FRIENDS OF WILL MEMBERSHIP MAGAZINE patterns march 2013 your come and get it! TM patterns march 2013 Volume XL, Number 9 Membership Hotline: 800-898-1065 WILL AM-FM-TV: 217-333-7300 Campbell Hall for Public Telecommunication 300 N. Goodwin Ave., Urbana, IL 61801-2316 New ways of coming together Mailing List Exchange By Lisa Bralts, Marketing Director Donor records are proprietary and confidential. WILL will not sell, rent or trade its donor lists. If you’ve been to Urbana’s Market Patterns at the Square—our area’s largest Friends of WILL Membership Magazine Editor: Cyndi Paceley farmers market—you know that it Art Director: Michael Thomas seems like the entire community Designer: Laura Adams-Wiggs attends. The Market is an area Patterns (USPS 092-370) is published monthly at Campbell Hall for jewel—a place where people come Public Telecommunication, 300 N. Goodwin Ave., Urbana, IL 61801- 2316 by and for the Friends of WILL. Membership dues for the together and connect with farmers, Friends of WILL begin at $40 per year, with $7.62 designated for 12 their food and with each other. issues of Patterns. The remainder of membership dues is used for the support of the activities of Illinois Public Media at the University As I neared the end of my tenure as the Market’s of Illinois through the Friends of WILL. Periodicals postage paid at Urbana, Illinois, and additional mailing offices. director last September and told patrons about Postmaster: Send address changes to Patterns, my upcoming adventure as Illinois Public Media’s Campbell Hall for Telecommunication, marketing director, they got excited. “Wait—you get 300 N. Goodwin Ave., Urbana, IL 61801-2316. to work for our NPR and PBS stations?” one asked. Printed by Premier Print Group. Many of these excited patrons who were once new Printed with SOY INK to our community were thrilled—and maybe a little on RECYCLED, surprised—to discover our terrific radio, television TM RECYCLABLE paper. Trademark American Soybean Assoc. and online services when they moved to the area. Radio After all, Illinois Public Media’s stations and online 90.9 FM: A mix of classical music and venues are places where people come to connect NPR information programs, including local with their communities and the rest of the world, news. (Also heard at 106.5 in Danville.) their favorite programs and with each other. See pages 4-5. 101.1 FM and 90.9 FM HD2: Locally No wonder I feel so comfortable here. produced music programs and classical In October, Illinois Public Media’s development music from C24. (101.1 is available in the director, Danda Beard, asked me if I’d host a Champaign-Urbana area.) See page 6. cooking show on WILL-TV during the March 580 AM: News and information, NPR, television fundraising drive. Would I?! Creating BBC, news, agriculture, talk shows. (Also the show these last few months has been a fruitful heard on 90.9 FM HD3 with live streaming collaboration between IPM staff, our listeners and on will.illinois.edu.) See page 7. viewers, and several members of our community— Television including two of our area’s best-known chefs, both WILL Create of whom volunteered to prepare their own dinner Cooking, travel, gardening and home recipes on the show. A pair of farmers and a local improvement, arts and crafts. 12.3; also wine expert round out the guests, bringing even available on Comcast and Mediacom. more depth and community connection. We can’t See page 8. wait for you to see it! WILL World PBS documentaries, news and public More great things are afoot at Illinois Public Media. affairs. 12.2; also available on Comcast By the time you read this, a much-refreshed version and Mediacom. See page 8. of our website will have launched. A smartphone WILL-HD and tablet app is in development for our AM and All your favorite PBS and local FM stations and should be available by the end of programming, in high definition when March, if not before. We’ll be out and about much available. 12.1; Contact your cable or more at local events in the coming months, too— satellite provider for channel information. we want to hear from you, and for you to get to See pages 9-16. know us—our new on-air hosts as well as the staff Online who keep our operations humming at Campbell will.illinois.edu Hall. facebook.com/WILLradiotvonline Who knows? Maybe you’ll even see us at the Market. @willpublicmedia PATTERNS • MARCH 2013 Join us for what’s cooking and much more s Family Dinner Favorites host Lisa Bralts (center) will welcome five community cooks, along with Bacaro Restaurant owner/chef Thad Morrow and Prairie Fruits Farm Chef Alisa DeMarco. Photo: Peoria Journal Star We value that the WILL stations bring people from us and then having them come back together around issues, information and for more the next week,” Hans said. entertainment. So it’s only fitting that we’re Chef Alisa DeMarco leads the kitchen at now gathering families around food with our Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery where WILL-TV production of Come and Get It! her farm-to-table dinners and breakfasts Your Family Dinner Favorites at 7 pm Mon- utilize local and seasonal ingredients. “I day, March 4. enjoy getting to know the farmers, artisans Big thanks to everyone who submitted more and producers I work with and also form- than 100 recipes for the show’s companion ing lasting relationships with our Prairie cookbook. We’ve selected five cooks who will Fruits patrons,” Alisa commented. share with host Lisa Bralts how they prepare Thad Morrow opened Bacaro Restaurant their family’s favorite foods. They will be in Champaign in 2001 after graduating joined by two area chefs and local food pro- from the Culinary Institute of America viders who will add additional insight into and interning with noted chef Mario choosing and using locally sourced ingredi- Batali. “I strive to deliver superb wine, en- ents, pairing beverages with foods and involv- gaging dishes and an atmosphere that in- ing family members in preparing meals. vites the community to learn about great Sharon Crow and her colleagues at Check- food,” he said. ered Moon in Champaign are providing tableware and other accessories. After managing Farren’s in Champaign for 11 years, Todd Fusco now manages the Our food professionals include farmers Hans Corkscrew Wine Emporium and Buvons and Katie Bishop of PrairiErth Farm who Wine Bar in Urbana. “My job exposes raise 10 acres of certified organic vegetables me to pairing an array of beer, wines and for sale locally. They enjoy offering their cus- spirits with foods, plus the opportunity to tomers tips about choosing healthy produce. meet fascinating people and learn their “The most satisfying part of our job is hearing stories,” Todd said. how people are using the vegetables they buy PATTERNS • MARCH 2013 1 One channel. Many choices. Our March 2-17 WILL-TV fundraising drive showcases the diversity of quality programs always found on your local public TV station. Don’t miss the following best bets, and be sure to check the daily listings (pages 12-16) and our TV features (pages 10-11) for more programs that inform, inspire and entertain. Courtesy of Detroit Public Television Honoring Lincoln Three years before Steven Spielberg’s re- cent blockbuster came to the big screen, WILL produced Lincoln: Prelude to the Presidency in celebration of the bicenten- nial of Lincoln’s birth. The documentary features prominent scholars Doris Kearns Goodwin (Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln) and Orville Vernon Burton (The Age of Lincoln), along Guarding your memory with re-enactments filmed at historic sites in central Illinois, to show how Lincoln’s Based on ground-breaking research, Dr. formative experiences as a young lawyer on Neal Barnard (above)offers three steps to Illinois’ Eighth Judicial Circuit informed combat the degenerative processes that his views on the issues he would face could otherwise derail your memory. He as president. The program airs at 7 pm also warns against potential threats to the Wednesday, March 6, on WILL-TV. brain, including medications, drug inter- actions, sleep deprivation and physical conditions that can put your memory at risk. Protect Your Memory with Dr. Neal Barnard airs at 9 pm Monday, March 4, on WILL-TV. COMING EVENTS Join us for Community Cinema Wonder Women! The Untold Story of United Way’s Ready, Set, Grow American Superheroines traces the fasci- April 6 / 9 am-noon nating evolution and legacy of Wonder Lincoln Square, Urbana Woman. From the birth of the comic book Family Technology Event superheroine in the 1940s to the blockbust- April 6 / 2-3 pm ers of today, Wonder Women! looks at how Champaign Public Library popular representations of powerful wom- en often reflect society’s anxieties about Vintage Vinyl women’s liberation. May 4 / 8 am-6 pm Downtown Champaign Attend a free screening of the film and a follow-up discussion at 6 pm Tuesday, March 12, at the Champaign Public Library. 2 PATTERNS • MARCH 2013 Specials, public talk and studio visit... Rick Steves in C-U Listening to a superstar We start the month with a new Rick Steves special, Symphonic Journey (8 pm Fri- day, March 1) as the veteran traveler and program host teams up with the Cascade Symphony Orchestra for a musical jour- ney that begins in the United States and touches down in seven different European countries. Steves uses his extensive knowl- edge of European history to offer context for music by composers including Grieg, Photo: Courtesy of Giovanni De Sandre Smetana, Strauss, Berlioz, Elgar, Wagner and Verdi.