this week

It's a special week in Illinois with many celebrities from across the world coming to Chicago for this year's Fan Expo.

The Perseid Meteor Shower is back, and according to those who study the heavens, this week's light show should be absolutely amazing. From the L.A. Times: The annual August meteor shower is one of the most prolific natural light shows of the year with up to 100 shooting stars streaking across the sky per hour at its peak...

  Once again, rather than call all of you at home to fill you in on what's coming up for the remainder of the week, we decided to force a staff member to stare at us through his viewfinder. His loss is your gain.

Sure, we could just write down all the things we have lined up for you for the remainder of the week, but we thought it would be more fun to force a staff member to stare at us through a camera-phone viewfinder. His loss, your gain...