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Gwen Ihnat

Chicago

Arts and Culture Editor at Block Club Chicago

Arts & Culture Editor @BlockClubCHI. ex-@WBBMNewsradio, AV Club/Takeout. @OfficialTCA @WGAEast Twins/puppy mom. Opinions my own. she/her [email protected]

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  • 1 week ago | blockclubchicago.org | Gwen Ihnat |Leen Yassine

    DOWNTOWN — Chicago has two new James Beard Award winners: the upscale bar Kumiko and chef Noah Sandoval of the tasting-menu restaurant Oriole, both in the West Loop. The 35th annual James Beard Awards were presented Monday night at the Lyric Opera House in Downtown Chicago, 20 N. Wacker Drive. Dubbed the “Oscars of the food world,” the awards recognize exceptional talent in the culinary and food media industries and are presented every June in Chicago.

  • 1 month ago | blockclubchicago.org | Gwen Ihnat |Kelly Bauer

    CHICAGO — FBI agents on Thursday morning searched the Albany Park home of Elias Rodriguez, the man believed to have shot and killed two Israeli Embassy staff members in Washington, D.C.About 9 a.m. Thursday, agents could be seen working around the apartment building, and Chicago police cars and reporters dotted the block.

  • 1 month ago | blockclubchicago.org | Gwen Ihnat

    BEVERLY — George Wendt, the actor who portrayed one of television’s most legendary supporting characters has died. Variety reports that Wendt, who portrayed unforgettable barfly Norm on the 1980s sitcom “Cheers,” passed away at his Los Angeles home at the age of 76. Wendt was born in the Beverly neighborhood in 1948, to a family of nine siblings. His sister Kathy is the mother of “Ted Lasso” star Jason Sudeikis, his nephew. After college, Wendt joined Second City in 1975.

  • 1 month ago | blockclubchicago.org | Gwen Ihnat

    NAVY PIER — Two men meet who appear to have nothing in common, yet soon discover that they are more alike than they could have ever imagined. That’s the premise behind “Hymn,” a powerhouse of a two-man play currently running through May 25 in the Courtyard Theater.

  • 1 month ago | blockclubchicago.org | Gwen Ihnat

    CHICAGO — After months of speculation, the trailer for the upcoming Disney+/Marvel series “Ironheart” finally dropped Wednesday. In the new series, South Side teenage inventor and Massachusetts Institute of Technology alum Riri Williams (Dominique Thorne) creates the most advanced suit of armor since Iron Man.

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