Liar's Club Celebrates 30 Years Of 'Punk For Good' As Its Christmas Day Extravaganza Rages On

Liar's Club Celebrates 30 Years Of 'Punk For Good' As Its Christmas Day Extravaganza Rages On

LINCOLN PARK — What do Gene Simmons, ice sculptures and the Smoking Popes have in common? The Liar’s Club. Here’s how: It was Christmas 1996. The Lincoln Park club’s former manager, Pete, asked his ice sculpture guy, Johnny O., if he could whip up something elaborate to display at the bar that night. As much as $800 later, a frozen statue of the legendary KISS bassist with a 3-foot tongue — which you could take shots off of — was chilling at Lia…