Veteran film critic Richard Roeper is joining NBC 5 Chicago as an entertainment and culture contributor, beginning this Friday. He’ll appear on Chicago Today and the station’s digital platforms.

Thousands packed Mission Dolores Park on Easter as the Sisters staged their irreverent celebration and crowned a solar-crowned "Renewable Jesus" amid politics and pageantry.

Grammy-winning Gregory Porter will headline the Adrienne Arsht Center's 20th‑anniversary gala next Saturday at the Ziff Ballet Opera House in downtown Miami.

Santa Monica opens its first municipal City Gallery at Bergamot Station, debuting with a USC-backed exhibition that rethinks post‑fire housing.

After a seven-year break, the Festival of Nations returns as IFest‑MN, bringing 67 nations, hands-on exhibits and Student Day programming to the Saint Paul RiverCentre.

YouTuber ZHC will paint a 40-foot dragon boat live at Austin’s Dragon Boat Festival, then donate it for auction with an opening bid of $25,000. The free festival at Festival Beach features races, cultural performances and food vendors.

A 12-day Carnatic festival at Cleveland State is drawing thousands for concerts, competitions and free community programming through April 12.

A Bushwick bookstore has launched a $50K fundraiser to buy the Bureau of General Services — Queer Division, which faces an April closure. The campaign has raised about $16,655 so far.

The Met's 'Raphael: Sublime Poetry' gathers 200+ works and rare loans, revealing the artist's process in a landmark New York exhibition.

The Writers Guild says it has a tentative four‑year deal with studios that lifts streaming pay, bolsters health and pension funds and adds limits on AI training — pending a member vote.

A clip showing Jonathan Majors and a co‑star falling through a window helped push more than half the below‑the‑line crew to walk off, organizers say. Producers say filming continues with replacements.

Samuel R. Harris, a child survivor who founded the Illinois Holocaust Museum in Skokie and helped preserve survivors’ testimony, has died at 90. Museum leaders and local officials praised his decades of public education.

Yerba Buena Gardens Festival returns with more than 100 free concerts, dance, circus and family shows in downtown San Francisco from May through November.