Month: July 2022

The Chicago Portfolio School, one of the biggest creative pipelines in the city, is leaving students and instructors in the dark ahead of its summer session. The for-profit organization, which charges students upwards of $19,300 per year, has collected tuition checks without providing complete scheduling for a semester scheduled to start today, according to several…

Using a brand faithfully doesn’t necessarily qualify you to be a spokesperson. In this case, however, the experience might really come in, uh, handy. Grooming and lifestyle brand Manscaped has tapped comedian Pete Davidson for a four-year brand partnership deal. But based on the 30-second spot announcing the new team-up, things aren’t off to the…

There have not been many tweets from Twitter employees discussing Elon Musk’s decision to back out of acquiring the company, and there’s a reason for that. Once news broke late Friday of Musk’s about-face, Twitter general counsel Sean Edgett said in an email to employees, obtained by Mitchell Clark and Alex Heath of The Verge,…

If you were a teen in the early 2000s, you likely remember LimeWire. For some millennials, it was their first introduction to music, as the peer-to-peer file-sharing service allowed users to download and upload songs, videos and images–sometimes illegally. After LimeWire was shut down in 2010 because of a legal battle with the Record Industry…

The biggest spending increase in June was Infiniti (up over 13,200% after spending less than $20K on national TV last June and $2.5 million this June).

The “Thor” franchise continues the trend of surpassing the previous editions when it comes to respective opening weekends: “Thor: Ragnarok” (2017), $122.7 million; “Thor: The Dark World” (2013), $85.7
million; and “Thor” (2011), $65.7 million.