No sooner was the word out that tabletop director/ shooter Mark Klein had opened his own studio than his New York clients began ringing the phone off the hook, said executi...

By Jonathan Abarbanel The Fire Commissioner was there. Not his assistant, but the Commish himself. Ditto, the Building Department Commissioner and the Director of the ...

HIGH POWERED COO TO DK. New COO at Digital Kitchen is Bruce Hanson, formerly in sales and business development at PriceWaterhouseCoopers and considered a very visible...

Y&R CD Jon Wyville joins Fallon/ Minneapolis as a group CD Feb. 7. His credits at Y&R include recent work for Miller and NASCAR. Earlier he'd worked at McConnaghy Schmidt...

Chicago's vibrant editing scene gets a boost when the national AICE Show takes place here this spring. The third annual show will be an event that show chairman Tom Duff ...

(The idea of converting all or part of County Hospital, as proposed by Lerner columnist Ed Schwartz in the Jan. 7 issue of ReelChicago.com) is a great idea, but our proble...

By Ruth L Ratny Twenty-five years ago, in January, 1979, I launched Screen the Weekly Newsletter. My friend, the astrologer Laurie Brady, advised an auspicious start wou...

Mark Androw has been traveling to New York and California on AICP business at least four times a year for the last 15 years serving on the national board in various influ...

Tom Wiebe's new Earhole Studios started off with the proverbial bang. Its first job was original music for the big-budget Nokia phone spots that aired during the college ...

MARTIN ON HIS OWN. Ace editor Alarick Martin amicably departed Spots BME after three-and-a- half years to work as an independent editor. "It was time to move on," he said....

Leo Burnett could see departure of the $40 million Sara Lee account this month. Pitching it are Element 79 and O&M, Chicago, TBWA/Chiat/Day, L.A. and McKinney & Silver,...

Scooby Doo promos created by Radar's live action and CGI magic, a boy at breakfast pulls off a mask from a box to reveal Scooby Doo cereal in one and a cheese crackers box...

Wicker Park's Heaven Gallery ? the people responsible for the upcoming Z Film Festival ? is planning monthly screenings and seeks film/video submissions. The Jan. 10-1...

By Jan Lisa Huttner After a long professional acquaintance that began on an episode of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents," director Robert Altman and screenwriter Barbara Turner...

Lerner newspaper columnist Ed Schwartz is promoting the idea that the old Cook County Hospital, that County Board president John Stroger is just itching to demolish, could...