Your Chicago Curated Weekend: 3/3-3/6

My thoughts for the entirety of yesterday consisted of this short video, for which I've decided to hold the first Third Coast Review caption contest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyB64gnC4Qs Unless you've buried your head so deep in the earth's crust that it's begun to liquefy from the intense heat and pressure of the mantle, you know that Donald Drumpf had a very good Super Tuesday. You know that Donald Drumpf is, seemingly inexplicably, the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination. You know that Chris Christie decided to endorse Drumpf, going against his previous, powerful anti-Drumpf rhetoric and earning himself unprecedented degrees of ridicule and scorn. Now, Chris Christie has backed himself into a corner with very few friends and a new boss who would probably get off to firing him. It's understandable that the look on his face during Drumpf's victory speech on Super Tuesday fell somewhere on the spectrum between "Wow, that was a crazy acid trip...wait, where am I? Why am I standing behind Donald Drumpf like some sort of loyal pitbull?" and "I have met the abyss and it scares the shit out of me." Just about the only way to cope with the zaniness of this election is to laugh at its idiosyncrasies (while, at the same time, working on ways to bring about the result you want). It's possible to simultaneously joke and be deadly serious about an issue. That's why we're asking you to caption Christie's thoughts in the above video--the funniest will win some as-yet-determined prize from the 3CR crew--and then go read about the election and learn as much as you can from one of these spectacular and diverse sites, or (best yet) all of them. Anyways, on to this weekend's events. THURSDAY, MARCH 3RD Under 30/Over 60 - “Life Lessons” @ The Book Cellar, 4736 N. Lincoln Ave., 7:00 PM