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Guitar, Beers, and Friends on a Saturday Night at Emmit's

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A person with dark hair plays a sunburst acoustic guitar indoors, with an AC unit and a radiator in the background.

The evening started small — one guy on an acoustic guitar in an apartment with the radiator going and a window AC unit still in the frame in January, playing through a few songs while the rest of us sat around. Then the whole group headed out to Emmit's Irish Pub for the rest of the night.

Emmit's is the kind of Chicago bar with martini specials chalked on green boards over the brick — Taffy Apple Martini, seven dollars — and Goose Island on the Saturday specials board, though nobody was ordering martinis. At some point a round tray showed up loaded with more Guinness pints than there were hands to hold them, which set the tone for the back half of the night.

Mostly it was standing around the bar in packs of three and four, arms over shoulders, thumbs up at whoever was nearest. One friend spent a while under a leopard-print hat that was not his. The tray of stouts did not survive long.

Two men with glasses stand in a dimly lit bar, one with his hand on his head, the other with crossed arms.A person with wide eyes and an open mouth holds up their index finger, with a dark and blurred background behind them.Four people are present indoors, one holding a beer, another a cocktail, with a menu board in the background.A man with stubble smiles at the camera inside a dark bar with menu boards and string lights in the background.Two smiling people embrace in a dimly lit bar, with a TV screen and other patrons visible in the background.Two men in a dimly lit bar, one with glasses and a beard, raises a fist while the other gives a thumbs-up.Four smiling men pose closely together in a dimly lit indoor setting.Multiple people, some giving thumbs up, are gathered around a tray of dark beers in a dimly lit bar.

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