Nightspots #1124 • August 6, 2014
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nightspots #1124 • August 6, 2014 REMEMBER SUMMER? Well, Scott here is here to remind you that there is plenty of heat left in this season! Soak up the rays at Market Days (Aug. 8 & 9), featuring the incomparable Belinda Carlisle. Page 10 Sidetrack & Market Days Sat, Aug. 9th • Open 11am RoofDeck Open 1pm Best of Sidetrack ‘til 3am Sun, Aug. 10th • Open 11am RoofDeck Open 1pm Show Tunes 4-9pm Disco Inferno 9 ‘til 2am Mon, Aug. 11th • Open 1pm Musical Monday 8pm-2am ® oonnllyy iinn CChhiiccaaggoo 33334499 NNoorrtthh HHaallsstteedd SSiiddeettrraacckkCChhiiccaaggoo..ccoomm @sidetrackbar which was originally meant to somehow tie in with That Guy by Kirk Williamson his interview with Belinda Carlisle (his personal hero). We decided to move the interview to this Happy 10th anniversary to Crew Bar + Grill, week’s issue of Windy City Times, so if you want to often voted among the best sports bars see the full scope of Anthony’s work, pick up Windy in America, not to mention being as gay as City Times this week. He’s all over the place, as you Christmas up in there. I’ll see you Wed., Aug. 13, for may well know. Speakeasy, the roaring ‘20s-themed party. Can’t wait to check out your Tommy guns. Join me at the grand opening of Shaker’s On Clark (formerly 3160, which is formerly Annex 3), Wed., Sooo much to do this weekend, huh? Not just Aug. 6. Mark and Jason decided to buy the joint and Market Days itself, but also all the Market Days- I’m sure they’re shaking up something fun for the related goings-on at the bars, both in and away space. from Boystown. We all party. I’ll be partying on the Hydrate stage on Sunday helping to choose the And in closing, I present these two pictures. To the next Stoli Guy. I do hope this comes with plenty left, you’ll see me with Jenae, who returned from of Stoli. I’m not just in it for the booze, but that’s a California for the Lolla sideshow at Berlin, and good part of it. Hey, it’s the one weekend a year I get her hair smells like it. Like the beach and ... other day drunk. I know most of you will be joining me ... delights. On the right is the photo I forgot to include in the last issue of Chase getting his face stuffed at Big thanks to Nightspots contributor Marc The Glenwood. “Moose”Moder for agreeing to let me host the November installment of DILF at The Sofo Tap, in celebration of my impending 40th birthday. I crossed into DILFhood a few years back. I only wish I had the salt-and-pepper beard. You’ve got three months, grey beard hairs. Get to work! An equally big thanks to Nightspots contributor Anthony Meade for all his work on this issue, in particular the hot beachy cover shoot with Scott, [email protected] MAIN COVER IMAGE Scott Photo by Anthony nightspots Meade #1124 • August 6, 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. 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While we encourage readers to support the advertisers who make this newspaper possible, Nightspots/Windy City Times cannot accept responsibility for advertising claims. /nightspots Last call at 3160. Look for something new to “shake” out in the space. 3160 Photos by Kirk Sissy’s Mannequin show was anything but stiff. WHISKEY TRUST Photos by Anthony Meade 8 nightspots August 6, 2014 DANCING ABOUT ARCHITECTURE by Marc “Moose” Moder MARKET DAYS IS HEAVEN ON EARTH: A GUIDE TO BELINDA’S BEST BETS We know many of you come into town just for Northalsted Market Days, and you’re right to. Pride gets all the glory, but we all know Market Days is way more fun and a fuller weekend. So congrats on that decision! Usually we at Nightspots like to put together a succinct guide to whom to see at the festival, hour by hour, but this year, outside of a few notable exceptions (Country cutie Steve Grand, twink favorites Neon Trees and Karmin, and America’s Got Talent alum Branden James with our very own Voxbox), you should pour all of your love and energy into seeing Market Days’ big coup: The pop icon that is Belinda Carlisle. For most of us of a certain, uh, age, she’s the soundtrack to our coming out and coming up, but there might be a whole swath of you who need some filling in. So this, young gay tourist, is your guide to the best Belinda. 1. Start with the obvious Go-Gos “Our Lips Are Sealed,” “Vacation” and “We’ve Got the Beat” are nuggets so widely loved, even your grandma knows them, so skip ahead to their third album for two of their catchiest tracks, “Turn To You” and the genius “Head Over Heels.” Now Belinda and Charlotte might have been battling HUGE demons during the recording but you’d never know it. This album is still probably the best of the three and those two songs are the best examples of why they define power pop. Further listening: “Cool Jerk” and “Has the Whole World Lost Its Head.” 2. Then go to “early solo” Many will point to her debut, Belinda, as a highlight with the huge hit “Mad About You,” but overall, not my favorite. Skip forward to Heaven On Earth, with its iconic title track and its two even better follow up singles, “I Get Weak” and “Circle In The Sand.” The album takes on a more mature sound, similar to Cher’s comeback album, and while parts sound “of the time”, most tracks hold up very well after a quarter of a century. 3. Explore Mid-Belinda In my mind, the best for fans, this ‘90s era gave us the amazing Runaway Horses. Just get the whole thing. “Leave a Light On,” “La Luna,” “Visions of You,” “We Want The Same Thing,” and “Summer Rain” are all pop gems not to be missed. Live Your Life Be Free followed with a few gems, like the title track and “Do You Feel Like I Feel?”, but her best was the next release, Real. Getting some of her original zest back, Real sounded like the old Go-Gos Belinda, mostly due to the fact that her and Charlotte Caffey stripped her sound of the slickness and just gave us great guitar pop again. It’s the BC CD for the Go-Gos fans. 4. The 2000s found her kicking back a bit, cleaning up her act (see her scandalous autobiography for that!) and working on the Go-Gos again. Her next solo album was the fully French Voila, a love letter to her new home. Not what you were expecting from her but her voice lends itself very well to the chansons. In the past year or so we’ve seen two new greatest hits collections and two brand new songs, the very danceable and catchy “Sun” and the power ballad “Goodbye Just Go,” both shining gems she’ll hopefully work into her best of the best! Come “Dance With Somebody” with DJ Moose at his Pre-Market Days Whitney Houston birthday party at Mary’s Attic, Fri., Aug. 8 at 9 pm. 10nightspots August 6, 2014 STICKS AND STONES MAY PBREAKR MYI BONESD BUTE WILL NOT DESERT ME Kim Jong Un demonstrates North Korea’s Karaoke by Creagh weapons’ ability ot reach the U.S. TUES COMING SOON! 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