Entertainment Columns
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Feder: Jim Lovell shares heavenly thoughts with Sirott & MurcianoJun 24, 2019 1:00 am - Capping a week of special programming tied to the 50th anniversary of the Moon Landing, WTTW-Channel 11 will air a half-hour interview of former astronaut James Lovell, ...
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Feder: Hubbard Radio president Drew Horowitz calls it a careerJun 24, 2019 1:00 am - Drew Horowitz, the highly respected and admired Chicago radio executive who rose to become one of the industry's premier leaders nationwide, is going out on top after 43...
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Widescreen: Lo-fi sci-fi superhero yarn 'Fast Color' comes homeJun 21, 2019 6:00 am - Given the tiniest of theatrical releases just one week before "Avengers: Endgame" snapped up every auditorium in the multiverse, the toast of the 2018 South By Southwest...
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Feder: Ryan Chiaverini to debut 'This Is Country' music video todayJun 21, 2019 1:00 am - "Windy City Live" co-host Ryan Chiaverini has written and recorded a country music song he's about to share with the world as a tribute to his late mother, Robert Feder ...
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Feder: New Crain's Forum tackles area's toughest problemsJun 21, 2019 1:00 am - Crain's Chicago Business has launched an ambitious yearlong project online and in print to address what it calls the "seemingly intractable problems" facing Chicago and ...
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O'Donnell: Will Cubs' Kasper and Deshaies be together next season?Jun 21, 2019 1:00 am - THE MOST EARTHSHAKING CHANGE ever in the Cubs TV booth began as a whisper. With the Cubs' dicey Marquee Network set to launch next winter, the same kind of whistling win...
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O'Donnell: Michael Jordan to Eloy Jimenez - tales behind two mammoth arrivalsJun 19, 2019 1:00 am - THIRTY-FIVE YEARS AGO Thursday - June 20, 1984 - Chicago awoke to the somewhat hopeful clarion, "Bulls Draft Michael Jordan." Now long forgotten was a Chicago Tribune he...
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Feder: Curse word led WGN Radio to fire Patti VasquezJun 18, 2019 1:00 am - The last straw for Patti Vasquez turned out to be an accidental F-bomb that dropped during her show on WGN 720-AM earlier this month. Vasquez was fired Monday after five...
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O'Donnell: Resilient Mike Leiderman set to leave Chicago an unquestioned victorJun 14, 2019 1:00 am - MIKE LEIDERMAN IS finally leaving this town. More than four decades after a resolute young man from Great Neck, N.Y., set out to conquer Chicago sportscasting, he and wi...
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Widescreen: 4 awesome things and 1 big letdown at the E3 video game conferenceJun 13, 2019 6:00 am - The annual showcase of upcoming video games known as the Electronic Entertainment Expo, or E3, returned this week to Los Angeles, and once again major game publishers li...