Archive for July, 2011


Charles Osgood

Sunday, July 31st, 2011

Charles Osgood was born in Milwaukee and raised in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. He graduated from Ripon College and later studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, receiving a master of fine arts degree in photography. He began his journalism career as a reporter for City News Bureau, the legendary Chicago training ground for Read more…

What Eats, Shoots, and Leaves? Swanberg and Autoerotic

Tuesday, July 26th, 2011

Continuing his rapid reverse distribution model, Chicago filmmaker, Joe Swanberg, releases his latest film, Autoerotic. The dark horror sex comedy was released to video-on-demand back in June but the theatrical premiere took place July 22nd, 2011 at the IFC Center. Despite being slighted by Time Out Chicago, which said it suffered from sophisticated movie-making cliches Read more…

Two Chicago-Made Films Premiere This Weekend

Monday, July 18th, 2011

With television series “Playboy” and “Boss” set to premiere in fall, Chicago continues to be an financially attractive location for studios who contributed record revenues for Illinois business in 2010 during the production of “Transformers 3” and “Dark Knight”. Yet, what of all the indies with one week premieres at Gene Siskel Film Center or Read more…

Marc Smith

Monday, July 18th, 2011

It’s the 25th year Anniversary Party-Extravaganza of the Poetry Slam! Join host Elysabeth Alfano on Fear No ART and go behind the scenes of the Green Mill in Chicago with performance poet Marc Smith. Marc Smith is a performance poet and the creator and founder of the International Poetry Slam movement.  As stated in the Read more…

Digging JC Brooks and the Uptown Sound

Monday, July 11th, 2011

Keeping things quiet and releasing popular singles off-the-cuff has been the motto of this inspired free-wheelin’ hard soul rock band. It manages to be original yet reviving a sound over fifty-years old. Now signed to Bloodshot Records, JC Brooks and the Uptown Sound has been called “one of the hottest US soul acts right now” Read more…

The Bluesy Garage Souls of The Congregation

Tuesday, July 5th, 2011

It’s no joke that The Congregation is one The Chicago Tribune’s “11 Bands to Watch in 2011.” This “soul octet” is highly professional. The self-proclaimed “bluesy garage soul” band made an exhausting 4th of July weekend tour starting with a live performance on Windy City LIVE morning show to Martyr‘s in the evening where I Read more…

Susan Messing

Tuesday, July 5th, 2011

In this episode of Fear No ART Chicago, host Elysabeth Alfano goes behind the scenes with improviser Susan Messing, just minutes before her TBS Just For Laughs performance with Michael Patrick Thornton at the Annoyance Theatre. Then, in a rare, unedited interview, Elysabeth talks with Susan and Michael on the stage of the Annoyance Theatre, Read more…

Michael Patrick Thornton

Monday, July 4th, 2011

Michael Patrick Thornton was a guest on the February 2013 Dinner Party. In this rare and unedited interview, Elysabeth Alfano, of Fear No ART, talks to Michael Patrick Thornton and Susan Messing on the stage of The Annoyance Theatre just minutes after their performance for the TBS Just For Laughs comedy Festival.  In Susan’s interview, Read more…