Entertainment Columns
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Feder: Amy Guth to head Midwest Independent Film FestivalJul 02, 2018 1:00 am - Chicago journalist, author and radio personality Amy Guth has been named executive director of the Midwest Independent Film Festival, Robert Feder writes. Billed as the ...
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Three suggestions for HBO's 'Westworld' in Season 3Jun 29, 2018 6:00 am - "Westworld," HBO's mystery about realistic theme-park robots ("hosts") rising up against their creators, ended its superior second season last Sunday with more twists an...
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Feder: Tribune tightens security 'out of abundant precaution'Jun 29, 2018 1:00 am - Security was beefed up at the Chicago Tribune and other newspapers owned by tronc following a shooting Thursday at the company's Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Maryland, ...
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Feder: ABC 7's Kathy Brock signs off 'loving this job'Jun 28, 2018 1:00 am - Expressing gratitude for "how fortunate I've been to work here with these people," Kathy Brock bade an emotional farewell Wednesday after 28 years as news anchor at ABC-...
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Jonathon Brandmeier voted in to Radio Hall of FameJun 25, 2018 1:00 am - Jonathon Brandmeier, who took Chicago by storm as morning star of the former WLUP 97.9-FM in the '80s, has been elected to the National Radio Hall of Fame on the first b...
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25 years later, the first digital dino from 'Jurassic Park' still awes and inspiresJun 20, 2018 6:00 am - In the 25 years since "Jurassic Park" hit theaters on June 11, 1993, and wowed audiences with its digitally created dinosaurs, CGI effects have been the new hotness, the...
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Feder: 'Time to step away' for radio newsman Dave StewartJun 20, 2018 1:00 am - It's hard to imagine Chicago radio without Dave Stewart on somewhere. But after more than 40 years in the business, the top-notch newsman will be retiring at the end of ...
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Feder: Eddie Olczyk teams with David Kaplan at ESPN 1000Jun 19, 2018 1:00 am - Eddie Olczyk, the former Chicago Blackhawks center turned sports broadcaster, is joining ESPN Radio sports/talk WMVP AM 1000 as co-host of David Kaplan's midday show, Ro...
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Feder: Emails reveal what hosts really think of WGN RadioJun 18, 2018 1:00 am - Today WGN 720-AM begins a new era in multimillion-dollar state-of-the-art studios on the 18th floor of 303 East Wacker Drive. But that doesn't mean the Tribune Broadcast...
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Feder: Sun-Times sells Chicago Reader to African-American groupJun 15, 2018 1:00 am - The Chicago Reader, the city's leading alternative weekly for 47 years, has been sold to a group led by Dorothy Leavell, publisher of the African-American Chicago Crusad...