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New AICP Midwest board includes four women members

By Ruth L Ratny Sep 27, 2012

Four members of AICP Midwest were newly elected to the 13-member board of directors in the annual election held Tuesday, Sept. 23. They are Megan Maples, executive produce...

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Havas Worldwide rebrands Euro RSCG; top execs remain

By Lewis Lazare Sep 27, 2012

What’s in a name? Not enough to keep it apparently, if you’re David Jones, CEO of the Paris-based holding company Havas. This week, Jones announced his daring decision...

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DDB quietly absorbs Element 79; Williams to depart

Sep 25, 2012

Let’s put it this way. It wasn’t a good sign. Quietly. Ever so quietly, the deed was done. Not in the dark of night, exactly. But quietly. So as not ...

Surge of commercials shooting on Chicago locations

By Ruth L Ratny Sep 24, 2012

A RECORD BREAKER? Eight Chicago and L.A.-New York production companies are making September one of the busiest months of the year for commercial shoots on Chicago locations &nbs...

Improv actor Alex Beh directs his first feature here

By Ed M. Koziarski Sep 24, 2012

L.A.-based “Funny or Die” website regular and Winnetka native Alex Beh is back in town as writer, director and star of his debut feature Warren. The coming-of-age love story...

MEDIA

Chicago hoops star Tony Bennett in Nike mini doc

By Ruth L Ratny Sep 21, 2012

GRITTY CHICAGO LOCATIONS are an integral part of a 90-second web video made for Team Nike and the World Festival of Basketball in recognition of Chicago’s sports authenticity ...

’51º South’ web series visits remote Falkland Islands

By Ed M. Koziarski Sep 20, 2012

When former Columbia College classmates Jamie Gallant, now an associate producer at DDB, and British native Vern Cummins first visited the Falkland Islands last year, “we reco...

SPORTS

TV sports possible financial hit from NHL lockout

By George Castle Sep 20, 2012

Missed paychecks and production fees will ripple through Chicago-area video companies unless the National Hockey League lockout of players comes to an unexpectedly quick conclus...

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Second City helps the Lyric change its marketing tune

By Lewis Lazare Sep 20, 2012

Circa 2012, it’s a whole new world at Lyric Opera of Chicago. The city’s world-renowned opera company has over the past couple of years begun to completely transform its app...

Wachowskis’ epic ‘Cloud Atlas’ is CIFF centerpiece

By Mike Morgan Sep 19, 2012

Leave it to founder/artistic director Michael Kutza and the board and staff of the Chicago and the 48th International Film Festival to elevate the city’s culture level with th...

Agency GCD’s horror script set for $2mm production

By Kerry Devine Sep 19, 2012

On the fast track: Only five short years ago, T.J. Cimfel, top creative at a health care ad agency, decided to be a screenwriter after spending years searching for the right fic...

Indie Focus

Music Box hosts United Film Festival Sept. 22-27

By Ed M. Koziarski Sep 19, 2012

THE UNITED FILM FESTIVAL returns to the Music Box Theatre Sept. 22-27 with a program that includes some 19 narrative and documentary features and 21 shorts. Some highlights are ...

New-to-Chicago Liquid 9 hosts Sept. 20 Open House

By Ruth L Ratny Sep 18, 2012

LIQUID 9 CELEBRATES ITS LAUNCH as a new Chicago production company with separate post and music divisions, at an Open House Thursday, 6 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 20 in new spa...

Gala fundraiser to preserve historic Essanay Oct. 6

By Ruth L Ratny Sep 18, 2012

Inside what was Essanay Studios in Uptown, actors Charlie Chaplin, Wallace Beery, Gloria Swanson, Ben Turpin and other icons starred in silent one-reelers that were churned out ...

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Positive Pompous Society feedback, but bashing, too

By Lewis Lazare Sep 13, 2012

What would any successful event be without a useful post-mortem? And that post-mortem is what the Pompous Society eagerly convened Tuesday night at the Farmhouse, a Midwes...

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