New York-based nonprofit Women in Music will launch its Chicago chapter with an inaugural mixer on Wednesday, May 10.Welcoming men as well as women, the networking event will ta...
According to multiple online celebrity gossip outlets — including RadarOnline, Lipstick Alley and Lee Bailey’s Eurweb — Chicago-based talk show host Steve Harvey blin...
Chicago-based production company, Radar Studios, launched their first ever online digital series, #WhoKilledHeather, last Friday, May 5th.The thriller, reminiscent of AMC’s po...
Last fall, Optimus directing duo Mark Pallman and Amanda Speva spent nearly two weeks filming throughout the Land of Lincoln for the Illinois Office of Tourism campaign Are...
Editor’s Note — Our contributor, Colin Costello, recently enjoyed personal growth by moving from beyond a writer’s traditional role to actually directing his short film, T...
The March 29 Ruth Ratny Memorial Celebration at Untitled Supper Club featured speakers from some of the most well known businesses and organizations in the Chicago creative comm...
Chicago native, and now Los Angeles resident, Larry Sims, has not taken a vacation in a long time. A really loooooong time.And now thanks to his new Bravo Television reality ser...
On April 28, Chicago’s The Escape Pod was named creative and media agency of record for The a2 Milk Company, the number one branded milk in Australia, which is also dist...
Quriosity Productions spent days preparing to shoot Purina’s Big Moments campaign for St. Louis agency CheckMark Communications. But when the cameras started rolling, it all c...
In the course of abstaining from all animal products, including milk and eggs, Daily Planet Productions' president and dedicated nonmeat-eater Scott Marvel was enlightened by a ...
Some will attribute it to Mercury moving out of Retrograde — a time frame usually frowned upon for signing contracts. Others may say it was the fear of what the 2008 walkout b...
LA-based commercial and feature writer/director Ashley Avis brought a unique perspective to Seed Media Arts when she joined the company’s directorial roster this week.“I lov...
Hot on the heels of Kraft Heinz’s removal of all questionable ingredients from their Oscar Mayer hot dog line — including nitrates, nitrites, by-products and other artificia...
Affect Advertising’s Battle of the Garage Bands campaign for LiftMaster dials up the traditional music promotion to a chart-topping level of professionalism.Although it follow...
So here we were. NJ Bourque and myself. Yep, we were going to do it. We were going to make a short film on our own and I was going to direct this puppy.
On the surface, I felt ...
Mix Kitchen composer and vocalist Lauren Duski advanced to the top 11 finalists of NBC’s The Voice last Tuesday night.
The Michigan native wowed the crowd with her performanc...
Chicago Screenwriters Network co-founder, Kenneth Mader’s theatrical feature directorial debut, Displacement, will finally find its place on the red carpet when it premieres i...
Writers Guild members who voted overwhelmingly, on both coasts, to authorize a strike, now wait with baited breath as the negotiating committee meets today with AMPTP (Alliance ...
We Are Unlimited, McDonald’s months-old agency of record, finally has its Crew Chief. The agency announced the appointment of Toygar Bazarkaya as its Chief Creative Officer. T...
Ruth L. Ratny, founder and former publisher of ReelChicago, was honored with a Memorial Resolution by the City Council of Chicago on March 29. She joins a list of recipients tha...