Just the Tip is a sex and relationship column hosted by queer non-monogamous kinkster Jera Brown. Here you will find interviews with sexuality researchers and educators as well as smart and compassionate responses to anonymous questions. If you would like to be interviewed or have a sex or love question you’d like Jera to answer, […]
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Interview: Nejla Yatkin Flocks to Chicago Parks with Firebird Dances
The city is heating up thanks to Nejla Yatkin. As part of the Chicago Park District’s Night Out in the Parks series, the 2023 Guggenheim Fellow and Chicago-based choreographer will engage visitors in 16 interactive pop-up performances featuring Firebird dances and bird movement meditations from June 7 to July 1. She’ll also lead four family-friendly […]
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Review: Taylor Swift Makes Soldier Field Shimmer During 2nd Night of The Eras Tour in Chicago
In the five years since the Reputation Stadium Tour, Taylor Swift has released four new studio albums – Lover (2019), Folklore (2020), Evermore (2020), and Midnights (2022) – as well as re-recordings, known as Taylor’s Version, of Fearless and Red. This prolific output demands a live experience unlike any other and The Eras Tour stop […]
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Photos: Yeah Yeah Yeahs Heat It Up and ‘Cool It Down’ during Northerly Island’s Opening Night
Summer concert season has arrived in Chicago and Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island kicked things off by hosting the Yeah Yeah Yeahs on Thursday, June 1. With the breeze rolling in from Lake Michigan and the skyline in the background, the venue served as the perfect setting for Karen O (vocals), Nick Zinner (guitar, […]
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Review: ‘Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields’
Yes, there were several famous adult female models/actresses throughout the 1970s and 1980s, from Lauren Hutton to Iman to Christie Brinkley, but in the extraordinary category of famous child female models/actresses, there was Brooke Shields. Just Brooke Shields. It is not exaggeration that the childhood and teen years of Brooke Shields, which make up part […]
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Just The Tip: ENM Without Becoming the ‘Creepy Old Dude’
Just the Tip is a sex and relationship column hosted by queer non-monogamous kinkster Jera Brown. Here you will find interviews with sexuality researchers and educators as well as smart and compassionate responses to anonymous questions. If you would like to be interviewed or have a sex or love question you’d like Jera to answer, […]
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Review: Wedding Cashers — ‘’Til Death Do Us Part’ & ‘Paris in Love’
Throwing an elaborate wedding is expensive, unless there’s a way to parlay that into a money-making venture. Hotel heiress Paris Hilton and Poosh founder Kourtney Kardashian did just that via their reality TV shows. The Peacock TV series Paris in Love (2021-2022) follows Ms. Hilton and her fiancé financier Carter Reum from a private island […]
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Joy as an Act of Resistance: Lizzo Brings Bliss to the United Center in Chicago
Not many artists can perform to a packed-house of over 20,000 fans, and even fewer can return to the same city and do it all again a mere seven months later. Lizzo isn’t most artists. Following her triumphant October 2022 concert, Lizzo brought the second leg of her Special Tour back to the United Center […]
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Chicago Holds Court With ‘The Crucible’ & ‘The Trial of Socrates’
Lady Justice should be blind, but sometimes society’s hysteria skews her vision. Such was the case during the Salem Witch Trials of 1692-93 which take centerstage in Invictus Theatre Company’s revival of The Crucible. “While written as a response to Senator McCarthy’s persecution of suspected communists in 1950s America, The Crucible has parallels to today’s […]
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Just the Tip: Dating In Your Fifties
Just the Tip is a sex and relationship column hosted by queer non-monogamous kinkster Jera Brown. Here you will find interviews with sexuality researchers and educators as well as smart and compassionate responses to anonymous questions. If you would like to be interviewed or have a sex or love question you’d like Jera to answer, […]