Barry Burdiak leaves DDB for Epsilon
Barry Burdiak, a nearly 30-year veteran of DDB Chicago, has left the agency to lead data-driven Epsilon Chicago as Senior Vice President,...
Longtime Windy City writer Denise O'Neal is a freelance screenwriter, blogger, and novelist. In 2012, she served on the board of the Chicago Screenwriters Network. Her interview...
With all due respect to the creative team at DDB Chicago, I did not and could not turn away from my beloved Eagles, and their win over the Patriots, to watch what was perhaps th...
Chicago performer Erv Dahl plays Rodney Dangerfield in the recently released Netflix movie, A Futile and Stupid Gesture, about the rise and fall of National Lampoon magazine.
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Angelina Jolie wins at Annie's
The Vince Lombardi trophy wasn’t the only award handed out this weekend. In Los Angeles, The Directors Guild of America and The Annie...
Harold Dennis is an American actor with twenty years in the business and over one hundred and fifty film credits. Dennis enjoys playing complex characters with a myriad of confl...
This year, the commercials were the best part of the Super Bowl for everyone who doesn't live in Boston or Philadelphia.
In keeping with the couch potato, post-game, armchair...
There were plenty of eye-popping fireworks during this year’s Super Bowl in terms of both offense on the field and the amount of high-profile celebrity helmed ads.
While i...
BETC Paris earned Best of Show nods in two categories of the 2017 Mobius Awards, which were announced on February 1.
Founded in 1971, the Mobius Awards is an annual culminati...
If not for Black people, the United States would be a pretty boring place to live.
So much of our popular culture is rooted in the experience of African Americans that it’...
No, the new independent film, Cold War, won’t make you sick (unless you can’t catch your breath from laughing), but the actors in it sure are — as in catching the nasty ...
Supporting its mantra that drinkers can stay fit and enjoy beer, Michelob Ultra has scheduled, for the very first time, two Super Bowl spots.
The first, titled, The Perfect ...
Aubrey Walker is a 15-year Creative originally from Milwaukee, WI. Aubrey has worked
for such agencies as Burrell, Carol H. Williams, MKTG, GMR, Globalhue and The True
Agency....
On Monday night at Lagunitas Brewing Company’s Chicago Taproom, the Chicago Underground Film Festival’s “Untapped Fundraiser” will kick off a series of events in celebra...
Many of us often wonder what it would be like to go back in time. How would it feel? Would we love it or rush back to the present?
Kia AOR David&Goliath has delivered a power...
"There is no better story
than life itself."
Lewis is a passionate, award winning creative leader and storyteller with extensive experience in total, ethnic and multicultur...
On his way to becoming one of the hottest young filmmakers in America, Rhyan LaMarr has proven just about every self-motivational cliché in the book.
He was raised by divor...
We’ve all been there.
Despite the herculean effort your agency put forth, you lost the pitch. As the team meets for a deep dive as to find out what went wrong or came up s...
Showtime has ordered a second season of The Chi, a coming-of-age drama set in Chicago that has averaged four million weekly cross-platform viewers since debuting on January 7.
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(Editor’s note:) Last Friday, Fox 32 abruptly parted ways with their Emmy award winning traffic reporter, Jenny Milkowski. The #1 digital talent in the Chicago market (via Sha...
