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Friday, August 5: Bar1Events Tapas Party @ McGee's & Other Parties

Tapas Party at McGee's this Friday!

Enjoy a little Spanish flavor at McGee's this Friday, August 5! From 8:30-11:30pm, our $15 meal package will include a huge tapas buffet, as well as sangria, domestic drafts and well drinks.

Monday, August 8 is the first pre-season Bears game! Come watch it at McGee's and enjoy our $15 Bears game meal package, which includes a taco bar and domestic drafts from kickoff until the end of the game!

Next weekend is Rude Beer Weekend at McGee's! Friday, August 12, and Saturday, August 13, we're having back-to-back Rude Beer parties! Both nights it's just $10 for a meal package that includes a huge BBQ buffet, old school cans and domestic drafts from 8:30-11:30pm.

Friday, August 5: Bar1Events Back to School Party @ Jack Sullivans & Other Parties

Back to School Sale at Jack Sullivan's!

Come to Jack Sullivan's for a "Ridiculously Early Back to School Sale" this Friday, August 5! Three-ring binders will not be available, but our $15 meal package WILL include a huge buffet, domestic drafts and well drinks from 9pm-midnight.

Cool off from those hot, hot dog days of summer at Jack Sullivan's this Saturday, August 6! From 9pm-midnight, our $15 meal package includes a big old dog days buffet, as well as domestic drafts and well drinks.

The Cards are playing the Cubs next weekend, and we're celebrating one of the best sports rivalries around! On Saturday, August 13, our $15 post-game meal package includes a pizza buffet, domestic drafts and well drinks from 9pm-midnight. Then, on Sunday, August 14, come watch the game and enjoy a $15 meal package that includes a pizza buffet, domestic drafts and well drinks from 7-10pm.

Friday, August 5: Bar1Events Golf Pros or Tennis Hos at Duffy's & Other Parties

Duffy's is having the perfect Lincoln Park party this Friday, August 5! Dress like a golf pro or a tennis ho and enjoy a $15 meal package that includes a country club buffet, domestic drafts and well drinks from 8:30-11:30pm.

Celebrate the start of another Bears season at Duffy's on Friday, August 12! Our Bears season kick-off meal package will include a huge tailgate buffet, domestic drafts, well drinks, wine and soda from 8:30-11:30pm for just $15. Go Bears!

Join us for our Wedding Singer Brunch Buffet on Sunday, September 4. This will be the grand finale for our brunch buffet since football season is almost here! Come for great food, and stay for the fun music! It's just $15.95 for all you can eat from 10am-3pm.

Saturday, August 6: Bar1Events Bootlegger Bash at Durkin's & Other Parties

Bootlegger Bash at Durkin's!

Fire up the General Lee and speed to Durkin's for the Bootlegger Bash this Saturday, August 6! From 9pm-midnight, our $20 package includes a huge hillbilly BBQ, Uncle Jesse's Moonshine, all drafts and well drinks. See you there!

Come to Durkin's Team Appreciation Night next Thursday, August 11! From 8pm-midnight, our $15 meal package includes an all-you-can-eat cookout, domestic drafts, well drinks and "performance enhancing" punch! Plus, sponsored team members will have a chance to win a $1000 travel voucher from Miller!

Toga, toga, toga at Durkin's on Saturday, August 20! From 9pm-midnight, our $20 meal package includes a frat party pizza buffet, keg beer, Hunch Punch, well drinks, wine and soda (for the snooty Kappa Sigma type). Be sure to wear your togas as we will be giving away prizes for best one!

Tuesday, August 9 - Tuesday, August 23: Chicago Outdoor Film Festival In Grant Park

Chicago Outdoor Film Festival

Screens Roger Ebert’s Great Movies

Tuesday’s at Sunset in Butler Field in Grant Park at Lake Shore Drive & Monroe

Chicago announces the 6th Annual Chicago Outdoor Film Festival, presented by ComEd, Charter One Bank, the Mayor's Office of Special Events and the Chicago Park District. Beloved and respected film critic Roger Ebert has personally selected this year's lineup, choosing titles from his books: Great Movies and Great Movies II. The movies are: Citizen Kane, Annie Hall, My Darling Clementine, E.T., The Night of the Hunter, The Hustler, and Star Wars.

The City is proclaiming July 12, “Roger Ebert Day in Chicago,” and will pay tribute to him with a sidewalk plaque under the marquee at the Chicago Theatre. The Chicago Theatre is a historic landmark, one of the first such buildings in the nation of its kind and is the oldest surviving theater in the city. On opening night of the Chicago Outdoor Film Fest (July 12), the public can join the city and film critic Richard Roeper in celebration as it pays tribute to Roger Ebert at the Chicago Outdoor Film Festival. The program will begin at 8 p.m. Ebert will also receive a Star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame this summer.

Roger Ebert was born in Urbana, Illinois. He attended the University of Illinois where he was editor of the school newspaper, The Daily Illini. In 1967, after graduate school at the University of Chicago, he became film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times. He was the first movie critic to receive the Pulitzer Prize, in 1975, for arts criticism. Ebert is a syndicated in 200 papers across the United States and co-host of “Ebert and Roeper and the Movies,” along with Sun-Times movie critic and columnist Richard Roeper.

Ebert has been credited with speaking the common man’s language when it comes to critiquing movies, something he is loved for around the globe. Ebert is a world-renowned critic, and a Chicago institution and chooses to live in what he calls “The Greatest City,” Chicago! Ebert resides in Chicago with his wife Chaz Hammelsmith Ebert and their family.

"On behalf of the City of Chicago, I salute Roger Ebert," says Mayor Richard M. Daley. "Ebert is a Pulitzer Prize winner who keeps giving back to his community through his academic endeavors as well as through his journalism. He has raised the bar for film critics everywhere through his in-depth analysis of the movies."

The Chicago Outdoor Film Festival is FREE and shows movies every Tuesday for seven weeks beginning
July 12 through August 23. Movies begin at sunset.

The Night of the Hunter - August 9, 8:30 p.m.
Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish
In the only film directed by actor Charles Laughton, Mitchum chillingly plays a psychotic preacher with L-O-V-E and H-A-T-E tattooed on his knuckles. He terrorizes his stepchildren in pursuit of a fortune hidden in a little girl’s doll.
(93 minutes)

The Hustler - August 16, 8:20 p.m.
Paul Newman, Jackie Gleason, Piper Laurie
Small-time pool hustler “Fast" Eddie Felson has a lot of talent but a self-destructive attitude causes him to challenge the legendary "Minnesota Fats" to a high-stakes match. In a heartbreaking marathon match, he loses everything, so Fast Eddie joins up with a ruthless and cutthroat manager who agrees to take him on the road to learn the ropes. But Felson soon realizes that making it to the top could cost him his soul.
(135 minutes)

Star Wars - August 23, 8:09 p.m.
Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Alec Guiness
George Lucas created a cultural phenomenon and iconoclastic characters in what we now know as Chapter #4 of this classic sci-fi serial. It’s where we first meet Princess Leia, captured by an evil tyrant, and the heroes, Luke Skywalker and Han Solo, who help to rescue her and destroy his empire.
1977 (121 minutes)

The screen measures (50’ x 34’) and boasts a state-of-the art sound system. Movies begin at sunset (see show times below) in Butler Field, Grant Park at Lake Shore Drive and Monroe. Admission is free,

For your comfort, cyclists can beat the traffic by biking and the Chicagoland Bicycle Federation and the Mayor’s Office of Special Events provides FREE Bike Valet Parking at all films. The valet is located on the northwest corner of Lake Shore Drive and Monroe Streets. No pets allowed please!

A special thanks to our presenting sponsors, ComEd and Charter One Bank and the generous support of our other sponsors the Chicago Sun-Times, WNUA – 95.5, and the Chicago Transit Authority

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Saturday, August 6: 3rd Annual Porkfest at McGee's & Bootlegger Bash @ Durkin's

There's nothing better than a summer barbecue, and we have super-sized that event! Join us on Saturday, August 6, for our third annual Porkfest -- a general celebration of meat! If you missed this last year, you really missed out! We had ribs, pulled pork, deep-fried turkey, deep-fried bacon, plus a lot more meat and all the fixings. It's delicious, and it's all you can eat all day long for only $15! The $15 meal package also includes domestic drafts from 1-4pm, so don't miss out! Call 773.868.8073 for more information.

Saturday, August 6 - Sunday August 7: Northalsted Market Days

Date: August 6, 2005 - August 7, 2005
Time: 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Location: N. Halsted street, between Belmont and Addison

On August 6th and 7th, tens of thousands of people from across the country will converge on Halsted Street to celebrate the 24th annual Northalsted Market Days. This event is the largest two-day street fair in the Midwest, and lives up to its reputation as one of the country's finest festivals!

The event spans six city blocks, has 17 entrance gates and features three music stages with more than 40 musical acts performing. Many of these artists will be top-name, national headliners, giving Market Days a reputation for some of the best live music in Chicago.

Market Days is also famous for its vast array of unique food, and arts and crafts vendors. Vendors from across the country apply for the privilege of showing and selling their unique wares to this huge, upscale crowd. On average, Northalsted Market Days features 400 food, arts and crafts vendors.

Friday, August 12: Cynthia Lin - jazz folk singer/songwriter at Uncommon Ground

Wednesday, August 17: ExpressDater's Rooftop Musical Chair Dinner at Vine's On Clark

Rooftop Musical Chair Dinner at Vine's On Clark!
3554 N. Clark St. (Clark & Addision)
Free parking lot next door!!

Wednesday, August 17th 7:00-9:30-4 course meal only $38.00

Wrigleyville's vibrant new restaurant.  An American Trattoria featuring Italian influenced cuisine.  This Italian eatery is definitely no sports bar.  Vines is a welcome addition to an area filled with sports bars and fast food. With chef power coming from Tim Edstrom (Everest, Kiki's Bistro, Spiaggia) and Raul Ramos (Spiaggia, Pump Room), we're expecting tasty execution of the European-injected contemporary American menu. You'll enjoy delicious entres, attentive service and an incredible atmosphere. 

You will be seated alternately male and female and after each course the men will rotate seats. This is a wonderful and fun way to travel to the Italian countryside without leaving Chicago and talk with your fellow dinner guests over a meal you surely won't forget.  Come out, join us and enjoy eating outside along Clark Street's newest Italian restaurant.

There is a huge parking lot for free

Hope you can make it- Sign up at www.expressdater.com or call me at 773-477-8520 and I will sign you up.

Paula
 

Friday, August 19: Tavern Club Junior Board's 2nd Annual Luau

The Second Annual Lu'au is hosted by

The Tavern Club Junior Board
333 N. Michigan Avenue – 25/26th floors, Chicago, IL
August 19th – 8 pm (VIP reception – 7 pm)

Come out and support the Lance Armstrong Foundation and have a coconut-flavored good time
at this landmark venue on the highest outdoor drinking and dining patio in Chicago.  

We will start the evening by bringing you back to the sounds of the 80’s with the Sixteen Candles band.   After sunset, we’ll dance with hula dancers to the sounds of DJ Greg Bauer and percussionist Bam Bam Buddha.  Special guests will include former Chicago Bulls superstars.  All the while, you will have the chance to partake in the colossal open bar, hors d’oeuvres, and silent auction.  For a sneak preview of the fabulous silent auction items, click here!

There will be a V.I.P. Reception starting at 7pm in cocktail lounge with spectacular views of the
Magnificent Mile.

Cost:     $60 in Advance
             $70 at the Door
             $125 VIP Reception

Purchase tickets and event details at www.tavernclubjuniors.com

Saturday, August 20: PPC's 7th Annual Post Air & Water Show Party at Party Central

Saturday, August 20: Chicago Shakers Glow In the Dark Party at Columbia Yacht Club

Chicago Shakers Annual Glow in the Dark Party! A night of magic in the air-and on the water! Ever been to a party under the stars at Chicago's largest floating dance floor on the lake? Come join us for drinks, dancing and fun astern the Columbia Yacht Club. We'll be serving food and spinning tunes until 12 midnight. Don't forget - fireworks at 10 pm!! Dance Music provided by Music Creations Hot and Cold Appetizers Cash Bar Columbia Yacht Club (Blue Yacht located at Randolph and Lake Shore Drive) Saturday, August 20th 8:00pm - 12midnight Tickets are $20.00 with RSVP, pay at door $25.00 at door if available This is an open party for members and non-members. Please invite all your friends!

To register go to http://www.chicagoshakers.com/special_event/signup.html or call 773-404-7067