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Featured Review from TimeOutChicago
March 23, 2011A rollicking rockabilly ride that gives the jukebox musical a good name, this hot show applies the truthiness doctrine to rock & roll. Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash and a newly signed Jerry Lee Lewis really did meet up one fortuitous night in 1956 for a jam session at Sam Phillips’s Sun Studio. more at timeoutchicago.com
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Featured Review from The Onion A.V. Club
December 21, 2011Though its name might suggest a classic Slayer album, The Second City revue South Side of Heaven may indeed be the opposite.more at avclub.com
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Featured Review from TimeOutChicago
April 17, 2011Billy Bungeroth ( Absolute Best Friggin’ Time of Your Life ) takes the reins for the Mainstage’s 99th revue and handles them well. Scenes including a racially charged standoff between Cubs and White Sox fans and a farewell to Daley get a lift from both Bungeroth’s whiz-bang staging. The mixed batch of Second City vets and newcomers, particularly Holly Laurent, Sam Richardson and Tim Robinson bring this new show awfully close to heaven more at timeoutchicago.com
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Write Now: Artists and Letterforms
Fri. 09/30 | 8:00AM - Sun. 04/29 @ Chicago Cultural Center
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Featured Review from TimeOutChicago
November 20, 2011More than 40 artists and designers including Rick Valicenti, Ken Fandell, Jason Lazarus and Jason Pickleman employ letters and text in painting, printmaking, sculpture and video. The exhibition features Fluxus mail art and concrete poetry. more at timeoutchicago.com
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The Language of Less (Then and Now)
Sat. 10/08 - Sun. 04/08 @ Museum of Contemporary Art (map)
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Featured Review from TimeOutChicago
November 27, 2011Leonor Antunes, Carol Bove, Jason Dodge, Gedi Sibony and Oscar Tuazon adapt the visual language of 1960s minimalism to new concerns in this exhibition curated by Michael Darling. Their work is put in context by the MCA’s minimalist and postminimalist collections, which place rediscovered artists such as Charlotte Posenenske alongside the likes of Donald Judd and Bruce Nauman.more at timeoutchicago.com
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Spencer Finch: Lunar
Sat. 10/08 - Sun. 04/08 @ The Art Institute of Chicago (map)
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Featured Review from TimeOutChicago
November 27, 2011Located outdoors on the Bluhm Family Terrace, Finch’s “lunar lander module” captures energy from sunlight to power a geodesic dome–shaped object that glows the color of moonlight every evening. more at timeoutchicago.com
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focus: Sharon Hayes
Thu. 11/10 - Sun. 03/11 @ The Art Institute of Chicago (map)
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Featured Review from TimeOutChicago
December 09, 2011History bleeds into the present in Hayes’s work, which revisits speeches and slogans from the past to engage politics and civil-rights issues today. more at timeoutchicago.com
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MCA DNA: Dieter Roth
Sat. 11/12 - Sun. 02/26 @ Museum of Contemporary Art (map)
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Featured Review from TimeOutChicago
December 09, 2011In 1984, German-Icelandic artist Roth (1930–98) had his first major American museum exhibition at the MCA, which claims that the artist was so pleased with the show, he gave it a complete set of his signature artist’s books. more at timeoutchicago.com
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MCA Screen: David Hartt
Sat. 11/26 | 2:00PM - Sun. 04/29 @ Museum of Contemporary Art (map)
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Featured Review from TimeOutChicago
January 10, 2012Hartt’s film installation Stray Light documents the distinctive interiors and atmosphere at the Johnson Publishing Company building on South Michigan Avenue. more at timeoutchicago.com
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Light Years: Conceptual Art and the Photograph 1964-1977
Sun. 12/11 - Sun. 03/11 @ The Art Institute of Chicago (map)
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Featured Review from TimeOutChicago
January 10, 2012More than 140 works by 57 artists trace photography’s path through conceptual art to legitimacy as an art medium. more at timeoutchicago.com
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Pressed And, Wolf In A Spacesuit, Connectedness Locus
Fri. 02/03 | 10:00PM @ Empty Bottle (map)
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Baby Wants Candy
Every Friday 10:30PM @ Apollo Theater (map)
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Featured Review from TimeOutChicago
February 22, 2011This long-running improvised musical charms with its inspired silliness and is on its way to becoming a local institution.
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Featured Review from Chicago Reader
September 17, 2010A tight troupe now famous for its improvised musicals—began in 1997 as one of the dozens of ImprovOlympic teams formed every year. Somehow they’ve avoided the usual dissolution of such groups. more at chicagoreader.com
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Featured Review from TimeOutChicago
February 22, 2011Mixing up a little modern day Bad Brains and an added world music sensibility, the Eternals are a refreshing reggae-fied change of pace from the in-yer-face indie scene. Band member and DJ, Wayne Montana, takes over this modern Asian-themed and always-packed-with-beautiful-people haunt on Milwaukee for early evening dubby jams to get your Saturday off on the right track.more at timeoutchicago.com
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Featured Review from Oh My Rockness
January 23, 2012Chicago’s Sweet Cobra rock the blazingly intense screamo that sounds like an awesomely annihilating cross between the best of Mastodon, Jesu and Torche, with some Motorhead thrown in for good measure. more at ohmyrockness.com
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Featured Review from TimeOutChicago
May 04, 2011If you’re looking to keep your Wicker Park dance party going till the sun comes up, look no further than the Good, the Bad and the Ugly. This Saturday-night get-down has recently shuffled, but the party isn’t going anywhere. With new resident DJ wonders Johnny Walker and Phenom plus holdover Konsept, this night doesn’t disappoint.
more at timeoutchicago.com
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Football
Sun. 02/05 | 5:00PM @ Empty Bottle (map)
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Studio One w/Papa G.
Every Sunday 8:00PM @ Mr. Brown's Lounge (map)
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Featured Review from TimeOutChicago
March 26, 2011Among the many irie nights Paga G hosts around town, he’s well known for his Sunday-night reggae tradition, Uprising, a weekly at Sonotheque up until the venue’s closure.more at timeoutchicago.com
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Anthony Cozzi
Sun. 02/05 | 10:00PM @ Empty Bottle (map)
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Featured Review from TimeOutChicago
April 29, 2011Brunch without drag-spectacle duo Scooty and JoJo is only long lines and overpriced French toast. This brunch-time cabaret series returns with its usual all-you-can-drink mimosas and Bellinis, as well as song, dance, comedy and diva shtick. more at timeoutchicago.com
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Featured Review from TimeOutChicago
October 26, 2010Punk rock DJ Vinyl Richie is a staple at some of the North Side’s best rock bars, including Bottom Lounge, Continental and Liar’s Club. But it’s his weekly Monday at Delilah’s that tops them all, pulling crowds that rival Danny’s soul night, but for the screaming guitar-loving set. more at timeout.com
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$1 Buck Burger w/ Salad or Fries, $2 off all Pitchers, $4 Absolut Mandarin Crushes
Every Monday 4:00PM @ Big Chicks (map)
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Featured Review from TimeOutChicago
November 09, 2010For one buck, you get a hearty burger and a plate of fries (or side salad for the carb freaks). Good luck snagging a table.
more at timeout.com
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Radar Eyes (record release), Bare Mutants, Outer Minds
Mon. 02/06 | 9:30PM @ Empty Bottle (map)
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Featured Review from Chicago Reader
February 02, 2012Local garage rockers Radar Eyes don’t have the most compelling backstory; they’re just four people from a few good bands who got together and nailed a highly listenable sound that bested what they’d done in their previous groups. more at chicagoreader.com
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Featured Review from flavorpill
February 01, 2012On the Venn diagram of local underground rock, Radar Eyes occupy the overlap between our garage-rock, neo-shoegaze, and psychedelic circles (arguably the three strongest current rock scenes in Chicago). more at flavorpill.com
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Deep Blue Organ Trio
Every Tuesday 9:00PM - 1:00AM @ The Green Mill (map)
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Featured Review from TimeOutChicago
May 26, 2011Chris Foreman spreads organ-jazz gospel from the Hammond B3 pulpit, while guitarist Bobby Broom and drummer Greg Rockingham wail on in the amen corners. There may be no better weekly fix for soul-dripping swing in Chicagoland. more at timeoutchicago.com
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Featured Review from Chicago Reader
February 02, 2012It doesn’t take much squinting to see the Hold Steady and their fans as one of America’s happier and better-adjusted (not to mention most booze-drenched) cults, but anyone expecting front man Craig Finn to dish the same kind of radically affirmative rock on his recently released solo debut, Clear Hearts, Full Eyes (Vagrant), will probably be thrown by the album’s opener, “Apollo Bay.” more at chicagoreader.com
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Featured Review from flavorpill
February 01, 2012In her excellent list of cultural resolutions for 2012, Flavorwire’s Judy Berman lamented indie rock’s return to “belabored, faux-rustic, quasi-literary troubadour stuff that we thought had passed its expiration date,” adding that, “The Bruce Springsteen impressions are getting tired.” more at flavorpill.com
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Featured Review from Chicago Reader
February 02, 2012Yeah, it’s another band with that sound—the same fuzzy, hissy garage rock that Wavves, Real Estate, and Harlem have been poking at for what now seems like eons. more at chicagoreader.com
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Michael Lux & the Bad Sons, The Geoff Dolce Band, Mooner
Thu. 02/09 | 9:30PM @ Empty Bottle (map)
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Featured Review from TimeOutChicago
March 23, 2011A rollicking rockabilly ride that gives the jukebox musical a good name, this hot show applies the truthiness doctrine to rock & roll. Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash and a newly signed Jerry Lee Lewis really did meet up one fortuitous night in 1956 for a jam session at Sam Phillips’s Sun Studio. more at timeoutchicago.com
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Featured Review from The Onion A.V. Club
December 21, 2011Though its name might suggest a classic Slayer album, The Second City revue South Side of Heaven may indeed be the opposite.more at avclub.com
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Featured Review from TimeOutChicago
April 17, 2011Billy Bungeroth ( Absolute Best Friggin’ Time of Your Life ) takes the reins for the Mainstage’s 99th revue and handles them well. Scenes including a racially charged standoff between Cubs and White Sox fans and a farewell to Daley get a lift from both Bungeroth’s whiz-bang staging. The mixed batch of Second City vets and newcomers, particularly Holly Laurent, Sam Richardson and Tim Robinson bring this new show awfully close to heaven more at timeoutchicago.com
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Write Now: Artists and Letterforms
Fri. 09/30 | 8:00AM - Sun. 04/29 @ Chicago Cultural Center
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Featured Review from TimeOutChicago
November 20, 2011More than 40 artists and designers including Rick Valicenti, Ken Fandell, Jason Lazarus and Jason Pickleman employ letters and text in painting, printmaking, sculpture and video. The exhibition features Fluxus mail art and concrete poetry. more at timeoutchicago.com
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The Language of Less (Then and Now)
Sat. 10/08 - Sun. 04/08 @ Museum of Contemporary Art (map)
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Featured Review from TimeOutChicago
November 27, 2011Leonor Antunes, Carol Bove, Jason Dodge, Gedi Sibony and Oscar Tuazon adapt the visual language of 1960s minimalism to new concerns in this exhibition curated by Michael Darling. Their work is put in context by the MCA’s minimalist and postminimalist collections, which place rediscovered artists such as Charlotte Posenenske alongside the likes of Donald Judd and Bruce Nauman.more at timeoutchicago.com
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Spencer Finch: Lunar
Sat. 10/08 - Sun. 04/08 @ The Art Institute of Chicago (map)
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Featured Review from TimeOutChicago
November 27, 2011Located outdoors on the Bluhm Family Terrace, Finch’s “lunar lander module” captures energy from sunlight to power a geodesic dome–shaped object that glows the color of moonlight every evening. more at timeoutchicago.com
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focus: Sharon Hayes
Thu. 11/10 - Sun. 03/11 @ The Art Institute of Chicago (map)
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Featured Review from TimeOutChicago
December 09, 2011History bleeds into the present in Hayes’s work, which revisits speeches and slogans from the past to engage politics and civil-rights issues today. more at timeoutchicago.com
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MCA DNA: Dieter Roth
Sat. 11/12 - Sun. 02/26 @ Museum of Contemporary Art (map)
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Featured Review from TimeOutChicago
December 09, 2011In 1984, German-Icelandic artist Roth (1930–98) had his first major American museum exhibition at the MCA, which claims that the artist was so pleased with the show, he gave it a complete set of his signature artist’s books. more at timeoutchicago.com
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MCA Screen: David Hartt
Sat. 11/26 | 2:00PM - Sun. 04/29 @ Museum of Contemporary Art (map)
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Featured Review from TimeOutChicago
January 10, 2012Hartt’s film installation Stray Light documents the distinctive interiors and atmosphere at the Johnson Publishing Company building on South Michigan Avenue. more at timeoutchicago.com
-
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Light Years: Conceptual Art and the Photograph 1964-1977
Sun. 12/11 - Sun. 03/11 @ The Art Institute of Chicago (map)
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Featured Review from TimeOutChicago
January 10, 2012More than 140 works by 57 artists trace photography’s path through conceptual art to legitimacy as an art medium. more at timeoutchicago.com
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Pressed And, Wolf In A Spacesuit, Connectedness Locus
Fri. 02/03 | 10:00PM @ Empty Bottle (map)
Buy Tickets -
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Baby Wants Candy
Every Friday 10:30PM @ Apollo Theater (map)
-
Featured Review from TimeOutChicago
February 22, 2011This long-running improvised musical charms with its inspired silliness and is on its way to becoming a local institution.
more at timeoutchicago.com -
Featured Review from Chicago Reader
September 17, 2010A tight troupe now famous for its improvised musicals—began in 1997 as one of the dozens of ImprovOlympic teams formed every year. Somehow they’ve avoided the usual dissolution of such groups. more at chicagoreader.com
-
-
-
Featured Review from TimeOutChicago
February 22, 2011Mixing up a little modern day Bad Brains and an added world music sensibility, the Eternals are a refreshing reggae-fied change of pace from the in-yer-face indie scene. Band member and DJ, Wayne Montana, takes over this modern Asian-themed and always-packed-with-beautiful-people haunt on Milwaukee for early evening dubby jams to get your Saturday off on the right track.more at timeoutchicago.com
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Featured Review from Oh My Rockness
January 23, 2012Chicago’s Sweet Cobra rock the blazingly intense screamo that sounds like an awesomely annihilating cross between the best of Mastodon, Jesu and Torche, with some Motorhead thrown in for good measure. more at ohmyrockness.com
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Featured Review from TimeOutChicago
May 04, 2011If you’re looking to keep your Wicker Park dance party going till the sun comes up, look no further than the Good, the Bad and the Ugly. This Saturday-night get-down has recently shuffled, but the party isn’t going anywhere. With new resident DJ wonders Johnny Walker and Phenom plus holdover Konsept, this night doesn’t disappoint.
more at timeoutchicago.com
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-
Football
Sun. 02/05 | 5:00PM @ Empty Bottle (map)
-
-
Studio One w/Papa G.
Every Sunday 8:00PM @ Mr. Brown's Lounge (map)
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Featured Review from TimeOutChicago
March 26, 2011Among the many irie nights Paga G hosts around town, he’s well known for his Sunday-night reggae tradition, Uprising, a weekly at Sonotheque up until the venue’s closure.more at timeoutchicago.com
-
-
Anthony Cozzi
Sun. 02/05 | 10:00PM @ Empty Bottle (map)
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Featured Review from TimeOutChicago
April 29, 2011Brunch without drag-spectacle duo Scooty and JoJo is only long lines and overpriced French toast. This brunch-time cabaret series returns with its usual all-you-can-drink mimosas and Bellinis, as well as song, dance, comedy and diva shtick. more at timeoutchicago.com
-
-
-
Featured Review from TimeOutChicago
October 26, 2010Punk rock DJ Vinyl Richie is a staple at some of the North Side’s best rock bars, including Bottom Lounge, Continental and Liar’s Club. But it’s his weekly Monday at Delilah’s that tops them all, pulling crowds that rival Danny’s soul night, but for the screaming guitar-loving set. more at timeout.com
-
-
$1 Buck Burger w/ Salad or Fries, $2 off all Pitchers, $4 Absolut Mandarin Crushes
Every Monday 4:00PM @ Big Chicks (map)
-
Featured Review from TimeOutChicago
November 09, 2010For one buck, you get a hearty burger and a plate of fries (or side salad for the carb freaks). Good luck snagging a table.
more at timeout.com
-
-
Radar Eyes (record release), Bare Mutants, Outer Minds
Mon. 02/06 | 9:30PM @ Empty Bottle (map)
-
Featured Review from Chicago Reader
February 02, 2012Local garage rockers Radar Eyes don’t have the most compelling backstory; they’re just four people from a few good bands who got together and nailed a highly listenable sound that bested what they’d done in their previous groups. more at chicagoreader.com
-
Featured Review from flavorpill
February 01, 2012On the Venn diagram of local underground rock, Radar Eyes occupy the overlap between our garage-rock, neo-shoegaze, and psychedelic circles (arguably the three strongest current rock scenes in Chicago). more at flavorpill.com
-
-
Deep Blue Organ Trio
Every Tuesday 9:00PM - 1:00AM @ The Green Mill (map)
-
Featured Review from TimeOutChicago
May 26, 2011Chris Foreman spreads organ-jazz gospel from the Hammond B3 pulpit, while guitarist Bobby Broom and drummer Greg Rockingham wail on in the amen corners. There may be no better weekly fix for soul-dripping swing in Chicagoland. more at timeoutchicago.com
-
-
-
Featured Review from Chicago Reader
February 02, 2012It doesn’t take much squinting to see the Hold Steady and their fans as one of America’s happier and better-adjusted (not to mention most booze-drenched) cults, but anyone expecting front man Craig Finn to dish the same kind of radically affirmative rock on his recently released solo debut, Clear Hearts, Full Eyes (Vagrant), will probably be thrown by the album’s opener, “Apollo Bay.” more at chicagoreader.com
-
Featured Review from flavorpill
February 01, 2012In her excellent list of cultural resolutions for 2012, Flavorwire’s Judy Berman lamented indie rock’s return to “belabored, faux-rustic, quasi-literary troubadour stuff that we thought had passed its expiration date,” adding that, “The Bruce Springsteen impressions are getting tired.” more at flavorpill.com
-
-
-
Featured Review from Chicago Reader
February 02, 2012Yeah, it’s another band with that sound—the same fuzzy, hissy garage rock that Wavves, Real Estate, and Harlem have been poking at for what now seems like eons. more at chicagoreader.com
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Michael Lux & the Bad Sons, The Geoff Dolce Band, Mooner
Thu. 02/09 | 9:30PM @ Empty Bottle (map)
Buy Tickets
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