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Contursi intros revolutionary new LED lights at NAB

Contursi intros revolutionary new LED lights at NAB

By Ruth L Ratny Apr 12, 2012
Phil Contursi of Product Productions says he will be spending all four days at NAB next week in the AAdynTech booth, where he anticipates being busy with visitors wanting to kno...
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Roscor’s final curtain: Inventory auction April 24

Roscor’s final curtain: Inventory auction April 24

By Ruth L Ratny Apr 11, 2012
An April 24 auction of millions of dollars worth of AV equipment, furnishings and vehicles will mark the sad finale of Roscor Corp., for more than three decades one of the Midwe...
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Sonixphere’s Master Class with virtuoso percussionist

Sonixphere’s Master Class with virtuoso percussionist

By Mike Morgan Apr 10, 2012
Last fall, Sonixphere’s Greg Allan invited Chicago musicians over to his River East studio for an evening of food, drink and talk followed by some jamming afterwards by guests...
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Ovnik, Sproull creative partners in Deaf Dog music

Ovnik, Sproull creative partners in Deaf Dog music

By Ruth L Ratny Apr 10, 2012
Composer/producer John Ovnik has gone from solo to duo for the first time since he started Deaf Dog Music 18 years ago, by forming a creative partnership with his long-time frie...
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Joffrey Ballet’s daringly different sales brochure
  • Lewis Lazare

Joffrey Ballet’s daringly different sales brochure

By Lewis Lazare Apr 10, 2012
It’s a fact of life in the performing arts now. Crowds no longer just show up and fill theaters on cue. Ticket prices are higher (in some instances dramatically so), and every...
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AMC Red Carpet debut for ‘Promise Land’ feature

AMC Red Carpet debut for ‘Promise Land’ feature

By Ruth L Ratny Apr 9, 2012
Immigration – anticipation, fear and pain of leaving one’s homeland for life a new country -- is the central theme of the three intertwined stories in the indie dramedy, Pro...
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Doc about troubled arts center plays Cultural Center
  • Indie Focus

Doc about troubled arts center plays Cultural Center

By Ed M. Koziarski Apr 9, 2012
ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE, a documentary by producer/director Kelly Luchtman and coproducer, DP and editor Thomas C. Gaunt, about the troubled history of the Acme Artists Community i...
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Element 79’s Supercuts rockin’ integrated campaign
  • Lewis Lazare

Element 79’s Supercuts rockin’ integrated campaign

By Lewis Lazare Apr 3, 2012
Does your haircut rock?  If not, Supercuts and its ad agency Element 79/Chicago want you to reconsider what kind of cut you are getting and where you are getting it via a n...
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Benefits of merged SAG- AFTRA union welcomed here

Benefits of merged SAG- AFTRA union welcomed here

By Ruth L Ratny Apr 3, 2012
After 80 years of on-and-off efforts to merge the two national talent unions, history was made March 30 when the members of national SAG and AFTRA voted in amazingly high number...
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SCC leads investment group in local food company

SCC leads investment group in local food company

By Ruth L Ratny Apr 3, 2012
When ad agencies acquire new companies, these new divisions  provide related services that are directly related to and feed into the advertising business, such as research,...
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Andy Davis and his “Stony Island” at Siskel Center 4/4-5

By Ruth L Ratny Apr 2, 2012
DIRECTOR ANDREW DAVIS made his mark as a rising star in 1978 with his first feature, “Stony Island,” about the fictitious Stony Island band, a fusion of rock, blues and jazz...
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Video Test

Dec 6, 2011
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O&M, Energy BBDO winners of S.C. Johnson account
  • Lewis Lazare

O&M, Energy BBDO winners of S.C. Johnson account

By Lewis Lazare Jul 29, 2011
It’s over for DraftFCB.  As many had suspected from the moment we announced last Christmas Eve that S.C. Johnson was launching an agency review, the Racine, Wis.-based ho...
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Emanuel’s clueless CAF speech disappoints audience
  • Lewis Lazare

Emanuel’s clueless CAF speech disappoints audience

By Lewis Lazare Jul 28, 2011
That loud thud heard at noon on Tuesday was the sound of several hundred jaws dropping in disbelief — and dismay — as Chicago’s new mayor, Rahm Emanuel, addressed the city...
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Springboard produces Lollapalozza for YouTube stream

Springboard produces Lollapalozza for YouTube stream

By Mike Morgan Jul 28, 2011
Cursing your luck because you didn’t order your Lollapalooza tickets soon enough and now it’s a sell out?  No worries.  Haul out the beer and watch the concerts on...
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WFLD/32’s revamped local shows disappoint in ratings
  • Lewis Lazare

WFLD/32’s revamped local shows disappoint in ratings

By Lewis Lazare Jul 26, 2011
The champagne corks aren’t popping.  And the confetti is nowhere to be seen.  Mark this down as one anniversary that news ratings-challenged WFLD-Channel 32 isn’t ...
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Famous Chicago musicians in doc preview at The Hideout

By Ruth L Ratny Jul 25, 2011
FANS OF GREAT BANDS and ground-breaking Chicago composers and musicians of the ‘90s are invited to The Hideout Wednesday, July 27, to see a preview of a feature doc by Paris-b...
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10th anniversary celebration for Bridges Media

10th anniversary celebration for Bridges Media

By Ruth L Ratny Jul 21, 2011
Some 200 invited guests for Bridges Media 10th anniversary celebration Friday night will walk the red carpet to the River North studio that’s going to be decked out like a kli...
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Ch. 7’s ‘Windy City Live’  in Oprah’s slot finds its groove
  • Lewis Lazare

Ch. 7’s ‘Windy City Live’ in Oprah’s slot finds its groove

By Lewis Lazare Jul 21, 2011
It’s rare that a brand new, built-from-scratch TV show springs to life in perfect shape.  It’s even rarer when the show happens to be a live, local telecast such as top...
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Draftfcb’s new CCO is Todd Tilford from New York
  • Lewis Lazare

Draftfcb’s new CCO is Todd Tilford from New York

By Lewis Lazare Jul 19, 2011
This we know for sure.  Todd Tilford isn’t in Kansas anymore.On Monday afternoon, DraftFCB/Chicago tapped Tilford, 47, as its new chief creative officer, starting in earl...
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