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The Grant Park Music Festival's 75th season gets started tomorrow evening at 6:30 p.m. at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park. The anniversary celebration kicks off with concerts on Wednesday and Friday at the Pritzker Pavilion and on Saturday in the Harris Theater.

There is little we like more than an afternoon spent browsing through old books, even if we can't afford to buy any of them. Which is why we're planning on spending the next couple of days at the Leslie Hindman October Book Auction, featuring rare and extremely expensive books (like this Henry Gray Anatomy text, which is expected to sell for $4,000 to $6,000). Look for us as we polish our monocle while pretending to be able to afford anything. You can view the entire catalogue here.

Chicagoist is a huge fan of our own homegrown media industry. We like the original stuff that comes out of this city and telling our folks things like how we walk through Gotham City on our way to work and visit County General every time we have a boo-boo. So, as always, it was a lot of fun to sit in on last night's taping of "Wait! Wait! Don't Tell Me". Host Peter Sagal informed...

Hollywood incinerated the post-summertime trash last weekend in preparation for some tried-and-true formula pictures releasing today.

Movie and maritime buffs, this one’s for you. The HMS Bounty (uh, its replica at least) is docked at Navy Pier, to the amazement of all—young and old, with and without scurvy, Clark Gable fans and Marlon Brando fans and even Mel Gibson fans. Ah, yes, the majesty of the sea. Well, lake.

is one of Chicagoist’s favorite musicals, and even though the movie flawed, it’s still enjoyable. Please oh please stop raining.

Remember the ol' TGIF theme song on ABC? (Or when people actually watched ABC?) "It's Friday night and the moon is bright/ Gonna have some fun, so you how it's done... TGIF!" And while the days of pre-"I Love the '90s" Urkel and the chubby/non-coke-using Olsen twins are gone, Chicagoist still takes those silly lyrics to heart, constantly humming them come week's end. Yes, good friends, the weekend is almost here. And here are a few random tips of how to fill the next two lazy days...

Acting legend Marlon Brando, known for being as much of a character offscreen as on it, died yesterday at age 80. Over his long, storied career – which helped define modern American movie acting – he worked with some of film's best directors (Elia Kazan, Bernardo Bertulucci, Francis Ford Coppola) in some of their best works (On the Waterfront, The Godfather, Last Tango in Paris). One of the sexiest men to ever wear a wifebeater – Chicagoist says this with the utmost security in our heterosexuality – he was raised in our own great state of Illinois (first Evanston, then Libertyville). From the land of Lincoln, he went on to a Minnesota military academy (from which he was expelled) and moved off to New York at study at the Actor's Studio, an institution he helped make famous.