A group that is said to be Ireland’s second leading touring export behind U2, the Irish Tenors bring their trademark brand of epic, cinematic opera to the Pabst Theater tonight at 8 p.m., just in time for St. Patrick’s Day. Since joining forces in 1998, Anthony Kearns and Finbar Wright have gracefully performed all over . . .

As riotous as his altercations with the (often bumbling) law were in his classic stoner comedies with Cheech Marin, there was nothing funny about Tommy Chong’s real life run-in with the authorities. In 2003, Chong was sentenced to nine months in jail for financing a business that sold drug paraphernalia—