(Our senior house critic Michael Freedberg stayed out late Sunday morning and came back with the following report, an edited version of which will appear soon on thephoenix.com. We present the unexpurgated, unedited goodness below.)
For house music, you can’t get much more authentic than DJ Honey Dijon – grew up in Chicago, African-American, transgendered; started dancing at the very clubs where house music was being created at the time, for girls much like herself; became a friend, then protégé, of Frankie Knuckles, the prime originator of the genre.