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Boystown’s Halloweek of Tricks and Treats Lead-Up to October 31 Parade Filled with Spooky Fun

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Boystown brings you a full, seven-day Halloweek of tricks and treats.

Culminating with the legendary Haunted Halsted Halloween Parade on October 31, Northalsted hosts a spectacularly spooky line-up of events.

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10am-1pm Lakeview Halloween Pup Crawl 11am-1pm Trick or Treat 1pm-3pm Kids Zone by Howard Brown Boystown Zombie Brunch Sundead Fundead Zombie Bar Crawl Halloween Ball at Hydrate Parade Viewing & Dance Party at FFC Boystown 23rd Annual Haunted Halsted Halloween Parade

Halloweek Events: A different Halloween themed party each day at neighborhood bars & restaurants. Trivia nights, glow in the dark dancing, costume contests, musical sing-a- longs, variety shows and more.

Halloween Night: The legendary parade kicks off from Halsted and Belmont and travels north to Brompton. The costume contest crowns a $500 cash winner in each of six categories: Scary, Drag, Creative, Youth, Cosplay, and Group (-10), and a Large Group (10+) category with a $1,000 prize. A total of $4,000 in cash prizes await, for those who participate!

Registration is open: Additional information available at:

www.hauntedhalsted.com

Haunted Halsted Parade: Thursday, October 31 FREE to spectate or participate / Floats Welcome!

6:30 pm - 7:30 pm Registration at Halsted/Belmont 7:30 pm Parade kicks-off and travels north to Brompton 8:30 – 10:00 Awards Presentation and After Party (Halsted & Brompton) Northalsted Business Alliance (NBA)

Formed in 1980, NBA represents more than 100 businesses along the Halsted Street corridor. The organization hosts major events throughout the year including Chicago Pride Fest, Northalsted Market Days, the Halloween Parade, Taste of Boystown and Frost Fest.

For information about NBA visit www.northalsted.com.

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andy warhol Photo Exhibit The Hilton |Asmus Contemporary exhibition space is featuring a new photo exhibit display called Andy Warhol’s House. The exhibit features David Gamble’s famous photos of Warhol’s house in New York City after death that provide an impossibly intimate look at the private life of the famed artist and include photos of his medicine cabinet, kitchen and living room, all untouched following his death. The exhibit is going on now at the Hilton | Asmus Contemporary, located at 716 N. Wells St., Chicago.

Iconic Andy Warhol was a private man who rarely allowed anyone into his red brick townhouse in Manhattan’s Upper East Side.

After Warhol’s death, his manager, Fred Hughes, was charged with running the Warhol Foundation, newly established to carryout Warhol’s will. To kick start the foundation, there would be an auction of Warhol’s property and personal collections, but Hughes needed a way to generate interest in the auction. Warhol was wildly popular, but hardly anyone had ever seen the inside of his home. This was the first celebrity auction in America.

David Gamble, internationally renowned artist / photographer was given never-beforeseen access to Warhol’s home, an exclusive opportunity to photograph the contents of the house as they lay before the items were sent to auction at Sotheby’s. Gamble’s astonishingly personal photographs were featured on the cover and in a 10-page spread in of Observer Magazine in London. Hughes plan worked, as the photos generated the immense world-wide interest that he sought. The 1988 auction raised $25 million for Warhol’s foundation.

Gamble said that from the start his goal was to “put Andy back in the house,” to make the photographs look so realistic that a viewer could imagine that the artist was just in the other room grabbing a snack. In 1997, he used silkscreen technology to physically screen pop art versions of Warhol into some of his photos, some of which are featured in this exhibit.

While originally taken to increase interest in an already hyped auction, Gamble’s photographs have since become valuable in their own right, with two selling at Sotheby’s NYC earlier this year. These images are also used as historical evidence that the objects in the house belonged to Warhol and to show visual proof

of how he lived at the time. The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh has also acquired a large print of Gamble’s Andy Warhol’s Medicine Cabinet, a particularly culturally important photograph as it’s the first of what became an entire genre of photographs of artists’ medicine cabinets.

The exhibit at Hilton | Asmus Contemporary includes the following photographs from Gamble:

Andy Warhol’s Kitchen, East 66 Street NYC 1987

Andy Warhol’s Living Room, East 66 Street NYC 1987

Andy Warhol’s Parlour, East 66th Street NYC, 1987

Andy Warhol’s Medicine Cabinet (En suite), East 66th Street NYC 1987

Andy Warhol’s Wig, Glasses & Watch, East 66th Street NYC 1987

Fred Hughes in Andy Warhol’s Factory with Liz Taylor Painting, 860 Broadway NYC 1987

Andy Warhol’s Wig Glasses and Watch “Silkscreen” Marilyn Color Series, East 66th St NYC, 1987, Silkscreen series London, 1997

Andy Warhol’s Coke Bottle and VHS Movies, In Bedroom, East 66th St NYC, 1987

Andy Warhol’s Teddy Bear and Cowboy Boots, East 66th Street, NYC 1987

Andy Warhol’s Wig and Glasses “Silkscreen” Marilyn Color Series, Complete Set (4) Limited Edition

Andy Warhol’s Wig and Glasses, Complete Set (4) Limited Edition, East 66th St NYC 1987

The Hilton | Asmus Contemporary is owned and run by multi-media artist, poet and writer Arica Hilton. With more than 30 years of experience in representing artists around the world, Hilton founded Hilton | Asmus Contemporary in 2012.

Located in Chicago’s River North Art District, the gallery specializes in modern and contemporary paintings, works on paper and sculpture, with a special focus on photography featuring internationally known artists from the United States, Northern Europe and the Mediterranean region. Whether it is the history of the film industry that has changed the way we see our world, or artists making history by using film, moving or still, Hilton | Asmus Contemporary seeks to initiate a dialogue, to bring awareness to the contemporary issues of our times.

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Swedish Pop Sensation Robyn Shows Us More Love

By Joey Amato

Robyn has been keeping us dancing for almost 20 years now.

With the release of her latest album Honey, the Swedish superstar shows no signs of stopping. For the majority of 2019, she has toured the globe and performed to sold-out audiences, who sing almost every lyric to her songs. This brilliant songwriter will be coming back to America for a few more dates later this month.

Robyn began writing Honey in 2015, with the lyrics to the lead off single “Missing You” taking nearly two years to complete. “I started writing songs for the album a long time ago. Some songs were written on my own, and some I worked on with other writers including Joseph Mount and Klas Åhlund.

I was writing for a long time,” she noted. The album was recorded in various places including studios in Stockholm, London, Paris, New York and Ibiza. “I was more involved in the production of Honey than any of my previous albums.”

Throughout the recording process, she drew inspiration from many sources and sites “Red Alert” by Basement Jaxx as a sound she was going for on the album. “I like to listen to a lot of American and Swedish pop music.” Robyn also mentioned she would love to collaborate with Tyler the Creator on a future project. “He is such a genuine and interesting artist. I really like his work.”

Robyn mentioned the wonderful relationship Swedish and American musicians have when it comes to collaborating. It’s important to note that some of North

America’s biggest pop hits were written by Swedish songwriters and recorded by megastars, like Britney Spears, *NSYNC and Backstreet Boys, just to name a few. “A lot of American artists work with Swedish songwriters and producers,” Robyn states. “There is definitely a school of songwriting in Sweden. There are many artists here that nobody knows but are very talented.”

Sweden has produced numerous gay icons over the years, from ABBA and Avicii to Tove Lo. Robyn first noticed she was drawing a large gay following after the release of her Body Talk album in 2010, which featured the smash “Dancing On My Own” which she co-wrote with Patrik Berger. “Playing in front of a large gay crowd is wonderful of course.

They are singing loudly, dancing, partying and are so engaging. It’s all about the artist and fan connection and because it’s gay, it’s more fun. We create a celebratory atmosphere at the show which is really cool.” Recently, her song, “Dancing On My Own,” was performed and recorded by British gay artist Calum Scott, which skyrocketed his career.

In addition to a gay icon and positive role model for many LGBTQ people around the world, Robyn is also an advocate for combating climate change and hopes 2020 is a year the world really starts working towards the goal of stabilizing the environment and saving the planet.

For more information and upcoming tour dates, visit http://robyn.com.

About the Author

Joey Amato is the publisher of Pride Journeys, an LGBTQ travel website as well as Frugayity, a new personal finance website targeting the LGBTQ community. For more information, please visit www.frugayity.com.

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