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Pre-Turkey Partying After about 90 minutes of being
in the suburbs, the magnetic pull of the city kicked in and I
was back on the road headed toward Green
Dolphin Street for "The Big Playback" party featuring the legendary Frankie Monday In The Hood Once Jennifer Holliday at about
1:30am finished "And I Am Telling You" on the Sidetrack
TV screens from the original Dreamgirls, our next stop
was at Hydrate for some late night dancing for me and
last chance trick pick-up for my friend. I finally met DJ Laura B, who was in excellent form, and had a fine time
grooving to her mix that included Green Velvet's "Shake
& Pop," Beyonce's "If I Were A Boy," and this
fantastic remix of Underworld's "Born Slippy Nuxx"
I never heard before. My friend finally met a boy to fulfill
hius carnal needs: a cute 23-year-old with a dynamite smile and
pretty eyes. When we left Boystown I went my way to White Castle and ate chicken rings and a slider; my friend
went his way and ate some chicken and a sausage if you know
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annual packed house of suburban gay boy
fun, this year called "The
Butter-Ball." Of course,
as soon as I stepped inside the place, I ran into 5 of my city
friends who were out there trolling for new meat. While trolling
was not my purpose, listening to
DJs Ron G and Ken E
lay down some fierce music was. Ron is the Wednesday night resident
at Hunters and Ken, a former popular resident DJ there who now
lives in Denver and whom I've dubbed "sexy Amish boy"
because of his beard, was back in familiar surroundings serving
delicious beats and a fine groove. The crowd on this night was
uber-handsome and friendly, ensuring that my sojourn past the
city limits was well worth it.
Knuckles. I arrived for the "downtrip" of his
set and what a glorious trip it was. Filled with soulful house
music tracks and signature Knuckles originals such as "The
Whistle Song" and "Gimme Gimme (Disco Shimmy),"
this set was the perfect end to a long, fun night of club-hopping.
The crowd on hand was typical for a Frankie gathering, which
interestingly looked positively Obama-ish: gay & straight;
men, women, and in-between trannies; from white twenty-something
twinkie boys to Latin hotties and their girlfriends to 50+ black
south side grandmothers who used to dance to Frankie every weekend
"back in the day." It was a fantastic party and one
that has me excited already for Thanksgiving 2009.
A
friend was in town visiting recently on a Monday night and he
was way horny, so we ventured out to Halsted Street to see what
was up and to see what might get him up, if you know what I mean.
We started out at "Showtunes
Night" at Sidetrack and were
pleasantly surprised at what we experienced. First off, the
videos were an entertaining and good mix of old classics like
"Oklahoma" and "The Producers" along with
newish clips from the movie versions of "Rent," and
"Chicago." Secondly, a few members of the bartending
and barback staff are just stunningly beautiful! Wow! Finally,
and most interestingly to my friend and I, who are two guys just
north of 40 years in existence of the earth, the crowd skewed
much younger and more broadly than we anticipated. It used to
be that Mondays at Sidetrack was akin to an AARP-in-waiting confab.
On this night, the crowd ranged widely and evenly in age, was
friendly, and borderline hot!