The End is one of the longest running, most successful weekly Sunday night parties of the last few years, thriving despite a venue change when it moved homes from Smart Bar to rednofive. Partiers, artists and industry types alike attend looking for a way to extend (or start) their weekend with a different soundtrack from week to week covering just about every genre imaginable. This Sunday, Chicago’s own house-music legend Ron Carroll headlines a night full of soul-stirring, jackin’ house music. Promoter and host Paul in Chicago adds, “We have been downstairs in the basement for the past two weeks, are moving [the party] back upstairs to the newly painted [main room], with interior colors changed to silver and blue and new floors. The basement is good for techno and minimal nights, but upstairs is better for house nights.” Also DJing is Jamie 3:26, a longtime resident of I Love House Music Wednesdays at The Note who has performed alongside every big house DJ imaginable, and, of course, The End’s resident James Lauer. (Elly Rifkin)
October 12 at rednofive, 440 North Halsted, (312)733-6699, 10pm-4am
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