Well, it's finally happened: the Writer's Guild of America declared a strike early this morning after midnight negotiations stalled. Naturally there's been plenty of finger-pointing, with writers claiming that the producers broke off talks while producers say that the writers were the ones who walked out. Regardless, the strike will have some very immediate effects, which the Trib has handily put in chart form. Daily shows will suffer the most at first, with programs like... more ›

Sometimes when we wake up and splay the Chicago newspapers across our desk, certain themes just pop out at us. We're like John Nash from A Beautiful Mind, circling headlines with markers and attaching connecting strings with masking tape and pushpins. In between the seasonal religious controversies and potential parking-dibs comment bait this morning, today's theme was guns: real ones, fakes ones, and illegal ones. While CBS 2 was still talking about the fallout from... more ›

Several months ago, we interviewed Pete Schwaba about his film The Godfather of Green Bay. Unfortunately, we couldn't interview him until the night of the showing, so it was too late to pester all of you to go out and see the film. However, we found out that Godfather is returning to Chicago starting this weekend at select theaters. For those of you new to the party, Godfather is a feature-length comedy written, directed,... more ›