#1031 • November 24, 2010 Sweet! Sink your teeth into AIDS Foundation of Chicago’s World of Chocolate event on Thu., Dec. 2. See Calendar Q on pgs. 22-23 for info. Downtown’s Making music grand opening. at Sofo. page 8 page 15 That Guy by Kirk Williamson Having a brain moment, folks. Not much of Meanwhile, as both these issues will contain no a column this week. Just wanted to let you new photo coverage, please “like” our Facebook all know that December holds many treasures page (facebook.com/nightspots, for those of you for all you faithful Nightspotters. uninterested in thinking about it too hard). I’ll be posting all kinds of shit up on thurr. Our December 8 issue will be our annual Holiday Gift Guide. Please resist all temptation to shop until Also, pick up Windy City Times, which will feature we tell you what to buy. Because, in our heads, Nightspots-type coverage throughout the month we’re that influential. of December. Then get ready for our year-end 2010 wrap-up [email protected] issue of December 22. Take a look back at the year that was with this full-color retrospective. Yes, full- color, people! With Dakota, Scott and Clinton at Downtown’s grand opening. PUBLISHER Tracy Baim ASSISTANT PUBLISHER Terri Klinsky nightspots MANAGING EDITOR #1031 • November 24, 2010 Kirk Williamson ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES Terri Klinsky, Kirk Williamson, Amy Matheny MAIN COVER IMAGE NATIONAL ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVE World of Chocolate Rivendell Media 212-242-6863 Photo by Pubert DIRECTOR OF NEW MEDIA Jean Albright BOTTOM LEFT/RIGHT Photo by Kirk OFFICE Meghan Streit PHOTOGraphY Mel Ferrand, Kat Fitzgerald, DJ Greg Haus, Kirk, Kizzy, Ryan Kolodziej, Anthony Meade, Steve Starr, DJ Res-5 CAST OF CHARACTERS Andrew Davis, DJ Res-5, Adam Guerino, Homer Marrs, Marc “Moose”Moder, Jennifer Parello, Peter Copyright 2010 Windy City Media Group/Lambda Publications Inc. All rights reserved. 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While we encourage readers to support the advertisers who make this newspaper possible, Nightspots/Windy www.WindyCityMediaGroup.com City Times cannot accept responsibility for advertising claims. [email protected] Groove is in the 27th anniversary with Lady Miss Kier. BERLIN Photos by Pubert Happy grand opening! See more on our Facebook fan page. DOWNTOWN Photos by Kirk 8 nightspots November 24, 2010 DJ RILEY YORK Happy grand opening! See more on our Facebook fan page. THURSDAY DEC 2 /PDIFT %F'VFHP LATIN NIGHT SHAKIRA SHOWCASE AT 11 PM 1547 W. BRYN MAWR @ CLARK ST. IN ANDERSONVILLE. NEVER A COVER OPEN CHRISTMAS DAY 8PM DANCING ABOUT ARCHITECTURE Here are just a few of the fun- by Marc “Moose” Moder raising events for this year’s Bar-lesque competition. Come do MY GAY MAMA, your part to see their parts. CHER Anthony’s Bar-lesque Fundraiser Fri., Nov. 26 We all have a gay mom. Not in that The Kids Are Spin All Right/Annette Bening way. Everyone has a 800 W. Belmont Ave., 10 p.m. - midnight gay fantasy mom. My mother was the mother Join host Mercedes, Anthony and porn of perfection. I can’t find a single instance in my star Brett Swanson for another fabulous 40-something years where she made a bad choice. fundraiser to benefit TPAN. Enjoy a hosted However, she’s not exactly Auntie Mame. Quite bar package featuring Bacardi and Miller frankly, there’s a reason there are Mama Rose and products from 10-11 p.m. Auntie Mame. Real moms aren’t fun. It all started in about 1973 when Sonny & Cher were on the decline. My nuclear family sat every Michael’s Bar-lesque Fundraiser week and watched the antics of Cher and her Sat., Nov. 27 nebbishy Italian hubby, Sonny Bono. Sonny was @mosphere really a foil or even an afterthought. Cher was 5355 N. Clark St., 9-11 p.m. where it was at for me: sassy, skinny, brunette, and $20 donation at the door mildly ethnic—everything I wanted to be. Plus, she Drag show featuring Chanel Exotique, got to hang out with Chastity. I was pretty sure she Regina Upright, Monique Marquette, was going to be my wife one day. Little did I know Felicity St. James and Elysse Giovanni. our paths… . Hot male dancers Nate, AJ, Luis and more. SPECIAL APPEARANCE by Then after a few years out of the Mooselight while international adult film star Ethan Hudson. she hung out with ruffians like Gregg Allman Full show at 11 p.m. Raffles and surprises. and Gene Simmons making disco albums, I rediscovered Mommy as an actress in Silkwood and Moonstruck and was hooked again. Her big moment for me was her rockin’ self-titled 1987 The Final Tease! release with “We All Sleep Alone” and “Main Man.” Tues., Nov. 30 She came back sans disco, rocking her ass off--and Sidetrack out. Mama was back. 3349 N. Halsted St., 8 p.m. No cover And then Mama made that horrible hair Support bartender Jason’s bid to be infomercial... big mistake, and she knew it. After named “Chicago’s Sexiest.” that she gave up on film for a while, partially because she was shamed by the hair thing, partially because her face looked like a Cher commemorative plate. Since then she’s done a great comeback tour, two strong dance albums, nightspots is a proud media sponsor of and now the brazil-liant Burlesque. I’m not sure if it will be good brilliant or bad brilliant. Either way, WIN/WIN. With Cher, you can’t go wrong. Go see Burlesque. You owe it to our collective gay mom. You can hang with Moose at the Burlesque premiere party at Downtown Bar, November 24 from 6-9 p.m. Donate at http://bar-lesque.org 10 nightspots All photos by Dan Paterno November 24, 2010 PAUL November’s heating up! These are the current standings for the 13 participants in this year’s Bar-lesque competition, Test Positive Aware Network’s month-long online strip-a- thon. The more they raise, the more they show! $167 Make a donation at http://bar-lesque.org. 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