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sausage with black lentils, risotto with house-cured bacon, pasta with a wild boar Bolognese, and pork chops from Gunthorp Farms. Apparently, and perhaps thankfully, there’s no pig in the dessert, an almond cake with wine-poached pears and vanilla gelato. a 6:30 PM, Osteria Via Stato, 620 N. State, 312-642-8450, $69. –Julia Thiel
Music journalist Mitch Myers, nephew of poet Shel Silverstein, reads from his book The Boy Who Cried Freebird: Rock & Roll Fables and Sonic Storytelling as part of the Old Town School series Spin Night. He’s adapted bits of the book’s material for NPR’s All Things Considered, and he’ll play some of those clips too–here’s hoping for “There’s Just Something About That Cowbell,” his response to Christopher Walken’s infamous Saturday Night Live sketch. a 6:30 PM, Old Town School of Folk Music, 4544 N. Lincoln, 773-728-6000. F
The Irish American Heritage Center will screen Shalom Ireland (2003), Valerie Lapin Ganley’s hour-long documentary about Jews of the Emerald Isle, to be followed by a concert of klezmer and traditional Irish music. a 8 PM, Irish American Heritage Center, 4626 N. Knox, 773-282-7035, $5.
The second season of Sports Action Team, produced by the local Towers Productions, continues tonight after debuting on NBC last month. Several Chicago-based improvisers are featured on the mockumentary-style show, which follows questionably competent sportcasters as they interact with real-life professional athletes. a Sun 11:45 PM (following Sunday Night Football). –Ryan Hubbard
