Hi all - the
American Library Association conference is happening here in Chicago June 27-July 2. IANYL - hell, IANEven*A*L - but it sounds like the type of thing where significant MeFite repping is possible. Should we try for a meetup during the conference?
posted by deliciae
on Jun 7, 2013 -
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Goat Song : Chicago is the story of a year in the life of a group of mefites who abandoned their one-bedroom apartments in Chicago to live under Michigan Avenue raise Billy Goats. In poetic, reverent detail, EvilSpork talks of our ancient relationship to the land and our gradual alienation from the Billy Goats that feed us. His fascinating account traces his journey of the choosing of the billy goat, and learning how to breed, brew, and curse the cubs with them.
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posted by garlic
on May 28, 2013 -
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RMH August DINNER: We continue to have a great time cooking dinner for people at the Hyde Park Ronald McDonald House (5444 South Drexel Avenue, Chicago, IL) so we're doing it again on 8/31/13 starting around 4:30 and finishing around 8:30. It's like a potluck that we all make together at their kitchen, and also feed families of sick kids.
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posted by garlic
on May 23, 2013 -
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This is last minuteish, I know, but would anyone be interested in a meetup on Wednesday evening?
UPDATE: Confirmed. Looking forward to meeting folks!
posted by EvaDestruction
on May 18, 2013 -
21 comments
The University of Chicago's annual scavenger hunt - alternately known as Scav - is an exciting festival of high-weirdness. I really enjoyed this year's incarnation, and would like to field a MeFi team for next year's if that's feasible.
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posted by LSK
on May 13, 2013 -
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So, my mom's dealing with her second round of cancer, and I'm flying back from L.A. to Chicago for a week to deal with all that. I'm going to need a good night of hedonism to take the edge off. It looks like
Chances is the place to be, so I'm planning to show up sometime between 10 and 10:30 on Saturday the 4th to werk it out.
(Note: I'll have my brother and my family to help process the heavy stuff, so this night is all about fun and camaraderie and celebrating life. Don't be afraid!)
posted by mykescipark
on Apr 30, 2013 -
6 comments
Meet MeFi's own me3dia at Brando's Speakeasy for his annual karaoke get-together! Join
Gapers Block staff and readers for drinks and singing after work.
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posted by eamondaly
on Mar 25, 2013 -
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April is National Grilled Cheese Month. Let's celebrate together at
Cheesies (958 West Belmont Avenue Chicago, IL 60657).
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posted by garlic
on Mar 23, 2013 -
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I used to live in Chicago. I come back a lot, but I've never been to a Chicago meetup. Would anyone like to go out for drinks on Sunday, March 24, at Half Acre Tap Room?
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posted by jessypie
on Mar 13, 2013 -
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RMH brunch: Dinner is great and all, but brunch is even better. So let's cook brunch for familes of sick kids at Ronald McDonald House in Hyde Park.
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posted by garlic
on Mar 8, 2013 -
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RMH DINNER: We had a great time cooking dinner for people at the Hyde Park Ronald McDonald House so we're doing it again. It's like a potluck that we all make together at their kitchen, and also feed families of sick kids.
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posted by garlic
on Mar 2, 2013 -
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Rossi's It Is!
A last minute trip has me in Chicago this Thursday night. I am staying at the Marriott on Magnificent Mile downtown. I haven't seen you guys in over a year.
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posted by mrzarquon
on Jan 28, 2013 -
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I got a bunch of great responses to
this question about what to do in Chicago, and one of the suggestions for things to do in Chicago is a meetup. So, does anyone want to meet up at Hopleaf on Saturday the 5th at around 7:30pm?
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posted by _cave
on Jan 2, 2013 -
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EDIT: We got sniped on the date by some other do-gooders! Let's reassess after we do it at Hyde Park. [more inside]
posted by garlic
on Dec 17, 2012 -
13 comments
RMH Dinner 1: Let's get together and cook dinner for sick kids and their families at the Hyde Park Ronald McDonald House (5444 South Drexel Avenue, Chicago, IL) on Saturday, 3/2/13 starting around 4:30pm and finishing around 8:30pm
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posted by garlic
on Dec 17, 2012 -
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So the proposed meetup is cooking dinner in Feburary or March at a Ronald McDonald house to be determined.
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posted by garlic
on Dec 6, 2012 -
10 comments
September has begun (or will have had begun when this meetup has happened) and thus it is time for a billy goat tavern meetup followed by the totally optional (and totally awesome) karaoking at the blue frog.
posted by garlic
on Aug 24, 2012 -
64 comments
I'm coming back to Chicago in June and can get together the 16th.
Have you found a karaoke joint to replace the Bongo Room? I'm ok with going somewhere else for those who don't like singing.
posted by brujita
on May 24, 2012 -
17 comments
So, Wednesday is April 4th, the first Wednesday in April. Shall we meet at the Goat as per usual?
posted by crush-onastick
on Mar 27, 2012 -
69 comments
I keep losing track of when the March Goating is. It should be next week, but for the leap year thing, it's the week
after. So I'm putting it here, to keep me from forgetting. Perhaps it will help someone else. In the interests of helping others, we'll meet instead at the
Grafton Pub, in Lincoln Square, where misskaz is guest bartending from 6pm-9pm to raise money for the shearing of her
goat head for charity.
posted by crush-onastick
on Feb 20, 2012 -
61 comments
Miss Kaz and I started
a bike gang. Our first event is a bar night at one of our favorite tiny local watering holes that will end with a short, three mile group ride to the best monthly dance night in town. If you don't bike, we won't tell.
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posted by Juliet Banana
on Feb 7, 2012 -
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I have no idea what I'm doing for Halloween, which falls on a Monday this year. Anyone in a similar predicament for that day, or the previous Friday/Saturday (28th/29th)?
posted by Evilspork
on Oct 11, 2011 -
18 comments
You know you want to be there, so just say yes to tiny beers. Happy autumnal equinox evryone!
posted by youngergirl44
on Sep 23, 2011 -
141 comments
Folks I am as serious as a boring lawyer commercial heart attack
with no explosions. We are eating pizza at Pequod's and
everyone is going to have to explain the bathroom Gandalf. In conclusion: Pizza. Pequod's. Eating. You. Me.
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posted by shakespeherian
on Sep 7, 2011 -
179 comments
Didn't see the monthly goat-up post. Figured I'd make it.
I feel like Charlie from
Charlie's Angels. Nobody ever sees me, but I'm running the cabal!
posted by tzikeh
on Aug 26, 2011 -
70 comments
There's no post for the (I assume) August 3rd Goat meet-up.
Of course, I'm just wondering, since I've never actually made it to one....
posted by tzikeh
on Jul 26, 2011 -
51 comments
Miko
popped into the picnic thread to say she'd be here July 23-28 and is free in the evening while she's here (except on Sunday and Monday). Like most conference-goers, she's staying Loopish.
Since the monthly Goat is one week later, I propose a different spot. But where? There's the conundrum. We have decided upon
Ten Cat in Lakeview.
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posted by crush-onastick
on Jul 18, 2011 -
66 comments
And they're like,
yeah, it's ok...I mean, there are better places to get a burger, but this'll do just fine it's better than yours.
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posted by phunniemee
on May 25, 2011 -
29 comments
So, ASCO (American Society for Clinical Oncology) is coming up, and I'm curious to know if there are any other oncology-oriented Mefites (at all), and if so, if any are going to the meeting? It's a pretty big meeting -- certainly there's got to be a few, huh?
A cancer-themed meetup? Could be interesting. We could, as a group, kibbitz as we roam the exhibit hall seeking out free trinkets and frozen yogurt treats.
posted by scblackman
on May 15, 2011 -
4 comments
