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After five years of steadily, successfully, and (dare i say it) brilliantly avoiding the bar scene on St. Patty's Day (since the unforgettable event from five years ago and, specifically about fifteen minutes after I'd written that blog entry,) my friend Meg talked me into going out to celebrate. This time, thank God, the place wasn't nearly as known to me and, for that matter, we didn't even THINK about Jameson or Guiness.
I met her at Delilah's, , a hipstery, dark, smoky little place in Lincoln park where i'd only been once before. The last time I went, my room-mate Brad had called me to go drink cheap beer and watch Twin Peaks with him. That's the thing about the place that first struck me, in fact: you wouldn't think that Lincoln Park-- famous now not only for its cutesy little shops and its cutesy little trixies-- would have room for a bunch of nostalgics and their bent towards quirky television. When Brad and I were there (i think this was in June), I couldn't help but notice that the lights had been a little too dark and that the mood too eclectic even for my tastes.
The place is half-lounge, half hipster-bar downstairs and too-cramped pool-hall upstairs. The cushiony seats and eyeball barstools feel like they should be in the middle of Wicker Park-- home to the hipsters and dark-haired goth-heads with an edge of urban chic-- and not, at least I thought the firtst time I was there-- for dear old Lincoln Park, home to the greatest theaters this city has known for thirty years (like, say Steppenwolf or Victory Gardens,). I just couldn't see the benefit of a place so dark, so Mod, so. . .I don't know. I just couldn't see the connection. It was as if the owners of the place had missed the memo when all of Lincoln Park decided to gentrify. Where Wicker (God Bless it) let some of its charactersitic grit hang on the walls, Lincoln Park had whitewashed all of theirs very cleanly away. The place should have been on Division and Ashland, not North Lincoln.
Luckily for us, though, times change. Luckily for me my own sense of what "should be"" versus what "is" have also changed. Hell, even Victory Gardens just moved into the Biograph and, let's face it, when they moved in to Lincooln Park that long ago, the neighborhood was more than a little sketchy. So delilah's-- mod-feeling though it is-- was a good fit after all.
And, of course, every place is a good fit on St. Patrick's. We're ALL Irish. at the very least, we're all drinking and hell. sometimes it's even all right if the beer is green.
That's all I have for right now, friends! Tonight I go to
Celebrity where my friend Joe Vor-Tech will be spinning till about 2:00 in the morning. see y'all on the flip.
Peace. |
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