An April 24 auction of millions of dollars worth of AV equipment, furnishings and vehicles will mark the sad finale of Roscor Corp., for more than three decades one of the Midwe...
Last fall, Sonixphere’s Greg Allan invited Chicago musicians over to his River East studio for an evening of food, drink and talk followed by some jamming afterwards by guests...
Composer/producer John Ovnik has gone from solo to duo for the first time since he started Deaf Dog Music 18 years ago, by forming a creative partnership with his long-time frie...
It’s a fact of life in the performing arts now. Crowds no longer just show up and fill theaters on cue. Ticket prices are higher (in some instances dramatically so), and every...
Immigration – anticipation, fear and pain of leaving one’s homeland for life a new country -- is the central theme of the three intertwined stories in the indie dramedy, Pro...
ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE, a documentary by producer/director Kelly Luchtman and coproducer, DP and editor Thomas C. Gaunt, about the troubled history of the Acme Artists Community i...
Does your haircut rock? If not, Supercuts and its ad agency Element 79/Chicago want you to reconsider what kind of cut you are getting and where you are getting it via a n...
After 80 years of on-and-off efforts to merge the two national talent unions, history was made March 30 when the members of national SAG and AFTRA voted in amazingly high number...
When ad agencies acquire new companies, these new divisions provide related services that are directly related to and feed into the advertising business, such as research,...
DIRECTOR ANDREW DAVIS made his mark as a rising star in 1978 with his first feature, “Stony Island,” about the fictitious Stony Island band, a fusion of rock, blues and jazz...
Wisconsin’s biggest talent agency, Lori Lins Ltd., has opened a Chicago office in the person of founder Lins’ son, Trent Raffaelli, in the West Loop. The office will s...
14TH ANNUAL EBERT FEST Ebert Fest in Champaign April 29 will feature Prashant Bhargava’s Patang (The Kite), a family drama about a father and daughter returning to their homet...
LONGTIME MUSIC PROMOTER Jeanne Warsaw-Gazga plans to give Chicago public school students a taste of “Glee” with a retro twist. Her new nonprofit, MEMA, (Motivation Encourage...
There’s going to be a whole lotta shakin’ goin’ on when movies about punk rockers like The Mekons, Detroit’s MC5 and The Stooges and special appearances by musicians, fi...
The passage of at least some time hasn’t made Leo Burnett/Chicago’s new campaign for Fifth Third Bank, “the curious bank,” any more palatable than it was when we fi...
With one day to go in the Nielsen March TV ratings book, the results in the local late news ratings competition show ABC-owned WLS-Channel 7 continues to hold on the No. 1 ...
With the hiring of six former key Roscor System Integration experts, Diversified Systems of New Jersey, with branches throughout the country, has made its first foray into...
Optimus has made two important personnel changes, naming of 13-year post house veteran Mike (Chick) Ciacciarelli to the newly created position of Optimus executive creative dire...
In her decade as executive director of the Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival, and years more performing with and managing the Cupid Players, Jill Valentine has seen a steady rise i...
For the first time in nearly a decade, Chicago not-for-profit public radio station WBEZ-FM (91.5) is getting ready to launch a major advertising campaign. The campaign will be d...