Do people have plans for the weekend?  There is a ton going on here & I doubt I'm going to be able to do it all.  

Tonight there is an urban arts festival, Manifest.  All weekend there is the Green Festival (for which my lovely phone comany has provided me with free tix).  And Sunday morning (uhg!  why morning?!) Aleksandar Hemon is giving a reading.

Does everyone here know who Aleksandar Hemon is?  If not - you MUST check him out.  I know I use the term "genius" a lot, but he really is.  He's a Bosnian fellow who basically got trapped in Chicago during the war, somehow managed to become fluent in English in a year or so, and writes brilliant novels about Eastern Europe and Chicago and the insanity of living in either.  I find them deeply satisfying.  :)

I really cannot recommend him enough.

"Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.