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...pedal-friendly festival of shorts and features celebrates the glory of the bicycle. Now in its sixth year, it's expected to draw 40,000 fans in each of 10 venues, including New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco and Minneapolis, Minn. Among the more than 50 films to be screened is Lucas Brunelle Video...
...want a critic for a guide, this may be the festival for you. Each April in Champaign, Ill., the TV and Chicago Sun-Times film reviewer selects movies--from the famed to the obscure, like U-Carmen eKhayelitsha--that he feels have fallen through the cracks...
...viewers who have soured on sitcoms, police procedurals and, well, reality TV. "The reality-TV genre is growing stale, and networks are looking for a new, low-cost format to fill that gap," says Monica Gadsby, a Hispanic-media expert and the CEO of Tapestry, a marketing firm in Chicago. If the shows connect with viewers, the U.S. will soon have a taste of the melodramatic highs and campy lows that virtually every other country in the world has loved for years...
...cereal served in a comfy, living-room-style café--has attracted both customers and attention with its playful décor and creative alternatives to greasy fast food. (Chex and Cheerios in chocolate soy milk with Pop Rocks, anyone?) Cereality's first three cafés, in Philadelphia, Tempe, Ariz., and Chicago, are thriving, but as the company tries to move from small-business start-up to national franchise, Roth has had to leave the fun and games aside to face a looming challenge for every new retail concept: once your idea proves itself, competitors flock, knowing that the initial risk...
...companies busted by President Bush's Corporate Fraud Task Force, which has won 1,063 convictions, including guilty verdicts against 36 chief financial officers and 167 corporate CEOs and presidents. "Behavior has clearly changed since the Enron crisis," says Roman Weil, a professor of accounting at the University of Chicago. Part of that is a result of the Sarbanes-Oxley bill, which holds bosses criminally responsible if their company's accounting is faulty. So CEOs are paying closer attention to financial statements--and passing that responsibility down the line. "The criminalization has made executives more alert to what they...