The affectionate trailer for “Shark Song,” a fictional feel-good story created by The Whitehouse’s assistant editor Caleb Hepler, was the grand prize winner at the 10th an...
After 24 years in the heart of Chicago production as co-founder/president of Luminair Film Productions, George Elder has resigned from the company to freelance as a producer/dir...
A GUESSTIMATED 135 INDIVIDUALS went home with golden Emmy statuettes last Sunday, Nov. 6, at the 53rd annual Emmy Awards, the winners in more than 60 broadcast categories. ...
This is the moment for Singha beer. And by extension for Chicago’s very own GERTRUDE INC., for which Singha is a very big and very prominent component of the agency’s ...
As we prophetically noted could happen in mid-October when Michael Jones was named the new superintendent of the Illinois Lottery, Energy BBDO/Chicago is being dumped as the ad ...
THE “AWAKENING ARTS FESTIVAL” an all-afternoon, free immersion in the arts at Wicker Park’s Flat Iron Building this Saturday, November 12th, is the first event staged by H...
The Goodman Theatre’s production of Candide, Chicago Shakespeare’s production of Alan Bennett’s The Madness of George III, Remy Bumppo’s production of Edward Albee’s T...
CNGM PICTURES, the cinematic collective that makes films with character-driven stories, holds its “Hats Off to Characters” fund-raiser Saturday, Nov. 12, where guests are in...
On the crest of Utopic’s second year anniversary in December, partners editors Jan Maitland and Tim Kloehn, and executive producer Michael Antonucci have succeeded in evolving...
Those irrepressible, totally irreverent — and altogether savvy — Walter E. Smithe furniture boys are at it again. Hands down, they run one of the most aggressively-mar...
Some good news for the 100 Roscor Corp. employees who lost their jobs Oct. 28 when the 35-year old Mt. Prospect company announced the closing of its rental department: A plan is...
The following companies from a number of different locations responded to news of Roscor’s recent layoffs with invitations to apply for job openings.Chicagoland AV company, 30...
BRIAN PLANTE REJOINS Arlington Heights-based Midwest Media Group integrator/resellers EVP/business development in charge of the company’s North American sales operation. ...
Take advantage of the last of the big, important events in November, especially during the two weekends prior to Thanksgiving, including several film festivals, a tour of Cinesp...
Michigan’s formerly flourishing film industry had some life breathed into it by the senate’s passage of the Film Production Assistance Program (SB 569), a project-by-project...
I just picked up from Lomography that allows independent filmmakers and artists a chance to create beautiful analog films - using standard 35mm stock.It's a game changer f...
To announce first-time in-flight WiFi connectivity on three airlines and selected flights on five others, Itasca-based GoGo Air, the world’s leader and only such provider, rol...
One of those little mysteries that has nagged us for some while has finally been solved. We refer to the story behind the naming of — and logo for — the Chicago ad age...
Janet Davies, one of Chicago’s friendliest and most-talented TV personalities, has made it to 500! Not years old, silly. We’re talking about the 500th edition of WLS/C...
JOB OFFERS KEEP POURING IN for Roscor’s former skilled employees, 100 of whom were suddenly and sadly terminated from the 35-year old Mt. Prospect-based AV equipment company o...
