Columnist: Ed M. Koziarski

When his company eatdrink started to bounce back from the recession in 2009, Chad Hutson turned to Matt Daly, formerly a CG and VFX artist at Optimus, to augment his downsized s...

Composer and music producer Ira Antelis has managed to assemble under one roof all four of the enterprises in which he’s a partner. Antelis was preparing to move his Jira Prod...

When The Oprah Winfrey Show ended its 20-year run last year, senior producer Candi Carter says she knew she wanted to continue working with fellow Oprah producer Rick Segall. �...

Jeff Boyle of Catfish Music in River North remembers Chicago’s thriving commercial scoring business when he started out 20 years ago as a composer and how he has been part of ...

Tom Weinberg says he’s “fast and furiously” completing Baseball Has Been Very, Very Good to Me, his documentary about Minnie Miñoso in hopes for a broadcast on Nov. 29.&n...

In their two years in business, Magnanimous Media has emerged as a lower-cost, scrappy South Side competitor in the Chicago camera rentals scene. Cofounder Craig Maltby says Mag...

In her decade as executive director of the Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival, and years more performing with and managing the Cupid Players, Jill Valentine has seen a steady rise i...

Soon after her VH1 reality hit Mob Wives concluded its first season last summer, executive producer Jennifer Graziano began looking for a way to extend the brand. “I wanted to...

What Imran Mukati wanted from Wedding Crashers writer Steve Faber was the script for a TV pilot: a “Sex and the City for guys” inspired by the dating experiences of Mukati a...

“To me he was an uncle,” Nicholas Celozzi says about Sam Giancana -— his great uncle, actually.  “He was a generous man, took care of all his family and a had great...

An old man that he saw reading The Odyssey in a café set the ball rolling for Richard Cohen.  “It was, for me, a striking image,” Cohen says.  “The rest just ca...