Too much make-up at Mary’s #1015 • April 14, 2010 Attic. nightspots page 29 Light It Dancing with laser precision at Hunters. pages 29 Sigur Rós’ The night the Jónsi comes to lights went out Chicago. in Georgia. page 14 page 16 A Cabaret of Favorite Broadway Tunes Performed by Members of WINDY CITY GAY CHORUS and ARIA: WINDY CITY WOMEN’S ENSEMBLE SATURDAY, APRIL 24 • 5-8PM AAnn EEvveenniinngg ooff BBrrooaaddwwaayy A BENEFIT FOR WINDY CITY PERFORMING ARTS $30 donation in MainBar & CherryBar at Sidetrack (includes sponsored bar, silent auction & more!) GlassBar & SideBar open as usual/No cover. Keep up-to-date by joining us on Sidetrack The Video Bar 3349 N. Halsted • SidetrackChicago.com That Guy by Kirk Williamson THE FOLLOWING IS AN friend from Cupid’s. Jeff is of your peers. You have been EXERPT FROM MY COLUMN moving on up and by next given a free pass. And don’t IN THE MARCH 9, 2005 ISSUE week will be off into the blue. forget to tip your bartenders OF NIGHTSPOTS. IT’S A THAT We had a very sweet time a little extra “green” this year. I GUY CLASSIC! [EDITOR’S NOTE: AT THAT TIME, THE COLUMN WAS together, both at the bar and know they’ll be working their TITLED “HEY, I’M THAT GUY FROM in our ongoing exchanges with shillelaghs off. THE MAGAZINE”] one another. I was 10 miles past verklempt. Jeff, you will be kirk@windycitymediagroup. Popped in to the charming and missed immeasurably. com reasonably priced X/O for a nip. They must have some sort of Lisa Lexus at Cocktail underground hydroponic set- has some up where they breed gorgeous big idea about doing a guys to work at the bar. And weekly poll for Night- graze the harvest I did. spots. If you see a fierce bitch with a raging ‘fro Clark’s kicked my ass last night. coming toward you Not only were Steve and Den- with a steno pad and a nis in rare form (check out page sharpened No. 2, don’t 46), Ihad an über-scandalous stress. She’swith me. picture taken of me with a certain yin, St. Pat’s is coming. There whose yang was nowhere to be you go. found. After some cajoling, I I’ve given you a perfect- decided not to run the picture. ly rational and defen- This week. sible excuse to drink. No more worrying about I also ran into Jeff, my good the judgmental eyes PUBLISHER Tracy Baim ASSISTANT PUBLISHER Terri Klinsky nightspots Managing EDITOR #1015 • April 14, 2010 Kirk Williamson ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES Terri Klinsky, Kirk Williamson, Amy Matheny MAIN COVER IMAGE NATIONAL ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVE Laser dancer at Hunters. 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For booking and hiring info: 773-720-7347 or [email protected] We discovered this gem at Jackhammer when reaching for a blank card on which to jot down an editorial note. It was like winning the fuck lottery. We’ve come to two mutually exclusive conclusions: A) The card was a snarky joke on an ex-bartender; or B) Said ex-bartender knows what he likes and ain’t afraid to ask for it. nightspots 9 April 14, 2010 DANCING ABOUT BRACES ARCHITECTURE by Adam Guerino by Marc “Moose” Moder REMEMBER THE GOOD SIDE OF MALCOLM MCLAREN “My fellow Americans, it is Growing up in the punk era and being a fan of The totally a dark day in Middleton Sex Pistols and Bow Wow Wow, I’m well aware of Junior High history. Some time the perception many have of their former manager after, like, third period, it was Malcolm McLaren: Svengali, Shyster, Manipulator. announced that there would The Pistols famously gave their side of the story in be another round of voting for the documentary The Filth and The Fury and via their lawsuit, which they won. But Malcolm, to many of us student body president with only gay boys in London, New York and beyond growing Molly and I on the ballot.” up in the eighties, was not just the first to embrace and basically invent punk and punk fashion as we know it today, but was the first to toss it aside during its peak popularity in favor of a surprise career in front of the mic. In 1983, McLaren released his first solo album, Duck Rock, embracing American hip-hop way before MTV “This can ONLY mean ONE thing: and anyone outside the Molly is blowing the principal. Bronx did and melding rap What was supposed to be a with a very white style of totally, like, landmark victory has electronic. This gave him been reduced to a tie!“ two top ten hits in the UK. Then, the next year he had the brilliant idea of mixing opera, deadpan monologues and classical on his second and best album, Fans, way ahead of Pet Shop Boys and Enigma. Then finally in 1989, he brought Willy Ninja and New York’s Vogueing balls to the white clubs a full year before Madonna’s Vogue with his stylistic single and video, Deep In Vogue. Malcolm, while considered straight, made electronic music sophisticated and gay as hell. So next time “I won’t, like, stand for Molly’s your iPod leads you to Pet Shop Boys, Lady Gaga, bend-over-approach. This is like, or Calvin Harris, remember one of the most foppish heteros in history and strike a pose. Waltz, darling unpatriotic and... and slutty! Vote Malcolm, waltz. no to skanks bowing to the boner and vote yes to me!” For up-to-the-minute election coverage and more of Adam Guerino’s humor, check out Nightcaps, the late night cabaret at Berlin Friday, April 30 at 11p.m. 10 nightspots April 14, 2010 Flesh Hungry Dog’s no puppy anymore. Happy 5th anniversary. JACKHAMMER Photos by Kirk THE GLENWOOD Tues., April 8 1 3 1) Finalist Matt gives the smooth touch. 2) Finalist Brian fits right into the Gay Idol mold. 4 3) Judges Mitchell Fain, Kerri 2 Grant and Kirk Williamson ponder the outcome over some Miller Lites and Bacardi drinks. 4) A lucky Goldfrapp winner. 5) (L-R) Judge Mitchell Fain, finalists Brian and Matt, judges Kirk Williamson and Kerri Grant, host Amy Matheny.. 5 12 nightspots April 14, 2010 Jónsi Birgisson, from the Icelandic group Sigur Rós, is going solo Go for Jónsi with his new album Go. In the middle of a North American tour, Nightspots Magazine spoke with Jónsi before he arrived in Chicago. interviewed by Randy Pubert Nightspots Magazine: Hello, NM: What is the difference also drawings, painting and stuff.