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Member and Viewer Services In June on WTTW11 and wttw.com/watch, we bring you music specials from across the genres – from (773) 509-1111 x 6 Frank Sinatra to Fleetwood Mac, Leonard Cohen to tenor Pasquale Esposito, and Foreigner to Perry WFMT Radio Networks (773) 279-2000 Como. We celebrate LGBT Pride Month with Coming Out: A 50 Year History and Man in an Orange Shirt Chicago Production Center starring Vanessa Redgrave. (See page 7 for the full list of related programming.) 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WTTW Contributors Julia Maish On wttw.com, we take you back in time to the tumultuous year of 1968 as we mark the fiftieth Dan Soles anniversary of the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. On a lighter note, as The Great British Baking Show WFMT Contributors challenges a new group of talented amateur bakers, we’ll serve up the recipes! And are you confused Andrea Lamoreaux about whodunit, or how the brilliant Morse figured it out? Recap episodes of Endeavour. David Polk Distribution Manager On 98.7WFMT, wfmt.com/listen, and the WFMT app, we’ll celebrate the approach of summer with Pat Sheppard live concerts from the Grant Park Music Festival in Millennium Park as artistic director Carlos Kalmar conducts three specials live from Pritzker Pavilion in June. The 2018 Lyric Opera of Chicago season Advertising Sales WTTW: Douglas Carleton continues this month beginning with Bizet’s melodious The Pearl Fishers and ending with Gounod’s (773) 279-2128 melodramatic Faust. Peter DuBois, host of With Heart and Voice, and WFMT’s Dennis Moore will WFMT: Alexander Stonor Saunders celebrate Father’s Day with special music, and Carl Grapentine will have his annual first-day-of-summer (773) 509-5357 show. A few days later, DuBois is back with an edition of With Heart and Voice that he calls Summertime, The Guide: The Member Magazine and the Listening Is Easy. for WTTW and WFMT On wfmt.com this month, we’ll visit the Chicago Botanic Gardens to ask specialists how music might (ISSN 2329-1338) help our gardens grow, and visit a curious plant that dances. And stay connected to WFMT’s Facebook June 2018 Volume 33, Number 241 page to watch live video interviews with artists and audiences from the Grant Park Music Festival lawn throughout the summer. 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Copyright 2014, Window To The World Communications, Inc., 3 Member Connections 17 Do it Yourself Saturdays Chicago, IL. 4 Member Perks 17 WTTW Kid Grid 5 TV Listings 19 At-a-Glance 6 WTTW Digital Channel Highlights 20 Radio Listings 14 Multi-Channel Primetime Grid 31 Sponsors ON THE COVER: Civilizations, Tuesdays, June 12, 19, and 26 at 8:00 pm. 2 JUNE 2018 MEMBER CONNECTIONS WFMT’s Beach Party at Theater on the Lake! A Toast to Carl Grapentine Celebrate the official start of summer at WFMT’s first-ever Beach Party at the newly reimagined Theater at Ravinia on the Lake on Chicago’s beautiful lakefront! Join us on 98.7WFMT, wfmt.com, Facebook Live, or stop by in person to pick up your very own WFMT beach ball. WHAT WFMT’s Beach Party! WFMT hosts will welcome special WHERE guests and play a Theater on the Lake variety of live sum- 2401 N. Lake Shore Drive mertime music to (at Fullerton) start the season in WHEN style! Monday, May 28, For more infor- 10:00 am-4:00 pm mation, please visit wfmt.com/events. Screening & Discussion: Coming Out: A 50 Year History The insightful documentary Coming Out: A 50 Year History, presented as part of WTTW’s celebration of LGBTQ Pride Month, features young people interviewing a host of LGBTQ elders who came out during the McCarthy, Civil Rights, post-Stonewall, and AIDS eras. These inspiring talks give insight into the political and personal changes that shaped the modern LGBTQ move- ment, and celebrate the WHAT enduring power of activ- Carl Grapentine Coming Out: A 50 Year History ism. The film is narrated by A Screening & Discussion transgender teen Jazz WHERE Jennings. Chicago Cultural Center Join us at the Chicago 78 E. Washington Street in Cultural Center for a free WHAT Chicago screening of the film, fol- A Toast to Carl Grapentine at Ravinia WHEN lowed by a panel discus- WHERE Saturday, June 23, 2:00 pm sion. For more information Ravinia Festival and to RSVP, please visit Jazz Jennings 418 Sheridan Road in Highland Park wttw.com/events. WHEN Saturday, July 14, 5:00 pm Screening & Discussion: 10 Streets, Monuments, and Modern Marvels that Changed America You are invited to a very special event to preview 10 Streets, Monuments, and Modern Marvels that Raise your glasses with us at Ravinia as we Changed America – three new specials that take you on a whirlwind tour of America’s treasures. From New celebrate Carl Grapentine, who will retire on York’s Broadway to the Hoover Dam, from Mount Rushmore to the St. Louis Arch, host Geoffrey Baer takes a July 27 as the longtime host of WFMT’s Morning summer road trip across America where he meets with historians, curators, and guides who share the fascinating Program! Toast the guest of honor with other backstories behind the iconic streets that connect our nation, the WFMT personalities at a private champagne monuments that com- WHAT and hors d’oeuvres reception, followed by a 7:30 memorate our history, and Behind the Scenes with WTTW’s pm performance by the Chicago Symphony the engineering marvels Geoffrey Baer & Dan Protess: Orchestra and Chorus, where you’ll hear that transformed our envi- 10 Streets, Monuments, and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 (“Ode to Joy”) and ronment and shaped the Modern Marvels that Changed Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms, under the baton way we live. America of Marin Alsop. In addition to a reserved During this very special WHERE Pavilion or Lawn seat, you’ll receive a swag bag evening, Geoffrey Baer and Chicago History Museum with a $10 certificate to the Ravinia Festival writer/producer Dan 1601 N. Clark Street in Chicago Shop plus WFMT goodies, and the opportunity Protess will discuss the to inscribe a message in Carl’s memory book. “making of,” show selected WHEN To learn more about this very special event, Wednesday, July 11, 6:00 pm excerpts, and answer your visit wfmt.com/events. questions. Geoffrey Baer Tickets will be available on June 4 at wttw.com/events. 2018 JUNE 3 MEMBER PERKS 25% Off Special Gift Baskets Celebrate the special people in your life with a unique gift basket from 1800baskets.com. Whether it’s a birthday, graduation, Father’s Day, a special teacher, or a friend – you’ll save 25% on the basket of your choice! The selections are abundant – including fruit, nuts, cheese, cookies, prepared meals, and more! And best of all, WTTW will receive 10% back on your purchase from 1800baskets.com. Shop and support WTTW with this special WTTW Member Reward. To redeem this special offer, use promo code wttw25 when placing an order on 1800baskets.com. Carl Grapentine 50% Off Second Ticket to Amira: A Chicago Cinderella Story Hyde Park School of Dance (HPSD) celebrates its home base – Hyde Park, Chicago – with a world 2-for-1 Tickets to premiere to kick off its 25th anniversary season: Amira: A Chicago Cinderella Story. Staged by HPSD Carl Grapentine Award Founding Artistic Director August Tye, ballet mistress and choreographer at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Amira is the story of a young girl forced to leave her native country without her mother, arriving in Chicago Presentation and struggling to make a home in Hyde Park.