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from: Windy City Live, What’s On Dec with Billy DecFriday, July 27, 6 p.m. - There’s no better way to show some true Olympic spirit than cheering U-S-A! U-S-A! alongside a gold medal winner while chowing down on some good old Chicago-style American food. Join gold medalist Ruth Riley at Rockit Bar & Grill, 22 W. Hubbard St., for a FREE party to cel-ebrate the Olympics Opening Ceremony. With a ceremony directed by Danny Boyle squezzing in British references from Mary Poppins to Voldemort, you’ll have plenty to take in while throwing back a few drinks with some of Chicago’s finest.

Lady Gaga acts out of this world on a daily basis, so it’s a surprise that she is only making her Hol-lywood acting debut now, in “Machete Kills” di-rected by Richard Rodriguez. Fittingly, the movie poster features the actress draped in a white wolf pelt.

from: The Chicago Tribune

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Every Friday, from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., save up your beer money and start the night off with some free chicken wings at Lion’s Head Pub, 2251 N. Lin-coln Ave. Not only is it a great deal, it’s where the Broke Hipster brainchild was first born. Talk about historic signifigance.

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The Olympics are definitely the topic of the week, and opening ceremonies are tonight! So where can you fly your Union Jack while you shot put some Bulldog Gin? Thanks to some serious Anglophilia here in Chicago, there are plenty of gastropub op-tions to make you feel like you’re in on all the Brit-ish Action.

from: ChicagoNow

London 2012: Let The Games Begin

Saturday, July 28, 8 p.m. - With Aesop Rock bring-ing along special guests Rob Sonic & DJ Big Wiz, Edison and Dark Time Sunshine, this is sure to be an amazing show. Get your pre-Lollapalooza groove on for only $18 at the Metro, 3730 N. Clark St., but only if you’re 18 or older.

from: Windy City Live, What’s On Dec with Billy Dec

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Aesop Rock at the Metro

Montrose Beach Bash 2012 - Bike to the BeachFriday, July 27 - Party on the beach Friday, July 27th at the Montrose Beach Bash featuring live music and Land Shark beer. Bike to Montrose Beach for a night of cool tunes from Ra Ra Riot, Bestfriends, and California Wives. Admission for the Montrose Beach Bash is only $20. If you want to be VIP, it’ll cost you $35.00. If you choose to bike to the Montrose Beach Bash there will be vol-unteers fromBlackstone Bicycle Works on site to securly valet your wheels for a small donation. If you’re not a cyclist, you are still welcome to come out for the show.

The last two years of Lollapalooza had record-breaking attendance, some of which may have been caused by music fans breaking through fenc-es to get into the festival. This year, Lollapalooza organizers have bulked up security and are dou-bling up on fences to try to prevent gate-crashing and flower-crushing by zealous fans.

from: Fran Spielman, Chicago Sun-TimesLollapalooza Lockdown

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Friday, July 27, 7:30 p.m. - This free film festival connects cinephiles from across the world with a reel of short films delivered to international loca-tions with everyone watching the same thing at the same time. Want to join in on the viewing from Chicago? Stop on by Transistor, 3819 N. Lincoln Ave. and be part of a truly global experience.

from: The Chicago ReaderFuture Shorts Film Festival

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Jammin at the ZooFriday, July 27 - Chicago Summers are perfect for outdoor concerts and Lincoln Park continues its summer concert series Jammin at the Zoo. All con-certs take place on the zoo’s main mall. Tickets are still available for Friday, July 27th featuring Tony Lucca and headliner Better than Ezra. The big show kicks off at 7PM. You can purchase tickets online here, by phone at 312-742-2283, or at the Gateway Pavillion. Tickets are $21-$28 for adults and $10-$12 for kids.

Finding yourself downtown for a night out? RSVP with Broke Hipster and you can get free entry and a complimentary hosted bar at Club Crescendo, 222 W. Ontario, starting at 10:30 p.m. every Fri-day. Make the adventure out tonight, and you just might have new go-to spot for free cocktails every weekend.

from: Broke HipsterComplimentary Hosted Bar

Wednesday, August 1, 8 p.m. - Start preparing now for this crazy, free night under the full moon. For two hours there will be a gathering of the city’s best fire spinners and pyrotechnics at Foster Av-enue Beach. It’s the perfect wild, summer escape midway through the work week.

from: Windy City Live, What’s On Dec with Billy Dec

Chicago Fire Jam Performance on Foster Beach

The Taste of Lincoln Avenue Saturday, July 28 - Sunday, July 29 - The Wright-wood Neighborhood Association is proud to spon-sor the annual Taste of Lincoln Avenue for its 29th year. Taste doesn’t just apply to food at this sum-mer fest. Music is abound both days of the festival – Saturday, July 28th and Sunday, July 29th. More than 40 musical acts will perform on five different stages that will cover a range of music genres in-cluding pop/rock, local tribute bands, down home blues and acclaimed national indie/classic rock headliners. The Taste of Lincoln Avenue is family friendly boasting a kids’ carnival that takes place from Noon-6:00 p.m. each day . This area features stage entertainment, inflatables, art activities ga-lore, a petting zoo and pony rides. And of course there will be plenty of food, beer, and wine at the Taste of Lincoln Avenue.

Saturday, July 28, 10:30 p.m. - Remember when the movie “Drive” was the best thing that ever happened to you and how rad the 80s inspired soundtrack was? Relive the moment live at Lin-coln Hall, 2424 N. Lincoln Ave., as part of The Drive Soundtrack Tour. College and Anoraak will be there to make sweet music, all for $15, only a little more than you paid to see the movie in the first place.

from: Do312

The Drive Tour featuring perfor-mances by College, Anoraak

There’s some speculation that the great Twitter Crash of 2012 was caused by one cute boy. MTV News reports that the crash occurred around the same time that Niall Horan of British boy band One Direction was scheduled to have a Twitcam ses-sion with his fans. Twitter denies the speculation, blaming a worldwide power outage. But maybe the power outage happened because Horan’s hotness is too high-voltage.

from: MTVBoyband Caused Twitter Crash

The folks of the Second City comedy troupe are once again killing it- this time in their new revue We’re All in this Room Together. With its deadpan understanding that laughter is in fact the best med-icine, the show tackles “giant pink elephant” topics including divorce, racial stereotyping, and child-hood mental disorders. You don’t need an excuse to check out Second City- they’re just awesome.

from: Cheeky ChicagoNew Laughs at Second City

Copyright © Mike Brya; Used with permission Sleigh Bells got down and dirty with the crowd at Pitchfork, and with any luck we can expect the same from artists at Lollapalooza next weekend.

Marco Foster - The White Party from: The Top Sheet Staff

You know what’s really cool about local celebrity Marco Foster? He cares about kids. Today is his birthday, and he’s celebrating by throwing a White Party to support One Hope United, a charity that helps protect children currently living in high-risk populations. The Chicago Models founder has helped hundreds of talented Chicagoans get con-nected and employed in the Fashion & Model-ing world, and it’s awesome that he distinguishes himself away from the generalization that being in the industry means your superficial. Come out to The Underground to help celebrate Marco Foster’s birthday while raising your glass to a cause- and be sure to wear your flashiest white threads from head to toe. Marco Foster 2nd Annual White Party in support of One Hope United. Friday, July 27, 9-11pm, The Underground, 56 West Illinois Street Chicago$20 advance, $25 at the door

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Can’t wait for Lollapalooza weekend? Then swing by the Lollapalooza pop-up shop open now at 332 S. Michigan Ave to get all of your Lolla swag. Open to the non-ticket holding public, the LollaShop will offer official festival gear along with other sweet apparel and accessories from Lolla sponsors. In addition, the shop will house a number of events including artist signings and yoga classes. Most awesome? The shop is giving away tickets to the sold-out event throughout the week starting tomor-row! Go get yours.

from: Time Out Chicago

NEIGHBORHOOD

Lollapalooza Pop-Up Shops hit the Streets

The Chicago Park District has revamped their web-site, which is great for people who were wanting to host a park event, have a group picnic and basically anything else that involves organizing a park event in Chicago. The site was improved to better serve and address the needs of Chicagoans. Not sure what to do at the park near you this summer? Check out their new site!

from: The Chicago TribuneNew Website Gets People Outdoors

Saturday, July 28 - Sunday, July 29. - Come out to the Rogers Park neighborhood for two stages of live World Music curated by Sound Culture Center for Global Arts, wonderful ethnic food, entertain-ment for children, a diverse art, craft and services market, and an enjoyable weekend on the tail end of summer. Only $5 to enter The Rogers Park Busi-ness Alliance hosted 7th Annual “Celebrate Clark Street Festival” on Clark Street between Morse and Touhy Avenues!

from: Windy City Live, What’s On Dec with Billy Dec

FESTIVALS

Celebrate Clark Street Festival

Saturday, July 28, 8a.m. - Dragon boat racing is the fastest growing watersport in the world and this is the first annual Dragon Boat Festival in Chicago. Get in on the inagural celebration of fast moving water vessels decorated like mythical creatures, it’s sure to be an annual treat for the city.

from: Windy City Live, What’s On Dec with Billy Dec

Chicago International Dragon Boat Festival

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Sub-T in Wicker Park has $4 Skyy Cocktails tonight.... Just in case you need that night cap at a good price.

FOOD/DRINKS ON THE CHEAP

10pin Bowling Lounge Friday Spe-cialsEvery Friday: $4 Coors Light drafts, $20 meal/drinks package (6:30-11pm)10pin Bowling Lounge || 330 N. State St.Atlantic Bar & Grill SpecialsEvery Friday: $5 O-Bombs, $5 Bazooka Joe Bombs, $4 Shock Top Drafts, $4 Captain Morgan Mixers $10 All-You-Can-Eat Fish & ChipsAtlantic Bar & Grill || 5062 N. Lincoln Ave.$5 DrinksEvery Friday: $5 Bacardi BombsGrand Central || 950 W. Wrightwood$2 Chicken, Pork, or BeefEvery Friday: $2 Tacos. Pulled pork, stewed chicken, or ground beef. There’s also $4 cheese quesadillas.Flounder’s Bar & Grill || 2201 N. Clybourn

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There’s no better way to spend a hot as hell af-ternoon or evening then in a nice, air conditioned movie theater. Especially when it’s cheap and there’s booze. The Brew & View is the alter ego of The Vic, showing movies on the days and eve-nings the venue doesn’t have a concert. The Brew & View is reminiscent of the old dollar theaters that only showed second-run movies. Whereas you imagine that admission is more than a buck, it’s still really cheap. For $5 you catch a double feature of the three movies the theater is showing.

from: Chicago Quirk

$5 Double Feature with a Side of Booze

Jason Erkesfrom: The Top Sheet Staff

As the president of the Chicago Sport and Social Club, Jason Erkes not only keeps Chicago active, but keeps himself active in many aspects of city life. Starting his career as a producer for Fox News (and winning an Emmy for doing so), Jason is versed in all things politics, media, and marketing, and covered such influential stories as the Colum-bine Shootings and the impeachment trial of Presi-dent Bill Clinton. A founding member of former Mayor Daley’s Physical Fitness Council, Jason has shared his fitness expertise in columns in Today’s Chicago Woman magazine, actively participates in the volleyball and bowling leagues through Chi-cago Sport and Social, and is The Top Sheet’s Chi-cagoan of the Week.

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This week brings the Music Box’s three-day Chi-cago French Film Festival, and in addition to our sidebar coverage, we have a long review of Del-phine and Muriel Coulin’s 17 Girls, which screens on Sunday at 4:30 PM. Check out our current issue for new reviews of the French animation feature A Cat in Paris, all week at Gene Siskel Film Cen-ter; Umberto Lenzi’s 1980 horror movieNightmare City, Friday night at University of Chicago Doc Films; Hayao Miyazaki’s feature animation Porco Rosso, Saturday, Tuesday, and Thursday at Film Center; Ruby Sparks, Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris’s follow-up to their 2006 indie hit Little Miss Sunshine;Sacrifice, the latest import from Chinese director Chen Kaige (Farewell My Concubine); El Velador, a documentary about the drug-cartel stronghold of Culiacan in northwest Mexico, on Friday and Tuesday at Film Center; and The Watch, with Ben Stiller, Jonah Hill, and Vince Vaughn chasing space aliens in suburban Ohio.

from: The Bleader

All This and Air Conditioning Too: The Week’s Movies

Pitbull kicks off another world tour this weekend with a show on Chicago’s lakefront. Three days after that, though, “Mr. Worldwide” has an engage-ment up north.Waaaaay up north. As the result of a hijacked marketing event, Pitbull -- a k a Armando Christian Perez, the “Give Me Everything” rapper who’s from Miami, raps about Miami, practically exudes Miami humidity -- will be making a promo-tional appearance July 30 in Kodiak, Alaska.

from: The Chicago Sun-Times, by Thomas Conner

Marketing Pro Pitbull Now Bound for Alaska

Nothing screams hangover like waking up, looking around, and wondering where the hell you are. You realize you are in a hotel room. Ah yes, it’s all com-ing back to you now. Four tequila shots and driving was no longer an option. A hotel room is always a good idea if you’ve had too much to drink. You look around some more, squinting and playing a real life game of Where’s Waldo. But you aren’t looking for Waldo, you are looking for your pants. Wait, did I just hear the toilet flush? Who the heck is in the bathroom??

from: Feed Susan, by Susan

Nothing Screams Hangover like Waking Up...

While out one night in Chicago, ordering a Three Floyds Gumballhead, I had the thought to do a se-ries of stories on places in Chicago that you may not think of as having good craft beer, or even known existed. Now these are not “beer bars” by any stretch, but to me one thing the craft beer community is about is people, so I want to spot-light some local places that if you’re adventurous enough to go somewhere new you could go and be assured you wouldn’t only find the yellow fizz the mass market calls beer. What better place to start off the series than my typical Saturday night hang-out: Neo.

from: Chicago Beer Geeks, by DanThere’s Good Beer Where? --Neo

This truly feels like the dog days of summer! From blistering heat to insane flash storms to keep you up at night, it ALMOST makes you wish for cooler less crazy days. But with football back and Lolla next weekend it almost feels like fall is around the corner. There are some cool events and dinners coming up this weekend and early next week! Have a safe and fun weekend… Lillie’s Q 1 Yr Anniversary Party. Lillie’s Q, (1856 W North Ave), will celebrate it’s 1-Year Anniversary Party on Monday, August 1. Chef McKenna will pass out all the different cuts of his signature 30-pound smoked whole hogs (ham, belly, pulled shoulder, tenderloin, bark) for free to patrons starting at 9pm during the Lillie’s Q 1-Year Anniversary Party on Monday, August 1.

from: Chicago Food Snob, by Joe CampagnaLast Food Fun Friday of July!

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People often complain that Chicago goes to bed too early; that there’s nothing to do after 10 p.m. This is, of course, not true, but in certain neigh-borhoods we understand the frustration. It can be particularly difficult to get great food late at night. We asked our Food and Drink Staff to give their picks for great dining after dark. Minna An: Head down to Chinatown. Melissa Wiley: Hop on a train. John DiGilio: Boystown after dark. Amy Cavana-ugh: Late-night cheesesteaks. Chuck Sudo: Pretend You’re At A Diner On Randolph Street.

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Top Five Fridays: Late Night Dining

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Air is invisible. Water is tasteless. In a world of iPhones, “Fifty Shades of Grey,” and ABC’s Bach-elor Pad – how does this seemingly dull combina-tion put on a show worth seeing? Easy. Jets! The Chicago Air and Water Show is one of the oldest and most popular shows of its kind. On August 18th and 19th, millions of spectators will flock to Chicago’s shoreline to witness tumbling aerobatic teams, the U.S. Navy Blue Angels, and Red Bull’s famed wingsuit flyers.

from: Chicago Like a Local, by Sean Evans

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United Colors of Benetton has been a classic standby for chic wardrobe staples for years, but now they’re giving their stores a facelift — and they’re starting with Chicago. You may have no-ticed the flagship on Michigan Avenue has been out of commission for some time, but it’s now poised for the grand unveiling next weekend. And, we’ve got an inside peek at renderings of the brand-new boutique. The interiors, designed by Italian star ar-chitect Piero Lissoni, will feature all-knit furniture (think couches and ottomans decked out like Fair Isle sweaters), and awesome accents like rolling suitcases filled with fall fashions.

from: Refinery 29, by Seija Rankin

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Fashion

So many parties, so many outfits to prepare! With summer comes a whole host of events to prepare for. With everything from birthday parties in the garden to cocktail events and weddings, it’s hard to know what kind of dress to go for – especially if you want one which is suitable for all occasions. You don’t want to splash too much cash on one or two gorgeous outfits only to discover that you can’t wear them to your other parties or events. Make sure you pick out a dress that works with this sea-son’s fashions while still being versatile.

from: Jag Lever, by RachelDress Styles

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It may not sound like the best kitchen gadget…the Corn Stripper…but trust me when I say that you won’t mind those recipes that call for fresh corn removed from the cob! It’s sum-mertime and I love a good side dish of sweet corn that I can scoop on my plate. The OXO® Corn Stripper is a gadget I keep close at hand and it gets a Beauty Mark!

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