Kind of in drag at Club #1016 • April 28, 2010 Krave. nightspots page 29 Glitter It Posing with the glitterati at Le Passage’s Glitter, Thu., April 15. page 16 Bianca of Homer Marrs’ CocoRosie. Fag Libs. page 14 page 18-19 OUR FAVORITE EVENT OF SPRING... THE WINE TASTING PARTY! WEDNESDAY MAY 12 6-9PM SAMPLE W7IN5ES LIGHT BITES TOO. FEATURING ® ...The Video Bar 3349 North Halsted SidetrackChicago.com YOUR $20 CONTRIBUTION BENEFITS EQUALITY ILLINOIS PAC Tickets available at www.EQIL.org That Guy by Kirk Williamson Like most people who of The Catty Corner (Ryan and have quit smoking, I’m still Andrew, I’m snarking at you), smoking. Just the occasional we now have the gorgeous one or two, I swear. In that vein, Nima. Methinks Nima has only thanks to Miztress Vana for bum- begun to be corrupted by me, ming me a whimsical Virginia Cyn, Amy and the whole crew. Ultra Slim outside of Berlin last Want to see what we’ll subject week. I guess the theory is that a him to next? See you at Wild Pug cigarette with 1/3 the diameter on Thu., April 29 and Scarlet on Cyn can handle the little of a normal cigarette will only Tue., May 4. ones all by herself. give 1/3 the cancer. You say that’s hogwash? OK, I quit for Don’t forget to sign up for Ride realz now. for AIDS, July 10 and 11. They need volunteers, crew and riders Windy City Gay Idol chugs along to help raise more money than nicely. You shoulda chugged ever this year. Go to rideforaids. what I chugged at Jackham- org for more info. mer and Spin this past week. Remember to bring your friends And if you’ve got any hors- to vote you into the next round. esense at all, trot it down to It’s the only way it works. Charlie’s this Sunday, May 1 for the derby with the ladies of the And Windy City Gay Idol Windy City Empire. Always a would be nothing without class act with that bunch. Ryan and Cyn have to work our ever-expanding circle of together on the really big [email protected] Idol groupies. Not only do we ones. enjoy the barbed commentary PUBLISHER Tracy Baim ASSISTANT PUBLISHER Terri Klinsky nightspots Managing EDITOR #1016 • April 28, 2010 Kirk Williamson ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES Terri Klinsky, Kirk Williamson, Amy Matheny MAIN COVER IMAGE NATIONAL ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVE Aurora Sexton, CT Hedden and Rivendell Media 212-242-6863 friend at Glitter at Le Passage. DIRECTOR OF NEW MEDIA Photo by Kirk Jean Albright TOP RIGHT OFFICE Photo by Ryan Kolodziej 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. Pointers, Randy Pubert Reprint by permission only. Back issues available for $3 per issue (postage included). 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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] Happy 14th anniversary. We couldn’ta done it without you! COCKTAIL Photos by Kirk Noah’s Arc’s Jensen Atwood likes it Ruff(y). URBANO Photos by Pierre Cameron 8 nightspots April 28, 2010 J>KHI:7O 7FH?B(/ .FC I?=D#KF7J-FC +9EL;H '&9EDJ;IJ7DJI?=D#KF<;; *.'&D$8HE7:M7O MEHB:I=H;7J;IJ87H$9EC DANCING ABOUT BRACEs ARCHITECTURE by Adam Guerino by Marc “Moose” Moder Tracey THORN AND ALL HER OppOsITEs As a big music fag, nothing brings me as much joy as something new by Tracey Thorn. With a voice from heaven and biting and illustrative lyrics, Tracey never disappoints. Two years ago Tracey struck out on her own for the first time in 25 years with Out “So. Never trust a man with two of the Woods, an electronic masterpiece right in line with— but completely unique from—the last first names. Even if he’s, like... few Everything But the Girl albums. Logic would a teacher. Especially if he’s Mr. dictate that Tracey Thomas.” would continue on the dance/electro path with her follow up, Love and Its Opposite (Merge, 5/18/10), but she’s taken her biggest turn since going electric with EBTG’s Walking Wounded in 1996. With Love, she again collaborates with producer Ewan Pearson (remixer for Depeche, Goldfrapp, and Ladytron), who knows his dance. With the exception the late disco sound of Why Does the Wind, she seems to be getting “Well, the good news is... I back to a more stripped down, meaningful sound. totally passed 8th grade algebra. She’s tackling very grown-up-lady issues on such Like, yay.” tracks as the lead single, “Oh, The Divorces!,” “Singles Bar” (aging divorcee’s lament), or “Hormones,” a downright poppy handoff from a mom to her tween daughter. Also surprising is her embracing of co-vocalists. In the past, the only voice present was her husband Ben back in the day, but she’s not really taken on guests until now, with haunting tracks like “C’mon Home To Me” with Jens Lekman and the uplifting final track “Swimming” with the delicate Cortney Tidwell. Both cuts show Tracey’s voice, while always rising above any other living vocalist in range and uniqueness; she plays very well with and compliments others. As said to a parent friend of mine the other day, “But the bad news is, like, herpes “growing up is all about learning to play well with is incurable. And totally annoying.” others” and my little “Marine Girl” has certainly done that on her best release to date. For more of Adam’s demented sense of sassafras, check out Nightcaps--The Late You can follow Moose at www.writingaboutmusic.com. Night Cabaret. Next show is in just two days, April 30, 11 p.m. at Berlin. 10 nightspots April 28, 2010 Keeping you a breast of the situation. A hairy, mannish breast. BOBBy LOVE’s Photos by Kirk Roundin’ up the cowboys for ILGRA. TOUCHE Photos by Kirk nightspots 11 April 28, 2010 Ralphi’s beats are so good, they should be against the law. HyDRATE Photos by Anthony Meade JACKHAMMER Tues., April 20 2 1) Finalist Unkommon lives up to his moniker. 4 2) Ryan loves his new The Bird and the Bee CD. 1 3) Promo director Cynthia cuts loose after one helluva show. 4) (Above, L-R) Co-host 3 Sofia Saffire, finalists T and Unkommon, co-host Amy Matheny. (Below, L-R) Judges Kirk Williamson, Mitchell Fain and David Byrne. 12 nightspots April 28, 2010 Ring Around the CocoRosie interviewed by Randy Pubert CocoRosie is an acclaimed musical group consisting of two sisters, Bianca “Coco” and Sierra “Rosie” Casady. In the middle of their European tour, Nightspots Magazine chased down Bianca on the road. Nightspots Magazine: Hi, NM: How do you describe your NM: How do you describe your Bianca. Where are you on the music? show for people that have never tour right now? BC: I like to think of it as spiritual been to a CocoRosie show? Bianca Casady: Paris, France. pop music. BC: It is multimedia. We have been making videos since the time we NM: You ladies have spent time NM: You have a new album have been making music so the there before, correct? called Grey Oceans that is visual aspect of our show is not BC: Yes, back in 2003 we lived here coming out? just decoration. It is conceptual for a while. We have been here on BC: Yes, the record will be out May and is a big part of our project. and off ever since. 11 in the United States and May 3 in Europe. NM: You both sing throughout NM: That’s how the sisters got the show? back together and not in the NM: How is your following in the BC: Sierra is trained classically, United States. USA compared to the UK? which is very different from how I BC: Yeah, that’s true. BC: We haven’t toured the United sing. She studied opera. States as much. But it is not NM: When did they exactly start radically different. We are on tour NM: Well, tell your sister we calling you “Coco?” a lot. We prefer it that way. said hi and we look forward BC: Since I was a baby. to seeing you when you get in NM: How many tattoos do you town! NM: I heard you play have? with children’s toys in the BC: Maybe eighteen.