“On July 5, 1955, in a long-gone tavern once located just off campus, improvisational comedy was born,” wrote Jennifer Carnig in 2005 from the news office of The University Chicago Chronicle. Paul Shepherd left NYC for the Midwest where he co-founded the Compass Players with Paul Sills who fostered many of the company’s most famous Read more…
Getting a late start to her career at 40 years old hasn’t lessened her significance in contemporary American jazz music. A caged domestic life and abusive marriage spurred a blues career carrying on the lineage of Billie Holiday and Nina Simone. Since the millennium, Marie has been called to sing about the Jena Six Case Read more…
Hell in a Handbag Productions, lead by Artistic Director and co-founder, David Cerda, seems to have its hands in everything camp and film in Chicagoland. Handbag “is dedicated to the preservation, exploration, and celebration of works ingrained in the realm of popular culture via theatrical productions through parody, music, and homage.” My first introduction to Read more…
Her Sara-Vaughn-and-Ella-Fitzgerald-inspired voice will send you back in time. Local celebrity and jazz sensation, Kimberly Gordon and her organ trio, has been a late, Sunday night fixture at the Green Mill Lounge for almost a decade. Following Marc Smith’s original Poetry Slam, at 11PM Gordon belts out her favorite pop standards, while Chris Foreman hammers Read more…
Not all Chicago arts coverage can fit into every FEAR NO ART Chicago episode, so we’re bringing you exclusive artist profiles and the heads-up on not-to-miss concerts, artist talks, film screenings. I’m pleased to author this blog twice a month, and I look forward to your comments, submissions, insights, and recommendations. Before our first post Read more…
Jon performs at the Jan. 30 Fear No ART presents The Dinner Party. The Dinner Party broadcasts live the last Monday night of every month on FearNoART.tv For more information and to be a guest in the audience of a future Dinner Party, click here. The CD/Book release party for “Skull Orchard Revisited” is a Read more…
Fear No ART Chicago airs on WTTW on March 31 @ 10 PM, April 3 @ Noon, April 6 @ 10:30 PM and April 23 @ 11:30 PM. It also airs on WTTWPrime on April 1 @ 4 PM, April 7 @ 4:30 PM and April 9 @ 5 PM Our shoot day started at Read more…
Fear No ART Chicago airs on WTTW on March 31 @ 10 PM, April 3 @ Noon, April 6 @ 10:30 PM and April 23 @ 11:30 PM. It also airs on WTTWPrime on April 1 @ 4 PM, April 7 @ 4:30 PM and April 9 @ 5 PM Due to a tiny budget, Read more…
Fear No ART Chicago airs on WTTW on March 31 @ 10 PM, April 3 @ Noon, April 6 @ 10:30 PM and April 23 @ 11:30 PM. It also airs on WTTWPrime on April 1 @ 4 PM, April 7 @ 4:30 PM and April 9 @ 5 PM Blair Thomas: what a creative Read more…
Blair Thomas has been a practicing puppeteer in Chicago for over 20 years. The summer of 2010 he performed a 5-week run of his award winning solo shows entitled Hard Headed Heart. In the fall of 2008 he conceived, designed and directed The Ox-Herder’s Tale, a Buddhist parable at the Museum of Contemporary Art as Read more…
