1. Chicago animator Jodie Mack (pictured at left with cut-outs) hosts a premiere screening of her new stop-action animated film, Yard Work is Hard Work, at Studio at 620.
2. Sweetwater Organic Community Farm invites the public to attend its 16th annual under-the-stars fundraiser, Pesto Festo.
3. Comedian Bill Maher offers his humorous spin on American politics at Ruth Eckerd Hall.
4. Fine art teapots, the World’s Largest Coffee/Tea Break, and plenty else are presented at the Second Annual Craftsman House Invitational Teapot Show.
5. Riddle of Steel returns to rock Crowbar.
This article appears in May 7-13, 2008.