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Nora Dunn on the April 30th Fear No ART presents The Dinner Party. Saturday Night Live served as Ms. Dunn’s first job in front of a camera. The cast that returned in 1985 with the show’s original producer, Lorne Michaels, included Dunn, Dana Carvey, Mike Myers, Phil Hartman, Jan Hooks, Jon Lovitz, and Dennis Miller. Read more…
Lane Alexander will be on the April 30th Fear No ART presents The Dinner Party. Buy tix here. Lane Alexander, Chicago Human Rhythm Project’s co-founder and director for 20 years, has a performing career spanning over 30 years that includes work on the concert stage, musical theater, television and film. He is one of the Read more…
Peach Carr will be on the April 30th Fear No ART presents The Dinner Party. Buy tix here. Peach Carr stepped into the spotlight when she stepped onto the runway on the 2008 season of Project Runway. Tim Gunn said he designs were “country club chic”, Peach has designed a line of tennis wear that will take a lady from tennis Read more…
Paul Kahan served both the appetizer and the entree at the April 30th Fear No ART presents The Dinner Party. Plus chocolate sampling from Vosges! Executive Chef/Partner Paul Kahan has become the nationally recognizable face for a new guard of Chicago chefs. With an ever-growing list of international accolades for Blackbird, The Publican and avec, Read more…
Cinema/Chicago and the Chicago International Film Festival honored Kelsey Grammer with the Career Achievement Award at the 48th Hugo Television Awards Ceremony on Thursday night, April 19th. Chicago favorite and renowned actor in his own right, John Mahoney, paid tribute to Mr. Grammer, who then spoke to the crowd in a brief and moving acceptance Read more…
The re-release of Davis’ Stony Island will be available on April 24th. Davis is a filmmaker with a reputation for directing intelligent action thrillers, most notably the Academy Award® nominated box office hit, The Fugitive, starring Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones. The film received seven Academy Award® nominations including Best Picture and earned Jones Read more…
Shy Three Aces Executive Chef, Matt Troost, opened up his kitchen and showed us his simple and delicious ways for making golden beat gnocchi and ribollita on the March 26 Fear No ART presents The Dinner Party. Both audience members and on-stage dinner guests were both thrilled and stuffed!
Michael Darling, James W. Alsdorf Chief Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago, announced today that Naomi Beckwith has been appointed the new Curator at the MCA. Beckwith is currently the Associate Curator at The Studio Museum in Harlem, where she has focused on themes of identity and conceptual practices in contemporary art, artists of African descent, and Read more…
Billy Branch has followed a very non-traditional path to the blues. Unlike many blues artists, he isn’t from the South. Billy was born in Chicago in 1951 and was raised in Los Angeles. He first picked up a harmonica at the age of ten and immediately began to play simple tunes. Billy returned to Chicago Read more…
In part one of this two-part interview, artist and cultural planner, Theaster Gates, discusses transformation and re-imagining possibilities through his art. Theaster Gates is an artist and cultural planner. In his performances, installations, and urban interventions, Gates transforms spaces, institutions, traditions, and perceptions. From witnessing so many torn down buildings in his neighborhood as a Read more…
