The 4th Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival, aka Sketchfest, at the Theatre Building is running on all three 150-seat stages simultaneously from now through Jan. 16. One hundred-...
More than 300 persons attended funeral services Jan. 3 for admusic composer/producer Steve Shafer, 52, who was hailed as a visionary who revolutionized commercial music producti...
Recognizing the increasing imperative of "change now or die," Cinematographers Local 600 last month took a bold giant step towards changing the face and future of Chicago film u...
A memorial service for multifaceted musician/composer Shelly Elias will be held Jan. 2 at 2 p.m. in the Alice Millar Chapel at Northwestern University. A Chicago native, Mr....
What does an agency person look like, and how can anyone tell one's occupation by the way he looks? That was a question JoyArt Music asked the management of the 410 Club in ...
Comedy genius Willy Laszlo says he had the time of his life in Chicago. He had creative freedom. He had a good full-time day job. He worked hard. But he was always broke. "S...
How do you confront life after advertising ? or the act of leaving a lengthy career in the commercial creative arts? Many, like former DDB creative director Lucia Blinn, "the Do...
AN ENVIABLE PROJECT. A post job for Leo Burnett and client Philips Sonicare dental hygiene that Machete editors started in May and kept growing and growing finally ended two wee...
First tenant for Fletcher Chicago's newly introduced production office space turns out to be a biggie. No less than Spike Lee's 40 Acres and a Mule production company, wit...
He's back by popular acclaim. Bob Hudgins, deputy director of the Illinois Film Office, said he was convinced by "a long list of people" to remain on the job after he had ...
Taproot Productions' bullfighting documentary "The Bulls of Suburbia" has charged its way through the festival circuit this year, drawing broadcaster interest at the Santa...
It was five days before Richard Dresser's play "Wonderful World" would open at the Athenaeum Theatre, and director Paul Cotter had the day off.It was Sunday, Aug. 15 and Cotter ...
We always knew Chicago was an enormous advertising market?second only to New York in North America?and that advertising was big business. Now thanks to a new study by Globa...
Product placement veteran George Simkowski recalls the glory days when he placed client Budget Rent a Car in the 1987 John Hughes hit comedy, "Planes, Trains and Automobil...
Fresh off Jeff Garlin's feature debut and the season premiere of CBS' "The Amazing Race," Misty Tosh of Fatcake Productions is on her way to Baja, Mexico to produce a pilo...
PHIL DONLON'S Super 16mm short "A Series of Small Things," which shot here last May, has its local premiere in a private screening Wednesday, Dec. 15 at 7:30 p.m. at the A...
Eric Anderson and Amelia Dellos are out to prove that America isn't as divided as it's made out to be.The husband-wife filmmaking team are poised to embark on a Midwest tour, in...
Come Dec. 14 Styx fans will see a locally-produced streaming video of the great band playing the Beatles' "I am the Walrus" over Apple's iTunes Web site. Director Stev...
Producer Maya Ghosn of Lebanese-British production company Firehorse Films shot an episode on Chicago Baha'i here last November for the forthcoming Aljazeera series "Religious...
After five years as Chicago Community Cinema, the monthly screening/networking event is reinventing itself as the Midwest Independent Film Festival. "It's time to take it...
