Chess is the new black: Bar Italia is the hot lunch spot today as it hosts a G-Star Raw Denim fashion show starting at 11 a.m. The jeans company sponsors chess champion Magnus Carlsen, whose live game against St. Louis-based grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura and others will be shown at the bar.

Here's looking at you: Few things are more romantic than packing a picnic and snuggling up with your sweetie under the stars while "Casablanca" plays on a projection screen. Do it at dusk tonight at Old Post Office Plaza.

Bring lots of questions: See how six contemporary artists express themes of unanswerable questions and unlikely truths at tonight's opening reception for Answer Factory at the Luminary Center for the Arts.

Frequent fliers: The Blue Angels flight squad, the Golden Knights parachute team and other military units flex their aerial muscles Saturday and Sunday at the Airpower Over the Midwest air show at Scott Air Force Base.

Who has more town pride? Hazelwood and Richmond Heights both celebrate their residents with parades and parties Saturday. Hazelwood Harvestfest is 9 a.m.-6 p.m. at Howdershell Park; Richmond Heights' Celebrate festival starts at 2 p.m. at Richmond Heights Community Center and Memorial Library.