Dorothy Parker once said, “there is no cure for curiosity,” but she never attended the Chicago Humanities Festival’s “Curiodyssey” at the Field Museum. The benefit gala’s erratic program was kept under wraps by the CHF staff, perhaps for a good reason-no one understood it.
Odd Numbers: Nearly every act that appeared on stage, including vocalist Pamela Z, who asked guests to use their cell phones to call other audience members. Instead, one woman used her camera phone to call her son and ask, “What am I looking at?”
Odd Couple: The mating habits of squid revealed in an underwater video by marine scientist Roger Hanlon. “After viewing that, I’ll have the lemon chicken,” said Scott Simon, the evening’s emcee and National Public Radio host. Thankfully, they didn’t serve calamari at dinner.
Not So Odd: “It was curiosity and generosity that brought you here,” gala co-chair Judy Block told guests. But it was loyalty that made them stay.
