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We write stuff. Here’s some of that stuff from the last week that may be applicable to your preferences!
- It’s inauguration week. Here are some protesting tips.
- It’s inauguration week. Read our vodka taste test.
- We interviewed the sweatiest woman in show business, a real Russian prostitute: Katya.
- If you’re going to read one piece of BYT this week, please read Am I Willing to Die With a Militia of Women in the Woods?
- Constellation hosts a high quality collaboration featuring some of the Chicago jazz scene’s biggest talents. It’s the Marquis Hill, Makaya McCraven, Josh Johnson, & Joshua Abrams quartet!
- Tedeschi Trucks Band kicks off their three night residency at the Chicago Theatre tonight!
- Check out very good comic Ali Siddiq at Zanies in Old Town! Dude rules.
- Dronescapists Quicksails, Khaki Blazer, TALsounds, Matchess, and Gin Hell all come together for the release party for the new Quicksails album at Cafe Mustache.
- It’s the first day of the Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival, a showcase of all sorts of puppetry, both family-friendly and not! Catch mind-expanding shows at the MCA, Lookingglass Theatre, The House Theatre, and Victory Gardens for night one!
- Vibe Street, Evanoff, and Trees play an almost-but-not-quite-sold-out show at Schubas. Act quick if you’re interested!
- Big Joy celebrates the release of their new album, joined by friends The Peekaboos and MTVGhosts, tonight at the Hideout.
- The Logan’s showing comedy classic Young Frankenstein tonight! Nice!
- Dan Whitaker and the Shinebenders, Doghouse Flowers, and The Family Gold play the Empty Bottle.
- Movies About Animals, Anthony Jay Sanders, Pelafina, and Bosley Mongo are at Beat Kitchen.
- Local Option and Kuma’s Corner have teamed up for a one-night-only tap takeover at the original Kuma’s! Burgers and rare beers!
- Troy Anderson, Yoko and the Oh No’s, Bunny, and Cafe Racer play Double Door.
- The Hideout hosts the Chicago edition of What A Joke, a nationwide comedy festival benefitting the ACLU.
- B-Fest up in Evanston is a 24 hour film festival honoring some of the finest bad movies ever made!
- It’s day two of the Chicago International Puppet Theater Fest and there’s all sorts of whimsical/dark/etc. feats of puppetic strength awaiting you!
- Matt Ulery’s Loom and Matt Ulery’s Pollinator play a pair of modern jazz sets at Constellation for all you jazz heads out there.
- The Resistance Party at the Empty Bottle hosts music from Baby Money & The Down Payments, The Cell Phones, Natalie Grace Alford, and more!
- Yoga In The Sky is a wild yoga event held up on the sky deck of the Sears (SEARS!!!!!!!) Tower. Damn! Stretch slowly way up high, y’all!
- Matt Focht and the Faders, Contorno, and The Hot Moms play Beat Kitchen.
- Catch a screening of modern trash classic The Room at the Music Box!
- Check out Rich Jones, Qari, L.A. VanGogh, Burns Twins X Kaina, Sports Boyfriend, and DJ Skoli, all of whom are performing at Lincoln Hall. That’s a lot of stuff!
- They’re showing Airplane! at the Logan tonight at 11. Nice way to close out your Friday.
- Funk/jam band Zmick headlines Emporium Wicker Park!
- Night two of the Tedeschi Trucks Band takeover of the Chicago Theatre.
- Do some daytime stuff:
- Women’s March On Chicago.
- Check out NO WALLS: A Benefit for Marginalized Chicago Communities, with musical guests Troubled Hubble, Mother Nature, The Avantist, No Men, Chris Sutter (of Meat Wave), Daytonics, happening this afternoon at Beat Kitchen.
- Day three of the Chicago Puppet Festival holds even more surprises for you puppet maniacs out there.
- The 2017 Chicago Travel & Adventure Show comes to the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center out in Rosemont. Go hear how to travel smart from some of the smartest travelers!
- It’s Polar Adventure Days at Northerly Island, with outdoorsy, wintry activities for the whole family happening (whether it’s snowy or not!).
- Future Hits and Little Miss Ann play a family-friendly afternoon show at the Hideout.
- Youth Voice and Vision with Free Spirit Media at the Chicago Cultural Center is a double feature screening of two films made by local, up-and-coming filmmakers.
- Then, night stuff:
- Joan of Arc, FACS, and Magas celebrate the new Joan of Arc album’s release tonight at the Chicago Athletic Association.
- The Bobby Conn Super Band and Marvin Tate & Friends have an Inauguration Special planned for you at the Hideout.
- The Bingers, Mexican Knives, Son Of A Gun, and Peach Fuzz are all at Subt tonight.
- Dance your worries away at the late night Hideout Dance Party, with a special Le Freak Disco night.
- The third and final night of the Tedeschi Trucks Band residency at the Chicago Theatre is upon us.
- EGI, Spread, and Vibe & Direct play Pajamuary 2017 at Lincoln Hall!
- Comedy collective Simmer Brown offers up their monthly show, this one cheekily subtitled Prelude To An Impeachment!
- Basecamp and Shallou play Schubas!
- Silent Age is releasing a new tape, and they’re playing the Empty Bottle with Heated, Forever Grey, Order of Night, and Replicant Emotions to celebrate that occasion.
- Starset, Gemini Syndrome, See This Through, and Shallow State play Metro!
- Soul Summit turns 7 tonight and you’re invited to their party!
- The Music Box holds another installment of their regular screenings of the Rocky Horror Picture Show (that are often anything but regular if you catch my drift).
- The Devil makes Three and Lost Dog Street Band are at the Riviera.
- The Johnny Cash Festival comes to the Irish American Heritage Center tonight.
- John Cleese introduces/does a Q&A following a very special showing of Monty Python and the Holy Grail at the Chicago Theatre. Wow!!!!
- Catch Partner, Faux Furrs, and So Pretty at Schubas, should be good!
- More Chicago Puppet Fest! More puppets in general, you know?
- The Hideout’s Fictlicious live lit show offers up another monthly show, this one ominously titled PROTEST.
- The Empty Bottle Book Club convenes to discuss Sherman Alexi’s short story collection Ten Little Indians.
- The Sooper Swag Project, HAUNTER, Morimoto, and Malci all play a rockin ass punk show in the Downstairs space at Subterranean.
- Full Moon Madness comes to Emporium Wicker Park with a screening of b-horror flicks both old and new!
- One more screening of Airplane! at the Logan Theatre to close out your weekend real goofily.
- Frank Turner and the Sleeping Souls play a matinee show at the beautiful and historic House of Blues Chicago!
- Lady-driven Hoo HA Comedy returns to Schubas with another high quality lineup.
- Constellation’s got another cool one: The Stone Tapestry, music by Jeff Herriott, a record release show featuring a bevy of folks from the Chicago new music scene.
