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1/19/2006

Upcoming Events and Other Fun Stuff in Chicago



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Picture(s) of the Week!

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Here's a picture of the gang from Nora's Eve of the Eve preparty. More pix from the Eve of the Eve itself can be found here.

Weekly Feature(s):

  • NPR Time Kill of the Week: Glass Shape Can Affect Amount of Alcohol Poured. A researcher at Cornell University has found that even when bartenders are told to be very careful, they pour about 30 percent more alcohol into a tumbler-sized glass than a highball-sized glass. The result can mean people have more to drink than they think they're getting.

    http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5070178

     

  • Internet Time Kill of the Week: Do Not Call Registry. JUST A REMINDER, 14 days from today, cell phone numbers  are being released to telemarketing companies and you will start to receive sale calls. YOU WILL BE CHARGED FOR THESE CALLS!

    These telemarketers will eat up your free minutes and end  up costing you money in the long run. To prevent this, call the following number from your cell phone: 1-888-382-1222. It is the National DO NOT CALL list. It will only take a minute of your time. It blocks your number for five (5) years. You can also register your number at www.donotcall.gov.

 

 

Fridge Door Bonus Pics!

Here's a pic of PPC old guard royalty Marietta visiting back from London and Mahu visiting back from East Wilmette. At least Tina still lives in the city! A couple more pix from that night can be found here.
 

Thanks to the over 350 peeps who turned out for the 2005 12 Bars of Christmas. Pictures of this wipeout can be found here.

New! Festa's Pix from TBOX 10 (Finally!!)

Here's a pic of the host with the most, our buddy Tom at his house party on New Year's Eve on Lincoln. Definitely the place to be that night! A few more pix from this blowout and the other two stops on NYE can be found here.


PPC and PPC-Sanctioned Parties: This relatively new section contains parties hosted by the PPC itself and our immediate friends, or events we highly recommend/sanction. If you're part of our regular crew, this is where you're guaranteed to see our core crowd. These are either house parties, charity fundraisers, or other events run at cost by friends just for the fun of it.

Other Upcoming Parties and Events: This section holds parties and events run by folks other than our core group including various other groups of friends, organized social clubs, charity organizations, and for-profit commercial entities.

 

 
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Weekly Ten Buck Wipeout at the Union Tavern

Union Tavern 6-9PM Every Friday!!! Union still opens at 5pm , but the drink package begins at 6pm . Now everyone can have that extra time to get home from work and then get out to Union!

Union Tavern - 2858 N Halsted
Time: 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Cost: Only $10 bucks
Includes: *Bud/Bud light drafts *Well drinks *Pizza *Quesadillas *Chips/Salsa *$5 Jaeger bomb special

Once the $10 deal is over at 9pm, enjoy $1.50 domestic drafts ALL NIGHT (every Friday now)

 

H3 Events Thursday Parties @ Casey Moran's

Casey Moran's Bar - 3660 N. Clark St, Chicago

Enjoy our usual drink/food special from 6-9pm for only $10 bucks!:

* Miller Lite * Bass * Harp * Honkers * Blue Moon * Pilsner Urquell * Sam Adams * Stella Arquois

* PLUS well drinks * Pizza * Quesadillas * Chips & Salsa

For additional info email: lisa@h3events.com

Every Thursday in December 8 big name Chicago bands (and we mean BIG NAMEBANDS) will be competing for a trip to go to Sister Hazels Rock Boat which is the largest out to sea music festival featuring 30 of today's top musical artists. The bands will not only get to go on the cruise, but they will be able to jam as well. Please come out and support your favorite band(s), as 25% of their judging depends on audience approval. There will be 6 judges including some of your favorite radio personalities and celebrities like Chris Payne from Q101, plus more! Plus you yourself can win a trip to the rockboat. Raffle tickets for $10 each will be available for purchase each week, only 150 tickets will be sold and we are offering 10 prizes.

 

Friday January 20: The Alleyways Live at The Note

Hello all, Come support some local guys with some  actual talent. The Alleyways live at The fabulous Emergenza Battle of the Bands. An Extravaganza if you will (And some may will).

The Note
Friday January 20th, 11PM
1565 N. Milwaukee Ave.  Chicago, IL. 60622

$10 prior, $15 at door.

 

Friday, January 20: Bar Revu @ The Pepper Canister

FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 2006

7:30PM - ???

The Pepper Canister - (Wells St. and Grand Ave.) 509 N. Wells St. Chicago, IL

312-467-3300

The Pepper Canister is an Irish pub/restaurant with a church theme.

Look at the menu and you'll see what I mean. It's a modern Irish neighborhood pub with great food. Great selection of beers, martinis, and wine. It's 2006, so stop on by and have a drink and if you're hungry, order up some Irsih fare. With its religious theme, you may even have a heavenly experience. Enough said.

See you there!

www.barrevu.com

 

Friday, January 20: Bar1Events Basketball Kickoff @ Duffy's

Friday, January 20, we're having a BIG TEN basketball party! Come celebrate the start of a new BIG TEN season from 8:30-11:30pm. Our $15 meal package will include a huge buffet, domestic drafts, well drinks and soda, plus cool t-shirts for the first 50 girls and 50 guys!

 

Friday, January 20 & Saturday, January 21: Bar1Events Parties @ McGee's

We're having fun with Jello at McGee's this Friday, January 20! We've elevated the Suck and Blow to an art form, and now we're taking it to the next level! Jiggle your way over to McGee's, where our $15 meal package will include Jello concoctions, a buffet, domestic drafts, well drinks and soda from 8:30-11:30pm.

Have a Blue Moon Saturday at McGee's this weekend! This Saturday, January 21, Blue Moon will be included in our $15 meal package! This meal package will also include a buffet, domestic drafts and well drinks from 8:30-11:30pm! See you there!

 

Saturday, January 21: January Birthday Pub Crawl in Wrigleyville

My friends Amy and Aarthi are having a pub crawl for their birthdays and they said "invite everyone you know" so here goes...

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Our Birthday Celebration is calling for a Pub Crawl! We thought is would be fun to do a crawling of the Wrigleyville bars for our birthdays. If your a Capricorn, Aquarius, or just are just in a mood to party, come out and join us.

TO BE WELCOMED: Come out and wear some bling, a wig, hat, or something to make yourself announced, or have to deal with Aarthi's wrath.

PUB CRAWL SCHEDULE:
8:00-8:45pm Murphy's Bleachers (3655 N. Sheffield/Waveland)
8:45pm-9:30pm Casey Moran's (3660 N. Clark)
9:30pm-10:15pm Cubby Bear Bar (1059 W. Addison/Clark)
10:15pm-11:00pm Slugger's (3540 N. Clark)
11:00pm-11:45pm Irish Oak (3511 N. Clark)
11:45pm-12:30pm Red Ivy (3525 N. Clark)
???

**drink specials will be dealt with closer to the date.

 

Saturday, January 28: 9th Annual Chili Cookoff @ John Barleycorn Wrigleyville

Ninth Annual Chili Cookoff

Date: Saturday, January 28, 2006

Time: 6:30 - 9 PM -- chili eating, judging and voting.

Place: John Barleycorn, 3524 N. Clark St - Upstairs

Cost: $5 if reserved by Thursday, January 26 ($10 after that)
Pay at the door. Please BRING EXACT CHANGE
All you can eat. Chili goes fast. Cash bar.
Reserve tickets (773) 973 - 9703 or jhouli1@luc.edu

To enter a chili:
No entry fee.
Notify John Houlihan ((773) 973 - 9703) no later than Thursday,
January 26.
Be present with your chili at John Barleycorn by 6 PM
Provide 1 gallon of chili, enough for people to sample.
(If you bring 2.5 gallons, I'll subsidize your chili with $15.)
Voting method: Everyone votes and chooses first, second, and third best chilis.
Categories: Vegetarian and Meat
Prizes: Fame and small tangible awards to winning chilies.

If you have questions or want to volunteer, contact John A. Houlihan at (773) 973 - 9703 (voice mail) or jhouli1@luc.edu


 

Sunday, February 5: Super Bowl Sunday Kickball @ Jonquil Park

ARE YOU READY FOR SOME KICKBALL!!???

After a two-year hiatus, the craziness is back with "Lunatic Bowl VII" on Super Bowl Sunday once again back in Jonquil Park in Lincoln Park.

This classic Festa tradition has been in the can the last few years as he's been busy starting up his business but has always been a complete blast so we're resurrecting it for '06!

Here's the tradition - on Super Bowl Sunday folks would gather at Jonquil Park around 11am for friendly game of kickball in the snow and to have a few drinks. We use orange traffic cones as the bases (regular white bases don't show well in the snow) and there would be traditional "team meetings" between innings to take hits from a bottle of Mad Dog kept under the second base cone.

A group of 12-15 is ideal and it was a great warmup for all those Super Bowl parties later in the day. As you are playing kickball in the snow, little or no athletic ability is required or makes much of a difference.

For reference, here's Festa's old webpage on it:

http://www.itsalongstory.com/fun_archives/chicago_kickball.htm

In keeping with ritual and tradition the 2006 game will be held at the spiritual home of Festa Super Bowl Sunday Kickball, Jonquil Park at the intersection of Wrightwood, Sheffield & Lincoln. It's also close to public transportation and parking is usually quite ample for Lincoln Park as it's Sunday.

Note this is a Chicago Park District property so please don't show up with a half barrel, a case of beer or other conspicuous alcohol. Bottles in bags or pre-mixed drinks have done us well in the past.

Also I have all the equipement needed (cones and balls) in my garage already thanks to my participation in kickball league in Milwaukee (more pictures below for those with time to kill).

http://www.chicagofourth.com/Homestuff/Pictures/Kickballpix.htm

The only thing folks needed to bring was their favorite "warm you up drink" (like schnapps, hard cider, Mad Dog, etc).

I will try and get Festa himself to make a celebrity appearance. Bring it on!

Post-kickball actual Super Bowl (the other game that day) activities TBD but might throw something together depending upon interest or bolt onto someone else's event. Lots of time to figure that one out tho.

Party on,

--Fuji

 

Sunday, February 5: Bar1Events Super Bowl Parties @ Duffy's & McGee's

The Bears may not be in it, but we're still going to have fun on Super Bowl Sunday! Check out these great deals for the biggest football game of the year!
**McGee's - This is going to be the mother of all Sunday Fundays from start to finish! Plus, from kickoff until the end of the Super Bowl, our $25 meal package includes a tailgate buffet, domestic drafts, and well drinks! Check McGee's section below to see how you can win tickets to this party AND a reserved t able!

**Duffy's - Duffy's and Red Eye are teaming up to throw an awesome Super Bowl party! Our $25 meal package will include a Super Bowl buffet, domestic drafts, well drinks, soda and tons of great Red Eye giveaways and prizes!

 

Saturday, February 11: Bar1Events Annual Screw Cupid Pub Crawl

Calling all singles! Join us on Saturday, February 11, for the Pub Crawl that started it all! It's the 7th annual Screw Cupid Pub Crawl, and it is the best way for singles to spend their Valentine's holiday! It's $20 for a meal package that includes buffets at all our bars and domestic draft beer from 8-11pm. As always, we will have trolleys running to McGee's, Wrightwood Tap, Durkin's and Duffy's. You can start and end your pub crawl anywhere you want! Give us a call at 773.868.8073 for more information on the "can't miss" event of the new year!

 

Saturday, February 18: ExpressDater's Throwin' in the Hat, Broken New Year's Resolution Party @ Columbia Yacht Club

Throwin' in the Hat, Broken New Year's Resolution Party!

Saturday Feburary 18th, 8:00pm - 1:00am

Featuring the band "The Hat Guys"

Dump the post-New Year's guilt, and put a little bounce back in your step!

Ever been aboard Chicago's largest floating dance floor on the lake? Come join us for an illuminating evening of drinks and celebration while dancing aboard the Columbia Yacht Club to a live band, "The Hat Guys".

Columbia Yacht Club is located at Randolph & Lake Shore Drive.

Come on board, enjoy the beautiful views of the Chicago Skyline & put on your dancin' shoes! An abundance of hot and cold appetizers.

The Hat Guys are Chicago's premier cover band that plays fun, popular and danceable music!

Tickets $25 with RSVP, (pay at the door) $30 at door without RSVP (If available)

This is one you don't want to miss !

Sign up go to www.expressdater.com or call Call 312-408-0267

 

 

Our Friend Festa A Celebrity - Interviewed on ABC 7's 190 North Show

hey all,
 
i mentioned to some of you i was going to be on tv -- it aired last sunday night and they posted the video on the web -- watch the video from the link here! 

 http://www.190north.com/190/ExtraInfo/011506_shirts.htm

 
i made sure i didn't look like to much of a dork before sending this out, so hopefully you'll agree - and ps, STOP WATCHING after i go off -- the other two companies are L-A-M-E :)
 
Christopher Festa
Founder and CEO, Festa Stuff Incorporated
 
 

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