Entertainment Columns
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Feder: WGN's Dean Richards bounces back from COVID-19 experienceDec 11, 2020 12:00 am - Dean Richards, the veteran Chicago media personality, entertainment critic and talk show host, returns to work this weekend - two weeks after he tested positive for COVI...
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Jim O'Donnell: Al Michaels will have Frick and memories of a Caray block with the SoxDec 11, 2020 12:00 am - WHEN PANDEMIC PERMITS, Al Michaels will be the recipient of the 2021 Ford C. Frick Award. Since 1978, the Frick has attempted to be consistently emblematic of excellence...
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Feder: ABC 7's Alan Krashesky 'doing well' after surgeryDec 10, 2020 12:00 am - Alan Krashesky, principal news anchor at top-rated ABC-owned WLS-Channel 7, has been off the air since November 25. Now comes word he'll be out for the rest of the year ...
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Sound check: The War on X-Mas goes big and goes home (your home, that is)Dec 09, 2020 5:00 am - The War rages on There's lots of chatter about the war on Christmas out there, but Chicago music fans know where the real War on X-Mas is. This year, Chicago punk b...
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Feder: ABC 7's Terrell Brown hosts 'Living While Black'Dec 09, 2020 12:00 am - Terrell Brown, morning news anchor at ABC-owned WLS-Channel 7, spent days inside the South Shore home of Tierra and Jermaine Muhammad, where they raised five children in...
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Andy Masur well-prepared to tackle next opportunity after season with White SoxDec 09, 2020 12:00 am - Major-league baseball can be a brutal business. Most players are astute enough to know it's best to rent housing in their home cities. One bad season — actually even one...
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Jim O'Donnell: Pat Fitzgerald is much too happy to coach the BearsDec 09, 2020 12:00 am - PAT FITZGERALD HAS one glaring blind spot. It's called "excessive loyalty." Amid the upheaval and maneuvering of 2020, that should be downright refreshing. But once in a...
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Feder: WGN's Paul Konrad suspends social media as 'healthy personal decision'Dec 08, 2020 12:00 am - It's been more than two weeks since Paul Konrad surprised fans by announcing he was "taking the rest of the year off of social media." No Facebook. No Twitter. No Instag...
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Feder: Melissa McGurren 'really sorry' to be missing from The MixDec 07, 2020 12:00 am - As her disappearance from the popular WTMX 101.9-FM morning show she co-hosts with Eric Ferguson continues without explanation, Melissa McGurren released a Facebook vide...
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Jim O'Donnell: Sox to find out if Kasper milquetoast travelsDec 04, 2020 11:00 pm - SO, AS FIRST SUGGESTED in this space 17 months ago, Len Kasper is leaving Cubs TV. To work White Sox radio. Since it involves Kasper, the first impulse is to reach for t...