Chicago is the land of street festivals. I don't know what it is about my city, but she sure loves her some fried food, cheap beer, jewelry and loud music in her neighborhood streets. And don't I always go, even though I know it will be the same thing time and time again? Sure. Because I love her and I trust she will entertain me with her crowded expanse of blocked off streets. Most recent festival experience: The Wicker Park Festival, sponsored by WXRT and the Subterranean Lounge.

Highlights of the festival weekend:

- discovering dangly earrings...again!
- no-bra-hip-pack-girl and greasy-Corona-shirt-guy
- The French Kicks.
- being out late on a Sunday night with the hubb.