Miriam Di Nunzio

The Recording Academy's 2024 Special Merit Awards Ceremony

Music

The Clark Sisters, Chandler Moore among Chicago Gospel Music festival lineup

The event on June 1 at the Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park kicks off the 20th anniversary festival season at the lakefront venue.

By Miriam Di Nunzio

2024 Vanity Fair Oscar Party Hosted By Radhika Jones - Arrivals

Theater

Helen Hunt, 'The Color Purple' heading to Goodman Theatre for 2024-2025 season

Four world or Chicago premiere productions are among the lineup for the theater’s 99th season.

By Miriam Di Nunzio

Food and Restaurants

4 Chicago restaurants, chefs among 2024 James Beard Award finalists

Seventeen local eateries/chefs had been nominated as semifinalists earlier this year.

By Miriam Di Nunzio

Beverly Kim and her husband Johnny Clark are photographed inside their Avondale-based restaurant Parachute.|

Food and Restaurants

Parachute Hi-Fi set opening this summer from chefs Beverly Kim, Johnny Clark

Offering “high-fidelity sound [and] creative Korean American cuisine,” the casual bar and restaurant will be retrofitted into what previously was their Parachute restaurant on Elston Avenue.

By Miriam Di Nunzio

Film fans take in a screening of the documentary "Will & Harper" at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. | Jemal Countess/© 2024 Sundance Institute

Movies and TV

Sundance Institute bringing inaugural film event to Chicago

The new weekend event will include three days of screenings and programming featuring titles from the annual Sundance Film Festival in Utah.

By Miriam Di Nunzio

013_William Anthony Sebastian Rose II and Patrick Newson Jr.jpg William Anthony Sebastian Rose II and Patrick Newson Jr. in Refracted Theatre Company’s production of “Tambo & Bones” . Photo by Ricky Kluge

Theater

Refracted Theatre Company's 'Tambo & Bones' tops list of 2024 Non-Equity Jeff Award winners

“Tambo & Bones” received eight awards overall on Monday night in a ceremony that also marked the 50th anniversary of honoring excellence in Chicago’s Non-Equity theater community.

By Miriam Di Nunzio

Lollapalooza

SZA, Tyler, the Creator, Blink 182, Stray Kids among 2024 Lollapalooza headliners

Brigitte Calls Me Baby, Deftones, Victoria Monét are among the more than 170 artists scheduled for the four-day fest. Tickets go on sale at noon Thursday.

By Miriam Di Nunzio

An aerial view of Millennium Park on opening day in 2004.

Entertainment and Culture

Common, Fruko y sus Tesos to headline Millennium Park 20th anniversary festival

The four-day festival in the park is only one of 80 free events scheduled for the park this summer.

By Miriam Di Nunzio

Theater

Lookingglass Theatre announces new artistic director, plan for upcoming productions

Also revealed on Wednesday was a rendering of the theater’s new lobby area, and the addition of Atra Asdou, Wendy Mateo, Ericka Ratcliff and Matthew C. Yee as ensemble members.

By Miriam Di Nunzio