Eco-Orlando Week, Comin' Up Fast, and Dug Sound Recaps

ChiIL Mama, 2011

We're back from spring break in Orlando and in honor of Earthday, we have a ton of fun, green, Eco-Orlando info for you.   We'll be running photo filled adventures all week.   Before that, we'll take a brief tour back to Chi Town and upcoming events you won't wanna miss. 


April Highlights:

• Shen Yun Show, Chicago Civic Opera House through 4/24
• Don Quixote,Auditorium Theatre 4/21 & 23 only

• Chris Cornell , Vic (new tickets just released for this previously sold out acoustic show!)-4/22* 

• Cirque Eloize, Cadillac Palace opening 4/26 *
• Next to Normal, Bank of America Theatre 4/27* 

• Peter Pan,Chicago Tribune Freedom Center North 4/29*

• Dead Milkmen, Congress Theater 4/30* 

*(we'll be posting a full review)
    

Emmy Rossum, singer 

and actress on Showtime's Shameless

We've also taken advantage of a rare vacation day to play catch up over at Dugsound.com, our TV/film industry blog.   Check it out later this week, for lots of behind the scenes photos coming soon.   Check out what Sagezilla and Du-Jay's Dad does while we travel and cover the Chicago theatre, music, and alt. parenting scene.   Enjoy!

Here's a bit of what we've been up to at Dug Production Sound, Inc.

     

We're going to break these into different post for easy searching, since some are a blast from the past and some are very recent.   If the episodes Dug shot are on line, we'll include links to video clips wherever possible.   

Future Food, Planet Green 

Mysteries At The Museum, Travel Channel  

• Sue, Field Museum
• U505, Museum of Science and Industry
• Spirit of America car, MSI
• Tesla, MSI

Click here for episodes

American Greed, CNBC 

History Detectives, PBS

I Used To Be Fat, MTV

Lions Club International Videos in Honduras and Baltimore

Monday Night Football (Bears), ESPN

Green Bay Packers Win, ESPN

Big 10 Tailgate, Big 10 Network

Cash Cab, Discovery Channel

My Strange Addiction, TLC

CNBC Specials:   The American Tax Cheat, (and more yet to air)

First 48, Missing Persons, A & E

Fast and Fabulous/NASCAR 

Wedding 

(featuring driver, Kyle Bush), Style Network

Oprah, with guests from Buried Life (click HERE for the episode Dug worked on)

Giuliana & Bill, Style Network

The Squeeze, MSNBC

Lottery Changed My Life, TLC

Mugging It Up With Mickey Mouse for #VisitFlorida #Disney #DisneySMMoms

 Closer to home, ChiIL Dad (Dug) and The Cameraman mingle with "The" Mouse and The Governor of Florida at Midway airport in Chicago.   Dug Production Sound, Inc. provided the location sound engineering for the shoot.

Spring break is comin' and we're going to 

Disney World!

Our world traveler kids are 7 & 10 and have never been to Disney or Universal Studios or even Florida, for that matter.   We'll be making a family trip in April, to do a whole series of features on Eco-Orlando for Chicago Parent-ChiIL Out, ChiIL Mama, ChiIL Travel Kids, Green Parent Chicago, and more.

Right now, many of our fellow social media mamas are in Orlando, at Disney's Social Media Moms Summit.   Next year we'd love to be included. For now, we'll have to be content with reading all about it, in preparation for our own adventures next month.

A few weeks ago, Dug met Governor Rick Scott and Mickey Mouse at Midway Airport in Chicago, far from The Magic Kingdom.   Dug's the one pictured above with the fuzzy mic on a stick.

Here's the scoop on the tour, according to Christopher L. Thompson, President & CEO of Visit Florida:

Governor Rick Scott and the “Sunshine Ambassadors” from VISIT FLORIDA returned from last week’s highly visible “Share a Little Sunshine” tour with a renewed commitment to the importance of tourism in Florida.  Governor Scott and the rest of the team spent two days in Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, New York City and Chicago hosting Florida-themed events, speaking with potential visitors and meetings professionals, and awarding Florida vacation packages to lucky winners. 

“Share a Little Sunshine is not just a two-day marketing blitz,” said Will Seccombe, Chief Marketing Officer at VISIT FLORIDA. “This tour was an amazing example of Governor Scott’s commitment to the Florida tourism industry.  It is now our job to take the Governor’s lead and run with it.”

Share a Little Sunshine Chicago Tour Details:

The fourth stop on the tour was Chicago, which included a meeting professionals’ roundtable at the Chicago Cultural Center, a stop at Sunda New Asian Restaurant where the Governor delivered fresh Apalachicola oysters to encourage business with the Florida seafood industry and spoke with personalities from the Food Network and other local media, followed by a rally at Midway Airport where more than 100 winners of Florida vacation packages to Walt Disney World were greeted by Mickey Mouse before leaving on Southwest Airlines’ “Florida One” plane bound for Orlando.

 
Christopher L. Thompson
President & CEO


Dug's also going down the last week of March, for an unrelated TV shoot in Florida, for CNBC.   But our family vacation week in the sun will come soon.   Can't wait!