A succession of nine established and seemingly rock solid companies, seven of them post houses, have fallen by the wayside in the past 27 months. These were the greatest nu...
As a spot in the new White Sox campaign laments, they "haven't won a championship in, like, months." Since then, however, the Sox have assumed the responsibility of offering bas...
A school as advanced as the digital arts and entertainment technologies being taught will open Sept. 17 in the historical Burnham building in the heart of Chicago's Loop. Fla...
A city which prides itself on culture and sport has now lost its advertising edge, its competitive juices. Are the foreign ad agencies on the brink of buying our baseball teams?...
Outsider editor Tim LoDolce was literally R. Kelly's right hand man as he sat next to the superstar editing Kelly's latest music video, "Same Girl," at Kelly's South Side home. ...
The loss of a large duplication contract to another company might have been the catalyst for Hi-Tide's abrupt closing Friday, June 15. A shocked staff of editors, video d...
Thea Flaum, TV show producer and trailblazer, has sold her 23-year old company to employee Dan Lombardi, and will move into "a new and exciting challenge" as head of a new non-p...
IFP/Chicago will host IFPallooza, an all-ages music event featuring eight bands July 22 at Martyrs' Restaurant and Pub, to kick off its first-ever fund-raising gala in September...
BEAT PHIL LEE AT BULLRIDING is the challenge the Avenue editor is hurling to creatives who need an excuse to mash up with other creatives after hours Thursday, June 21. "...
"THE DARK KNIGHT" the latest "Batman" installment will forever be known as "one of the biggest features we've ever had in terms of scope, spending and job creation," says CF...
"The Express" will wrap June 19 after two months of shooting at preserved period locations and classic outdoor stadiums that sold Universal Pictures on filming the 1960s story a...
It was a near-chance meeting with his school's janitor that set Bruce David Janu on the road to producing his first feature documentary, the 90-minute "Facing Sudan." Twenty-...
WHO HE IS: Award-winning director/photographer Justin Hayward, auteur of festival fave "Divorce Lemonade," is co-producing, directing and editing his first feature, "Fireproof G...
After 20 years at now-defunct Broadview Media, producer Rich Hawksworth will launch his own production company, Mythic Pictures, in custom-built space in end of July. He is i...
Former agency creative director Don Pogany has launched his own creative shop?"more like Andy Warhol's Factory than a boutique," he explained?and planning his third monthly Thir...
Towers Productions uncovers the anatomy of the Iraq quagmire with "The Road to War," premiering on National Geographic this August. It features first-person accounts from key...
JWT'S CHICAGO OFFICE is on the brink of extinction after the loss of $180 million worth of Kraft business, an account this office has held for 70 years. Not so, insists...
JUAN FRAUSTO'S hip-hop vampire comedy "Get Pony Boy" has its theatrical premiere June 8 at the Historic Portage Theatre, after debuting in April at the Chicago Latino Internatio...
When Hurricane Katrina rocked New Orleans in 2005, filmmaker Alex LeMay became fixated on the soul behind the ruin. Seizing on a short item he read in The New York Times, and...
WHO SHE IS: As executive director since 2003, de St. Aubin oversees programming and initiatives of the 35-year-old Gene Siskel Film center of the School of the Art Institute. ...
