THE EQUITY JEFF AWARD NOMINATIONS were announced last week, and the bounty was even more, well, bounteous than in years past. There were 197 nominations in 34 catego...
The island of Tortola in the British Virgin Islands wants to become a serious contender for feature film production and invited Nate Grant of Lake Shore Film & TV Production...
For editor Dean Gonzalez, joining Hootenanny editorial is more of a homecoming than a new job. Returning to Chicago after 15 years of high-profile editing in L.A., he reu...
The beer business has been in the headlines with the recent switch of MillerCoors’ Coors Light and Coors banquet brands departing Draftfcb for new Cavalry agency; DDB’s loss...
Tom Ungar of The Ungar Group/Chicago just may be the biggest mensch there is in Chicago’s advertising community. We first discovered Ungar himself, his agency and his shop’s...
Regional basic cable’s Comcast SportsNet Chicago (CSN)is getting into the game-show business through old-school thrifty ingenuity and an uptick in sponsorship, with studio-pro...
Red Car editorial’s new managing director Carrie Holecek has gone all out for a memorable first party in a series she calls “Red Car Ignition,” that will undoubtedly blow ...
So. Here we go. We’re now barely 12 weeks into the new adventure in beer advertising that is the Chicago-based Cavalry agency. We don’t want to overstate t...
TEATRO VISTA, Chicago’s premier Equity Latino theater company, announces that founder and longtime artistic director Edward Torres will be stepping aside in spring 2013 to acc...
“Scrooge & Marley,” a modern and gay version of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol,” signed Tony and Emmy-winning actress Judith Light as the film’s narrator an...
“It’s kind of like the world is closing in on you,” aspiring filmmaker Jack Marchetti says, “until it’s like you’re looking through a very tiny straw.” Marchetti h...
WRITER/DIRECTOR ANDREW DAVIS, the South Side native best known for his Chicago-set and made action features, will receive Chicago Screenwriters Network’s inaugural Founders Aw...
The grand piano he happened upon at Newberry Library turned John Claxton’s plans for a writing workshop into something he says “is at least a hybrid, if not fairly unique. I...
Veteran lead Olympics television anchor Bob Costas signed off for the last time from London’s 2012 Summer Olympic Games at 11:30 p.m. local time Sunday night. And ...
FORDSON THE MOVIE, Rashid Ghazi’s Ruth Leitman-scripted documentary about an Arab American football team in Dearborn, Michigan fasting for Ramadan as they train to play their ...
When his company eatdrink started to bounce back from the recession in 2009, Chad Hutson turned to Matt Daly, formerly a CG and VFX artist at Optimus, to augment his downsized s...
Smart humor isn’t likely to be in short supply at Euro RSCG/Chicago in the months to come. Why? Because the agency has just hired Tyler DeAngelo as an ...
There’s more than one way to expand an agency’s client roster. Some use an impressive array of work from a range of clients to help attract new business. Others use re...
Actors will have a chance to learn how to sharpen their audition skills when veteran TV, film and stage actor Michael Kostroff (The Wire, king of Queens) teaches his popular “...
TWO SMALL CHICAGO COMPANIES announced last week that they are calling it quits – and the reasons will seem familiar to anyone who has toiled in the trenches of the itinerant a...