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Music, Concert Preview Feb 14, 2020
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Dorian Electra’s Flamboyant is an ode to being extra
- By Megan Kirby
- Tags: Concert Preview, Dorian Electra, Subterranean, Flamboyant, 100 Gecs, Dylan Brady, Live by the Sword, nonbinary, Liberace, Career Boy, Emporium Arcade Bar, electronic music, pop, Recommended, Video

Music, Concert Preview Jan 24, 2020
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Nacrobats alumni celebrate the history and legacy of their Chicago hip-hop crew
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Concert Preview, Nacrobats, Culture Power45, Infinito 2017, Marcellous Lovelace, Sterling Price, Pugs Atomz, Kenwood Academy, hip-hop, Psalm One, Offwhyte, Open Mike Eagle, A in the Square, A Love Supreme, Thaione Davis, Cos G, Rift Napalm, Kao Ra Zen, Centric I.E., 1993, Roger Rodriguez, Brian Nevado, Jugrnaut, Emporium Arcade Bar, Recommended

Music, Concert Preview Oct 3, 2019
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Chicago rapper Vic Spencer sounds unstoppable on Bah Wounds
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Concert Preview, Vic Spencer, Bah Wounds, Old Fart Luggage, hip-hop, fixed-gear, Emporium Arcade Bar, Dr. Sebi, Recommended

Arts & Culture, Feature Jan 23, 2019
Robot Riot, the tabletop sumo competition, is back

Its creators promise lots more mechanical mayhem, doughnuts, and beer.
- By Luca Cimarusti
- Tags: Feature, Robot Riot, Emporium Arcade Bar, robots, robot wrestling, robot tabletop wrestling, Adrian Choy, Joe Piro, Museum of Science and Industry, Robot Revolution, Cheat Day, Nature Bot, Carlos Garcia, Ken “Filipino Flair” Seli

Blogs, Bleader Nov 10, 2017
Movies that rock at CIMMfest, Cook County Social Club reunion, and more of the best things to do in Chicago this weekend

Printers Guild Publishers Fair, sci-fi theater at the Paragon Festival, and more goings-on November 10-12
- By Steve Heisler
- Tags: Arts, Do This, ted leo, chicago loot drop, chicago comer children's hospital, revolution brewing, emporium arcade bar, thalia hall, chicago printers guild publishers festival, cook county social club, iO theater, Baldur Helgason, NYCH gallery, paragon festival

Blogs, Bleader May 19, 2017
South Side Craft Beer Festival, Andersonville Wine Walk, and more things to do in Chicago this weekend

Prom-A-Llama 2017, Cheap Thrills market, and more happenings from May 19-21
- By Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Arts, Do This, Prom-A-Llama 2017, 1st Ward, Space, the Revival, Red Giselle, Auditorium Theatre, Cheap Thrills, Emporium Arcade Bar, South Side Craft Beer Festival, Baderbräu Brewing Company, Make X, MAke Magazine, Hideout, Norah Jones, Chicago Theatre, Turbulent Constellations, Andersonville Wine Walk, Sunday Salon Chicago, Riverview Tavern

Blogs, Bleader May 8, 2017
‘Robot Revolution’ at MSI, Michelle Alexander and Naomi Klein in conversation, and more things to do in Chicago this week

Indie Boots Theater Festival, Bit Bash Takeover, and more happenings from May 8-11
- By Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Arts, Do This, Feminist Happy Hour, Whistler, Indie Boots Theater Festival, Stage 773, Michelle Alexander, Naomi Klein, Auditorium Theatre, The Martian, Music Box, Jaimie Branch, Hideout, Farm to Table Dinner, Travelle, Scott Hesse's From the Inside Out, Fulton Street Collective, Robot Revolution, Museum of Science and Industry, Bit Bash Takeover, Emporium Arcade Bar

Blogs, Bleader May 3, 2017
Pinball gets twisted on the gig poster of the week

This week's featured gig poster was printed by Josh Davis of Dead Meat Design.
- By Luca Cimarusti
- Tags: Arts, Gig Posters, Music, Visual Art, gig poster, gig posters, gig poster of the week, Josh Davis, Dead Mean Design, Fake Limbs, Absolutely Not, Walking Bicycles, Beat Drun Juel, Emporium Arcade Bar

Blogs, Bleader Jan 25, 2017
Video
Chicago’s Post Child celebrate their new album of grungy, nostalgic slacker rock

Nineties alt-rock revivalists Post Child play a free record-release show at Emporium on Thursday night.
- By Luca Cimarusti
- Tags: Do This, Music, Post Child, Wax Wings, Emporium Arcade Bar, music, alternative rock, punk, indie rock, slacker rock, guitars, record release, free, Closed Mouths, Sonny Falls, Peekaboos, Brokedowns, Elephant Gun, High Priests, In the Lake Records, Video

Blogs, Bleader Dec 19, 2016
Die Hard heckling, a holiday Nerdette, and more things to do in Chicago pre-Christmas week

A Very Ladylike Christmas, Logan Square Holiday Farmers Market, and more happenings from December 19-22
- By Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Arts, Do This, Art AIDS America Chicago, Alphawood Gallery, Down in Front, Die Hard, North Bar, A Very Ladylike Christmas, Mustache Cafe, Curbside Yuletide Book Party, Revival Food Hall, Drink N Draw, Emporium Arcade Bar, Star Wars, Nerdette, Victory Gardens Theater, Logan Square Holiday Farmers Market, Holiday Cookie Pop-Up, Cindy's

Blogs, Bleader Dec 12, 2016
Photography in the age of social media, Laughs Trump Hate, and more things to do in Chicago this week

Seinfeld Trivia Festivus, a special edition of the Slo 'Mo dance party, and more happenings from December 12-15
- By Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Arts, Do This, Game Dev Holiday Mixer, Emporium Arcade Bar, Laughs Trump Hate, MCL Chicago, Sauced: the Night Market Before Christmas, Chicago Athletic Association Hotel, Kimberly Drew, Rashayla Marie Brown, Museum of Contemporary Art, Headquarters Beercade, No Match for a Good Blaster, Rogue One, Star Wars, Tikva Wolf, Women & Children First, Seinfeld Trivia Festivus, Reed's Local, My Love is Your Love, Slo Mo, Whistler

Blogs, Bleader Nov 28, 2016
A John Waters Christmas, BrewLights, and more things to do in Chicago this week

Decoding 2016, Zadie Smith, and more happenings from November 28-December 1
- By Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Arts, Do This, ZooLights, BrewLights, Lincoln Park Zoo, Ted McClelland, Book Cellar, The Complete Deaths, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Spymonkey, Zadie Smith, DuSable Museum of African American History, A John Waters Christmas, Thalia Hall, John Waters, Rabbit Fest!, Emporium Arcade Bar, Decoding 2016, Ida Noyes Hall, Stand Up for Your Rights, Lagunitas Tap Room

Blogs, Bleader Nov 25, 2016
Caroling at Cloud Gate, ZooLights, and more things to do in Chicago this weekend

Whitney Cummings, Movember 2016, a Chicago punk documentary, and more happenings from November 25-27
- By Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Arts, Do This, Wild Onion Night Market, Cole's, Caroling at Cloud Gate, Millennium Park, Black Friday Ball, Uptown Underground, ZooLights, Lincoln Park Zoo, Crystal Pop-Up Shop, Sideshow Gallery, No Delusions, CHI PRC, Movember 2016, Emporium Arcade Bar, Be Happy, Public House Theatre, Helltrap Nigthmare, Hideout, Whitney Cummings, Chicago Improv

Blogs, Bleader Nov 14, 2016
Dining With Goose, Death, Sex & Money, and more things to do in Chicago this week

Feminist Happy Hour, Sauced Market, and more happenings from November 14-17.
- By Jack Ladd
- Tags: Arts, Do This, Of Roses and Jessamine, LeRoy Neiman Center Gallery, Penguin Hops, Shedd Aquarium, Kristen Toomey, Timothy O'Toole's, Chicago Food Tank Summit, Gleacher Center, MCA Talk: Andrew Yang, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Heritage Wine Dinner, Spanish Square, Feminist Happy Hour, The Whistler, Death Sex & Money, Music Box, Goose Island, Two, Sauced Market, Emporium Arcade Bar, Dining With Goose

Arts & Culture, Calendar Oct 24, 2016
More than three dozen of the best Halloween 2016 events

A ghoulish brunch, a costume parade, and more spooky things to do.
- Tags: Calendar, Halloween 2016, Another 90s Halloween Party, Beauty Bar, Bowie Night 2: Son of Bowie, Crown Liquors, Bric-a-Brac’s Halloween Brunch, Empty Bottle, Bye Bye Liver: Drink or Treat, Public House theatre, Carmine's Friday Fright Fest, Carmine's, Dia de los Muertos, Chicago Sinfonietta, Symphony Center, National Museum of Mexican Art, Day of the Dead, Death Toll, Cornservatory, The Fame Monster Mash, Berlin, Glitter Ghoul Halloween, Late Bar, East Room, Beat Kitchen, Rachal Duggan, Comfort Station, Untitled Supper Club, Hallowzine, Chicago Publishers Resource Center, Cafe Brauer, Haunted Hotel, Emporium Arcade Bar, Evanston History Center, Heltrap Nightmare, Hideout, Fabulous Ladies of Fitness, Cole's, Hog-lloween, Frontier, Howl-o-ween, Sit Social, La Casa de Santanas, Little Bash of Horrors, Bottom Lounge, Mama's Boy, A Memory Place of Fear, Silent Funny, Nightmares on Lincoln Ave., Northalsted Halloween Parade, Pay 2 Slay, Peek-A-Boo, Uptown Underground, Porn and Chicken, Halloween Banger, Evil Olive, Race of the Dead 5K, Scare You Very Much, Chicago Art Department, Spooky Zoo Spectacular, Lincoln Park Zoo, Too Much Fright Makes the Baby Go Blind, Whores of Horror

Blogs, Bleader Oct 24, 2016
Art of Atari, Emporium's Haunted Hotel, and more things to do in Chicago this week

Joe Mande, Longer! Louder! Wagner! The Second City Wagner Companion, and more happenings from October 24-27
- By Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Arts, Do This, Quantum Monk, Links Hall, Joe Mande, Lincoln Hall, Haunted Hotel, Emporium Arcade Bar, Working Bikes, Lagunitas Tap Room, Girl Talk, Hideout, Fictitious, iO Theater, Art of Atari, Logan Arcade, Longer! Louder! Wagner! The Second City Wagner Companion, Civic Opera House

Blogs, Bleader Oct 21, 2016
The Halloween Gathering Festival, Mutt Strutt, and more things to do in Chicago this weekend

Portrait of Myself as My Father, Chicago Moth StorySlam, and more happenings from October 21-23.
- By Isabel Ochoa Gold
- Tags: Arts, Do This, Wabash Arts Corridor, WAC Crawl, Columbia College, Nora Chipaumire, Dance, Comfort Station, Millennium Park, Halloween, Parade, Emporium Arcade Bar, Costume, Graham Foundation, Sarah Schulman, Den Theater, Spartan Theater Company, Lee Blessing, Lincoln Hall, Women & Children First

Blogs, Bleader Oct 17, 2016
Chicago Ideas Week, Jacqueline Woodson, and more things to do in Chicago this week

Lincoln Square Ravenswood Restaurant Week, Seinfeld Trivia, and more happenings from October 17-20.
- By Isabel Ochoa Gold
- Tags: Arts, Do This, Lincoln Square Ravenswood Restaurant Week, Chicago Ideas Week, Chicago International Film Festival, Insatiable: The Homaru Cantu Story, Drink N Draw, Emporium Arcade Bar, Jacqueline Woodson, Women and Children First, Emerson Quartet, Béla Bartók, Harris Theater, Ann Hatchett, First Evangelical Free Church, Nerdette, Seinfeld Trivia Night, Reed's Local

Blogs, Bleader Sep 30, 2016
Logan Square Beer Festival, CatVideo Fest, and more things to do in Chicago this weekend

Demetri Martin, All-Star BBQ, and more happenings from September 30-October 2
- By Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Arts, Do This, Cirque Rivera Dance Theatre, Links Hall, Lit Up, Drinkers With Writing Problems, Brisku's Bistro, Bangs 2016, Logan Square Beer Festival, Logan Square Auditorium, RAC the House, Riverside Art Center, Demetri Martin, the Vic, Kultura Festival 2016, Emporium Arcade Bar, All-Star BBQ, Palmer Square, Taste Talks Chicago, CatVideo Fest, Music Box Theatre

Blogs, Bleader Sep 29, 2016
Video
Local trio Absolutely Not premiere the paranoia-inducing video for ‘Programmed’

Prolific trio Absolutely Not celebrate the release of their new single with a benefit show Friday night at Emporium.
- By Luca Cimarusti
- Tags: Do This, Music, Things I Love, Absolutely Not, Programmed, Meat Wave, Bleach Party, Beastii, Emporium Arcade Bar, music video, video, premiere, Stepford Wives, heterotaxy syndrome, Donnie Moore, Video

Blogs, Bleader Sep 19, 2016
Cheers Live, Expo Chicago, and more things to do in Chicago this week

"Underwater Vines," Throwing Shade, and more happenings from September 19-22
- By Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Arts, Do This, De Nue, SAIC, Punk Rock Double Madness, Emporium Arcade Bar, Underwater Vines, Handsome Family, Rennie Sparks, Cheers Live on Stage, Broadway Playhouse, Jonathan Safran Foer, Music Box, Expo Chicago, Navy Pier, Stacy Schiff, Newberry Library, Throwing Shade, Thalia Hall

Blogs, Bleader May 6, 2016
“Playboy Architecture,” Mother’s Day movies, and more things to do in Chicago this weekend

Chicago Beer Classic, the Seldoms' RockCitizen, and more happenings from May 6-8
- By Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Arts, Do This, Mother's Day, Trash Movie Night, Emporium Arcade Bar, Playboy Architecture, Elmhurst Art Museum, Chicago Beer Classic, Soldier Field, Kerry James Marshall, Museum of Contemporary Art, RockCitizen, Storefront Theatre, Lise Heller Baggesen, Comfort Station, Hatorade Retrograde, Evanston Lit Festival

Blogs, Bleader Apr 22, 2016
The Reader's Pop-Up Pot Shop and more things to do in Chicago this weekend

Thus Die I, Cochon 555, and more happenings from April 22-24
- By Brianna Wellen
- Tags: A+D Gallery, Bleached, Bologna Illustrations, cannabis, Cochon 555, Emporium Arcade Bar, Empty Bottle, Hideout, Indian Boundary Park, iO Theater, Loews Hotel, marijuana, Pop-Up Pot Shop, Sadie Hawkin's Dance, Shakespeare, She Crew, She's Crafty, Thus Die I, Vienna Juvenile

Music, Gossip Wolf Apr 12, 2016
Metal Haven rises again as restaurant and record shop Metal Haven Grill

Plus: White Mystery release Outta Control on their favorite day, and Dark Matter Coffee drops a split by Wild Jesus & the Devil’s Lettuce and Brain Tentacles.
- By J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Metal Haven, Metal Haven Grill, Mark Weglarz, restaurant, record store, White Mystery, Alex White, Francis White, April 20, Outta Control, Best Friend, Emporium Arcade Bar, CIMMfest, CHIRP Record Fair, Dark Matter Coffee, Wild Jesus & the Devil’s Lettuce, Brain Tentacles, Dave Witte, Bruce Lamont, Aaron Dallison

Blogs, Bleader Mar 28, 2016
Moby Dick with puppets at the MCA, All-American basketball at the United Center, and more things to do in Chicago

Message For Details, Dad's Basement dance party, and more happenings from March 28-31.
- By Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Arts, Do This, Super Smash Brothers Melee, Emporium Arcade Bar, John Davies, the Owl, Message for Details, Shithole, Double Door, McDonald's All-American Games, United Center, Dad's Basement, Slippery Slope, Katherine Don, Women and Children First, Moby Dick, Museum of Contemporary Art, Blair Thomas & Co.

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