A memorial service for multifaceted musician/composer Shelly Elias will be held Jan. 2 at 2 p.m. in the Alice Millar Chapel at Northwestern University. A Chicago native, Mr....
How do you confront life after advertising ? or the act of leaving a lengthy career in the commercial creative arts? Many, like former DDB creative director Lucia Blinn, "the Do...
Comedy genius Willy Laszlo says he had the time of his life in Chicago. He had creative freedom. He had a good full-time day job. He worked hard. But he was always broke. "S...
What does an agency person look like, and how can anyone tell one's occupation by the way he looks? That was a question JoyArt Music asked the management of the 410 Club in ...
After five years as Chicago Community Cinema, the monthly screening/networking event is reinventing itself as the Midwest Independent Film Festival. "It's time to take it...
Producer Maya Ghosn of Lebanese-British production company Firehorse Films shot an episode on Chicago Baha'i here last November for the forthcoming Aljazeera series "Religious...
Come Dec. 14 Styx fans will see a locally-produced streaming video of the great band playing the Beatles' "I am the Walrus" over Apple's iTunes Web site. Director Stev...
Eric Anderson and Amelia Dellos are out to prove that America isn't as divided as it's made out to be.The husband-wife filmmaking team are poised to embark on a Midwest tour, in...
PHIL DONLON'S Super 16mm short "A Series of Small Things," which shot here last May, has its local premiere in a private screening Wednesday, Dec. 15 at 7:30 p.m. at the A...
Fresh off Jeff Garlin's feature debut and the season premiere of CBS' "The Amazing Race," Misty Tosh of Fatcake Productions is on her way to Baja, Mexico to produce a pilo...
Product placement veteran George Simkowski recalls the glory days when he placed client Budget Rent a Car in the 1987 John Hughes hit comedy, "Planes, Trains and Automobil...
We always knew Chicago was an enormous advertising market?second only to New York in North America?and that advertising was big business. Now thanks to a new study by Globa...
It was five days before Richard Dresser's play "Wonderful World" would open at the Athenaeum Theatre, and director Paul Cotter had the day off.It was Sunday, Aug. 15 and Cotter ...
Taproot Productions' bullfighting documentary "The Bulls of Suburbia" has charged its way through the festival circuit this year, drawing broadcaster interest at the Santa...
He's back by popular acclaim. Bob Hudgins, deputy director of the Illinois Film Office, said he was convinced by "a long list of people" to remain on the job after he had ...
First tenant for Fletcher Chicago's newly introduced production office space turns out to be a biggie. No less than Spike Lee's 40 Acres and a Mule production company, wit...
AN ENVIABLE PROJECT. A post job for Leo Burnett and client Philips Sonicare dental hygiene that Machete editors started in May and kept growing and growing finally ended two wee...
The ambitious $25 million initiative to launch a second comedy network from Chicago got the hook when a cable network distributor could not be signed. January 2005 had bee...
Jonathan Bross plans a growing Chicago presence for his five-month old production company Velvet Steamroller. The company has a slate of up to six films for next year, at least ...
HOT TICKET. A capacity crowd is expected at Joy Art's Dec. 15 Christmas party at the 410 Club. "We've planned a fun evening for the holidays," says Joy Art marketing direc...
