State money is rolling into the west side where a sound stage — where Kelsey Grammar’s TV series Boss, in which he plays the mayor of Chicago, is being filmed — raises hopes for the city’s film industry. (Sun-Times) Blair Kamin examines Mayor Daley’s legacy on urban design, giving props for Millennium Park, a so-so […]
Tag: Robert Feder
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John Kass’s Humor Finally Reaches the 21st Century
Trib columnist John Kass makes snarky comments about bloggers, so we make snarky comments about him.
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Old Hands, New Cred
The veterans blogging at Vocalo are making WBEZ’s sib a serious read.
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Letters & Comments, November 19, 2009
“Prediction: Public Radio is gone in Chicago. Maybe not tomorrow, maybe not next week, but GONE GONE GONE nevertheless.”
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Pot Kettle Blog
Oh, great. Just what we needed: Four hours of radio consisting of bloggers no one knows about yapping about blogs no one cares about. Robert Feder throws down about ChicagoNow’s new WGN show. Which hasn’t happened yet. On his, um, :Vocalo blog. Perhaps blogging is going to his head. (Look, I listened to hours of […]
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Feder to Vocalo
Robert Feder, longtime radio-TV writer for the Sun-Times, is ending a year’s retirement to blog on media for vocalo.org. A spokesman for Chicago Public Radio says Feder is the first of several “expert bloggers” that Vocalo will soon be announcing. A three-year-old multimedia experiment that CPR created but bends over backward to remain publicly distant […]
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WBEZ caves a little bit on music programming
WBEZ decides to retain several more music programs next year
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Les Grobstein knows the score
It ain’t easy being the world’s biggest sports fan.