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Experiential design demand fuels Leviathan’s growth

By Ed M. Koziarski Aug 16, 2012

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...

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Euro’s new ECD a digital creative pro from New York

By Lewis Lazare Aug 16, 2012

Smart humor isn’t likely to be in short supply at Euro RSCG/Chicago in the months to come. Why? Because the agency has just hired Tyler DeAngelo as an ...

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Payless Shoes and former creatives could reunite here

By Lewis Lazare Aug 15, 2012

There’s more than one way to expand an agency’s client roster. Some use an impressive array of work from a range of clients to help attract new business. Others use re...

L.A.’s Kostroff leads audition workshop, Aug. 19-20

By Mike Morgan Aug 13, 2012

Actors will have a chance to learn how to sharpen their audition skills when veteran TV, film and stage actor Michael Kostroff (The Wire, king of Queens) teaches his popular “...

Curtain falls on 2 long-running itinerant companies

By Kerry Reid Aug 13, 2012

TWO SMALL CHICAGO COMPANIES announced last week that they are calling it quits – and the reasons will seem familiar to anyone who has toiled in the trenches of the itinerant a...

BBDO hosts last 3 Creative Salons in present offices

By Ruth L Ratny Aug 13, 2012

Two internationally known Chicago artists and a national TV and movie star from Chicago’s vibrant creative arts community are scheduled to speak the next few months at Energy ...

Four Antelis enterprises assemble under one roof

By Ed M. Koziarski Aug 13, 2012

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...

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EP Chappelle ensures that ‘Chicago Fire’ keeps it real

By Paige Wiser Aug 10, 2012

If you happened to see an overturned car perched on an embankment at Wacker and Madison, threatening to lay waste to Lower Wacker, you have Joe Chappelle to thank. The longtime...

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Kellogg’s ‘Swimmer’ best in Olympic ad competition

By Lewis Lazare Aug 9, 2012

Hundreds of hours and seemingly thousands of television commercials later, the 2012 London Summer Olympics are now winding down. As psyched as we were to experience both t...

‘Oprah’ vets form New Chapter Entertainment

By Ed M. Koziarski Aug 9, 2012

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. �...

Nothing traditional about Translation’s co-chairs

By Ruth L Ratny Aug 8, 2012

BUD LIGHT’S NEW AGENCY, Translation is different from the usual species of ad agencies that are often formed by veteran admen who believe they can operate more creatively and ...

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Cone’s ‘The Wise Kids’ drama on VOD and DVD

By Ed M. Koziarski Aug 8, 2012

STEPHEN CONE’S OUTFEST-WINNING DRAMA The Wise Kids, about teens in a youth group in his native South Carolina thoughtfully questioning their Christian faith, will be released ...

Treviso’s trio of sci-fi shorts screen at Chicon 7 Aug. 30

By Mike Morgan Aug 8, 2012

THREE OF CARLO TREVISO’S Veteran Pictures Studio’s shorts will screen at Chicon 7, the 70th World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon), that will bring 5,000 attendees from...

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McGarryBowen loses Bud Light to Translation

By Lewis Lazare Aug 7, 2012

Of course it was too good to last. The (too) amazing roll that McGarryBowen/Chicago was on has come to a crashing halt. Just months after MB was awarded Bud Light, the holy grai...

17 top L.A. expert/authors talk about the biz Aug. 8

By Mike Morgan Aug 6, 2012

The national University Film & Video Association conference being hosted at Columbia College this week, Aug. 6-11, has its advantages for the filmmaking community-at-large.&...

Kartemquin at 46 still serving the public interest

By Carey Lundin Aug 6, 2012

In September, Kartemquin Films will celebrate its 46th anniversary, having traveled from a ‘60s hippy-ish “film collective” to its current status as one of America’s mos...

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Graphic novel supports Grant’s murder mystery film

By Mike Morgan Aug 6, 2012

A just released 150 page graphic novel is in support of indie filmmaker/graphic novelist Julian Grant’s new feature film, F*ckload Of Scotch Tape. Made under the Escape Films ...

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Commonground wins AA’s Small Agency of the Year Gold

By Lewis Lazare Aug 3, 2012

Call it fate. Or kismet if you like. But something just tells us it was meant to be. Maybe we weren’t the only observer — in Chicago anyway — who wasn’t total...

Steve Harvey NBC’s talk show will benefit Chicago

By Ruth L Ratny Aug 3, 2012

RETURNING TO CHICAGO in a big way this September is actor, standup comic, author and radio personality Steve Harvey, who started his career here in radio at WGCI-FM 20 years ago...

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Theatre Conference to highlight city’s Cultural Plan

By Kerry Reid Aug 3, 2012

THEATER WIT goes back to the future this weekend with the third annual Chicago Theater Conference. The brainchild of Theater Wit’s artistic director, Jeremy Wechsler, the conf...

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