No one likes to see the weekend end. After a couple of late nights out and a raucous afternoon of football-watching, Sunday evenings can be a real letdown. But you don't have to shut the party down just because the weekend's almost over.
These spots are alive with options, even after the rest of the weekend fun has come to a grinding halt. If you're looking to get your groove back after a wild weekend, Roscoe Village's is a good place to start. The weekly Sunday Transmission series, hosted by the Emerging Improvisers Organization, shines the spotlight on some of Chicago's top experimental jazz musicians.
Depending on the night, you might hear anything from free jazz to experimental folk. Drink specials include $3.50 well drinks.
10 p.m. No cover.
Get in touch with your inner Maya Angelou--or your inner Lady Sovereign, if that's more your style--at 's SupaSoul Sundays, a two-hour open mic session that makes room for everything from guitar strumming to beatboxing. And you never know who's going to stop by: The freeform event has seen the likes of En Vogue, John Legend, Ludacris and Kanye West. DJ Mark Fullaflava hosts.
9 p.m. $10 cover.
You could make a night of rushing from dinner to the theater, but the socially efficient do dinner and a movie under one roof. Settle into your seat at Rogers Park spot , which shows classics new and old on a projection screen while you down upscale pub food. On a cold Sunday night, one of Morseland's spicy sandwiches, like the Jamaican jerk chicken or the Caribbean pork diablo ($7 each), is sure to warm you up.
If that doesn't do a trick, reach for a $2 domestic bottle. Sunday's movie: "Raiders of the Lost Ark." 8 p.
m. No cover. "I throw a party for a living," says 's owner Mike Miller.
"I don't write Sundays off." For 13 years, the Columbia College Chicago film school grad has screened edgy flicks at his Lincoln Park bar on Sunday nights. In January, look for "outer world"-themed movies such as "Death Race 2000," the 1975 action film starring Sylvester Stallone and David Carradine.
Afterward, DJs spin from 9 p.m. to 2 a.
m. Delilah's doesn't serve food, but you can bring your own or order in. Sunday drink specials include Point bottles ($2), and Ancient Age bourbon shots ($2) and mixed drinks ($3).
6 p.m. No cover.
Since this Boystown video bar opened 25 years ago, throngs of Broadway wannabes have convened to exercise their vocal chords in unison at the Sunday evening show tunes sing-along. "The Posedion Adventure" is a perennial favorite, but the medley of nightly selections might range from "Wicked" to "Evita" to "Hedwig and the Angry Inch." Watching John Cameron Mitchell scream about an angry inch has never been so much fun.
Can't get those Kelly Clarkson lyrics out of your head? Sounds like you need to spend your next Sunday night at for live band karaoke. The two backup bands, the Karaoke Dokeys and the Hootenanners, welcome crooners with musical leanings that run the gamut from Elvis to the Rolling Stones.
After you've wowed the crowd with your vocal stylings, relax with comfort food faves such as stick-to-your-ribs, Southern-style fried chicken ($6.95 for four pieces; $10.95 for eight) and gooey mac and cheese ($2.
50 side; $7.95 dinner). Stanley's kitchen is open till midnight.
10 p.m. No cover.
Originally published Jan. 18, 2007.
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