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Belmont Arts and Music Festival brings music, food and rain to happy hipsters

Filed by Jacob Nelson on Jun 30, 2008 12:41 PM

This weekend finally felt like summer, and it wasn't because of the heat or the constant hangover. It was because when I took the el from Evanston to Roscoe Village, I didn't just run into a few people headed my way. I ran into what appeared to be the entire city of Chicago drunk off their asses.

"The thing about Chicago," a friend said to me as we passed groups of Sox and Cubs fans staggering onto the train at Addison, "is that it packs all of it's shit into two months when the weather doesn't suck."

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Location: Roscoe Village

Tags: Belmont, casiotone for the painfully alone, BAM, Belmont Arts and Music Festival, Owen Ashworth,

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