Chicagoist is gearing up for this weekend's annual Air & Water Show along the lakefront. In what's becoming an annual tradition around there, staff member Todd McClamroch even got to fly with one of the participants. Chicagoist's decidedly opinionated readership was also appalled that one of their staffers found a popular local brewpub to be a great place to bring a kid. They also think that an unlikely activist for immigration rights should just take......

Ask a MacArthur "Genius" - ROVA presents a Q&A with composer John Zorn as part of its Improv 21 series. As well as being a composer and saxophonist, Zorn runs a music venue in NYC and his own label that releases an eclectic range of music, from free jazz to Japanese noise, to klezmer. Subjects for Q&A will be chosen improvisationally and jump-cut from topic to topic, probably including discussion of Zorn's artistic influences,......

Despite our initial resolve to move at a dignified pace through this film festival, we got overly excited on our first day out and may have shot our wad way too early. We planned to see only one movie—the Chinese chick flick, Perpetual Motion on Saturday night but an SFIFF insider in the press room told us we simply must stay for The Glamorous Life of Sachiko Hanai. It's porn! It's funny! It's political!......