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South Sider Ozzie Guillen of the White Sox (left) squares off against North Sider Dusty Baker of the Cubs for the best Subway sandwich. Each believes the sandwich he made is ...

It took Leah Elder less than a New York minute to land a job in L.A. as assistant to the producer of a new TV show, "LAX." Elder, daughter of Luminair's Beth and George Elder, ...

Mutual respect and a working relationship and friendship over a dozen years resulted in new Airstream Audio, the creative post facility of award-winning engineer David Axe...

Bob Scarpelli, DDB Chicago chairman/DDB U.S. chief creative officer (third from left) receives congratulations on receiving the AAF Silver Medal Award from Dick Rogers, DDB pres...

The hard-won wage tax credit to benefit Illinois filmmaking will expire Jan. 1, 2005. The bill that would have extended the tax credit for an additional year never made it to a...

Joy Tillis of WJOY Music is Chicago's leading music supervisor, or "search artist," as she calls it. For the past 12 years she has connected ad agencies' commercial music...

Producer Rogelio Gazga's SPI-TV Media and Andres Lombana's Mas Communications have launched a high school film production contest to encourage kids, especially minorities, to "g...

At the recent AICP-sponsored Production Assistants seminar at Essanay, Schumacher Camera general manager James Pope offered expert advice regarding responsibilities when pickin...

Bailiwick Repertory leads the 2003-2004 theatre season Jeff Citation Awards, to be presented June 7 at Park West before an expected audience of 700. The awards honor outstandin...

Sweet Home Illinois, the Illinois Film Office party slated for June 19 in Hollywood for former Illini in the film industry, has been pushed back to September to give the organiz...

AT THE POST. Filament Post has officially replaced Spots BME as the name of Bruce Frankel's editing house. "I wanted it to be a new company, now that we're adding new peo...

Elizabeth Donius, whose experience strides indie films and TV docs, was named executive director of IFP/ Chicago by the board of directors after a three-month search. She ...

A second season of 13 "Soundstage" episodes launches June 17 on Ch. 11 and national PBS with a line-up of today's hottest performers. First show is a Fleetwood Mac concert perf...

Not only have two Chicago filmmakers advanced to the Top Ten in the heated Project Greenlight competition, but a local screenwriting team has been named to the Top 100 round of ...

Swell's newest editor is Masayo Kaneko, who since 2001 was assistant editor in apprentice-like style under ace editor Ed Maroney. Originally from Kawasaki, Japan, Kaneko moved ...

The collaborative, fast-filmmaking event is open to filmmakers and actors of all experience and backgrounds. Fourteen movies were made during last year's Challenge 1.0 in...

The Illinois General Assembly is set to approve $18.5 million for the Illinois Arts Council (IAC) for Fiscal 2005, the same amount as last year. While the bulk of the mon...

The HD Roadshow rolls into Chicago May 25 with the whole nine yards of high definition as it stands today, presented by television experts Michael Silbergleid of Miami and Mark ...