While all-ages shows cost more for clubs because of the added security, Swan said that these shows often have a bigger draw. Since Fireside, Subterranean and Beat Kitchen became all-ages rooms, Schubas is doing more all-ages, as is Metro, and Abbey Pub does a lot of 18. Everyone knows that having all-ages helps you compete, it gives you leverage. Part of the reason it's thriving is because of kids doing basement shows themselves."ĭerron Swan, who handles booking at Beat Kitchen, Subterranean and occasionally Logan Square Auditorium, said: "It's actually gotten pretty competitive. "Most of the shows I want to see are all-ages. I don’t need bone marrow to get behind that."In the last three years, it seems the scene has gotten a lot better," said Castro. The others just looked a bit horrified I was eating something made by a guy instead of a kitchen staff.Īcross the city, legions of tamale guys court the bars and bowling alleys with little red coolers of delicious food that supports their families.
One was familiar with the idea of tamale guys, but said I “look hungry” and moved her hand back as if she’d lose a finger if she got near me. One coworker seemed intrigued, but is a vegetarian. Sure, you can add some tricksy ingredients and charge $15 for three, but that doesn’t make it better. It’s simple because, honed through centuries, there is no better way to make a tamale than corn flour and meat steamed in a corn husk. The tamale guy tamale is simple, but calling it that seems patronizing somehow, as if the Mexican-American who made it just wasn’t aware Mexican food would be better stuffed with dino kale, saffron and trendy ingredient du jour (I think it’s bone marrow this week). It’s a person trying to make some money by filling a need. It’s not locally sourced except that the source is quite possibly the dude handing you the baggie of tamales when you’re four or five sheets to the wind. It’s not from a cool food truck with an agile social media presence. The tamale guy tamale is not a cool thing. I never went to a Fireside show either - I stay the course on being an out-of-touch nerd.īut it’s not OK to have never bought a Ziploc baggie of tamales some dude made in his kitchen and carted around in a cooler to various bars. It’s forgivable to miss bands, old punk venues or any number of other time-sensitive cultural norms. I had to tell a different coworker a few weeks earlier that Fireside Bowl used to host punk shows. My bowling team coworkers are nice, if young.
It was media league night at Fireside Bowl and our little cadre of courthouse reporters had clustered a table as we lost badly and repeatedly to a local news blog that rhymes with schmee-schmen-schmay-schminfo. My coworkers at the paper looked around incredulously at each other. But somehow it managed to shock me that none of my coworkers had ever bought a tamale off a tamale guy.
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The Cubs won the World Series and, electorally, orange is the new black, so I should be through the looking glass on surprises this month. “Tamale!” I yelled, walking up from the ATM.
He turned to the others clustered around the table. Marc from the office got a strange, quirked look on his face. “Tamale!” he yelled, lifting the small red cooler to demonstrate his wares.
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