Columnist: Dan Patton

How does an agency with a reputation for great television commercials prove its worth in the digital arena? If the agency is DDB-Chicago, it’s simply a matter of flaunt...

Abby Walker, the unique lead character of "Easy Abby," created by writer/director Wendy Jo Carlton and based on "a chunk of my own life and my girlfriends and cynicism about r...

The 2014 Optimus Beach Bocce Ball league championships Saturday at Oak Street Beach concluded with a leisurely throwdown between the two-man "My Other Partner" team of Tim Jac...

Plenty of people like to knock back a few cold ones while the rest of the world is at work, but the pastime is rarely celebrated in popular culture. “Day Drinking,” a new ...

“Rodrigo Quintez,” the web series about a sloppy male children’s entertainer who wears a dirty pink rabbit costume, speaks in a bad Latino accent and kinda hates kids, ha...

Filmmaker Sean Fahey three weeks ago decided to tell people in Chicago, LA and New York that ”Sean Hannity is an Idiot.” It happened after he watched Hannity refuse to all...

"Love Spitters," an offbeat win-a-date TV pilot created by Rich Seng, the digital communications visionary behind Gigity.tv, and Nicholas Peters, founder of ButterViZion Produc...

Twin brothers Terry  and Larry Ziegelman, filmmakers of LA and Chicago, respectively, recently transformed a bizarre workplace tragedy into “9 To 5 Feet Under,” a dark ...

Web-based media company Big Thinking By The Hour (BTBTH) is completing the last of 45 instructional videos for Canadian manufacturer Bombardier Recreational Products, maker of...

Jerry Bryant’s long-running JBTV hosted a concert featuring nationally renowned hometown duo, Local H, on a recent Thursday night. It was a one-of-a-kind musical experience...

The Chicago Portfolio School and Razorfish joined forces last week to establish the Windy City as one of 24 locales around the world to host the 12th annual Portfolio Night,&nbs...

Leo Burnett senior copywriter Paul Swiatek and his brother, Mike, an LA director, working collaboratively cross-country, won the “Am I Awake” online music video contest, b...

The 6th annual CIMMFEST, a four-day celebration of culture and good times that raced up and down Milwaukee Avenue last weekend, lived up to its growing reputation as a must-a...

Two buddies were at the Green Eye Lounge on Milwaukee Avenue, kicking around ideas about film and music, when the conversation turned serious. Chicago offers hundreds of places...

Toronto-based Apollo Music Store’s (AMS) recent music/ad event in Chicago featured a famous producer, an open bar and enough food to satisfy SRO advertising and music industry...

An encore, please, for the first annual Chicago Independent Music Awards (CIMA), held Sunday night at the Field Museum’s James Simpson Theatre. Captivating a packed audience, ...

After logging 18 years on some of the most recognizable commercials to come out of LA, director Mark Schimmel got an offer for the type of job that he had dreamed about si...

One of Britain’s most acclaimed and successful producers, U2’s five-time Grammy winning Steve Lillywhite, will share his decades of star-making experience with Chicago indus...