April 30, 2008 #942
The Unusual Suspects Nightspots rounds up the masterminds behind The First Ward Ball, the new Sunday night at Scarlet. inSIDE page 18 April’s hottest jock at Madonna, Madonna, Crew. Madonna! page 17 page 10
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The Unusual Suspects nightspots 5315 N. Clark St. #192, Chicago, IL 60640 Nightspots rounds up the masterminds behind The First Ward Ball, the new Sunday night at Scarlet. 773.871.7610, fax 773.871.7609 www.WindyCityMediaGroup.com inSIDE page 18 April’s hottest jock at Madonna, Madonna, [email protected] Crew. Madonna! page 16 page 10 DOWNload: www.WindyCityMediaGroup.com that guy by Kirk Williamson This is going to be one of those “I can’t write a column” weeks. One thousand apologies.
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the dj, the music and you by DJ Res5 PROMALE! Devil Inside: The Devilishly Live, One-On-One Good Week In Music Leave and Listen to Messages
This has been a big week for new music, so here goes...
The obvious big release is Hard Candy. I will cut to the chase and just say it’s not as good as Confes- sions. However, as with most Madonna albums, there are points of interest. “Beat Goes On” sounds nothing like the early ver- sion that was leaked online and even sports a guest rap appearance from Kanye West! “Devil Wouldn’t Recognize Call now. Guys are waiting… You” is possibly the strongest track on the album. It’s filled 1-800-PROMALE with lush production and inspired lyrics. Japan got the 1-800-776-6253 same bonus track iTunes had with the pre-orders, so die $1.99/min. 18+ Discreetly billed to your Visa/MC hard fans can get a hard copy of “Ring My Bell.” 1-900-825-4500 $1.49/min. 18+ Discreetly billed to your phone. $2 connect fee. Sevendust collaborated with Chris Daughtry recently. © 2007 npp productions, reno, nv customer service (888) 283-3331 “The Past” is an excellent song, and definitely worth your iTunes dollar. The rest of the Chapter VII: Hope & Sor- row album goes back to their usual devil music... not that there’s anything wrong with that.
I recently discovered what has to be one of the best hip-hop series. The Crunk Hits series has currently re- leased four volumes of what I can only describe as “Now That’s What I Call Music” gone ghetto fabulous. The most recent addition has everything from “2 Step” and “Rock Yo Hips” to “Party Like A Rockstar” and “Lean Wit It, Rock Wit It.”
My last tidbits are on Trina and M.I.A. Trina did a great song with Missy Elliot. You can get “I Got A Bottle” on her new album, or on iTunes for a dollar. I can’t wait to see the queens battling to it. M.I.A. is coming to town on May 9 to the Aragon Ballroom.
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Finally—finally!—I figured the un-stuffy wine tasting party at Wednesday, May 7th 6-9pm YOUR $20 DONATION BENEFITS EQUALITY ILLINOIS LIGHT BITES & RAFFLES special vodka tastes from sample more than 75wines from around the world remember to ask to see the wine list at 3349 N. HALSTED • VALET PARKING AVAILABLE • SIDETRACKCHICAGO.COM photos by Ryan Kolodziej Check out these clever Maneuvers photos by Steve Starr, www.SteveStarrStudios.com Could Bitch Bingo really “B6” years old at Charlie’s photos by Kirk 16 Kickin’ Creaoke beats at Jackhammer April 30, 2008 theSPREAD ...open wide photos by Steve Starr, www.SteveStarrStudios.com Could Bitch Bingo really “B6” years old at Charlie’s photos by Crew Jock it to me at Crew photos by Kirk Kickin’ Creaoke beats at Jackhammer 17 April 30, 2008 WANTEDAndrew Thanos (AKA “Rew”) Bobby Metz Ryan Willing Scott Cramer (AKA “Mother Clucker”) Johnathinn Florida Charged With: Wanton regard for public sexiness and continued attempts to thrill and entertain Chicago’s drinking populace. Their Whereabouts: With extensive experience in Chicago nightlife from Wicker Park to the Gold Coast to Boystown, their mission is to bring a great mix of party people from all walks of life to Scarlet Sundays. No matter what your vice is, you’re sure to be right at home at The First Ward Ball. Rew and Bobby both tend bar at Debonair Social Club in Wicker Park for Music101’s weekly Monday social. Bobby also slings drinks at Scarlet on Thursdays and Fridays. Ryan can be found downtown running bottle service in the V.I.P. rooms of Rockwell Lounge, Manor, and Ybar. Scott promotes the weekly Tuesday “OutDanced” at Funky Buddha, Fridays at Debonair, and books talent for the Abbey Pub. Johnathinn can be found at Chicago’s legendary BoomBoomRoom party at Green Dolphin Street on Mondays and Sound-Bar on the weekends. Get busted at the kickoff of The First Ward Ball, this Sunday night, May 4 at Scarlet, 3320 N. Halsted St. Contact firstwardsundays@gmail. com for more info. For the skinny on Chicago’s original First Ward Ball, see prairieghosts.com/graft.html. text by Ryan Willing, photos by John McCullen 18 April 30, 2008 Indianarama at The 24th Annual Chicago Latino Film Festival had a fiesta at Zocalo. Among the guests were (below, L-R) actor Braulio Encompass Castillo, NBC Channel 5’s Zoraida Sambolin, festival director photos by Kirk Pepe Vargas and (directly above, L) festival logo designer Adrian Zabala Jurado. photos by Steve Starr, www.SteveStarrStudios.com 20 April 30, 2008 nightSPOTSMAFIA IntermissionPSME We’ll tell ya what ta think JEF Alone. - Andrew It seems unnecessary. - Andrew Family Circus. - Andrew How strange? - Creaoke If they violate do they go to prison and, if Scrappy Doo. - Pubert With a stranger. - Pubert so, can’t they squeeze out through the Cathy--LAME! - Amy FJSE idea ? Alone--I don’t want some jail bars? - Kathleen Cathy--fucking hate that 8 fool trying to cannibal- No. - Pubert bitch. - Kirk ize my ass. - Robb Is anything from France a good idea? I saw a Web comic about Alone so I could panic in Cover your Trail - Kirk a Robot Butler that was private. - Kathleen Outlawing things is almost never a good pretty boss. Everything www.poopourri.net Probably alone. Just give Think of it as inverse air freshener. You spray it into the bowl before idea; maybe instead they should else is lame. - Robb me my iPod and I’ll be Family Circus (LAME-O!) you go. The fine folks at Poo-Pourri have three different fragrences to PROMOTE healthy living. - Robb fine. - Kirk Now if they would just outlaw extreme - Kathleen eliminate yer stank. There is its flagshit product, Poo-Pourri, a mysterious Alone! I don’t want some- body odor. - Creaoke cartoon c h aracter Sylvia. - Creaoke concoction of unspecified fragrances; the appropriately named No. 2, an one as weird as me in Totally! HOWEVER, in America we The eco-Mr. Rogers, Mark intoxicating blend of mandarin, orange, and bergamot, for tween to college there with me! - Amy should outlaw the promotion of extreme Trail. - graysong girls; and Royal Flush, a synergy of eucalyptus and spearmint that’s I vant to be a-lone. idiocy by banning shows on VH1. - Amy - graysong refreshing to both genders. It’s all so wonderful I could just shit. How about banning extreme Frenchness A rea lly l ame comic strip or instead? - graysong 0111010101110101011010101101011010101101010101011101010101110 W ou l d y rat h er be trapped in an of e x treme t h inness . I s is a g oo D e l v ator a one or wit h stran g er ? Tne New Trivia F rance is out l awin g t h e promotion www.monkeon.co.uk/youwhat Are you special enough? If you want to be included as a special guest in Nightspots MAFIA, I see a new category coming for Trivial Pursuit: YouTube. Let’s face it. The send an email to [email protected] and plead your case. way we consume media has dramatically changed. I log more time with Internet video now than I do TV, and I’m sure I’m far from alone on that. This online quiz sees how well you can identify YouTube videos from the often inappropriate comments left behind by viewers. The first one is easy. After that I did wosre than chance, missing every damn one. 0111010101110101011010101101011010101101010101011101010101110 A fine Serving of Carbohydrate www.youtube.com/user/roidder Speaking of YouTube, check out one of my new favorite channels. Roidder is a user who does a CGI animation series called The Nightly Potato. This series looks at our media through the eyes of a beer swilling couch potato bear. The renderings of media and political figures are good. The voice work is fantastic. AND the series is actually funny. Episode 5, There Will Be Blood, where Hillz goes all Carrie during a debate, is absolute gold. 0111010101110101011010101101011010101101010101011101010101110 Gays and Dolls www.craigslist.org/about/best/nyc/51526837.html When there nothing better to do, troll CraigsList for entertainment. Where else can you find ads that say “I want you to come over for a hot poop and let me watch you go, then I will suck you off while you are on the toilet, swallow your load and lick your hole clean,” and then go on to specify “non-smoker (you be too). ” WTF? I think dirty asshole breath is far worse than smoker’s breath. Sadly, that ad is already gone, but you can still read this gem. Sad, gay Nazi doll collectors are so misunderstood.... 0111010101110101011010101101011010101101010101011101010101110 22 April 30, 2008 nightSPOTSMAFIA We’ll tell ya what ta think Alone. - Andrew It seems unnecessary. - Andrew Family Circus. - Andrew How strange? - Creaoke If they violate do they go to prison and, if Scrappy Doo. - Pubert With a stranger. - Pubert so, can’t they squeeze out through the Cathy--LAME! - Amy idea ? Alone--I don’t want some jail bars? - Kathleen Cathy--fucking hate that fool trying to cannibal- No. - Pubert bitch. - Kirk ize my ass. - Robb Is anything from France a good idea? I saw a Web comic about Alone so I could panic in - Kirk a Robot Butler that was private. - Kathleen Outlawing things is almost never a good pretty boss. Everything Probably alone. Just give idea; maybe instead they should else is lame. - Robb me my iPod and I’ll be PROMOTE healthy living. - Robb Family Circus (LAME-O!) fine. - Kirk Now if they would just outlaw extreme - Kathleen Alone! I don’t want some- body odor. - Creaoke cartoon c h aracter Sylvia. - Creaoke one as weird as me in Totally! HOWEVER, in America we The eco-Mr. Rogers, Mark there with me! - Amy should outlaw the promotion of extreme Trail. - graysong I vant to be a-lone. idiocy by banning shows on VH1. - Amy - graysong How about banning extreme Frenchness A rea lly l ame comic strip or instead? - graysong W ou l d y rat h er be trapped in an of e x treme t h inness . I s is a g oo D e l v ator a one or wit h stran g er ? F rance is out l awin g t h e promotion Are you special enough? If you want to be included as a special guest in Nightspots MAFIA, send an email to [email protected] and plead your case. 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BY ITS G: Yeah, good art direction. P: Aww, they painted a heart. Must be luv. P: Looks like they are honestly having fun. G: That’s a painted handprint on his ass. COVER G: The warehouse they are in is very bright P: Well, slap my ass and call me in the and sunny. morning. Pubert: Time P: Now they are getting down and dirty strip- G: Now he’s a straight shooter. for some sum- ping on the couch. P: This director seems to like the cum-on-the- mer lovin.’ G: Well, it was a hard day of painting a wall. butt-from-behind shot. Groeper: P: Two of them still have their sunglasses on G: That can be tricky. Oh, the model has a [sings] “Had their heads. scab. Not pretty… me a blast.” G: Actually, the fashion is nice and current. Are these guys P: That can be important in a video. Last scene has four really cute guys continu- supposed to be G: This is a bright summer four-way! ing with the body painting theme. tough? P: What language are they speaking? P: They may G: They are from the Czech Republic. P: He’s painting Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles not know what P: Nice cum shot! I like how they are posi- on him! Graffiti re- tioned. G: This group must be the messy painters. ally is. Coloring G: People will have to buy or rent this to see P: They just rubbed butts together. books, yes. it. Pretty impressive... and I don’t like twink G: Slamming into the wall like snow angels, movies. that original. P: Our readers know from reading last week’s P: Leaving their mark, so to speak. review. G: Then they signed the mural--funny. P: His name’s Peter Van. Will he ever grow We move along to two in the loft bedroom. up? P: Lots of body painting in this video. P: Nice, they seem really into it. G: Finger painting, too. That finger almost G: They’re having fun so it makes the viewer slipped inside. have fun. P: Time for a hose down. P: Finally a set with a good background. 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