Making sure all interested NC readers have our coming meetups in your calendar if you happen to be near enough by to join in!
All meetups are 5:00 to 8:00 PM, although they often go longer, save for Sunday in Green Bay, which will be a brunch (locals please advise if you want to start at noon or 12:30 PM).
Closer to the date, we’ll post reminders with maps. As a general rule, bring cash. Some places are willing to run individual tabs, but it’s easier at those that don’t to pay for your drink when served. Hopefully I will remember closer to each meetup date and check if the venue in question will run individual checks.
Chicago Friday July 6 (the owner graciously e-mailed us at the instigation of Russell D and seems very accommodating:
D4 Irish Pub & Cafe
345 E. Ohio Street
Chicago, IL 60611
312 624 8385
Green Bay Sunday July 8 (Brunch, precise time TBD soon! Please pipe up in comments)
The Cannery (thanks reader Steve)
310 N. Broadway, Suite 110
Green Bay, WI 54303
920 432 3300
San Francisco Saturday July 14
Press Club
20 Yerba Buena Lane
San Francisco, CA 94103
415 744-5000
Portland Wednesday July 18
Kell’s Irish Restaurant and Pub (thanks reader Scott B; our OregonCharles said his niece’s wedding was held there, always a good sign)
112 SW 2nd Ave
Portland, OR 97204
503 227-4057
Seattle Thursday July 19 (thanks reader Alison)
Barça
1510 11th Ave
Seattle, WA 98122
206 325-8263
See you soon!
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Yves Smith, you are down in the calendar in ink.
Chicagoans (and those who don’t work downtown): The nearest subway stop would be Grand on the Red Line, although that is about five blocks west of D4 Pub.
The 146 bus is handy for getting to Streeterville. It runs on Michigan Avenue at that point. So does the 148.
And as NC loyalists know, we don’t use Uber.
We’ll debate all of this over a Tullamore Dew.
For any infrequent downtown Chicago visitors, summer Friday pm rush = be conservative about travel times and pack plenty of patience if you’re driving!
if it’s an option, consider a train/Metra.
And the 125 (Water Tower express rush hour bus) goes from the two Metra stations to Michigan and Ohio, two blocks/0.25 miles away.
Also there is the water taxi from the train stations to the Wrigley Building, 3.5 blocks/0.4 miles away.
yes, inbound summer Friday pm rush = train conductors get totally strict about bicycles on Metra trains. Even though folding bicycles are always allowed on all Metra trains, conductors won’t let you on with one.
The owner of D4 is indeed a very gracious gentleman from Ireland, hence the name, which is a reference to an Irish postal code.
Delighted to hear about the Sunday brunch in Green Bay! Looking forward to it. Either time.
Will also be coming to GB. Thanks for coming to Wisconsin.
What time?
Please come to the Boston/Cambridge area!!!
Organize a Boston/Cambridge meetup, El Gordo. I’ve organized two in Tucson, and it isn’t that difficult.
One of these days, I hope to welcome Yves, Lambert, or Jerri-Lynn as the guest of honor.
Need meetup organizing tips? I’d be happy to write a guest post.
Yes, please do. I would have no idea how to go about it!
Would Somerville be OK?
Somerville would be good, too. (Geez, how do I change settings so that I get email alerts on Comment threads I’m in??)
Google maps photo of 20 Yerba Buena Lane, San Francisco raises a question. If we get past the cyclone fence, which dumpster do we meet in? Searching maps for Press Club at that address produces a more inviting image. Now I’m worrying about what to wear.
It’s been a few years since I’ve been to the Press Club, but it’s not that dressy, unless you want to. I’d prefer a more casual place too but it’s fine.
How do we find each other? The last time I went to a meetup (DSA) there was no clear tell in the crowd and that made for missed connections.
I put a map up closer to the date.
It’s in an open plaza you can see off Market Street. If you are coming from Market Street, there’s a ramp on the left to the entrance.
This is San Francisco! Everyone is casual. I wear jeans and usually a sweater because cool (as in temperature).
Any chance of getting an Austin meet up?
Sure, Steve. Organize one!
Seriously, I’ve organized two in Tucson, and it’s not terribly difficult to do.
Need meetup organizing tips? I’d be happy to write a guest post.
For the Seattle meet, be aware that parking is very hard to find in that area, especially at that time of day.
Fortunately, for people that work or live close by, e.g., downtown, Capitol Hill is easily accessible by bus or light rail. Barca should be a short walk from either one of those transit options.
sadly I will be gone for the seattle meeting with a with a very outside chance of making portland, enjoy all, and hope for a report…maybe seattle can get a arizona slim or a katie who is willing to shoulder the load as local organizer. Barca is an easy walk from the capitol hill light rail, lots of parking at the uw station at husky stadium, and also local bus routes esp the 49 which travels from downtown through capitol hill to the u dist.
I feel like im beating a dead horse here but COME TO NEW ORLEANS!!!
Yes, AZ, i know how to organize a meeting, but Yves n Lambert have our emails everytime we comment and they dont seem interested in going anywhere save Birmingham and Atlanta.
The poor live in the South, not Seattle, Portland, West Coast/East Coast.
Persist with those invitations, Jonathan! Because a Southern Exposure NC tour could happen. And, of course, I’d be delighted if it became the West by Southwest tour.
West Coast Portland, Yea!
Thanks Scott B.
So excited to come to my first NC meet up in Chicago!
+1
#Huzzah … see you next Friday!!
Portland Meetup will be at 5PM I assume since it is on a Wednesday. Is there a room reserved or how do we find each other? I have never been to one of these NC meetings and don’t know anyone in person.
The people at Kell’s know we are coming. They are giving us a room (I think open on one side, but still largely enclosed).
Actually, it was the wedding RECEPTION at Kell’s, but that’s even more relevant. Food was good, IIRC.
Good to have the time, I’d missed that before. And you already answered my next question in responding to Ed.
Oh, duh, I assumed people would infer that! My bad!
Although there was a story about a wedding held at a WalMart….