Entertainment Columns
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Feder: Guild staffers picket Tribune awardsFeb 05, 2018 12:00 am - To protest the lack of progress with owner tronc, about a dozen members of the Chicago News Guild demonstrated outside the Chicago Tribune's annual Beck Awards ceremony ...
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Widescreen: Discovering 'Cloverfield Paradox' was exciting - but then you watch itFeb 04, 2018 10:00 pm - Everything about the surprise release of "The Cloverfield Paradox" was thrilling. A Netflix commercial that aired during Sunday's Super Bowl announced the latest install...
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Feder: Cumulus hangs onto The Loop, 101 WKQXFeb 02, 2018 12:00 am - Cumulus Media will continue to operate classic rock WLUP FM 97.9 and alternative rock WKQX FM 101.1 under an agreement reached Thursday with Merlin Media, which owns the...
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Feder: WXRT unplugs 'Jazz Transfusion' after 43 yearsFeb 01, 2018 12:00 am - "Jazz Transfusion," a Sunday night staple on WXRT FM 93.1 for 43 years, is vanishing from the Entercom adult album alternative station. This weekend marks the final broa...
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Widescreen: 'The Post' shows Spielberg's wizardry on a smaller scaleJan 31, 2018 5:00 am - There is a tiny moment in best-picture Oscar nominee "The Post" - a blink-and-you'll-miss-it camera move - that brought me to tears when I saw it last weekend. I wasn't ...
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Feder: Bulls shooting to land on The ScoreJan 30, 2018 12:00 am - The Chicago Bulls are close to a deal to move their radio broadcasts to WSCR 670-AM AM 670, insiders tell Robert Feder. An agreement could be finalized this week that wo...
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Feder: Sun-Times sidelines Richard Roeper while investigating Twitter accountJan 29, 2018 12:00 am - The Chicago Sun-Times has benched Richard Roeper, the veteran columnist and film critic, in the wake of a New York Times report on the buying and selling of fraudulent s...
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Feder: Michelle Alegria to join 'Good Day Chicago' as traffic reporterJan 29, 2018 12:00 am - Michelle Alegria, who graced ABC-owned WLS-Channel 7 for nearly 10 years as a featured contributor to its "190 North" magazine show, is joining Fox-owned WFLD-Channel 32...
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Widescreen: Oscars give Spacey the true definition of a snubJan 26, 2018 5:00 am - I saw "The Usual Suspects" the weekend it opened at the late Cineplex Odeon Ridge Cinema, the one with the pink neon that shared a parking lot with Portillo's on Dundee ...
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Feder: Cumulus opts out of White Sox, Bulls, 101 WKQX, The LoopJan 19, 2018 12:00 am - Struggling to emerge from bankruptcy, Cumulus Media announced plans Thursday to drop its money-losing multiyear contracts to broadcast White Sox baseball and Bulls baske...