Category: Entertainment

Summer Smash 2024: Travis Scott, Playboi Carti and Chief Keef are headliners

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Summer Smash has announced its lineup for summer, with headliners including Travis Scott, Playboi Carti and Chief Keef. Lyrical Lemonade Sumer Smash will be June 14-16, again at SeatGeek Stadium, 7000 S. Harlem Ave., Bridgeview. Tickets for the three-day hip hop music festival, presented by SPKRBX, are on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, with three-day passes $385; more information at https://www.thesummersmash.com/ Travis Scott’s opening night concert will be a first-time collaboration with his Cactus Jack record label including Don Tolliver and Sheck Wes. FRIDAY: Cactus Jack,              

Column: Will Sundance Institute x Chicago be good for the local film industry?

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There’ll be more than one story to write about “Sundance Institute x Chicago,” coming to town June 28-30. Consider these to be some preliminary questions to be answered in a couple of months. A sort of pop-up import, sponsored by the Chicago Film Office and Choose Chicago, the city’s tourism bureau, “Sundance Institute x Chicago” is the power of branding incarnate. The event will consist of a modest four-screening package of titles that premiered in January at the annual Sundance Film Festival of Park City, Utah fame. The off-screen activity’s the apparent bigger deal: panels, discussions, filmmaker-centric meetups, patterned after […]