It was a great party. Tasty passed hors d’oeuvres. Wine in genuine glass goblets. Fun speech. And a lively group of people. Indeed, the best we could h...
PAIR OF FORMER CRC STAFFERS have teamed up to form the new music company Diplomacy Music. They are Mike Middleton, a former CRC producer who produced for Frayne Lewis’ OneSun ...
While many unlikely cities throughout the world have been used as substitutes for Chicago locations for movies and commercials (and not always convincingly) STORY’S recent rev...
Among the achievements of four-time Emmy winner, video activist and documentarian Tom Weinberg is his massive Media Burn Independent Video Archive, which boasts the largest coll...
The White Sox’s pair of local TV broadcast rights-holders are adding pre- and post-game programming, including long-form remotes from road cities, in the 2012 season’s final...
KY DICKENS is raising finishing funds for her second feature documentary Sole Survivor. The film follows George Lamson, the only person to live through the 1985 crash of Galaxy ...
The Chicago Bears are back in business. And once again, the question no doubt uppermost in the minds of the team’s legions of fans is whether the Bears will make it to t...
Finally. At last. What had seemed an interminable wait is over. The long talked about — but slow to materialize — speakers series promised by the Chic...
THE EQUITY JEFF AWARD NOMINATIONS were announced last week, and the bounty was even more, well, bounteous than in years past. There were 197 nominations in 34 catego...
The island of Tortola in the British Virgin Islands wants to become a serious contender for feature film production and invited Nate Grant of Lake Shore Film & TV Production...
For editor Dean Gonzalez, joining Hootenanny editorial is more of a homecoming than a new job. Returning to Chicago after 15 years of high-profile editing in L.A., he reu...
The beer business has been in the headlines with the recent switch of MillerCoors’ Coors Light and Coors banquet brands departing Draftfcb for new Cavalry agency; DDB’s loss...
Tom Ungar of The Ungar Group/Chicago just may be the biggest mensch there is in Chicago’s advertising community. We first discovered Ungar himself, his agency and his shop’s...
Regional basic cable’s Comcast SportsNet Chicago (CSN)is getting into the game-show business through old-school thrifty ingenuity and an uptick in sponsorship, with studio-pro...
Red Car editorial’s new managing director Carrie Holecek has gone all out for a memorable first party in a series she calls “Red Car Ignition,” that will undoubtedly blow ...
So. Here we go. We’re now barely 12 weeks into the new adventure in beer advertising that is the Chicago-based Cavalry agency. We don’t want to overstate t...
TEATRO VISTA, Chicago’s premier Equity Latino theater company, announces that founder and longtime artistic director Edward Torres will be stepping aside in spring 2013 to acc...
“Scrooge & Marley,” a modern and gay version of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol,” signed Tony and Emmy-winning actress Judith Light as the film’s narrator an...
“It’s kind of like the world is closing in on you,” aspiring filmmaker Jack Marchetti says, “until it’s like you’re looking through a very tiny straw.” Marchetti h...
WRITER/DIRECTOR ANDREW DAVIS, the South Side native best known for his Chicago-set and made action features, will receive Chicago Screenwriters Network’s inaugural Founders Aw...
