NBC5 Street Team Wins an Emmy!

Blagica Bottigliero, NBC Chicago Street Team
What a night! I wasn’t able to join the gang at the Emmy ceremonies tonight, but I received word from our fearless leader, Marcus Riley, that our team won the Emmy for Outstanding Achievement for Alternate Media/New Media Interactivity. Our winning entry was “Looptopia Live,” the coverage of Chicago’s dusk-till-dawn arts [...]

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From the “Street to the Roof” video outside Cubs Game 1 NLDS 2008

Jim Grillo, NBC5 Street Team

In the following video, we tried to capture what happens outside of Wrigley Field from the street to the rooftop.  We met some of the nicest people and some of the most unique people who tell us their story. 
We meet “Big Joey”, the self proclaimed “Cubs Luchero” who is out to [...]

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Emmy-Nominated NBC5 Street Team

Marcus Riley, NBC5 Street Team (video)
It’s almost never a good thing to toot your own horn, but I would be remiss if I didn’t give a quick shout out and pat on the back to the NBC5 Street Team members and NBC5 employees who were recognized by the National Association of Television, Arts and Sciences [...]

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Go Street Team Go!

Reggie Brown, NBC5 Street Team
Tonight was an exciting night for the Street Team at Trump Tower for the 2008 Emmy nominations party hosted by Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun Times. Congrats to the Street Team members who were nominated for the Outstanding Achievement for Alternate Media/New Media Interactive category for coverage of Looptopia Live, [...]

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Save Chicago Culture

The Local Tourist, NBC5 Street Team
Visit SaveChicagoCulture.org now and sign the petition. Here’s why:
I just got back from a run along the lake front. What is normally an almost-vacation-like experience for me as I head toward the beautiful city skyline with Lake Shore Drive on one side and Lake Michigan on the other was, today, [...]

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Looptopia Artist To Play At Lilly’s Friday

Kaylee King, NBC5 Street Team
Yeah yeah I know I blogged about this band before. But that was during Looptopia! And that means it officially doesn’t count.
So I’m going to talk about them one more time, and them I’m done, I swear!
Lead singer, Thomas Fricilone and his band, Raise High The Roof Beam will play Friday night [...]

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Good Morning Looptopia: Last 2 Standing

 

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I Survived Looptopia

Kaylee King, NBC5 Street Team
I was looking through our blogs that went up over the course of the night and I realized that my last post was seven hours ago. It is now 6:31 a.m. and I am still awake and more than ready to crash.
I saw it all tonight at Looptopia. [...]

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Looptopia: Winding It Down

Marcus Riley, NBC5 Street Team (video)
Any motto will do: When the going gets tough, the tough get going. It’s times like this that separates the men from the boys. Yes, yes y’all, it’s 3:30 a.m. and there’s only a couple of us left out here.
The media room closed at 2 a.m., so we were [...]

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Looptopia: All About The Arts

Erik Sorensen (Video)
2008’s Looptopia is wet, but worth it; or at least to anyone who loves a night out in the city and doesn’t mind a few surprises along the way.
Earlier I dropped in for a live acoustic performance in Urban Outfitters by Chicago’s own, Company of Thieves. The atmosphere for a show like [...]

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Looptopia “On The Street” 10 p.m – 1 a.m.

Jim Grillo, NBC5 Street Team
The following is some video you don’t want to miss watching.  Why?  It includes some very interesting segments (from bizarre to almost “scary”).  First let me say, I applaud the city and the Chicago Loop Alliance for a valiant effort.  I know it is only their 2nd year and to pull [...]

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Just another night in the Chicago Loop

Angie, NBC5 Street Team
Mind reading magician, world’s longest improv sketch in 3 minute repetitions, orange woman making string art, red couple building a book wall, man synchronizing LED lights to movements of passersby, woman in plastic with wriggling baby dolls at her feet, carpenter building things on a stage, woman sewing herself into a white [...]

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Looptopia: Thanks for the Press Pass

 
Susan Noble, NBC5 Street Team
It came in handy when I wanted to catch a bit of ‘Architecture Improv’ at Chicago Architecture Foundation.
Min-aha Beeck, Frankie Benavides, Jonathan Keaton and Robyn Scott were hilarious as the emcee and contestants at Miss Architecture USA 2008. Miss Monadnock Building won, besting Miss Sears Tower and Mister Robie House. [...]

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Looptopia: I Have Found The One

Shlomi Rabi NBC5 Street Team
After watching clowns, acrobats, tattoo artists, painters, street musicians, performers, dancers, drag queen, prom kids and one or two (million) drunks, I decided to take a break.
It’s a minute before midnight, which means that in less than a minute the magical existence will begin to pulverize, and I [...]

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Looptopia: Seeing What All The Buzz Is About

Marcus Riley, NBC5 Street Team (video)
So my role tonight as Looptopia has been to hang out in the media room and take calls from the various Street Team members and input them onto the blog. I guess you could say I am taking one for the team, but after hearing about all the great [...]

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Looptopia’s FAO Schwarz Family Fun

Jennifer, NBC5 Street Team
So much to see, so little time.  However, Brooke and I made sure we stopped at Looptopia’s FAO Schwarz Family Fun.  To say that this was a great idea is an understatement — check out Brooke’s pictures and blog! 
From now until 10pm the FAO Schwarz nestled inside Macy’s on State Street is [...]

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Looptopia: Wristband Crisis!

Jim Grillo, NBC5 Street Team
We ran into a bunch of kids that could not get wristbands to stay and check out the activities after midnight. You could tell it was a bummer for them because you could tell they were very artsy, and that’s what Looptopia is all about — the arts, and they [...]

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Looptopia: Virtual Gestures

Laura Lodewyck, NBC5 Street Team
I just flew through the city of Chicago. Well, virtually. “Visible Gestures” appears at DePaul Center until midnight, and you should check it out — or at least participate remotely by text. Basically, the project is a virtual reality visual project, where a pair of glasses powered by a wii [...]

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Looptopia: More Raise High The Roof Beam Please!

Kaylee King, NBC5 Street Team
I officially experienced my first Looptopia event and let me tell you there is nothing better than seeing my fellow Columbia College students doing something that totally rocks!
I just saw Raise High the Roof Beam, a band made up of Columbia students, at the Urban Outfitters on State. And they [...]

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Looptopia: Avant-Garde Art?

Chasity Chaos, NBC5 Street Team Video

So, I arrived to Looptopia an hour and a half ago, right on time to be greeted by a downpour of rain (just my luck). I sought refuge in the entrance of a department store on State St. with numerous other patrons who were eager to see what the festivities [...]

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Looptopians: Who are those people dressed in white?

Laura Lodewyck, NBC5 Street Team
Does anyone know what those white-robed people on the white-draped platforms along State street are doing?  I can’t figure out what the name of this performance art exhibit is, but I’d love to know.
One guy played guitar lovingly to a pile of chattering wind up toys and a box of [...]

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Looptopia Takes Over Macys

 Damaris Woodbury, NBC5 Street Team
Free makovers, fragrance samples, free food, patrons and employees losing all inhibitions and letting loose to the tunes being pumped throughout the entire floor.
The energy is extremely high and people are dancing alone and with each other in the perfume aisles. And this is just the first floor, people. Is this [...]

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Looptopia: State Street “Household Art”

Blagica Bottigliero, NBC5 Street Team (Video)
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I was JUST about to descend the steps to the red line when I snapped these photos. I couldn’t figure out what the exact theme was, but I’m thinking [...]

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