Your Curated Chicago Weekend: 1/21-1/24

We'll start off with a song of the day: "The Way" by Fastball. You might have heard that in the far-off suburb of Wood Dale, just beyond the nether regions of O'Hare, an old couple went missing on Tuesday. Donald and Jannette Warren, both of whom suffer from dementia, were last seen at a doctor's office before apparently driving aimlessly around Chicagoland for the next 36 hours. They were finally corralled in Deerfield last night. This would be hilarious if it weren't so damn scary that 1) the Warrens literally had no idea what they were doing and 2) they probably posed a massive danger to both themselves and anyone else on the roads. That's the problem with dementia: you want to laugh when your great-grandma spends the entirety of every single lunch you spend with her asking who's celebrating a birthday (true story, and I did laugh, but never to her face). But underneath the shallow veneer of a cheap laugh is the saddest thing of all: the slow loss of human consciousness. And it can be deadly at times. But now that the Warrens are safe, maybe a little nervous laughter is okay, as long as we take dementia itself seriously. So I present alt-rock paragon Fastball's account of what happened in Wood Dale and on the surrounding highways. Just tack on a happy ending in your head and you're set: Anyways, on to the Curated Chicago Weekend! Here's what the perfect way to spend your next four nights looks like. And if you made it to the bottom of this email, congratulations! You get a reminder that tickets for CHVRCHES' March 13th show at the Riviera go on sale on Friday at 11:00 am! Off the top of my head, this is their fifth show in the city over the past year, which means they both love Chicago and signed really non-restrictive contracts allowing them to come back so often. -Blumy   Double Door image courtesy chicagoeater.com