CHICAGO (WLS) — Friday morning on “Windy Metropolis Weekend,” Val Warner and Ryan Chiaverini welcomed an viewers into their studios at 190 North State Road to see the present.
Host Chat with Kendra G
Of their “Host Chat” phase, they had been joined by media character Kendra G. Again within the “Windy Metropolis Reside” days, Kendra was a frequent customer to the present, when she was a neighborhood radio character on WGCI-FM.
Now, Kendra is an entrepreneur in Southern California, finest identified for her relationship app, Kendra G Singles, which is offered on quite a lot of platforms.
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Kendra G is again in Chicago to advertise the Kendra G Singles Reside Tour on Monday at The Promontory in Hyde Park. At this occasion, she’ll select the highest 12 singles in Chicago and join them with a possible love match. The occasion begins at 7 p.m. at The Promontory, 5311 S. Lake Park Ave. in Chicago. Tickets can be found at www.promontorychicago.com.
Along with speaking about her occasion and app, Kendra additionally performed the Kendra G Singles Reside card sport with Chiaverini and Warner, the place they had been each quizzed about their love matches.
Additionally they talked a few new ballot which says that the happiest shift employees are employed at marijuana dispensaries, with 92% of weed and vape retailer workers feeling good about their jobs.
Raven Smith
Garments designer and entrepreneur Raven Smith has turn into one of many youngest changemakers within the metropolis.
Smith first appeared on the present ten years throughout its incarnation as “Windy Metropolis Reside.” She was a pupil at Morgan Park Academy, the place she launched a clothes model known as “Straight From The Go,” the place proceeds from all gross sales go to victims of gun violence in Chicago.
Since then, she’s turn into one of many youngest changemakers within the metropolis and one of many youngest recipients of the Norman Bobins Award. She can also be a two-time cum laude graduate of the College of Missouri and can return this August to pursue her grasp’s and presumably a PhD.
Smith talked to Chiaverini and Warner about her vogue present that she is curating on Saturday on the Epiphany Middle for the Arts, 200 S. Ashland Ave. The present, known as the Retrograde Trend Present, will characteristic a star signed “Straight From the Go” t-shirt. That shirt was signed by native celebrities, together with Val Warner, former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and former First Girl Michelle Obama.
Doorways open for the Retrograde Trend Present at 6:30 p.m. and the present begins at 7 p.m. Tickets can be found on Eventbrite and on the Epiphany Middle for the Arts web site.
Highway to ‘The Bud’
The Bud Billiken Pared can be broadcast reside on ABC7 Chicago from 10 a.m. to midday on Saturday, Aug. 9.
For the subsequent few weeks, we’ll characteristic segments on among the teams performing on the historic Bud Billiken Parade, a Chicago custom since 1929.
This week, we profiled Dance Power Elite, a South Aspect dance college that is been a staple on the parade since 2008.
The Bud Billiken Pared can be broadcast reside on ABC7 Chicago from 10 a.m. to midday on Saturday, Aug. 9.
Roeper’s critiques
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Roeper additionally gave a “spend” to “Dexter: Resurrection,” a streaming collection which is a sequel to the favored “Dexter” TV collection.
And he additionally gave a spend to “One Night time in Idaho – The Faculty Murders,” a streaming documentary concerning the 2022 College of Idaho murders.
Windy Metropolis Smokeout
The four-day pageant of nation music and barbecue is held on the United Middle.
Tickets and a each day schedule of occasions on the Windy Metropolis Smokeout might be discovered on their web site, www.windycitysmokeout.com.
Val honored by Happiness Membership
Chiaverini then closed the present by congratulating Warner for receiving the Legacy Award from The Happiness Membership, a nonprofit group that gives a free performing arts training program for Chicago youth, largely from the South and West sides, who in any other case have restricted entry to the humanities.
The award honors Warner’s contributions as a job mannequin and beacon of hope to younger creatives in Chicago.
Warner will obtain the award in particular person at The Happiness Membership’s annual profit in Chicago on Sunday on the Park West Theater.
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