Pride Spectating
What, you don’t feel like dancing? You say you’re the type to just get drunk and gawk? Well, there’s plenty for you this weekend too! First up there’s either the Bachelor Auction at Remington’s or the Bachelorette’s Auction at RnR Bar and Lounge, both tonight — yes, tonight, Thursday, June 12. Then tomorrow night comes perhaps the biggest highlight of the weekend, the rare chance to see… Joan Crawford! Yes, the bitch is back — of course she’s not letting a little death get in her way. Tina be damned! 
One in Ten’s Reel Affirmations will screen the Crawford classic Strait-Jacket this Friday, June 13, outdoors at the gorgeous Hillwood Estate Museum and Gardens in upper Northwest. As fun as the movie will be, watching Crawford try to convince her family that the latest beheadings aren’t her axing-handiwork, the killer of the night will be a Crawford look-a-like contest. The winner gets a wire hanger from Home Rule engraved with the name of the film for which Crawford won her one and only Academy Award. (Not really, but if you can name it you’ll not only impress Hearsay, you’ll surely impress patrons at the screening. Get to work!)
Then of course, there are the requisite Pride events, the Parade Saturday evening, June 14, and the Street Festival on Sunday, June 15. For the Parade you should plant yourself near a bar anywhere along the route — Fireplace, Omega, DIK, Cobalt, Halo, Floriana, Annie’s, though might we suggest JR.’s and its ”outdoor beer garden” right on the bar’s half-block of Church Street. The Festival will have a couple beer gardens set up, so you can roam (but not with your foam). Time to get your pride drinking on!…
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