On the crest of Utopic’s second year anniversary in December, partners editors Jan Maitland and Tim Kloehn, and executive producer Michael Antonucci have succeeded in evolving...
Those irrepressible, totally irreverent — and altogether savvy — Walter E. Smithe furniture boys are at it again. Hands down, they run one of the most aggressively-mar...
Some good news for the 100 Roscor Corp. employees who lost their jobs Oct. 28 when the 35-year old Mt. Prospect company announced the closing of its rental department: A plan is...
The following companies from a number of different locations responded to news of Roscor’s recent layoffs with invitations to apply for job openings.Chicagoland AV company, 30...
BRIAN PLANTE REJOINS Arlington Heights-based Midwest Media Group integrator/resellers EVP/business development in charge of the company’s North American sales operation. ...
Take advantage of the last of the big, important events in November, especially during the two weekends prior to Thanksgiving, including several film festivals, a tour of Cinesp...
Michigan’s formerly flourishing film industry had some life breathed into it by the senate’s passage of the Film Production Assistance Program (SB 569), a project-by-project...
I just picked up from Lomography that allows independent filmmakers and artists a chance to create beautiful analog films - using standard 35mm stock.It's a game changer f...
To announce first-time in-flight WiFi connectivity on three airlines and selected flights on five others, Itasca-based GoGo Air, the world’s leader and only such provider, rol...
One of those little mysteries that has nagged us for some while has finally been solved. We refer to the story behind the naming of — and logo for — the Chicago ad age...
Janet Davies, one of Chicago’s friendliest and most-talented TV personalities, has made it to 500! Not years old, silly. We’re talking about the 500th edition of WLS/C...
JOB OFFERS KEEP POURING IN for Roscor’s former skilled employees, 100 of whom were suddenly and sadly terminated from the 35-year old Mt. Prospect-based AV equipment company o...
The distinctive motion graphics designs on two Big Ten Network shows – “BTN Live”and “Tailgate 48” currently airing – are the result of Adam Martin of AM Films putti...
Fuhgeddaboudit! The past is past. They are looking forward. That’s the word from the two executives now guiding DDB/Chicago. And believe us when we say DDB has des...
The Reel is honored that award-winning indie filmmaker and Columbia College professor Julian Grant will be sharing his valuable insights as well as news about Chicago’s thrivi...
In the wake of the news of Chicago-based Roscor equipment company’s mass layoffs comes the equally distressing news that 25 year old Grace & Wild production and post compa...
The announcement that Roscor Corporation, reseller and renter of audiovisual equipment, on Friday, Oct. 28 closed its rental and service departments and mass fired 100 of its 13...
Approximately one hundred Roscor employees were reportedly terminated Friday, Oct. 28, as the Midwest’s largest reseller and rentals of production, broadcast and AV equipment ...
STEPPENWOLF PRESENTS its annual “First Look Repertory of New Work,” with three developmental productions – Christina Anderson’s Man in Love, Zayd Dohrn’s Want, and Car...
RED CAR’S JON DESIR is the first artist to appear in a new web series called “On the Side,” about creative people in the local advertising community who are passionately i...
