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As the Editor Gets Nostalgic in Celebration of One Decade at the Helm, We Present This Classic Nightspots Cover #1110 • January 22. 2014 As the editor gets nostalgic in celebration of one decade at the helm, we present this classic Nightspots cover. See more of Kirk’s favorites on page 20. Your In-Town Winter Escape /SidetrackBar We’ll turn up the heat so join us as we shed the layers of Winter and absorb Tropical beats & Tropical flavors! 3349 N . Halsted SidetrackChicago.com Valet Parking Available That Guy by Kirk Williamson Picture it: Late January, 2004. I arrive to over my tenure. I may have (definitely) teared up a work one morning, quite possibly hung bit. over and reeking of cigarette smoke (aren’t you glad bars went non-smoking?) to find Week to week, it can be a bit of a drain to put this magazine out. Very often, I think to myself that out that Sukie de la Croix, former editor of if I have to see one more drag show, I will gouge Nightspots, has decided to leave his post to my own eyes out with a stiletto heel. But when pursue other interests. It was abrupt, a huge I have the time and perspective to look back at shock, and it changed my life forever. all the work I’ve done, all the wonderful creative souls I have grown close to, all the honors and I had already been working on the magazine, privileges that have come along with my role as handling most of the bars as accounts and I had editor of Nightspots, I could not be more proud been establishing myself as THE nightlife photog, and more connected to the spirit of Chicago’s LGBT daring to cover the seediest of the seedy bars far community. You have made me what I am, and I and wide. Well, it was about to get farther and you. It’s been a wild, bucking ride and I can think of wider. Because on that hung over morning, I was no finer folks with whom to have shared it. Thank handed the reins to Nightspots Magazine and I’ve you. Thank all of you. been on this fucking bucking bronco ever since. Yes, my butt’s a little sore from the experience, but I can So look at pages 20-21 for a brief smattering of take it like a cowboy! some of my favorite covers that I have done for the magazine. Trust me, it’s a mere sampling. Who Seriously though, last night it hit me that it had knows, if I’m still feeling all nostalgic next issue (and been a full decade since I took over as editor and I chances are fairly good), I may do a part two. posted a quick self-acknowledgement to Facebook at 12 midnight. By 3 am, the post had garnered Your fearless editor, about 60 likes and, at present writing, that number Kirk Williamson has surged to over 200, in addition to about 70 well- wishes and hearty congratulations from people I [email protected] have touched (emotionally ... and some penis-ally) MAIN COVER IMAGE Viviana Mendez as Madonna and Mr. Marcus as Prince squaring off in a game of checkers for some reason. Original cover of the July 27, 2005, nightspots issue of Nightspots. Photo by Kirk #1110 • January 22. 2014 PUBLISHER DIRECTOR OF NEW MEDIA Tracy Baim Jean Albright ASSISTANT PUBLISHER OFFICE Terri Klinsky Ripley Caine Managing EDITOR PHOTOgraphY Kirk Williamson Kat Fitzgerald, Kirk, Kizzy, Anthony Meade, DJ Res-5, ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES Joseph Stevens Terri Klinsky, Kirk Williamson, Amy Matheny, CAST OF CHARACTERS Christopher Cheuvront, Gretchen Blickensderfer C.J., DJ Chester (R.I.P), AK Miller, Marc “Moose”Moder, NATIONAL ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVE Jerry Nunn, Steven Toushin Rivendell Media 212-242-6863 Copyright 2014 Windy City Media Group/Lambda Publications Inc. All rights reserved. Reprint by permission only. Back issues available for $3 per issue (postage included). nightspots Return postage must accompany all manuscripts, drawings, and photographs submitted if they are to be returned, and no responsibility may be assumed for unsolicited materials. 5315 N. 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PHOENIX Photos by Jerry Nunn 8 nightspots January 22. 2014 DANCING ABOUT ARCHITECTURE by Marc “Moose” Moder READING: IT’S NOT JUST FOR DRAG QUEENS ANYMORE As a DJ and promoter, January and February can really be a downer as far as getting folks out of their homes to come to a party, but in my previous job in the literary industry, winter was a joy. All anyone wants to do is curl up with their favorite man, movie or book and hibernate. On my off nights, I’m one of those people too, I have to admit. This time of year I can’t wait to curl up with my good book— paper or of the E variety. Since I write about and live music, naturally music books are what I love, so here are a few recommendations of new and slightly-not-new books in the genre I’ve read recently. Tracey Thorn, leader of Everything But the Girl, starts my binge with Bedsit Disco Queen: How I Grew Up and Tried To Be a Popstar (hardcover). Whether you’re a fan or are even just familiar with her group or solo work, you’ll love this lyricist’s take on the memoir. Much like reading James Frey, it takes you a chapter or two to get her style of storytelling, but once you do there are great stories of love, kids, inspiring Nirvana, and living by my next author. Belinda Carlisle’s Lips Unsealed: A Memoir (paperback or Kindle). The Go-Gos never do anything simply. Despite the fact that these stories have been told 10 different ways by various members and outlets, Belinda’s firsthand account of debauchery and drug use left at least one Go-Go bothered. But the takeaway from “Lips” isn’t anything negative about her fellow bandmates—as she puts most of the blame of events on herself—but more about her crippling decades-long addiction to coke. I was actually fatigued reading her sober/stoned back and forth; I yelled at the book at least once. A happy ending for sure, but what a ride. While we’re literally talking smack, right after that I tortured myself with the wildly unorthodox but brilliant The Dirt by Mötley Crüe. Written back and forth, chapter by chapter by each band member from different points of view but chronologically, it’s a master class in not just storytelling, but editing. Plus, they out-drug any Go-Go any day of the week. In fact, they event cross paths with Belinda along the way. Finally, from strictly a music nerd perspective, Facing The Other Way: The Story of 4AD (hardcover or Google Play E-book) peels the layers off of the ‘80s’ most mysterious and influential record label, revealing the secrets behind such influential and illusive bands of our time as Cocteau Twins, Dead Can Dance, Modern English and Bauhaus. Unlike the others, I wouldn’t go into this one blind, but if you have a love of the goth era, it’s basically your new bible. Check out what’s new with DJ Moose at www.moosethedj.com 10nightspots January 22. 2014 ... or is it the Interior Illusions Lounge? KIT KAT Photos by Anthony Meade Open your mic to me (every first and third Wednesday). MARY’S ATTIC Photos by Kirk 12nightspots January 22. 2014 It’s always a six-y anniversary party with Cazwell! SCARLET Photos by Anthony Meade DEEP TISSUE a touching new column by C.J. I rarely ever stopped seeing pitched and quickfire. Added I hurried the process along a client due to an indirect to the chorus was the voice of and got started on the offense. One of the few times an enraged dog owner. “Biscuit, massage. I spent the entire that it happened is a day that get back, goddammnit! Lola! hour breathing through my will forever live in infamy in Queenie!” mouth which resulted in me my sense memory. I had been brushing all the enamel off receiving countless last-minute After five minutes of hullabaloo my teeth once I made it home. requests from Larry for a one- the door finally opened. I Had he not been so nice I hour massage. He continuously was met by Larry, an older would have turned around called every day for two gentleman of about sixty. He and walked right back out weeks looking for a same-day was flanked by an armada of the door the minute I was massage. I was always booked chihuahuas. There must have confronted with that smell. I and he always refused to make been at least six.
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