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Daily Email - Thursday - 1/2/2025

January 02, 2025

Calling all aspiring performers, writers, directors, and creatives! We’re teaming up with The Annoyance Theatre to give away an 8-week improv class for beginners. Enter now to win, and turn over a fresh new leaf in 2025!*

JUST ANNOUNCED

  • Baby, it’s cold outside, so enter to win a cozy Snowy Sweetheart Staycation at The Emily Hotel, plus over $1000 in prizes to make your winter bright and cheery!

  • Wicker’s coolest hidden dance party, Rumors, is back at Dorian’s Through The Record Shop on 1/16 with residents Ariel Zetina, Miss Twink USA & Dutchesz Gemini.

  • It’s (almost) Friday! Missed your chance to snatch tix for Rebecca Black at Outset in April? Enter our giveaway and you could win a last minute pair!

  • London R&B girl group FLO’s Access All Areas tour comes to the States this spring! Enter to win tickets to see the trio behind “Cardboard Box” at Salt Shed on 5/3!

WHERE TO WATCH RUPAUL’S DRAG RACE SEASON 17 IN CHICAGO

January can only mean one thing: an all new season of RuPaul’s Drag Race! We’re so ready for this new set of queens to make a splash on our screens. We might not have a hometown queen to root for this year (boo!) but we’re looking forward to a season of gaggy stunts, shenanigans and shaaaaade. It’s time to grab some friends and catch the show at one of our favorite local viewing parties!

WHENEVER

⚡ Bowie Ball

Tomorrow at Metro (9PM)

Come in, Major Tom! Celebrate iconic gender-bender David Bowie’s 78th birthday at the long-running Bowie Ball, featuring DJ Heaven Malone and fantastic Bowie drag and burlesque.

🎤 CupcakKe, J Bambii

Thursday, 1/9 at The Empty Bottle (9PM)

I’m rollin’ with the LGBT! Celebrated Chicago rapper cupcakKe brings her free and unapologetically explicit bars to Empty Bottle alongside J Bambii next weekend. Don’t miss out!

👽 BUMP. w/ Yvie Oddly

Saturday, 1/11 at Never Have I Ever (11PM)

To infinity, and beyond! Blast off to BUMP. featuring Yvie Oddly and cast of intergalactic characters at an out-of-this-world dance party. Enter now to win a pair of multipasses, er, tickets.

🍒 Sapphic Factory: Queer Joy Party

Friday, 1/17 at The Empty Bottle (9PM)

Punch the clock, it’s time to dance: Sapphic Factory makes a stop in Chicago later this month, bringing all the queer joy to the dance floor with sapphic tracks and good vibes all night long!

🥟 Dim Sum & Drag

Saturday, 1/18 at Furama (12PM)

Award-winning drag brunch Dim Sum & Drag is back to celebrate the new year with incredible drag performances and a delicious dim sum buffet. Enter to win a pair of all-inclusive tickets!

LOCALS ONLY

  • In need of a chill crafting night? Dorothy’s is hosting a free Queer Fiber Artist Night on 1/6, open to all knitters/embroiderers/sewers/etc to work, sip, and chat!

Toot toot, beep beep!