Tonight at the Empty Bottle: psych-rock group Great Society Mind Destroyers celebrate their cassette tape release with noisy rock trio Rodeo. more ›

If you need your fill of gay cowboy action before Brokeback Mountain hit theaters, you're in luck. Cowboys and cowgirls from across the country are galloping to our fair metropolis to compete in the Windy City Rodeo 2005 this weekend. Being held at a ranch in Crete, IL, the two-day event features such competitions as pole bending [teehee], bull riding, bareback bronc riding [oh my!], steer riding, chute dogging [uh huh], team roping and three... more ›

We don’t know about you, but by this time on a Thursday, we are already itching for the weekend. We’re itching for the weekend this time on a Monday, too, but we’re lazy bums. This weekend is supposed to be pretty temperate (high 70s), which is the perfect excuse to head to the DuPage County Fair. more ›

Pop music's greatest curmudgeon, Stephin Merritt – who moonlights in the 6ths (just try and pronounce that band name) and Future Bible Heroes (just try and think of a better band name) – will bring his main project, The Magnetic Fields, to our beloved Old Town School of Folk Music ("Now, not even in Old Town!") for a handful of shows this weekend. Merritt, a self-professed rock music snob, has disdain for nearly all... more ›

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