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MUSIC

Lawrence talks legends in Legacy: From Horns to House

By Dan Patton Dec 2, 2020

Legacy: Horns to House is the story of a Chicago cultural evolution told through the eyes of a person who grew up during it. Fortunately for viewers, the eyes happen to belong ...

SPOTLIGHT

Cooper’s Coffee is growing a network of good taste

By Dan Patton Nov 25, 2020

The staff at Reel Chicago and Reel 360 are hooked on Cooper's Gourmet Coffee and Cooper's is offering our readers an exclusive 40% discount! Cooper’s Gourmet Coffee helps ...

‘Ordinary Joe’ has begun filming in Chicago

By Dan Patton Nov 13, 2020

A line of production vehicles stretched for a quarter-mile on Ravenswood Ave. in Chicago, where scenes for the upcoming NBC drama Ordinary Joe were being filmed this week. ...

REEL MOVES

Digitas drops LBi & promotes Mike Frease to ECD

By Dan Patton Mar 15, 2018

It would seem that Digitas wants to stay in the news this week. So, we'll help them with their goal. First, the Publicis Groupe marketing agency announced it would to drop L...

New Stage 18 Production Partners meet with members

By Dan Patton Jul 27, 2016

Stage 18, Chicago’s Film and Media incubator at Cinespace, co-founded by Angie Gaffney, introduced its new Production Partners Program — 16 companies that provide resources ...

TV pioneer’s invaluable Media Burn TV archives at 10

By dan patton Jul 20, 2016

The concept behind TV pioneer Tom Weinberg’s Media Burn Archive was simply to preserve independently produced videos. “What we’ve been doing for the past 40 years matters,...

An ill father virtuallyattends his daughter’s wedding

By Dan Patton Jun 27, 2016

A father bedridden with multiple sclerosis in his Oak Lawn home was nonetheless able to enjoy his daughter’s wedding thanks to the live-streaming of the ceremony and the recep...

HOLIDAY SPIRIT

AbelsonTaylor’s Dale Taylor has been serving up aid for 25 years

By Dan Patton Dec 11, 2015

When AbelsonTaylor president Dale Taylor started treating his employees to casual in-house lunchtime gatherings on Friday afternoons 25 years ago, he did not realize that the tr...

SPOTLIGHT

Mario’s starts serving TV show cast and crew at dawn

By Dan Patton Oct 14, 2015

On days when NBC’s hit show Chicago Fire is scheduled to shoot at Cinespace Studios, chef Mario Aguirre and his assistants from Mario's Catering arrive at 2:30 in the mor...

Pink Hippo’s ‘Hop on the Chest’ educates a stadium

By Dan Patton Sep 18, 2015

While working on an instructional video project for non-profit Illinois Heart Rescue, Pink Hippo Productions and Cates Collaborative decided that bucket drummers, funky rhythms ...

Special! Cannes juror Neale’s sketches from the front

By Dan Patton Jun 15, 2015

When AbelsonTaylor Senior VP ECD Stephen Neale, now on the French Riviera as a Cannes Lions juror, asked if we'd like to vicariously live the experience through his daily sketch...

REEL AUDIO

Battle of Ad Bands will help send OTSC kids to camp

By Dan Patton May 27, 2015

“It’s awesome to use talents outside of our agency and help an organization like Off The Street Club.” Nicole Stachura, AbelsonTaylor The third annual Battle...

Country Time Lemonade’s return after 14 year hiatus

By Dan Patton May 14, 2015

Although Kraft’s Country Time Lemonade commercials from Chicago's VSA Partners contain hardly any dialogue and barely a logo, they achieve significant impact for the brand�...

Swiatek brothers go coastal to make hit music video

By Dan Patton May 8, 2015

In a true coast-to-coast collaboration, Chicago-based Leo Burnett ACD Paul Swiatek and his brother, LA-based filmmaker Mike Swiatek, recently worked with an 80-plus cast and cre...

BBDO’s James & friends’ album a tribute to beer fave

By Dan Patton May 7, 2015

BBDO senior producer Kevin James brought together dozens of musicians for the third annual tradition of turning his birthday into a collective binge of musical inspiration nam...

Burnett’s Fox to bring trauma to set of second film

By Dan Patton Apr 27, 2015

Bad Alex channels the story of Michael Crowe, a fifteen-year-old who was accused and later acquitted of of murdering his sister In his next feature film, Bad Alex,...

Carvajal’s hybrid “Apehood” video gets Webby nod

By Dan Patton Apr 20, 2015

Nelson Carvajal’s “Apehood,” a hybrid movie trailer that combines characters from “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes” with the setting from “Boyhood,” has been nomi...

“CRC Live” music videos play weekly on RedEye site

By Dan Patton Apr 1, 2015

Chicago Recording Company has launched “CRC Live,” a six-part series of archived music videos that were recorded in their big Studio 4 and post Tuesdays on RedEye Chicago an...

JBTV to make cable pitch for local, live comedy show

By Dan Patton Mar 20, 2015

Jerry Bryant's JBTV music television is turning to comedy with “Fourstar Stand Ups,” a concept that combines homegrown performers, BYOB crowds and one of the best live pro...

DDB’s Terry gets Shorty Awards Best Instagrammer nom

By Dan Patton Mar 4, 2015

DDB/Chicago production manager Scott Terry was nominated for Best Instagrammer by the Shorty Awards, an achievement described as being "like a Nobel Peace Prize," but "um, bet...