Go to the Chicago Blues Festival, a four-day event in Grant Park featuring more than 90 performers, including Johnny Winter, Eddy Clearwater and Koko Taylor. The 25th-annual festival culminates in a performance by B.B. King, in his first appearance there in 20 years (June 5–8; chicagobluesfestival.us).

Read “Now the Hell Will Start.” Brendan I. Koerner tells the story of WWII’s wildest manhunt. One of many black soldiers sent to labor in the Indo-Burmese jungle, Pvt. Herman Perry is driven to despair, shoots a white lieutenant, goes on the lam and is embraced by a tribe of headhunters. Eat your heart out, Kurtz ($25.95).

Watch the “Dirty Harry Ultimate Collector’s Edition.” The set includes all five of the “Dirty Harry” films, as well as a feature-length documentary on Clint Eastwood ($55.99; amazon.com).

Hear Return to Forever. The reunited jazz-fusion quartet is just kicking off a summerlong tour (for a schedule, go to return2forever .com) and they have a new twoCD collection, “Return to Forever: The Anthology” ($13.98).

Buy “Food for Thought From Parents to Children,” a cookbook with 35 recipes, each of which includes nutritional content and educational facts. A portion of the proceeds goes to Spoons Across America, a nonprofit that works to influence kids’ eating habits ($3.50; wheatfoods.org).