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dearworld: 2013 Chicago Festival Guide It’s already that time...

Fri, 24 May 2013 11:02:56 -0500

2013 Chicago Festival Guide

It’s already that time of the year for the best season in Chicago: Street Fest Season! Get out your koozis and friends for day drinking, art, music, people watching, cover bands and some 90’s one-hit-wonders play that “one song” that everyone knows (“It’s been….one week since you looked at me…”) and trust me, these band go great with vodka lemonades. Chicago Fest Season 2013!

*Disclosure: There are many more, as this is just a highlighted list.

May

25-26th: Belmont Music Fest (Lakeview)

30-June 2nd: Maifest (Lincoln Square)

31-June 2nd: Do Division (Wicker Park)

June

1-2: Lincoln Live (Lincoln Park)

7: Taste of Greece (West Loop)

7-8: Ribfest (Lakeview)

7-8: Blues Fest (Loop)

8-9: Wells Street Art Fair (Old Town)

8-9: Old Town Art Fair (Old Town)

14-16: Taste of Randolph (West Loop)

15-16: Sausage Fest (Wrigleyville) Hello, Abe Froman?

20-23: Chicago Craft Beer Festival (Old Town)

22-23: Pride Fest (Boystown)

23-24: Green Music Fest (Wicker Park)

28-29: Old St. Pat’s World’s Largest Block Party (West Loop)

29: Summer On Southport (Lakeview)

29-30: Chicago Country Fest (Lincoln Park)

29-30: Lincoln Park Arts and Music Festival (Lincoln Park)

30: Pride Parade (Boystown)

July

5-7: Windy City Rib Fest (Uptown)

6-7: Taste of Lakeview (Lakeview)

6-7: Rock Around the Block (Lakeview)

10-14: Taste of Chicago (Grant Park)

12-14: Windy City Smokeout (River North)

19-21: Pitchfork (Union Station)

20: Sheffield Garden Walk (Lincoln Park)

27-28: Taste of Lincoln (Lincoln Park)

27-28: Wicker Park Fest (Wicker Park)

August

2-4: Lollapalooza

3-4: Chicago Summerfest (Wrigleyville)

7-11: Tall Ship (Navy Pier)

10-11: Retro on Roscoe (Roscoe Village)

10-11: Halsted Market Days (Boystown)

17-18: Air and Water Show (lakefront/wherever you can see the planes)

22-25: Festa Italiano (Little Italy)

24-25: Bucktown Arts Fest (Bucktown)

30-Sept 1: North Coast Music Fest (Union Park)

September

6-8 Windy City Wine Fest (Grant Park)

7-8 Guinness Oyster Fest (Roscoe Village)

27-29: Oktoberfest (Lincoln Park)

Hello festival overload.

Hello This is my “Our flight is delayed 3 hours so I guess...

Thu, 23 May 2013 14:36:51 -0500

Hello This is my “Our flight is delayed 3 hours so I guess whatever ice cream” face.

Hello View of Manhattan from my hotel. I know, right?

Tue, 21 May 2013 17:38:47 -0500

Hello View of Manhattan from my hotel. I know, right?

Hello Taking a break from meetings with an adorable mini...

Tue, 21 May 2013 13:36:49 -0500

Hello Taking a break from meetings with an adorable mini @DietCoke.

Hello Foggy New York morning.

Mon, 20 May 2013 07:36:43 -0500

Hello Foggy New York morning.

Audio

Mon, 20 May 2013 05:44:57 -0500

Hello Dying of clam and mustard cream sauce SoHo happiness.

Sun, 19 May 2013 19:46:00 -0500

Hello Dying of clam and mustard cream sauce SoHo happiness.

Hello

Sun, 19 May 2013 14:36:52 -0500

Hello

Hello More view. #bragging

Thu, 16 May 2013 20:16:56 -0500

Hello More view. #bragging

Hello Working with a view all week.

Thu, 16 May 2013 20:16:53 -0500

Hello Working with a view all week.

Hello First meal today. Farm chicken with burbon peach glaze and...

Sat, 11 May 2013 23:36:40 -0500

Hello First meal today. Farm chicken with burbon peach glaze and something something fancy come to momma.

Hello Me and my @herschelsupply bag are Ready for 7 days in SF.

Sat, 11 May 2013 13:36:16 -0500

Hello Me and my @herschelsupply bag are Ready for 7 days in SF.

Hello Stumbled into a new and used book store. #magical

Fri, 10 May 2013 18:37:16 -0500

Hello Stumbled into a new and used book store. #magical

nprfreshair: Sometimes you just want to read something funny....

Fri, 10 May 2013 16:43:19 -0500

nprfreshair:

Sometimes you just want to read something funny. Which is what this piece “I Tried Gwyneth Paltrow’s Diet” by Rebecca Harrington over at New York Magazine is. It’s not another run-of-the-mill making-fun-of-Gwyneth’s-expensive-savior-complex piece because, while Harrington has a sense of humor, she also has a genuine appreciation for the recipes and food and for the fact that Gwyneth is sharing them. Heidi and I both want to hang out with Harrington:

While making the meatballs, however, I can tell something is up. No. 1: They are green (they are made of arugula and turkey). No. 2: I can’t put them in tomato sauce because I have eliminated tomatoes from my diet. Instead, I am serving them with a broccoli soup that tastes mostly like water. What is going on? Yesterday was so amazing! When my guests arrive and I feed them the meatballs, I can tell that they hate them. One of them pulls out a huge bag of chips and starts eating them in front of me. Another one leaves to “actually eat dinner.” I am about to have a panic attack when I suddenly remember when Gwyneth went to a dinner party in America and someone asked her what kind of jeans she was wearing and she thought to herself, “I have to get back to Europe.” America is the worst. I say nothing about anyone’s jeans, even though I was literally just going to ask everyone about their jeans.

Image via Neurotic New Yorker

Hello being Gwyneth,

I read this and laughed so hard I cried. And then wanted to become Gwyneth, too. At least a little bit.

Hello David Foster Wallace, “If you really know how to...

Fri, 10 May 2013 13:01:00 -0500

Hello David Foster Wallace,

“If you really know how to think, how to pay attention you know you will have other options…you get to consciously decide what has real meaning.”

Capital T truth, I love you, forever and ever.

naughtily: kishona: auntiespaz: Poor little guy looks like...

Fri, 10 May 2013 12:35:41 -0500

naughtily:

kishona:

auntiespaz:

Poor little guy looks like he’s saying

“You want me to leave? Okay…”

“You sure you want me to go? ‘cause I can stay…if you want…”

NO STAY, CHUBBY LIL SEAL

AW

Hello sad, achubby seal.

Fuzzy Animal Friday!! Hello Finnegan, You have many faces and...

Fri, 10 May 2013 12:00:00 -0500

Fuzzy Animal Friday!!

Hello Finnegan,

You have many faces and they are all adorable.

Hello @wkavanaugh @clarissacrab @ashelbyc @stealingsand...

Fri, 10 May 2013 09:36:29 -0500

Hello @wkavanaugh @clarissacrab @ashelbyc @stealingsand #lilacGATSBYday is lace filigree and bows. Did I do good?

Hyperbole and a Half: Depression Part Two

Thu, 09 May 2013 21:07:55 -0500

Hyperbole and a Half: Depression Part Two:

isay:

tymethiefslongerthoughts:

more-of-a-gesture:

I’m not the right person to say “wow, this is so accurate!”. That ain’t mine to claim. But damn, this a powerful post.

You might also want to read this post first if you’re a long-time Hyperbole and a Half fan rather than just tuning in now.

It’s like reading a diary entry about myself.

If you read one thing today, read Hyperbole and a Half.

Please read this, seriously.

"All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom..."

Thu, 09 May 2013 19:38:43 -0500

“All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom windows, because I had some idea that the gold light would make me feel better, but I did not bother to weight the curtains correctly and all that summer the long panels of transparent golden silk would blow out the windows and get tangled and drenched in the afternoon thunderstorms. That was the year, my twenty-eighth, when I was discovering that not all of the promises would be kept, that some things are in fact irrevocable and that it had counted after all, every evasion and every procrastination, every mistake, every word, all of it.”

- Joan Didion, “Goodbye To All That,” Slouching Towards Bethlehem (via commovente)

Hello You, Hello Me

dearworld: 2013 Chicago Festival Guide It’s already that time...

Hello This is my “Our flight is delayed 3 hours so I guess...

Hello View of Manhattan from my hotel. I know, right?

Hello Taking a break from meetings with an adorable mini...

Hello Foggy New York morning.

Audio

Hello Dying of clam and mustard cream sauce SoHo happiness.

Hello

Hello More view. #bragging

Hello Working with a view all week.

Hello First meal today. Farm chicken with burbon peach glaze and...

Hello Me and my @herschelsupply bag are Ready for 7 days in SF.

Hello Stumbled into a new and used book store. #magical

nprfreshair: Sometimes you just want to read something funny....

Hello David Foster Wallace, “If you really know how to...

“If you really know how to think, how to pay attention you know you will have other options…you get to consciously decide what has real meaning.”Capital T truth, I love you, forever and ever.

naughtily: kishona: auntiespaz: Poor little guy looks like...

Fuzzy Animal Friday!! Hello Finnegan, You have many faces and...

Hello @wkavanaugh @clarissacrab @ashelbyc @stealingsand...

Hyperbole and a Half: Depression Part Two

"All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom..."

“If you really know how to think, how to pay attention you know you will have other options…you get to consciously decide what has real meaning.”

Capital T truth, I love you, forever and ever.