6 Corners BBQ Fest
Family Friendly Fun, Meaty Goodness, Film Festival, Great Tunes including Voodoo Kings at 6pm.....and More. Click here for the FULL FEST SCHEDULE.
Chicago Filmmakers
is proud to screen a selection of digital shorts and 16mm films on
Saturday, June 16, at the Portage Theater, 4050 N. Milwaukee Ave.,
during BBQ Fest. First up at Noon is a collection of films created by
youth in our Summer Digital Moviemaking Camps.
Following at 2 p.m., we will screen films from our collection by
Chicago’s own Tom Palazzolo including ‘At Maxwell Street’, ‘Jerry’s',
and ‘Ricky and Rocky’. Join us to learn more about our summer youth
classes, film classes for adults, and other ways to get involved. For
additional information visit us at www.chicagofilmmakers.org
is proud to screen a selection of digital shorts and 16mm films on
Saturday, June 16, at the Portage Theater, 4050 N. Milwaukee Ave.,
during BBQ Fest. First up at Noon is a collection of films created by
youth in our Summer Digital Moviemaking Camps.
Following at 2 p.m., we will screen films from our collection by
Chicago’s own Tom Palazzolo including ‘At Maxwell Street’, ‘Jerry’s',
and ‘Ricky and Rocky’. Join us to learn more about our summer youth
classes, film classes for adults, and other ways to get involved. For
additional information visit us at www.chicagofilmmakers.org
Bands
For the 6 Corners BBQ Fest, they strive to give you original talent,
and feature as many local bands as they can.
and feature as many local bands as they can.
Saturday, June 16: Main Stage (on Milwaukee at Irving)
- Waco Brothers: Saturday’s headliner
12:30: The Shams Band (We've given away their CD's to our readers, and shots stills and video of The Shams Band for years, and they're one of our local favs! Search The Shams Band in our blog side bar for our past photo filled features, then get out and see them live TODAY!)
6:30 Voodoo Kings (Highly recommended! Check 'em out. *Our freaky bit of family Voodoo from this week "AKA: pix disappeared, but we got the tee shirt!"--Dug is on a shoot down in New Orleans and took a phone photo at Marie Laveau's House of Voodoo and sent it to us. It didn't go through. The same day, Du-Jay and I moved boxes around in the basement to make room for a new water meter and found a t-shirt on the floor under one from...you guessed it Maria Laveau's House of Voodoo. It had been buried there for over TEN YEARS! I pulled it out, washed it, and wore it. When Dug called to ask how we like the picture we said "What picture?!" Imagine our surprise when we finally saw the photo a day later!)
North Stage (On Milwaukee at Belle Plaine)
7:30 p.m. Polkaholics
(Another of our local favs. Dare you not to dance. Polkaholics are good time for all ages!)
Sunday, June 17: Main Stage (on Milwaukee at Irving)
A hometown band opening on Sunday
North Stage (On Milwaukee at Belle Plaine)
6: 00 Charlie Baran & The Groupo Gringo
STUFFED AND UNSTRUNG
7:30pm at Bank of America Theatre
Yay! Puppets behaving badly....one of my favorite genres. This is one for the big kids AKA: adults & 17+. I've got my ticket, do YOU? They're only in town through Sunday so get your act together and go already. Stuffed and Unstrung is part of the TBS Just for Laughs Chicago comedy festival and also presented by Broadway in Chicago. If anyone needs to get out and see an R rated puppet show, it's parents of young children. Sure, the childless and the hipsters can come too..... But parents REALLY need a good old raunchy remedy for all the saccharine sweet, PC pablum we put up with in the name of entertaining our littles. So book a sitter and come on out for laugh. YOU deserve it.
Check out our full prior write up on Stuffed and Unstrung, including a video clip, by clicking right here.
