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Too, too soon you will manage to say DOWNload: www.WindyCityMediaGroup.com August 6, 2008 #956 PUBLISHER Tracy Baim ASSISTANT PUBLISHER Terri Klinsky MANAGING EDITOR Kirk Williamson PHOTOGRAPHY Mel Ferrand, Kat Fitzgerald, DJ Greg Haus, Kirk, Kizzy, Ryan Kolodziej, Steve Starr CAST OF CHARACTERS Andrew Davis, DJ Res-5, Andrew Georgiou, graysong, Michael Hampton, Joan Jett-Blakk, Charlene Lichtenstein, David J. Magdziarz, Homer Marrs, Jennifer Parello, Randy Pubert ADVERTISING REPRESENTA- TIVES Terri Klinsky, Suzanne Kraus, Kirk Williamson, Kathleen Ulm, Amy Matheny, Jerry Nunn, Cynthia Holmes, Terry Wiegel, Diane Mareci, Georg Coleman NATIONAL ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVE RIVENDELL MEDIA (212) 242-6863 PROMOTIONS Kathleen Ulm DIRECTOR OF NEW MEDIA Jean Albright OFFICE Cynthia Holmes CALENDAR EDITOR Amy Wooten Copyright 2008 Windy City Media Group/Lambda Publications Inc. All rights reserved. Reprint by permission only. Back issues available for $3 per issue (postage included). 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Clark St. #192, Chicago, IL 60640 Market Days Are Here Again! 773.871.7610, fax 773.871.7609 www.WindyCityMediaGroup.com Celebrate Halsted Street with the crazy kids of Nightspots! inSIDE page 33,48 [email protected] Is this John It’s gonna be a Catfight McCain? at the Belmont stage on page 30 Saturday! page 18 DOWNload: www.WindyCityMediaGroup.com that guy by Kirk Williamson It’s funny how printing a naked Pleasure running into my old picture of yourself causes exes friend Dave at North End last to come out of the woodwork... weekend. He’s all happy and and upon the woodwork, boyfriended now. Kudos, I say. perhaps. It’s been an interesting Kudos. Hopefully I’ll be next... week. The freaks were out at night— Big hurrah to Mark Corece for Tuesday night, to be exact—at bringing a little culture to our Berlin for Milio’s Side Show Hair gayborhood with his Poetic Hole Show. Lollipops were involved. open mic reading at Pie Hole on See the picture of Shayna and Thursdays. I busted out an oldie- Dakota on page 33, then look but-a-goodie and a new piece at the picture on the top on this I wrote about hooking up in a page and do the dirty, dirty math smoky bar. Write what you know, yourself. they always say. Cowboy Eye For the Leather Guy Happy birthday to Jim Flint over was half OK at Touché. Only half at 3160. Seems I have a knack because, due to an unforeseen for always showing up a few scheduling error, the makeover minutes too late, as I just missed portion did not come to pass. none other than Dennis Rodman. Stay tuned in the coming weeks Turns out he used to be quite for Part Two: The Makeoveren- the regular down at The Baton. ing. Thanks to Tim for sending me the pictures. Oh yeah, and Market Days. 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