Spring 2024

ArtsSpring 2024

Chicago Flyover is an Amazing Navy Pier’s Experience You Won’t Want to Pass On

Just imagine soaring over Chicago’s stunning skyline, from the heights of the sprawling skyscrapers above Michigan Avenue down through the streets of the city’s expansive neighborhoods. Imagine being able to scale the city’s enormous footprint and at once zoom down through the open doors of one of it’s most iconic venues, zipping in and out of corridors and walkways, spying a concert performance at stage level just before dashing up to the balcony and out the doors again, skimming across Lake Michigan just inches from its surface. This kind of first-person, birds-eye-view of Chicago has never before been possible, at least for those of us without wings.

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MusicSpring 2024

Millennium Park Unveils an Avalanche of Performances and Festivities for Big 20th Anniversary Season Celebration

The Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE) have announced the 2024 Millennium Park 20th Anniversary Summer Season—bringing free world-class arts programming to the Midwest’s number 1 attraction celebrating its milestone anniversary this season. Artist lineups were recently announced for the popular Millennium Park Summer Music Series (most Mondays and Thursdays, July 1 – August 8) featuring some of the biggest names in music including Corinne Bailey Rae, Terrace Martin, Charlie Musselwhite, Buscabulla, GZA, Protoje, Seun Kuti, the NPR Tiny Desk Contest Winner, and others. This seven-part music series showcases a wide range of genres at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion. Pre-shows for each concert begin at 5:30 p.m.; concerts start at 6:30 p.m.

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FilmSpring 2024Sundance

Josh Margolin’s “Thelma” is the Hard-Driving Action Film We Never Knew We Needed

As action movies go, we Americans like ours high octane, with pyrotechnics-a-plenty and full of young Hollywood stars to get the blood pumping and juices flowing. This winter at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, writer/director Josh Margolin unveiled an action thriller that breaks all those rules yet gets us to a satisfying finish, all the same.

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FilmSpring 2024Sundance

Sundance Film Festival Kicks Off its 40th Anniversary Edition

The Sundance Film Festival kicked off its 40th anniversary celebration on Wednesday, January 18th with a riveting Q&A tapping into the insights of Sundance leadership. The event was, moderated by film producer Jason Blum, CEO & founder of Blumhouse Studios, and Sundance Institute Board Trustee. With 40 years in its rear window, the festival celebrates several notable achievements that have catapulted it to what is arguably one of the most prestigious forums for the creation of film on the planet. 

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