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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...