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PSA: Swing Dance @ Northwestern on Jan 24

Monday, January 18th, 2010

For those of you in the Chi-town area. I won’t be there ( D= ), but it’ll be awesome as usual

 


 

Swing Dance – Live music ft. Shout Section Big Band
Jan 24, 2009
8-11pm in the Louis Room (Norris)
FREE BEGINNER LESSON at 7pm
sponsored by the NU Swing Dance Syndicate
$5 for Wildcard holders/$7 general admission

 

Come dust off your dancing shoes with Shout Section Big Band and the NU Swing Dance Syndicate. It’ll be cold outside, but the dancing will be hot! Plus, this is the one and only dance before our Valentine’s Day dance, just in case you need to brush up on a few moves to impress a certain someone… Drinks and refreshments will be provided. Beginners are welcome!

 

In which I vainly attempt to be a food blogger…

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

Over the Christmas break, I went to my first certifiably fancy-shmancy restaurant in Chicago, Spring, home of Chef Shawn McClain, James Beard Winner 2006.

 

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Generally not the sort of place I dine at, but my good friend wyu was in town and I had a Groupon to burn. I suppose it wouldn’t hurt to do do grown up things every once in a while, yah?

 

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