Author: Barbara Roche

Gertrude has made a move. Yes, the six-year-old ad agency founded and run by the ever-upbeat, ever-expansion-oriented Otis Gibson threw open the doors of its colorful, eclectica...

Tease. Tease. Tease.  It’s a familiar tactic in the advertising industry to whet the public’s appetite for what’s to come.  And DraftFCB/Chicago is doing just th...

Have you heard about Todd Tilford’s little red book?  Well, truth be told, it’s not so little. But it is red.According to Tilford, DraftFCB/Chicago’s new chief creati...

Perhaps no major Chicago arts institution is more tradition-bound than the world-renowned Lyric Opera of Chicago, which soon will turn 60. In many ways opera is an art of ritual...

On Monday, Chicagoans got their first taste of what has been pegged as a different Anderson Cooper.  This is supposed to be the Cooper who hopes to fill — at least partia...