Entertainment Columns
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Feder: WGN to host statewide virtual town hall Thursday with Durbin, DuckworthMay 27, 2020 1:00 am - WGN-Channel 9 will originate a live virtual town on the coronavirus pandemic from 7 to 8 p.m. Thursday - to be simulcast on news/talk WGN 720-AM and eight other Nexstar ...
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Feder: Mass layoffs at CBS 2 hit Pam Zekman, other 'valued members of our team'May 27, 2020 1:00 am - The legendary Pam Zekman, one of Chicago television's premier investigative reporters, was among at least a dozen employees at WBBM-Channel 2 who lost their jobs today i...
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Feder: Community Trust funds hiring of two Sun-Times reportersMay 26, 2020 1:00 am - Two seasoned Chicago reporters will be joining the Sun-Times, thanks to a grant from The Chicago Community Trust, Robert Feder writes. Elvia Malagón, a reporter for the...
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Feder: Stuck at home, viewers shift TV news habits in MayMay 22, 2020 1:00 am - Local news viewership is down in mornings but up significantly in afternoons, as Chicago area audiences adjust to life at home during the coronavirus pandemic, Robert Fe...
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O'Donnell: Fate of summer at Arlington Park still unknownMay 22, 2020 1:00 am - "THE LITTLE RASCALS" always seemed to have one surefire plan: Spanky, Alfalfa and Darla would put on a show - and the whole gang would come. Apparently, that's how manag...
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Feder: 'Lucky guy' Bob Stroud marks 40 years of 'Rock 'n Roll Roots'May 21, 2020 1:00 am - A hearty high-five to Bob Stroud, top-rated midday star at Hubbard Radio classic rock WDRV 97.1-FM, on celebrating 40 years as host of "Rock 'n Roll Roots," Robert Feder...
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Widescreen tidbits: When Captain America rode the 'Snowpiercer,' plus 'Ghost' resurrectedMay 20, 2020 11:00 pm - Six years before “Snowpiercer” was a TNT series (Episode 2 airs at 8 p.m. Sunday) starring Jennifer Connelly and Daveed Diggs, it was an audacious film co-written and di...
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O'Donnell: Another Bob Frisk staple was the 'Imaginary Door' memoMay 20, 2020 1:00 am - THE EARLY MORNINGS belonged to Bob Frisk. It was the only part of his workday when he could be assured of reasonable degrees of solitude and focus. During the decades wh...
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Feder: Chicago Public Media hires Andi McDaniel as new CEO of WBEZ, VocaloMay 19, 2020 1:00 am - Andi McDaniel, an innovative public-radio executive who grew up in Schaumburg, is coming home to take on the top job at Chicago Public Media, parent company of NPR news/...
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Feder: WIND's Amy Jacobson barred from governor's media briefingsMay 19, 2020 1:00 am - Amy Jacobson, the Chicago radio talk show host and former TV news reporter, has been barred from attending Governor J.B. Pritzker's daily coronavirus media briefings aft...