Peer off the platform of the Morse stop on the CTA red line and see… hardly anything at all. A dollar mart and a tiny drug store hold corners of the Morse and Glenwood intersection while liquor stores, coin laundries, small restaurants and apartment buildings dot the surrounding area. It’s unapparent that the grungy wooden platform overlooking this gritty, nondescript cross-section is a gateway to the Glenwood Avenue Arts District.

Scientifically up-to-date and paleontologist-approved, “Walking With Dinosaurs: The Live Experience” features life-sized, moving replicas that will provide a historically accurate and entertaining experience for Chicago audiences come August.

The first production of its kind, “Walking With Dinosaurs: The Live Experience” is coming to Chicago’s United Center August 7 to 17.

Welles Park, in the city's Lincoln Square community, will be transformed into a Mecca of music and dance from global cultures this Saturday and Sunday at The Old Town School of Folk Music's Chicago Folk  Roots Festival. A dance tent will offer visitors dance lessons from a variety of cultures, such as Aztec rituals.

This weekend finally felt like summer, and it wasn't because of the heat or the constant hangover.  It was because when I took the el from Evanston to Roscoe Village, I didn't just run into a few people headed my way.  I ran into what appeared to be the entire city of Chicago drunk off their asses.  

"The thing about Chicago," a friend said to me as we passed groups of Sox and Cubs fans staggering onto the train at Addison, "is that it packs all of it's shit into two months when the weather doesn't suck."