Undershorts Film Festival

Looking for a film festival that's not just a film festival? Looking for "a cabaret type atmosphere filled with musical acts, performance art, dance, puppetry, clowns...where gypsy palm readers can mingle with video mixers, film noir actors can meet cinematographers, capoeira dancers with naked tuba players"? (Who isn't?) The sixth annual Undershorts Film Festival hits the Congress Theater, 2135 N. Milwaukee, on Friday, July 26 at 7pm. As their site says, "the festival is a Dionysian synthesis of art and expression."

Newberry Library's Bughouse Square Debates

The Newberry Library is having their annual book fair from Thursday through Sunday. They're also hosting the Bughouse Square Debates in Washington Square Park. There will be prizes for the best speakers and hecklers on Saturday.