Josh Balk, V.P. of Farming Practices at The Humane Society of the United States, is perhaps the happiest man alive. His outlook for animals is bright! Josh and I discuss how to feel empowered on a daily basis, how people show up for animals and which political party cares more about animals, and why some Read more…

It was difficult to get an interview with Peter Singer. I finally got one for Ep. 7 of Awesome Vegans with Elysabeth Alfano! From his home in Australia, Peter discusses the basis for speciesism as noted in his famed book Animal Liberation, his pet X-lab rats and how to take on big government. Listen in Read more…

Vegan Butter…what exactly is that? On Awesome Vegans, Faba Butter creators Andrew McClure and Aidan Altman join host Elysabeth Alfano via Skype to dish on the hows and whys of vegan butter, and if vegan butter just might save the world, and your waistline! Faba Butter will be available nationwide this June at Eataly locations. Read more…

Who benefits from you being sick? Paul David Kennamer Jr. and Merrilee Jacobs discuss this, what do doctors really know about nutrition – if anything at all!?! (:60 clip here) – and the making of their film, Eating You Alive on this week’s Awesome Vegans with Elysabeth Alfano. Plus, they give some healthy diet tips Read more…

Enjoy the podcast and video interview below, and SUBSCRIBE to Awesome Vegans with Elysabeth Alfano on iTunes and on my Youtube Channel, Elysabeth Alfano. LA Hottest DJ, Valida, joins Awesome Vegans host, Elysabeth Alfano, in her kitchen to dish on music, being vegan, bunnies, Earthlings and spinning for The Humane League’s Vegan Prom. Moby will Read more…

SUBSCRIBE to Awesome Vegans with Elysabeth Alfano on iTunes and on my Youtube Channel, Elysabeth Alfano. The super-fast and super-cool Olympian, Dotsie Bausch joins me on Vegan Nation. Over some Beyond Meat Chicken Strips salad with hemp seeds and avocado, we dish on her deep fall after modeling to finding cycling and making it to Read more…

Fear No ART Chicago welcomes author David Sedaris for its inaugural site podcast.   Click on the podcast below to listen to host Elysabeth Alfano’s interview with Mr. Sedaris, discussing his newest book, “Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary”, his years living in Chicago and his advice for young authors. photo credit: Anne Fishbein PODCAST Listen Read more…

On this second podcast of “The Dinner Party To Go”, I speak with Giuliana and Bill Rancic and Chef Doug Psaltis at RPMSteak and at Taste of the Nation. Over Tuna & Avocado Poke, Sweet Corn Agnolotti, and Baba au Rhum we talk about being focused, never giving up, what makes a successful restaurant and Read more…

I have always been in awe of Cirque du Soleil.  Not just because they don’t use animals in their performances, but because each performance that I have ever seen centers around the delicate, ethereal relationship between the earth, its element and our overarching human condition that hovers in between. Cirque du Soleil remains one of Read more…

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…