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Full Disclosure With Eric Barry fulldisclosurepodcast.com Full Disclosure doesn’t just talk about sex, baby. Raw, raunchy, and touching, the local podcast takes an intelligent and humorous approach to discussing all things between the sheets, in dungeons, and in the news. Shows frequently touch on trans issues, masturbation, erotica (writing and film), sex work, BDSM, feminism, nonmonogamy. Host Eric Barry, a writer and comedian, brought along the podcast that he founded in San Francisco in 2012 when he moved to Chicago last year....

Governor JB Pritzker Rep. Kelly Cassidy Finalists: Rep. Will Guzzardi, Rep. Greg Harris

Chris Kyle, the U.S. Navy SEAL whose autobiography inspired this Clint Eastwood drama, was shot to death in February 2013—not in Iraq, where he earned the distinction of being the deadliest sniper in U.S. military history, with 160 confirmed kills, but at a Texas shooting range more than three years after his honorable discharge. An advocate for veterans, Kyle had gone to the range with Eddie Ray Routh, a 25-year-old former marine who suffered from posttraumatic stress disorder and who now faces murder charges for allegedly killing Kyle and his friend Chad Littlefield....

Taste of Lebanon 1509 W. Foster 773-334-1600 Runner-Up: Reza’s

Q: My father left my mother abruptly when I was 14 years old, and he hasn’t contacted either of us since. It was a crushing blow for her, and she retreated from the world. She was never bitter about it, but it was devastating. She lost the love of her life for no apparent reason and was left completely alone, except for me. We have both done our best to forget about him....

What might have been the biggest drama of Chicago’s recent Pride Weekend played out at Theater Wit—but not onstage. #WalkAway is a mostly online, not-yet- nonprofit entity whose mission is to convince LGBT and other minority-group voters to give up their traditional loyalty to the Democrats. It was founded a little over a year ago by Straka, a hairstylist, actor, gay man, and reformed liberal who catapulted to conservative media fame after his six-minute Facebook video detailing his political conversion was retweeted by Donald Trump Jr....

There are plenty of films, shows, and concerts happening this weekend in Chicago. Plus, a chance to play some pinball. Here’s some of what we recommend:

Miami band Torche have always been like heavy metal’s cotton candy, and their recent fifth album, July’s Admission (Relapse), is their most delicious yet. Since rising from the ashes of stoner-rock group Floor in 2004, Torche have specialized in what they call “thunder pop”—a hard-hitting, wall-of-sound brand of sludgy doom metal that’s topped off with swing-for-the-cheap seats melodic hooks. It’s an infectious formula, and when they covered three classic Guided by Voices tunes on a 2011 split with Part Chimp, they further illustrated their knack for transplanting undeniable pop hooks into the context of a heavy metal song....

In April 2019, Paramore front woman Hayley Williams posted an Instagram story about Pool Kids, a largely unknown emo band from Tallahassee, Florida: “This is what Pmore WISHED we sounded like in the early 2000’s.” About two hours earlier, Bandcamp editor Zoe Camp had tweeted a link to Pool Kids’ 2018 self-released debut, Music to Practice Safe Sex To, writing that the album “sounds kinda like Hayley Williams fronting Cap’n Jazz....

It’s natural that stellar classical musicians are drawn to one another for collaboration; when virtuosity and sensitivity are common currency, the focus can be solely on playing the shit out of a chosen repertoire. The mutual admiration of pianist Emanuel Ax and cellist Yo-Yo Ma goes back nearly five decades, but while performing together at Tanglewood, the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s summer home in western Massachusetts, a few years ago, they invited a slightly junior colleague to join them....

Synth-driven Austin indie-pop group TC Superstar count eight people in their ranks, four of them dancers—and the dancers’ steps are just as important as the musicians’ notes. “The dancers are not ‘backup dancers,’” synth player and vocalist Aaron Chavez told The Daily Texan in April. “Dancing and the music are one thing.” TC Superstar’s lively performances and accessible choreographed routines (the latter by LB Flett) have attracted a cult following in their hometown, even catching the eye of Beto O’Rourke’s congressional team—it booked the group for an August 2018 outreach event and party called “Back to School with Beto....

On Saturday, September 17, local domestic-violence nonprofits Between Friends and Rape Victim Advocates present a panel on sexual harassment in the music scene called Our Music My Body. Organizers hope to encourage people in the scene to confront sexism and harassment on their own. The panelists are Sleater-Kinney singer-guitarist Corin Tucker, Bandcamp editor Jes Skolnik, For the People Artists Collective cofounder Monica Trinidad, and freelancer and Tribune columnist Britt Julious; Kate Grube of Kittyhawk moderates....

Hazel 1926 W. Montrose 773-904-7779 hazelchicago.com Runner-Up: Akira

On a rainy Thursday afternoon, a late lunch rush is winding down at Birrieria Zaragoza, the nine-year-old Archer Heights restaurant that specializes in birria tatemada. That’s a very regionally specific variant of the slow-cooked goat dish from Jalisco, in which the caprid isn’t stewed as in most versions, but rather rubbed with mole and roasted slowly until the meat falls apart. Whenever anybody asks me the impossible question “What’s your favorite restaurant?...

The boy-band formula is as reliable as the quadratic equation: three to five cute young guys singing simple pop songs about love equals swooning fans. Variations on the formula involve the presence or absence of dancing (‘N Sync used choreography; One Direction, not so much) and live instruments (the Backstreet Boys just sang; onstage at least two of the Jonas Brothers usually played guitars). The origins of Boy Band Review go back about seven years, to when Bender was in a 90s-themed cover band called (in a nod to the Beastie Boys’ final album) the Hot Sauce Committee....

Chicago’s gun violence and racial tensions within its black and Latino communities attracted the national spotlight in 2016. Addressing the root causes of these problems will require a nuanced approach—and considerable investments of time and money. Now, one local organization is in the national spotlight for being part of the solution. He grew up frustrated with the situation, along with the lack of resources and opportunities around him. “They may say, ‘Mom taught me how to be a man,’ or ‘The streets taught me how to be a man,'” Smith says....

Q: Background: I, a 21-year-old male, enjoy receptive fisting. I’ve also had constipation problems all my life. Question: I saw my doctor recently, and he tried to link my enjoyment of anal sex to my constipation. (Granted, I didn’t tell him EVERYTHING I do down there.) My understanding was that there was no causal relationship, assuming no serious injuries occur. Is there something I don’t know? Was my doctor just trying to be helpful?...