln Park. The first driver picked someone up very close to me and that apparently made the app think it picked me up too, so the driver drove right past me.

Second driver picks me up and then proceeds to ask me to read the check engine lights on his dashboard to him because he can't see without his glasses! Then he drives down a dark alley, which turns out is a dead end.

We drop off the second rider and then pick someone up at the Addison Red Line who is INCREDIBLY DRUNK. He keeps opening and closing the windows, and saying he doesn't feel too well, making noises like he's going to throw up. The driver pulls over, not to let the guy throw up or anything, but to turn on the overhead light so the drunk guy can plug his phone into the aux port!

So now we are like three blocks north of Metro on Clark when the second rider realizes that I'm getting dropped off first. He tells the driver "I'll pay you to drop me off first, turn right!" And the driver does. So I tell the driver to stop the car and I got out.

 

Shocking.

I fucking hate Wrigleyville.

 

Anyone interested in seeing Jonah Ray at @North Bar in Wicker Park? None of my friends are biting but he is performing 4 times: 2 stand up sets, a live move riffing (a la MST3K) and a taping of his podcast Jonah Raydio.

Festival of Me with Jonah Ray - liveatnorthbar.com

Festival of Me with Jonah Ray

Friday April 27 –
8:00 PM – Stand Up Comedy
10:00 PM – Live Movie Riffing

Saturday April 28
8:00 PM – Stand Up Comedy
10:00 PM – Jonah Raydio Live Recording

Tickets: $20 In Advance / $25 At Door

 

at least we have the gman there...