Entertainment Columns
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Scary stories to stream on Netflix, Hulu and beyond for spooky seasonOct 07, 2020 11:00 pm - Spooky season has arrived, and you've probably already seen "Beetlejuice," "The Addams Family" and "Ghostbusters" a few times if you've been using your witch's wand, er,...
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Jim O'Donnell: Tom Brady visits Bears in prime time ThursdayOct 07, 2020 1:00 am - CONSIDER THE POTENTIAL FOR INSTANT HISTORY at Soldier Field Thursday night: For the first time since George Halas sat on a running board in that Hupmobile showroom in Ca...
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ESPN's Silverman in remissionOct 07, 2020 1:00 am - Good news for Marc Silverman, afternoon co-host on Good Karma Brands ESPN sports/talk WMVP 1000-AM. Six months after he disclosed his diagnosis for Stage 3 Non-Hodgkin l...
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Hike near home turns into mission to see every DuPage County forest preserveOct 06, 2020 5:30 am - The pandemic wiped out the traveling she does as district manager for Lego and temporarily closed the Zanies Comedy Clubs where he works booking comics and doing publici...
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Feder: Ex-staffers launch campaign to save Chicago ReporterOct 06, 2020 1:00 am - More than 100 former employees of the Chicago Reporter are fighting to save the investigative news organization after 48 years of vital reporting on issues of race, pove...
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Feder: With Walt Flakus hosting middays, Rock 95.5 rolls out talent lineupOct 05, 2020 1:00 am - Walt Flakus, well-known to Chicago rock radio listeners for his years at The Loop and Cumulus Media alternative rock WKQX 101.1-FM, has returned to host middays on WCHI ...
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Feder: Home at last, anchorman Ray Cortopassi debuts tonight on 'Chicago's Very Own'Oct 05, 2020 1:00 am - Growing up in south suburban Dolton, Ray Cortopassi fondly remembers another Ray - the legendary children's show performer Ray Rayner - who was a fixture on WGN-Channel ...
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Constable: Italian immigrant, U.S. Army veteran writes love story at age 87Oct 03, 2020 1:00 am - Even before he watched American soldiers drive the Nazis from his Italian village, Rocco Blasi dreamed of living in the United States. "It was something I wanted so badl...
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Feder: 'Those Were the Days' celebrates radio's greatest hitsOct 02, 2020 1:00 am - Kicking off its celebration of radio's 100th anniversary, "Those Were the Days" will air a monthlong series of milestone and landmark broadcasts from the Golden Age of R...
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Feder: The Record debuts as news site for North Shore communitiesOct 01, 2020 1:00 am - Today marks the launch of The Record North Shore, the nonprofit local news site founded by three former editors of 22nd Century Media, Robert Feder writes. Joe Coughlin...