LOOPTOPIA: Enjoy Chicago from dusk ’til dawn
The city of Chicago is hosting a new unique event called LOOPTOPIA, which will take place starting at dusk on Friday May 11th and will run until dawn on Saturday May 12th. As the name would suggest, the event will be taking place all throughout the Chicago Loop area in downtown Chicago. Specifically, the over 75 scheduled events will occur between the boundaries of Wacker Drive to Congress Parkway and from Dearborn Street to Lake Michigan. According to the official website:
LOOPTOPIA will be America’s first dusk-to-dawn cultural and artistic spectacle showcasing the vibrancy and excitement of Chicago’s historic Loop neighborhood through musical and theatrical performances, unique shopping and dining opportunities, indoor programs, outdoor exhibitions, architectural tours, artistic installations and mesmerizing light displays.
Events will take place at a wide variety of locales throughout the night, including the Chicago Cultural Center, Daley Plaza, and the Art Institute. There will be a closing breakfast at Millennium Park at 6:15 a.m. Click here for a full list of events.
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May 9th, 2007 at 2:18 pm
Scandal Rocks “Miss Looptopia”
Miss Michigan Avenue Voted Out of the Pageant
Miss Looptopia Launch Party and Beauty Pageant
Friday, May 11, 2007 – 6 to 8 pm
Hard Rock Hotel Chicago, 230 N. Michigan, Chicago
Dateline Chicago, May 9, 2007 - The tribe has spoken. And then there were 9. Elvis has left the building.
Whatever the cliché, the Chicago Loop Pageant Tattler has learned that Miss Michigan Avenue, one of the favorites to win the title of Miss Looptopia 2007, has been unceremoniously booted out of the competition.
Pageant officials aren’t saying much in the final days before Friday’s Miss Looptopia Launch Party and Beauty Pageant at the Hard Rock Hotel Chicago. The party and “spoof” drag beauty pageant is an official launch party for Looptopia, Chicago’s all-night downtown arts, culture, music and performance spectacle taking place from dusk to dawn May 11-12, 2007.
But an inside source tells the Pageant Tattler that Miss Michigan Avenue was voted out of the competition by the other contestants meeting over the weekend to pick up their depilatory creams and size 12 pumps. Speaking under condition of anonymity, our source said: “Miss Michigan Avenue’s personality clashed with the other contestants from the very beginning. The pageant officials were concerned that her negative energy might impact the competition and so when the other contestants asked to have her removed, they agreed.”
None of the contestants will comment officially, but another source tells the Pageant Tattler that Miss South Loop blurted out at a Looptini tasting party: “She’s lucky she won’t be on stage with me. I’d have snatched that wig right off her head.” We suspect the possibility of an ugly incident on stage prompted officials to allow the change.
Miss Michigan Avenue’s representatives declined to comment except to confirm she would no longer be competing. Businesses along Michigan Avenue seemed unconcerned about the change as Miss Millennium Park is now favored to win the competition.
About Miss Looptopia
Get your Looptopia evening started with the “Miss Looptopia Launch Party and Beauty Pageant,” a cocktail party with an interactive, improvised “drag” beauty pageant theme. Sip your special “Looptini” while asking Miss South Loop about her gown, Miss Millennium Park about world peace, Miss Block 37 for makeup tips, or dish the “dirt” on Miss Lower Wacker Drive. Performances throughout with short program at 7:30 crowns “Miss Looptopia.” There is no cover or RSVP required. Cash bar. “Looptopia Survival Pack” gift bag for all attendees. Sponsored by Chicago Loop Alliance, Hard Rock Hotel Chicago, GayCo, and Third Coast Marketing. For full details, visit http://www.looptopia.com.