Top weekend show: Girl Talk at Congress Theater
Girl Talk: Sample-based composer Gregg Gillis has a knack for transforming his concerts into spectacles, armed only with a laptop (albeit loaded with an orchestra of mashed-up party-starting hits), a variety of increasingly outlandish props and his own Iggy Pop-like gyrations, 7 p.m. Friday-Saturday at the Congress Theater, 2135 N. Milwaukee Av., $30 (sold out); ticketweb.com.
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