For LGBTQ+ audiences and their allies who may not want to spend all of their Pride weekend on the north side, the arts collective TRQPITECA offers an alternative. TRQPITECA, formed in 2015, consists of Chicago DJs and producers Natalie Murillo, aka La Spacer, and Jacquelyn Carmen Guerrero, aka CQQCHIFRUIT. Murillo and Guerrero curate nightlife and […]
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A eulogy for Danny’s Tavern
For decades, Danny’s nurtured a devoted and welcoming community of music lovers—but it couldn’t survive the pandemic.
Posted inCity Life
The Reader’s stay-at-home chronicles: days 29 and 30
What we’re reading, watching, listening to, etc., to pass the time.
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Latham Zearfoss of Chances Dances on a Solange album for the ages
Current musical obsessions of Chances Dances cofounder Latham Zearfoss, artist and educator Jen Delos Reyes, and Reader music listings coordinator Salem Collo-Julin
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Chances Dances turns ten, grows up, and celebrates with a multimedia exhibit
Chances Dances launched a decade ago as a queer dance party with a focus on inclusivity. It’s now evolved into a multifaceted collective that not only hosts well-DJed parties (a transcendent remix of Kate Bush’s “This Woman’s Work” comes to mind) but also awards microgrants to artists and supports Chicago’s LGBTIQ communities in myriad ways. […]
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Best LGBTQ dance party
Slo ’Mo: Slow Jams for Homos (and Their Fans) at Slippery Slope
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V-Day Issue: A duo that met on the dance floor
V-Day Issue: Aay Preston-Myint and Colin Dickson’s first date “didn’t just have a third wheel, it had 20.”
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Street View 151: Winter bloom at the MCA’s First Friday
Isa Giallorenzo’s Street View 151
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Reader’s Agenda Sun 5/26: (Best) Prom You Never Had, EDC, and football theater
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Sunday, May 26
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Andrea Jablonski, the doom-metal bassist
The People Issue: Andrea Jablonski; bassist, frontwoman, bartender
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Chances Dances queer get-down at the Hideout
LGBT folks and their fans turned out in droves for Chances Dances’ monthly queer takeover of the Hideout’s Saturday night dance party. With DJs Baby Sloth and John Twatters on the decks, this affair benefited their Critical Fierceness Grant, a microgrant program for queer arts in Chicago. Consider it the unofficial kickoff to a month’s […]