Entertainment Columns
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O'Donnell: Cavalry arriving at Arlington? Emergency Racing Board meeting FridayJun 03, 2020 1:00 am - ARE THOSE SKELETONS rattling at Northwest Highway and Wilke a renewed possibility of some sort of live thoroughbred racing at Arlington Park this summer? Or is it merely...
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Feder: TV news crews become targets on the streetJun 03, 2020 1:00 am - The hazards of journalism became all too real this week for TV news crews in Chicago, Robert Feder writes. Ken Bedford, a photographer for ABC-owned WLS-Channel 7, was ...
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Feder: WGN's Joe Donlon named weeknight anchor for Nexstar's 'News Nation'Jun 02, 2020 1:00 am - Nexstar Media Group has unveiled a lineup of anchors and correspondents for its upcoming nightly national newscast that includes three familiar faces from "Chicago's Ver...
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Feder: WIND's Amy Jacobson suing Pritzker over ban from media briefingsJun 01, 2020 1:00 am - Governor J.B. Pritzker may have ended his daily media briefings on the coronavirus pandemic, but Chicago radio talk show host Amy Jacobson isn't giving up her fight with...
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O'Donnell: Adam Amin is Bulls next TV play-by-play voiceJun 01, 2020 1:00 am - "Local boy makes good" will be the theme of the next segment of Bulls broadcast history. President Michael Reinsdorf confirmed Monday that Adam Amin - a native of West s...
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O'Donnell: Kaepernick protest takes on new meaning this weekMay 29, 2020 1:00 am - FOUR YEARS AGO, two young Americans of color protested police brutality in very different ways. Colin Kaepernick was the more famous and visually enduring. And his sidel...
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Feder: 'I'm Back' podcast reveals Michael Jordan's secret workoutMay 29, 2020 1:00 am - "I'm Back," a one-hour podcast chronicling Michael Jordan's return to the Chicago Bulls in 1995 - including the revelation that he secretly worked out with the Golden St...
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O'Donnell: Arlington mouses behind as Pritzker OKs resumption of racingMay 29, 2020 1:00 am - LIVE HORSE RACING in Illinois is being given the green light to resume next week. But not a creature will be stirring at Arlington Park. Not even an out-of-state corpora...
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Feder: Rich Warren retiring from WFMT's 'Midnight Special'May 28, 2020 1:00 am - Rich Warren is stepping down after 37 years as host of "The Midnight Special," the venerable weekly showcase for folk music, show tunes and comedy on WFMT 98.7-FM, Rober...
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Widescreen: Six ways to capture the magic of summer from your couchMay 27, 2020 11:00 pm - It's not even June, but summerlike weather has already arrived. Normally, this would be cause for celebration, but this summer will be unlike any other summer we've expe...