James Beard News

Food Network host and 'Gastrophysicist' Alton Brown will be the featured guest at McLean Community Center's (MCC) newest event, McLean Uncorked Food & Wine Festival.

James Beard Award Nominee and one of Food & Wine magazine's 'Best New Chefs,' Stephanie Izard, will be the official chef of the second annual CMT ARTISTS OF THE YEAR event, it was announced today by John Hamlin, Senior Vice President, Music Events and Talent for CMT.

Upcoming Theatre Communication Group Member Shows - 10/02 for Indianapolis

Upcoming Theatre Communication Group Member Shows - 10/02 for South Bend

The Vendy Awards announces that comedian Colin Quinn will be a judge at this year's Vendy Awards.

Food Network host and 'Gastrophysicist' Alton Brown will be the featured guest at McLean Community Center's (MCC) newest event, McLean Uncorked Food & Wine Festival.

James Beard Award Nominee and one of Food & Wine magazine's 'Best New Chefs,' Stephanie Izard, will be the official chef of the second annual CMT ARTISTS OF THE YEAR event, it was announced today by John Hamlin, Senior Vice President, Music Events and Talent for CMT.

Celine Dion recently wrapped the Spring/Summer run of her chart-topping Las Vegas show with 54 consecutive sold out performances that played to 230,000 fans from March through August, 2011 at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace.

The Vendy Awards announces that comedian Colin Quinn will be a judge at this year's Vendy Awards.

Rod Stewart returned to Las Vegas today and was welcomed with a fan-packed Rock & Roll celebration to kick off his new residency at Caesars Palace, appropriately titled, Rod Stewart: The Hits. Stewart arrived at the famed Garden of the Gods pool oasis in a classic car as a group of world-class synchronized swimmers kicked into an homage performance to his song 'Hot Legs.'

Moving into the second season in its expanded campus, Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater has updated the culinary options available to patrons in the venue. The upper lobby-level dining area has become Catwalk Café. This casual self-service café, along with its adjoining bar and the main lobby-level concessions, will continue to be operated by Ridgewells Catering, who ran the café launched during the inaugural season in the Mead Center: Next Stage Café by José Andrés.

Go big or go home - that's the motto for season nine of the Emmy and James Beard Award-winning No.1 food show on cable, 'Top Chef,' as it heads to the state that does everything bigger - Texas. Possibly the worst kept locale secret in this moment's culinary universe, the new season of 'Top Chef' will heartily embrace the Lone Star State's adage that all things are bigger as, in a series first, the production will head to three cities within the season - Austin, Dallas and San Antonio. Season nine will also showcase many surprising twists and turns and never-before-seen challenges and events. Returning to the judges table is host Padma Lakshmi and head judge, chef Tom Colicchio, alongside judges Gail Simmons and new this season, famed chef and restaurateur Emeril Lagasse and critically acclaimed chef Hugh Acheson. 'Top Chef: Texas' will air later this fall.

Seattle Center today announced a new partnership with Levy Restaurants to manage food and beverage service in Center House and elsewhere on the 74-acre campus.

Food Network's primetime programming catches fire this July with the series premiere of Heat Seekers Friday, July 22nd at 10pm ET/PT.

Food Network's primetime programming catches fire this July with the series premiere of Heat Seekers Friday, July 22nd at 10pm ET/PT.

Shania Twain, international superstar and the world's best-selling female country artist of all time, confirmed today her widely-speculated return to the stage and vocal spotlight with a two-year residency at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. The music icon will bring all of her biggest hits in her new show SHANIA: STILL THE ONE exclusively to The Colosseum beginning December 1, 2012.

The New Museum is pleased to announce that Alice Waters, chef, author, activist, philanthropist, proprietor of Chez Panisse Restaurant and Café in Berkeley, CA, and internationally admired pioneer of the sustainable food movement, will give the third annual Stuart Regen Visionaries lecture on the evening of May 23, at 7 p.m. in the New Museum Theater.

New York Institute of Technology (NYIT), and co-sponsor Quarterly Review of Wines, will present its Professional Excellence Awards to elite leaders in the culinary and oenology community at NYIT's Gold Coast Classic on Thursday, May 5, at the Ritz Carlton in New York City.

Bravo hits the road 'Jack,' kicking-off the fourth annual highly-anticipated and widely successful 'Top Chef: The Tour.' The 20-city tour brings the Emmy and James Beard Award-winning, No. 1 food show on cable to fans and foodies nationwide, beginning Friday, April 15th at Soulard Farmers Market in St. Louis, Missouri.

New York Institute of Technology (NYIT), and co-sponsor Quarterly Review of Wines, will present its Professional Excellence Awards to elite leaders in the culinary and oenology community at NYIT's Gold Coast Classic on Thursday, May 5, at the Ritz Carlton in New York City.