PsychomikeMale Chicago Richard T. Crowe has a variety of opportunities for locals and tourists to discover the supernatural side of Chicago. A tour of mass murderer H.H. Holmes killing spree during the World's Fair, bus tours of Chicago and the suburbs, Pub crawls, lectures and there is even a play based on his life and the ghosts of Chicago running!
He has been on all the major local news outlets as well as the BBC, Discovery Channel, A&E, PBS, and many more.
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Dec 21, 2009
DEVIVAL OF THE FITTEST 2010:
CREATING NEW WORLDS!
The Church of the SubGenius, the joke you can believe in, continues its weekly slack attack in January at The Liar's Club, 1665 W Fullerton Saturday Nights. No reservations needed, 773- 665- 1110 is the bars number. 8PM, $6
Bold surrealism, psychedelic prescriptures and rabble rousing rituals are just the tip of the iceberg! The last show in December ended with participants piling into cars for a secret Highland Park held by the Unknown Millionaire and a tour of the World Of Sacred Objects and Artifacts. Participants saw a real shrunken head, mummified hand, and secret weapons of the Church. You never know what will happen at a SubGenius Devival!
And we can't always advertise what will happen! Expect the unexpected! Not since Big Al Crowley in the 1920's and the Intergalactic SubGenius Convention of 1982 has Chicago been subject to performance magickal rituals that work! WHO WILL SURVIVE, AND WHAT WILL BE LEFT OF THEM?
SATURDAY JAN 9TH: OPENING A NEW PORTAL! With the strange sounds of the Church Theremin Orkestra Pope Michael Flores will open a portal to another dimension!
SATURDAY JAN 16: REMEMBERING REVEREND DEL CLOSE! The Pope tells us stories of Del Close and the 7 years they preached together. Plus loads of dirt on Chicago celebs!
SATURDAY JAN 23: THE EVE OF THE FEAST OF KLAATU!
SATURDAY JAN 30: THE CREATION OF EARTH BY SPACE ALIENS!
You will actually go back in time and help create the earth, leading up to the creation of clams on the beach. That's right, everyone present will help create earth- and none of your friends will thank you for it!
SATURDAY FEB 6: MUSIC MAYHEM! Bring weird objects and odd musical instruments for the music to celebrate the Pope's Birthday! Gifts of rum and whiskey welcome! Pope Michael Flores will perform a special Trance State Ritual and close the portal left open since the 9th! Hopefully.
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Nov 15, 2009
More 1st Vampyre Lovers Pics!
THE VAMPYRE LOVERS
Emily Cross and Kelly Good Photo by Thom Rouse http://salomephoto.com
THE BRIDES OF
GHOST HUNTER RICHARD CROWE
Supernatural Tales of
Chicago re-enacted by
the Brides
Emily Cross, Megan Mackie, Matther Gall, Kelly Good
Preview Friday Nov 20, Opening Sat Nov 21 then
Friday Nights 8 PM
Through Jan 29th
$10
No show Nov 27, Dec. 25, Jan 1
Emily Cross
THE LIAR'S CLUB
1665 W Fullerton
No reservations needed
You must be 21
MORE PICS HERE:
Megan Mackie
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=135929&id=695490985&l=6231f31b59
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Nov 9, 2009
Zombies, Vampyres and "Bob"
THE LAST ZOMBIES BUILT CHICAGO SHOWS COMING, THE VAMPYRE LOVERS COMING, THE CHURCH OF THE SUBGENIUS DEVIVALS TURNED LOOSE ON AN UNSUSPECTING AMERICA, 3 PRESS RELEASES IN ONE!
THE BRIDES OF GHOST HUNTER RICHARD CROWE: ZOMBIES BUILT CHICAGO EDITION is coming to a close. The last weekend is Friday and Saturday November 13 and 14th. Doors open at 8PM, show starts at 8:15PM admission is $10. THE LIAR'S CLUB, 1665 W Fullerton. Reservations not needed, 773- 665- 1110
THE BRIDES OF GHOST HUNTER RICHARD CROWE: THE VAMPYRE LOVERS EDITION has a preview on Friday November 20th and opens Saturday November 21. THERE IS NO SHOW FRIDAY NOV 27TH, Friday Dec. 25 or Friday Jan 1st. Show runs Friday nights (except for the dates mentioned) through Friday Jan 29th. The Liar's Club, 1665 W Fullerton. Doors open at 8PM, show starts at 8:15PM. No reservations needed, 773- 665- 1110 Admission $10.
The Old Lithuanian Cemetery which contains the Massock Mausoleum is located in Spring Valley, Illinois. Lithuanian vampires are unlike any other vampires on earth. They recognize in the folklore they have a condition and instead of hunting human victims control their blood lust - the vampyres of Spring Valley use animals instead. But forbidden love threatens to expose the Massock family secret......
THE CHURCH OF THE SUBGENIUS presents weekly Devivals!
When travelling salesman J.R."Bob" Dobbs was nabbed by space beings and given secret knowledge the worldwide search for slack began. The only Church in America that pays taxes, The Church Of The SubGenius has re-emerged in these troubled times to fight the conspiracy, preach the word of slack and justify your sins. Devivals are starting up around the country adding to the books, videos and radio show in bringing to the people the word of "Bob", that pipe smoking clip art with the powerhouse message. Gimmie slack... OR KILL ME!
Here is the infamous MTV ad for the Church. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt9MP70ODNw The Chicago devivals will be at 8PM at THE LIAR'S CLUB, 1665 W Fullerton free parking both sides of the street. No reservations needed, 773- 665- 1110
$6 You must Be 21 or over.
Sat Nov 28th THE QUEST FOR SLACK: Scream Out over holidaze with relatives, learn the story of "Bob", the 1982 World SubCon Tribulations
Sat Dec 5th A JOYFUL NOISE Everyone bring odd instruments to play, surprise Chicago musicians to show up
Sat Dec 12 SEX MIRACLES AND YOU 24 hour marriages, reverse healings, sex with aliens!
Sat Dec 19 PUT THE X BACK IN XMAS!
The fallible Pope of Chicago opens a can of whup ass on the holidaze season! Can I hear a hell yeah!
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Sep 28, 2009
REMEMBER WHEN HALLOWEEN WAS FOR KIDS?
Those days are long gone, now Halloween is for adults and parties start happening weeks before the actual date. Yet one group of thespians celebrates Halloween year round.
ZOMBIES BUILT CHICAGO is the latest edition of THE BRIDES OF GHOST HUNTER RICHARD CROWE. It is beginning its second year run and this year will have a special Halloween Party- that spills into the Liar's Club already outrageous party. The play runs at The Liar's Club on Friday and Saturday nights through Saturday Nov 21th. Unique because BRIDES has many editions. Unique because it's a zombie and ghost show in a punk rock bar. Unique because it re-creates the supernatural stories of Chicago from the women's point of view and now unique because it has music from Svengoolie! Doors open at 8PM, show starts at 8:15PM. The Liar's Club is at 1665 W Fullerton. No reservations needed, 773- 665 -1110. Admission is $10. http://ghosthunter.blogdrive.com
On Saturday, October 31st come in your costume, see the play, compete for fabulous prizes AND stay afterwards for the party at the Liar's Club infamous for some of the wildest costumes of any Halloween party in town.
Halloween is just too much fun for kids. The adult party is going to be at Liar's Club for a full evening of spooky thrills!
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Sep 3, 2009
Zombies Launch TV Network!
FEEL THE FEAR 24/7: PSYCHOTRONIC B- MOVIE CHANNEL HITS YOUTUBE!
This weekend begins ZOMBIES BUILT CHICAGO, the latest edition of THE BRIDES OF GHOST HUNTER RICHARD CROWE. Even if you've seen the show before you'll be amazed at the changes that have occured. Come see at THE LIAR'S CLUB, 1665 W Fullerton Friday and Saturday at 8PM. Show starts at 8:15. Free parking both sides of the street, $10 admission.
Writer/ producer/ director Michael Flores has for 25 years run the Psychotronic Film Society, a celebration of B-movies, trash pop culture with events that have made national news. Everyone from RUSS MEYER, CLIVE BARKER, H.G. LEWIS, STUART GORDON, BRUCE CAMPBELL, JOHN CLEESE and many others have been guests at the show. To give you scary, bizarre and cool things to look at Mike has launched a YouTube network with 4 channels! Now you can celebrate the scary and the cool 24/7! MOVIE MADNESS has loads of full length kung fu, monster, psycho killer movies! Plus tons of trailers and a few weird cartoons. TV OR NOT TV has punk and garage bands appearing on TV, horror stars on TV and some TV shows as well. ROCK 'N PSYCHO has monster music, scary songs and dark realms to explore. FAVORITES has the unexplainable. Like Crip Heard dancing even though he only has one arm and one leg!
Subscribe or become a friend and pass on the word- there is now a Psychotronic network on YouTube and there is loads of stuff on there, and its constantly updated!
http://www.youtube.com/PopeFlores2
Posted at 03:34 pm by Psychomike
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Aug 24, 2009
Let's Have A Zombie Party!
THE BRIDES OF GHOST HUNTER RICHARD CROWE: ZOMBIES BUILT CHICAGO will be hosting a Night Of The Zombies celebration on Friday September 18th. The world's only glam ghost show at a punk rock bar will be celebrating one year of scares with a special Best Zombie Contest picking the best guy and ghoul zombie. There will be prizes, and the show even boasts songs by TV horror host Svengoolie.
The Liar's Club is at 1665 W Fullerton, there is free parking both sides of the street. Doors open at 8PM, show starts promptly at 8:15. There are no reservations needed, admission is $10. ZOMBIES BUILT CHICAGO runs Fridays and Saturdays beginning September 4th and running until Saturday Nov 21. You must be 21 to attend, but you can drink during the shows! How cool is that?
http://ghosthunter.blogdrive.com
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Aug 19, 2009
Zombies Postcard, Bonus Pic!
POSTCARD DESIGN, PHOTOGRAPHY BY THOM ROUSE. MAKE-UP AND HAIR BY NORA O'SULLIVAN. ZOMBIE- JACLYN JENSEN
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Aug 15, 2009
More shock pics of ZOMBIES
SHOCK PICS OF ZOMBIES BUILT CHICAGO!
For more go to http://ghosthunter.blogdrive.com
Melanie Kibbler, Jaclyn Jensen and Carrie Colden zombiefied! Makeup by Nora O'Sullivan, photography by Thom Rouse http://salomephoto.com
RUN! To see ZOMBIES BUILT CHICAGO!
TV horror host SVENGOOLIE wrote the song parody tunes in the show!
The real life Richard Crowe becomes dinner for the Brides!
THE BRIDES OF GHOST HUNTER RICHARD CROWE : ZOMBIES BUILT CHICAGO EDITION begins Fri Sept 4th and runs Fri and Sat nights at THE LIAR'S CLUB 1665 W Fullerton thru Sat Nov 14th. Doors open at 8PM, show starts at 8:15. NO RESERVATIONS NEEDED. Admission is $10. Free parking both sides of the street. Song parodies by SVENGOOLIE.
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Aug 11, 2009
SVENGOOLIE CHICAGO'S LONGEST RUNNING HORROR TV HOST GOES THEATRE!
ZOMBIES BUILT CHICAGO is the closing in on one year latest edition of THE BRIDES OF GHOST HUNTER RICHARD CROWE, the play that runs at The Liar's Club on Friday and Saturday nights beginning Friday September 4 and Saturday Sept 5th running through Saturday Nov 14th. Unique because BRIDES has many editions, unique because it's a glam ghost show in a punk rock bar, unique because it re-creates the supernatural stories of Chicago from the women's point of view and now unique because it has music from Svengoolie! Doors open at 8PM, show starts at 8:15PM. The Liar's Club is at 1665 W Fullerton. No reservations needed, 773- 665 -1110. Admission is $10. http://ghosthunter.blogdrive.com
Svengoolie is the 7 time local Emmy award winner aka Rich Koz. He was the writer and comedy crime partner of Jerry G. Bishop, the original Svengoolie and on June 16 in 1979 Koz became the Son Of Svengoolie. He plays many characters while showing fabulous b movies such as Zallman T. Tombstone, a wise cracking skull and he introduced Svensurround. He would appear in the corner of the picture frame and make fun of the movies being shown, long before Mystery Science Theater by the way. The creators of that show were from Illinois by the way. Hmmmmmm.
On January 7th in 1995 Son Of Sven became Svengoolie. In 2003 Rich began hosting STOOGE-A-PALOOZA along with his horror host chores. This may actually be the first time someone has sang Svengoolies songs that could sing!
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Aug 1, 2009
Dillinger Ending, Zombies Begins!
JOHN DILLINGER EDITION COMES TO AN END, ZOMBIES BUILT CHICAGO WITH PARODY MUSIC BY SVENGOOLIE COMING!
First off I'd like to thank the BBC, WLS Channel 7 news, The Chicago Tribune, WGN Radio, WBEZ, Metromix, WIND Radio, Red Eye for their coverage of THE BRIDES OF GHOST HUNTER RICHARD CROWE: JOHN DILLINGER EDITION. With the BBC coverage that means my shows, low budget and in off the wall places have been covered by PLAYBOY MAGAZINE, PLAYBOY CABLE CHANNEL ( they did a documentary on the making of one of my plays that still runs and hosted a party for me) and The New York Times without me leaving. That my work has been noticed outside Chicago is something I'm very happy about. Ideas can beat money, critics and grant run groups.
The final performance of THE BRIDES OF GHOST HUNTER RICHARD CROWE: JOHN DILLINGER EDITION will be Saturday August 29th. Friday and Saturday nights at 8PM doors open show starts at 8:15. LIAR'S CLUB 1665 W Fullerton $10 Come see one of the last performances of the JOHN DILLINGER edition of THE BRIDES OF GHOST HUNTER RICHARD CROWE!
Free Parking Both Sides Of The Street. Now, the next edition:
ZOMBIES BUILT CHICAGO
THE BRIDES OF GHOST HUNTER RICHARD CROWE: ZOMBIES BUILT CHICAGO opens the weekend of Friday and Saturday Sept. 4, 5th. 8PM doors open show starts at 8:15. LIAR'S CLUB 1665 W Fullerton $10 No reservations needed. 773- 665- 1110. Parody songs by Chicago TV horror host SVENGOOLIE will highlight the evening!
Zombies are huge in America. There is a best seller book OF PRIDE, PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES. There are zombie marches and zombie pub crawls that the people who are involved make themselves up as the undead. There are zombie games, kids play zombie the way kids use to play cowboy and Indians.
So imagine my surprise when I discovered there was a Native American curse, an illicit love and the Illinois militia sent to battle the undead in a flooded town in the 1800's......right here in Illinois!
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