"Trunk Show" usually means viewing designer clothes that cost more than a subcompact. This Saturday's D.I.Y. Trunk Show features items that are similarly one-of-a-kind, but whose prices are more inline with normal people budgets.

The first ever Chicago Bluegrass & Blues Festival is four days from now - only four days! You'll be hearing a lot from me about it until Saturday. Today's news: the lineup, which includes "2 Stages, a Balcony, 18 Acts, and Costumed Marching Band 'Environmental Encroachment' parading throughout the venue at impromptu times":

If every time you've gotten into a cab you've been disgruntled by that surcharge, even though it just went down to $0.50 two weeks ago, it's time to do a little jig. As of Midnight tonight it goes away.

Well, technically it wasn't Michael Jackson. I also didn't really see Eddie Money and Aerosmith. I did, however, see bands dressing up like them and playing their music, and it was hilarious.

Every year for Halloween Double Door invites local acts to cover - physically and musically - iconic bands. They may not be perfect covers or perfect costumes, but that's not what it's about. The Double Door is one of the best venues in the city for original music so this night is just for kicking back and having a good time.