.... in the 37th Annual PRIDE Parade this Sunday, June 25
Please Join Alderman Joe Moore this Sunday, June 25, as we march in the 37th Annual PRIDE Chicago Parade.
The PRIDE parade is the most fun and vibrant parade of the year in Chicago. This year's theme is "Pride, Not Prejudice."
Join us and show your support for Chicago's GLBT community while having a great time.
Meet us as we line up at 11 AM, on the west side of Halsted Street, about three blocks south of Belmont at Oakdale (2932 North). We will be at position # 62.
We'll have plenty of cold water and hot music. Wear your sunscreen, your rainbow colors and join us for a great day.
Immediately following the parade we will return to the 49th Ward to celebrate together at the Clark Street Festival which promises to be the biggest street fair Rogers Park has seen in many years. Don't miss out on this fun and spirited day.
For more information, please call 773.338.5796 or visit or website at www.ward49.com.
O.K., here's my commercial. Join Gay Chicago Magazine or just watch. My office at 3115 North Broadway is open for a nice viewing spot all day during the parade with clean restrooms. I'll have a few refreshments, or you can BYOB.
On Saturday stop by our Gay Chicago Magazine booth at PrideFest on Halsted and sign up in our raffle to win a Trek 820 bicycle. Bike donation courtesy Village Cycle.
Date: June 24, 2006
Time: 11:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Location: Halsted & Waveland - Chicago
Presented By: Northalsted Area Merchants Association
Beneficiary: Northalsted Area Merchants Association
Chicago Pride Fest returns on Saturday, June 24th (the day before the Pride Parade), in the heart of Chicago's gay community.
Chicago Pride Fest was created because of popular demand. This event is hosted by The Northalsted Area Merchants Association, and sponsored by Gay Chicago Magazine which also hosts and sponsors the famed Northalsted Market Days, now celebrating its 25th year.
This festival offers a wide variety of continuous entertainment, food and drink for festival-goers. Two music stages will be in operation, in tandem, for the entire event. One of the stages will feature dance music, while the other will feature top-name, local, regional and national musical headliners.
Whatever you do, have a fun but safe weekend.
2 comments:
I don't know what's going on here. All this promotion and I forgot to share the review the magazine gave a Rogers Park business this week. I must be going soft.
“FLORA, THE RED MENACE”
– reviewed by Jeff Rossen - Gay Chicago Magazine
In 1965, the now-revered songwriting team of John Kander and Fred Ebb began their Broadway career with the debut of their first score, for “Flora, the Red Menace.” As far as the original production goes, it wasn’t a hit, running for only 87 performances, although it did bring 19-year-old Liza Minnelli a Tony for her Broadway debut and produced one long-lasting song, A Quiet Thing. For a first effort, the team’s score is quite good, displaying an array of styles and a comfortable fit within David Thompson’s book (based on Lester Atwell’s novel Love Is Just Around the Corner). But the show, as the title would suggest, succeeds or fails on the strength of the performance of the title character, and that’s where Theo Ubique’s production of this seldom-seen musical comes up short. We never really believe Elizabeth Lesinski’s Flora, doubting her sincerity and recoiling at the often just-flat tones of her vocals and shuddering when she belts out much of A Quiet Thing (um, it’s called A Quiet Thing, not A Bellowed Thing).
With the Depression looming and work hard to come by, Flora Meszaros applies for a job as a fashion illustrator at a department store, cunningly getting her samples to the boss in spite of the stalling receptionist. While there, Flora meets another applicant, artist Harry Toukarian (Jeremy Trager), who’s more of a muralist and, more importantly to the story, a Communist. The two hit it off and begin a whirlwind romance that will result in Flora’s joining the Communist Party and risking the job she’s connived her way into. Along the way, we meet other artists who share space in Flora’s studio and members of Harry’s local group of political malcontents. In these settings, “Flora, the Red Menace” works wonderfully. Directors Fred Anzevino and Beverle Bloch have assembled a first-rate collection of strong singer-actors and create an efficient and effective staging on the small and nearly setless playing area at No Exit Café, and the ensemble delivers Kander and Ebb’s score sensationally under Geoffrey Paul Cuellar’s rock-solid musical direction and bring great life to Thompson’s book. Quite the standout is Danielle Brothers’ domineering Party enthusiast, Charlotte, a knockout in her showstopping The Flame, and Farrel Wilson’s lovely interpretation of Mrs. Weiss, who repairs watches while offering Flora some timely advice. And there’s strong dance work (created by David Heimann) delivered by D. Eric Woolweber and Chelsea Dolinar-Hikawa as an aspiring dance team.
As the stammering and socially inept Harry, Trager could not be better. His is a finely nuanced and wonderfully textured interpretation, and we feel a bit sorry for him not having a stronger Flora to play against.
This is a recommended production, but it’s a shame that its central element disappoints, because it had the potential and just misses being highly recommended. (***)
(“Flora, the Red Menace” runs through July 30 at No Exit Café, 6970 N. Glenwood. 773-743-3355.)
It is nice to note that Ald. Moore does not discriminate aganist anyone in the 49th Ward on the basis of race, creed, color, religion, sexual orientation, etc., when it comes to the opportunity to bamboozle them into giving that jerk their votes come next February!
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