Columnist: Ruth L. Ratny

How former gang leaders are helping to reverse the violence and keep the peace in South Central Los Angeles, known “as the gang capital of America,” is the timely subject ...

Chicago’s got talent! — and the third annual SCOUT Chicago Festival this weekend will spotlight a myriad of comedic actors ready and waiting to be discovered at showcases ...

Oakbrook-based retailer Ace Hardware moved its advertising business closer to home by naming Chicago’s O’Keefe Reinhard & Paul its lead creative agency. For the past se...

An estimated 1,000 guests showed up at the Cubby Bear Thursday night to cheer the six "Battle of the Advertising Bands" that raised $50,000 (and still counting) to send kids fr...

THE LATEST STAR to join the cast of Spike Lee’s “Chiraq” is Jennifer Hudson, who appears along with fellow Chicago natives John Cusack, Common, and Jeremy Piven. Samuel L...

SCREENWRITER FREDERICK MENSCH’S “NIGHTINGALE,” based on a Palatine man’s horrific murder of his mother, will premiere on HBO Friday night at 8 p.m. The feature, starrin...

Cinespace continues to expand its stage capacity, with four new sound stages now under construction that boost the total number of stages to 21. “We took one big space that ...

As a champion of local independent filmmaking, ReelChicago is giving its its indie audience an extra boost with the Reel's Indie Funding Guide: a list of area filmmakers seekin...

The biggest Chicago sale of used equipment will take place in early June when millions of dollars worth of top quality gear from Oprah’s Harpo Studios will be auctioned off ...

At Wednesday night’s 14th annual AICE Awards ceremonies in LA, Cutters and Optimus were voted the Best among US and Toronto editors and postproduction experts competing for ...

Teletech Video, known back in the pre-digital film reel and celluloid days as a major spot duplication and distribution companies, has a new name and a new outlook on business...

For the first time, six visual media-related organizations will bring their respective memberships together for the inaugural “getting to know you” Chicago Creatives Cockt...

SEVERAL CHICAGO FILMMAKERS are heading to the May 13-24 Cannes Film Festival to personally further their films’ fortunes. Husband-and-wife team EP Joe Orlandino and writer/d...

ON THE HEELS of Energy BBDO losing the Bud Light business to BBDO’s flagship New York office, Lay’s potato chips has said goodbye. Energy BBDO isn’t being replaced ...

More than 4,000 people showed up at St. Sabina Academy and church on the South Side Saturday to sign up as extras in Spike Lee’s “Chiraq,” due to start shooting in the n...

Food luminaries from around the world flocked to Chicago to applaud winners of the “Oscars of the Food World” – the 25th annual James Beard Foundation Awards gala — Ma...

The Colonie’s partner Bob Ackerman is the storytelling editor behind Kay Jewelers spot for Stern Advertising that’s been mindful of the moments that make Mother’s Day sp...