Chicago "Really" Short Film Fest

The Chicago "Really" Short Film Festivalfeatures short films, music videos, comedy sketches and animation, each less than 15 minutes long. Live music by Truckstop Supermodel, odd*is*he and The Mystechs. More info and a flim list here or call 773-478-6118. At the Abbey Pub, 3420 W. Grace. Doors open at 7pm, program runs from 8pm till midnight. Tickets $9 at the door.

New Orleans Jazz @ Old Town School

Basin Street Records artists Henry Butler, Jon Cleary and Dr. Michael White perform New Orleans-style jazz at the Old Town School of Folk Music tonight at 7:30pm and 10pm. Tickets are $20, $18 for members. Call 773/728-6000 or click here for tickets or more information.

Discrete Reading Series at 3030

This week, the Discrete Series at the 3030 presents John Tipton and Kent Johnson. John Tipton had an itinerant childhood in Indiana, Florida, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Illinois. He currently lives in Chicago and curates the Chicago Poetry Project, a series of readings at the Chicago Public Library. He is the author of Surfaces, published by Flood Editions in 2004. Kent Johnson has edited numerous works in translation. He has also translated (with Alexandra Papaditsas) The Miseries of Poetry: Traductions from the Greek (Skanky Possum, 2003) and (with Forrest Gander) Immanent Visitor: Selected Poems of Jaime Saenz (California UP, 2002), which was a PEN Award for Poetry in Translation selection. He was named Faculty Person of the Year for 2003 at Highland Community College, in Freeport, Illinois, where he teaches English Composition and Spanish. The readings are Friday, April 9, at 9 p.m., as always, at 3030 W. Cortland. There is a $5 suggested donation (BYOB). For a map to the space, and samples of past and future readers' work, visit the Discrete blog or this website.