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Nicksons Eatery Chef Nick Baca will be preparing lobsters in some of his favorite ways — grilled, boiled, slow simmered and mixed in a martini — as the La Grange restaurant presents Lobster Fest from Wednesday to Saturday, July 6 to 9. Local bands Mr. Blotto and Deuce will play on Wednesday and Saturday, respectively. For the full lineup, visit www.nicksonseatery.com. Mascots from every Chicago professional sports team will face off in a battle for the title of Brookfield Zoo’s REAL Sports Challenge champion at 1:30 p.m. Friday, July 8, to kick off the “Real Fan Days” festival. On select weekends through Sept. 4, fans will meet players and mascots and test their sports skills, all while learning the connection animal mascots share with the real animals at the zoo. For details, visit www.czs.org. Buffalo Theatre Ensemble presents the mystery story “Faith Healer” starting Thursday, July 7, at the College of DuPage’s McAninch Arts Center in Glen Ellyn. A traveling trio, led by “the Fantastic Francis Hardy,” each tell their own version of their history together. Shows are at 8 p.m. Thursdays to Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays through July 24. For tickets, visit www.atthemac.org. The Elgin Opera Training and Performing Ensemble sings "Ole! La Fuerza de la Música!" at 7 p.m. Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday, July 9 and 10, at Elgin Academy’s Kimball Street Theatre. The Spanish-themed program includes selections by Spanish composers and French and English language pieces with a Latin theme. For tickets, visit www.elginopera.org. First Folio Theatre closes its season with its annual Shakespeare-under-the-Stars, opening at 8:15 p.m. Saturday, July 9, at the Mayslake Peabody Estate in Oak Brook. The selection is the tragic love story “Romeo and Juliet,” one of Shakespeare’s most iconic plays. Shows are Wednesdays to Sundays through Aug. 7. For tickets, visit www.firstfolio.org. The RiverPark Summer Series in Geneva starts on Sunday, July 10, with the 30-piece Prairie Brass Band. Performances take place 6:30 p.m. Sundays during July and include percussionists from Chicago’s VanderCook College, Geneva’s 3rd Street Jazz Quartet, a live radio play and acoustic guitarist Jim Green. Bring folding chairs, pads or a picnic blanket for comfort.

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I am bringing the passion Glenn, and hope to make it by House of Blues around 6 or so. But I’ll have to be podcasting the show as I’m off to a previously scheduled field trip with my son’s middle school.

My take on issues:

1. Nothing gets those Seattlebots testy like giving them the very slightest criticism. Judging from their blog presence since last Thursday, they are wound tight! My response: Get real grass and then we’ll call you a real team.

2. Speaking of real grass, I can hardly conceal my disappointment that MLS Cup will be played on the fake stuff. This is a total joke and can easily make a travesty of the game. I’ve got my fingers crossed, but I’m pissed.

3. Bringing the passion. The thing I took away from the last two weeks (including Dom Kinnear’s interview on your show last week) is that this team is playing with focus, confidence and passion. Brian Mullan’s clearance off the line, and Onstad’s “message delivery” to Montero are the things that playoff runs are made of. This team is beginning to look like the one that went on that great run after the penalty double save against Colorado in May. I have no doubt whatsoever that they will leave it all on the field on Sunday.

4. And the more the better. I like what Seattle has brought to he league this year. I like Ljungberg and relish the chance to see him again this weekend (and crush him like a grape). I like any MLS squad routinely generating 25-35K for every game. But I am sick and tired of those fans acting like they are God’s gift soccer. I have seen enough green scarves, enough Euro-mimicking and enough of this Green til I die business. They are nothing. They have won nothing (USO Cup? Give me a break. DCU was so fixture congested then that NYRB could have beaten them.) I want the Orange to bury them this weekend. The only green I expect to see out there is the green, green (real) grass of home. An Orange Wave is going to put a stop to all this Seattle craziness, their inaugural season story can come to a merciful end and we can all get on with the very real business of a three-game winning streak en rouite to a third MLS Cup.

So those Seattle guys can compute all that in their Microsoft-addled brains and like their software regularly does, crash and burn.

One other thing, and this is a small thing but there nonetheless. Sounders FC. This is America. Whether you like it or not, it’s called soccer here and not football. So it should be Sounders SC.

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