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Artist, Event, & Venue Management | Spybar, Madison Beer, Raphael Saadiq, Ashlee+Evan, Verboten, Deep Dish (Dubfire + Sharam)

Chicago, IL
Joined March 2009
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I was against public funding when Ricketts needed to rehab Wrigley and surrounding areas. I am against public funding for the Bears and/or White Sox - why are we even discussing handouts for billionaires?
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The British establishment, while funding and arming a genocide, is charging a lad in his 20s from Belfast on terror charges for waving a flag. Warped world.
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Our newest mix on Spybar Radio is out now! 🎧🎶 This time we’re rewinding back to last summer when Detroit Love took over the basement. Re-live Carl Craig’s set and let us know who you want to see next in the comments. 👇 Listen: on.soundcloud.com/jdy7fLRt9M…
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Today is your last chance to vote for us in Chicago Reader’s Best of Chicago! Please consider voting for us at chicagoreader.com/best: • Best Venue For Dance Music • Best 4AM Bar • INPHINITY - Best House Music DJ • Warehouse Presents- Best Dance Party
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Tough choice
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My advice, for what it’s worth: try not to be distracted by the faintly discourteous, the mildly incompetent, the harmlessly obnoxious. Roll with the delayed trains, dropped litter and misused apostrophes. Save your powder for the truly malevolent creatures now stalking the land.
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We want to win the Chicago Reader’s Best of Chicago! Click the link below to nominate us in the following categories: • Best venue for dance music • Best 4am bar • Best house music DJ (Inphinity) • Best dance party (Warehouse Presents) Nominations 👉 chicagoreader.com/best
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They stop carding you once the light has left your eyes.
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Cheryl Hines managed to have one of the worst husbands in TV history and then somehow a more problematic one in real life.
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Toni Morrison said that fascism “is recognizable by its determination to convert all public services to private entrepreneurship,” and “changes citizens into taxpayers—so individuals become angry at even the notion of the public good.”
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We are in dangerous, dangerous times. A faltering democracy in decline.
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in the last 10 days the Supreme Court has ruled that the president can do crimes, bribery is legal, agencies have no actual authority, and also that the homeless can be thrown in prison for the crime of not having a home.
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If students in Texas wanted the police to stay off of their campus they should have started shooting people at school
It’s chaos now. DPS riot troopers forcefully dispersing protesters, making contact, at least one arrest
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Everyone: Me: Do the baby sandworms of Dune get the zoomies? Dune zoomies?
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Spybar is ready to kick off our 27th season with some major upgrades to the club including a sound system overhaul powered by d&b audiotechnik and L-Acoustics, designed and installed by Colorado-based Brown Note Productions.
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"We got passed by Los Angeles. In 2019 we buried LA Metro’s ridership by **84 million rides**. And now they passed us. This is Dorval Carter’s #MeetingTheMoment legacy." -@StarLineChicago
It's #SpotifyWrapped time! In our version of #TransitWrapped, see the U.S. public transportation agencies with the highest ridership between Sept. '23 and Oct. '22. 1. @MTA 2.8 Billion 2. @metrolosangeles 280 Million 3. @cta 270 Million 4. @wmata 243 Million 5. @MBTA 239 Million
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Feels like a genuine miracle that this movie is A: as good as Rocky and B: needle drops that used-to-death rocky music at the most emotionally critical monent of the film and it feels like being injected with lightning.
a reminder for no reason at all that ryan coogler’s CREED (2015) is a perfect lega-sequel that understands and deepens what makes the 1976 original so great.
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October is here and we’ve got a bunch of big parties coming up. 🎶 Which shows will we be seeing you at? Get tickets 👉 link.dice.fm/aHREhee5zDb Book a table 👉 venues.tablelistpro.com/venu…
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We need to get moving on adding cameras to bus stops to ticket drivers who park in them. Maybe not every bus stop needs it but it would be nice to update 311 to include bus stop blockages so we have an idea of which stops need to be prioritized
disappointed @Starbucks manager, Clark/Berwyn, tell me they will not tell customers to stop parking in the Bus Stop. Customers & Residents disagree with Mgmt, its dangerous. @Andrefor40th #bikechi FWIW @LaColombeCoffee stopped cust from using the TowZone at CL/Foster
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