Known for His Roles on “TOP CHEF DALLAS” and “IRON CHEF AMERICA”, Celebrity Chef Tim Love Celebrates Delicious Food Live from Music City Eats in Nashville, Tennessee, Invites Your Listeners to Help Him Break the Guinness World Record for the World’s Longest Picnic Table, and Shares with Your Listeners Some of His Favorite Family Recipes!Celebrity chef Tim Love, famous for his roles on “Top Chef Dallas” and “Iron Chef America” and beloved for his freewheeling Texas personality and signature urban western cuisine, will be celebrating delicious food and memorable moments live from one of America’s premiere culinary events~Music City Eats in Nashville, Tennessee~one of the nation’s largest, favorite, and most respected food festivals! Having been a judge on the popular “Food Network” television series “Best in Smoke”, Tim will share with your listeners some of his favorite family food recipes that he has enjoyed around the table with family and friends! In addition, Tim is helping to unveil the WORLD’S LONGEST PICNIC TABLE and is inviting your listeners to join him in breaking the Guinness World Record. Celebrity chef Tim Love, beloved as much for his freewheeling personality as his signature urban western cuisine, has been featured on numerous television shows, including “Top Chef Dallas” and “Iron Chef America”, and has been a judge on the popular “Food Network” television series “Best in Smoke”. His inspired and innovative dishes (including everything from wild boar to rattlesnake) have earned critical and popular acclaim, and his charm and southern hospitality are always on display, whether it is at his Dallas/Fort Worth-area restaurants “The Lonesome Dove Western Bistro”, “The Love Shack”, Queenie’s Steakhouse, and Woodshed Smokehouse, or at culinary events and cultural festivals around the world such as Music City Eats, the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen, the South Beach Wine & Food Festival, the Austin FOOD & WINE Festival (for which he is a founding partner), and Austin City Limits.
EAMONN WALKER - Battalion Chief Wallace Boden, Chicago Fire
On the big screen, Walker received stand-out notices for his performance as Howlin Wolf in “Cadillac Records," opposite Adrien Brody, Jeffrey Wright, Mos Def and Beyonce Knowles. He also has given memorable performances in such films as “The Messenger” opposite Ben Foster, Woody Harrelson, and Samantha Morton; "Lord of War," opposite Nicholas Cage and Ethan Hawke; “Duma,” Carroll Ballard's critically-acclaimed film; "Tears of the Sun," opposite Bruce Willis; Laurence Fishburne's "Once in the Life"; the psychological thriller “Legacy” and M. Night Shamaylan's "Unbreakable."
Moving seamlessly between film and television, his numerous credits include the NBC series “Kings” where he garnered rave reviews, the Jerry Bruckheimer series “Justice” and the award-winning BBC series “Moses Jones.” He portrayed a modern day John Othello in the BAFTA and Peabody Award-winning adaptation of London Weekend Television’s “Othello” and Tom Fontana invited Walker to portray the sympathetic killer in the “Homicide” finale, the two-hour teleplay “Homicide: Life Everlasting.” Other credits include a special arc on the critically-acclaimed series “Lights Out,” a topical multi-episode African –based narrative on John Wells’ “ER,” and the mini-series “The Governor” and “Supply and Demand.” Most recently, he appeared in the BBC’s groundbreaking Martin Shaw series “Inspector George Gently” and with Charles Dance in several episodes of the Cinemax series “Strike Back.”
In 2005, Walker was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for his Broadway debut as Marc Antony alongside Denzel Washington and Colm Feore in "Julius Caesar" at the Belasco Theatre. He later performed to sold-out audiences and great critical acclaim as the first Black actor to portray Othello at the historic Old Globe Theater in London.
Walker co-founded the Flipside Theater Company in London and starred in their production of "Danny and the Deep Blue Sea." He also appeared in London’s West End and in plays on such venerable stages as the Citizens Theatre, the Royal Exchange and the Hampstead Theatre. Walker resides in both Los Angeles and London.
Jim “Jimmy” Ulcickas - Founder, BLUE WATER GRILL
Jim “Jimmy” Ulcickas founded Bluewater Grill with his partner Rick Staunton in 1996, and is responsible for all aspects of marketing, especially the growth of the brand from the original Newport Beach, Calif., dockside location to a growing family of premiere seafood restaurants in California and Arizona.He was born and raised in Connecticut, and is a Dartmouth graduate of economics. After graduation in 1983, he joined W. R. Grace & Co. in New York, N.Y., where he worked as a financial analyst in the restaurant department and assistant to Chairman J. Peter Grace. During his six-year tenure with the company, he worked in operations for various Grace divisions, including Coco’s, Carrows, Baxter’s, Reuben’s, El Torito and Gladstone’s 4 Fish.
In 1989, Jim joined American Restaurant Group, Inc., in Newport Beach, as controller of Spoons, a $35 million division encompassing 20 restaurants and 1,400 employees. In this capacity, he was responsible for the financial management of day-to-day operations, strategic planning, budgeting and the development and maintenance of internal control systems. Jim used his unit-level, district and multi-unit operational experience to help grow the Spoons chain by 50 percent and establish the National Sports Grill concept to six stores during his tenure.
Jim was instrumental in the design and marketing of the Bluewater Grill at The District at Tustin Legacy. The 7,250-square-foot showplace served as the design inspiration for the new Phoenix location and is the prototype for future Bluewater Grills throughout the West.