Chicago, IL--

For anyone who has attended many of Lollapalooza's over the past 10 years, which includes myself, each year you wonder what will be the highlight of the weekend. Will it be one band that brings down the house or will it be a band that is having a breakout year that steals the show? This year is was one band from Seattle, Pearl Jam, who everyone knows that drew the biggest crowd of the weekend.

Amy Winehouse, who has had problems showing up at many shows and battles with the drug demon, hit the stage right on time in her black-and-white checkered dress, bat-wing-patterned mascara and hair that would make Marge Simpson happy . The retro English soul singer has a very unique sound that many have grown to like.

Winehouse starts slowly and never connects with the crowd. She looks disinterested, and not even the snorting horns on “Just Friends” wake her up.

Pearl Jam's set included an extended "Even Flow," punctuated by a fireworks display in the southern sky while festival founder Perry Farrell, Lance Armstrong and Dennis Rodman looked on from the wings. Eddie Veddar also called for a boycott of a petroleum manufacturer for polluting Lake Michigan, and led the crowd in a what he called a new song especially written for those Lake polluters with guitar-driven chant: "Don't go BP Amoco."

Other notable performances on the festival's final day were turned in by hometown rapper Lupe Fiasco, who punched out hits such as "Kick, Push" with two new songs, "Superstardom" and "Paris, Tokyo," which will appear on his next album, "Lupe Fiasco's The Cool," tentatively due October 31st.

Despite the heavy rain that hit the festival grounds on Sunday morning, it appeared that the 160,000 people that made their way out to Grant Park over the weekend enjoyed themselves in the sweltering heat. The muddy grounds didn't seem to bother people and the best part of the weekend was that the concession lines were very manageble. They just need to work on getting the talent that used to have everyone talking about this festival for weeks to come.