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Roundarch Holiday Party

December 5th, 2011 · No Comments


Roundarch Holiday Party at ZED451

Some highlights from the buffet


Geoff, Jim & Jeff thanking everyone for coming to the party.


Awesome fire!


Kelly, on the right.


Ashanth & Dallas catching up and drinking the mojito bar dry.


Roundarch Holiday Party at ZED451

This year the Roundarch holiday party was at ZED451. I’d never been there, but really liked it. Roundarch basically took over the whole first floor and the second floor was someone else’s holiday party. I really loved the space. It was very warm and inviting. The colors were very rich and the fire was an awesome touch.

ZED451′s main dining room area had this HUGE round buffet. We thought it was one of the biggest buffets we’ve been to, not counting Las Vegas. There was everything on this buffet: shrimp, crab, poke, charcuterie, all the cheeses, duck pastrami. Craziness. It was so good. ZED451 is kind of like an upscale Brazilian steakhouse where they come to your table and offer you all sorts of meats, which they cut off right in front of you. Since this doesn’t scale, they cut all the meat ahead of time and skewered it and there were guys constantly offering you choice cuts of “aged 48 hours blah blah blah.” Point is, it was delicious. There were all kinds of steak, a Mediterranean chicken, fish, etc.

The party was, of course, open bar. And a nice touch was the mojito bar where you could get all kinds of different mojitos: blackberry, pineapple, cucumber, blueberry, cranberry, etc. I had to try hard to keep myself in check, something which Dallas did not do! But that’s ok. I was the one with big plans (cookie party) the next day, not him.

Roundarch never skimps on their holiday parties and this year was no exception. We had a fun time talking to all of my coworkers and their guests. Dallas got to catch up with the people from my office he doesn’t get to see much. Great time! Oh, and here’s a photo my coworker, Rose, took of Adam, Brad and me:


Rachelle, Adam, Brad. Gray is the new black!

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Chicagoist Alumni Reunion

October 20th, 2010 · No Comments


Sam (Former General Contributor), Chuck (Former Music Writer, Former Food/Drink Editor, Current Editor-in-Chief), Jocelyn (Former General Contributor), Margaret (Former Television Writer), Benjy (Sports, then and now!), Rachelle (Former Editor-in-Chief), Jim (Music/A&E Editor, then & now!)


Thales (Former Ask Chicagoist Writer), James (Former Copy Editor), Chuck (Former Music Writer, Former Food/Drink Editor, Current Editor-in-Chief), Matt (Former General Contributor), Olivia (Former General Contributor)


Mike (Former Political Writer), Benjy (Sports, then and now!), Justin (Former A&E/Culture Writer)

Earlier this week a bunch of Chicagoist staff from the olden days, i.e. back when I was the Editor, got together for drinks at Cole’s in Logan Square. A few people I run into every few months, but many I had not seen for a year or several years. I made everyone line up and take photos just to prove we actually did it. We were all in one room together!

It was great to catch up. Back in the day we all had such close, daily contact. It’s fun to check in with everyone and see how everything is going. I mean, many of us stay in contact online, but in-person is so different. I hope that we can make this a more regular thing, so that years and years don’t go by before I see these dear friends again!

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Roundarch Summer Event 2009

August 18th, 2009 · 3 Comments

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Eric

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Kevin

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Jeremy

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Rick

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Don

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Frank

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Waleed & Marlena

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Bekah, Ben, Rudy, Don, Adam

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Ronald, David, Manvesh, AJ, Waleed

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Lynnanne, Aimee, Anjum

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Shanks & Eric

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Teal

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Geoff (CTO) & Jeff (CXO)

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Anjum & Marcel

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Thomas, Sean, Gary, Jim, Shaun

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Ashish & Brian

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Jory, Mike, David, Craig

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Rossanne & Ryan

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Tony & Juan

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Tony, Fadi, Erika

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Adam

Last week Roundarch had it’s annual Summer Event, which consists of an all-night party and an all-day meeting with everyone from all of our offices in town to attend. It was great to see everyone that I work with in other offices and the party was so much fun. And the after party. The after after party, I can’t say… I went home at 2 and others were still going out for more! As for the meeting, it was actually pretty entertaining… not like the dry all-staff meetings I was used to at other places I’ve worked. Great event, Roundarch!

- Roundarch Summer Event 2008

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Let That Global Warming Breeze In

January 6th, 2008 · No Comments

Back Door

Three days ago it was ZERO degrees outside at 7:30 in the morning. That night it was so cold in the apartment and I couldn’t get the chill out of my bones, so I layed in our bed on the heated mattress pad and watched TV all night.

Today at 4:45 pm it was up to 60 degrees. I had met up with Chuck, Margaret and Jim for breakfast at Vella Cafe (cute place, the chicken sausage was awesome and they serve Milk & Honey granola, which I love), took the bus back up Western, stopped at Jewel to get groceries. We had the back door open all day to let air in and it wasn’t even cold. Especially since I was using the Jewel groceries to cook some healthy vegetable soup, biscuits and an applesauce cake dessert.

Weather

Still, 3 days and 60 degrees warmer!

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Menomona at Metro

November 17th, 2007 · 1 Comment

After TECH Cocktail, Alden, Jess, Justin, John and I went to see Menomona at Metro. I had my camera at TECH Cocktail and wasn’t going to be able to get into the show, so I had Jim at Chicagoist talk to Metro and I got a press pass that allowed me to bring my camera in. These are my photos of Menomona and one of the opening bands, Illinois.

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Illinois, Metro, Chicago

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Menomona, Metro, Chicago

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