Author: barbararoche

A few months ago a rejuvenated Chicago Chapter of the International Game Developers Association kicked off its reboot with a party for its some 70 company members, and has been ...

A $300,000 GRANT from the MacArthur Foundation was awarded to Oscar-nominated filmmaker Tod Lending, for his important new feature-length documentary, All the Difference.Typical...

More than 300 guests came out on a beautiful, balmy summer’s eve last Thursday to celebrate the first anniversary of design-focused hybrid Leviathan.They met the staff, saw th...

Red Car’s Tim LoDolce reprised his editorial skills in R. Kelly’s plea to his lost love to return to his heart, in Radio Message, a music video that just bowed on MTV a...

Nothing lasts forever, as Harpo Studios’ loyal employees are finding out, as layoffs have started in earnest following the end of Oprah’s 25-year Chicago show last month.Las...

Call it serendipity or maybe just good timing that brings award-winning superstar editor/director Chris Hafner to Chicago.When Hafner, who had been editing for Detroit’s Rings...

It was all about jobs.  And if the media and people assembled for the Cinespace ribbon-cutting and press conference Tuesday didn’t get it the first time, Gov. Pat Quinn m...

Chicago gets its very first seminar on non-fiction and unscripted programming – a.k.a. reality TV -- when high-level New York-based cable network consultant Peter Hamilton com...

Call it one of those great-minds-think-alike coincidences that two-year old “Fun Employed” webisodes and MTV’s “UnderEmployed” upcoming pilot are mirror images of each...

A minor remodeling accident last week at Cinespace Studios blew out of control when a freelancer allegedly suspected asbestos contamination and decided to play hero and call in ...