Flag Wars @ Siskel Film Center

"Flag Wars," a documentary made for PBS' P.O.V. series of films, is screening at the Siskel Film Center tonight at 6:00 PM. The film focuses on the subject of gentrification, and shows a battle waging in a Columbus, Ohio neighborhood between working class African Americans trying to hold onto their homes, and gay and lesbian homesteaders who want to move into the neighborhood. Definitely sounds like a topic that most Chicago residents can identify with. Siskel Film Center: 164 N. State. (312) 846-2600.

The Good, the Shad and the Ugly

Hudson Shad, a male choral group, perform a tribute to cowboy and country'n'western music at the Chicago Cultural Center, Michigan and Washington Avenues, tonight at 7pm. The show includes songs of the wild west as popularized by the the Sons of the Pioneers, Tex Ritter, Frankie Lane, Gene Autrey, the Statler Brothers and others. Songs include "Home on the Range," "Cool Water," "Ghost Riders in the Sky" and "Rawhide" are featured, along with other standards and some of the Germany's biggest cowboy hits (the show debuted in Berlin in 2002). Original choreography by Broadway director Patricia Birch (Grease, Candide). Free. For more information, call 312/427-3325.