Just announced: R. Kelly at the Fox on New Year's Eve

By Mike McGonigal on Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 5:38 pm

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Singer R. Kelly is doing a special New Year's Eve concert at the Fox this December 31. Tickets ($49, $89, $129 and $175) go on sale Friday, December 18 at 10 a.m. and can be purchased at OlympiaEntertainment.com,

NOTE: This here is just a news item announcing his show; it's not an article or some kind of think piece. I do feel it's important to state that after reading of the myriad sexual assault allegations against the singer, as expertly reported by both Jim DeRogatis and Jessica Hopper, I myself can no longer enjoy his music. At all. I urge others to be as informed as possible about him. I wish this stuff were not true, but it really seems to be, especially when one learns of the singer's reaction to such allegations.

The man is clearly a total musical genius. But how he has evaded being treated the way we all treat Bill Cosby these days is beyond me.

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Metro Times music editor Mike McGonigal has written about music since 1984, when he started the fanzine Chemical Imbalance at age sixteen with money saved from mowing lawns in Florida. He's since written for Spin, Pitchfork, the Village VOICE and Artforum. He's been a museum guard, a financial reporter, a bicycle...

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