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From the President & CEO The Guide The Member Magazine Dear Member, for WTTW and WFMT Renée Crown Public Media Center This month, WTTW’s popular restaurant review series Check, Please! returns for a new season 5400 North Saint Louis Avenue with an old friend at the table: host Alpana Singh. Alpana has been busy since we last saw her, Chicago, Illinois 60625 as a successful restaurateur and enthusiastic ambassador for the local restaurant scene. Alpana is eager to shine a spotlight on more local eateries, and we are thrilled to welcome her back Main Switchboard (773) 583-5000 for season 18 on October 26. Join us on wttw.com/checkplease for all the action, including her Member and Viewer Services thoughts on Chicago’s culinary landscape, the changing relationship of people to food, and of (773) 509-1111 x 6 course, food and wine tips! Websites On WTTW11 and wttw.com/watch, explore the city’s creative past and present on our new wttw.com local series and companion website, Art & Design in Chicago. The Great American Read reveals wfmt.com America’s most-loved novel; at wttw.com/read, enjoy stories about Chicago’s literary scene and much more. American Experience takes us to the circus, Sue Perkins to the Ganges, Autumnwatch Publisher Anne Gleason to colorful New England, and The Woman in White to Victorian England. Shakespeare Uncovered Art Director returns with more renowned actors illuminating the Bard’s works. Finally, as Native America Tom Peth premieres, learn about the history, struggles, and contributions of Chicago’s Native Americans WTTW Contributors Julia Maish on wttw.com. Dan Soles WFMT Contributors On 98.7WFMT, wfmt.com/listen, and the WFMT app, a new season of Live from WFMT Andrea Lamoreaux will feature the Orion Ensemble, soprano Alicia Berneche and instrumentalists, and Chicago David Polk Symphony concertmaster Robert Chen in recital. The Chicago Symphony series continues Distribution Manager Pat Sheppard with Classical and Baroque Treasures featuring mandolin virtuoso Avi Avital, and Riccardo Muti conducting Liszt’s Symphony to Dante’s Divine Comedy. The Milwaukee Symphony will feature Advertising Sales ongoing tributes to the Bernstein centenary. Join audiences from around the world as we stream WTTW video of the lunchtime Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts live on our Facebook page and on Douglas Carleton wfmt.com each Wednesday. Also, enjoy live video from Levin Performance Studio with artists (773) 279-2128 from Lyric Opera of Chicago’s productions of La bohème and Idomeneo. WFMT Alexander Stonor Saunders Thank you for your continued and valued support. (773) 509-5357 Sincerely, The Guide: The Member Magazine for WTTW and WFMT (ISSN 2329-1338) October 2018 Sandra Cordova Micek Volume 33, Number 245 President & CEO The Guide: The Member Magazine for WTTW and WFMT is published monthly (for contributors of $40 or more annually) by Window To The World Communications, Inc., 5400 North Saint Louis Ave., Chicago, IL 60625-4698. Periodical postage paid at Chicago, IL and Inside the Guide additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Send address 3 Member Connections 14 Multi-Channel Primetime Grid changes to The Guide: The Member Magazine for WTTW and WFMT, 4 Member Perks 17 Do it Yourself Saturdays 5400 North Saint Louis Ave., 5 TV Listings 19 At-a-Glance Chicago, IL 60625-4698. 6 WTTW Digital Channel Highlights 20 Radio Listings Copyright 2018, Window To The World Communications, Inc., Chicago, IL. 8 WTTW Kid Grid 31 Sponsors ON THE COVER: Check, Please! host Alpana Singh on Randolph Street in Chicago. Photo by Ken Carl. 2 OCTOBER 2018 MEMBER CONNECTIONS Free Screening and Discussion: Native America Chicago a cappella Join us for a free screening of “From Caves to Cosmos,” the first presents Chicago, Chicago episode of the new four-part series Native America. This series challenges everything we thought we knew about the WHAT with Geoffrey Baer Americas before and since contact with Europe, revealing some of the Free Screening and Discussion: Native America most advanced cultures in human history and WHERE the Native American University of Illinois at Chicago people who created it… 801 S. Morgan Street whose legacy continues, Richard J. Daley Library, unbroken, to this day. A Conference Room 1-470 Chicago, IL 60607 discussion and Q&A with archeologists WHEN Christopher Davis and Thursday, October 18, Anna Roosevelt will follow the screening of the first episode of the 4:00 pm series. Refreshments will be provided. This is a free event; for information, please visit wttw.com/events. Chicago Tonight: Election 2018 Behind the Scenes Geoffrey Baer Join the Chicago Tonight team for a fun, behind-the-scenes look at the upcoming elections. They will explore the campaigns and the candidates in a freewheeling discussion, and you can join in the conversation as well! If you have ever wondered how Chicago Tonight correspondents cover the turbulent political scene in the city and throughout Illinois, this is the event for you! WHAT Tickets are limited, so don’t miss this opportunity! Your ticket includes beer, wine, and hors d’oeurves. Chicago a cappella presents Chicago, Chicago with Geoffrey Baer For more information and tickets, please visit wttw.com/events. WHERE WHAT Jay Pritzker Pavilion Chicago Tonight: Election 2018 Millennium Park in Chicago Behind the Scenes WHEN WHERE Saturday, October 6, 8:00 pm Renée Crown Public Media Center, WTTW Studios 5400 N. St. Louis Avenue in The vocal ensemble Chicago a cappella kicks Chicago off its 25th anniversary season on the stage of WHEN Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park with a musical tribute to the city featuring Geoffrey Friday, October 19, 5:00 pm The Chicago Tonight team Baer. WTTW’s Emmy-winning host Geoffrey Baer will serve as narrator for Chicago, Chicago – a Free Screening and Discussion: The Great American Read “Chicago time capsule” featuring the 10-voice WTTW, in partnership with the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, presents a free event ensemble. The program will include historic in connection with the PBS and WTTW literacy initiative The Great American Read. songs such as “Follow the Drinking Gourd,” a All summer, readers have been voting for their favorites from nostalgic “Chicago (That Toddlin’ Town),” and a curated list of 100 popular books put together by PBS and spot- “Sweet Home Chicago.” The ensemble will use lighted on the weekly WHAT these melodies, vivid projections illustrating the series The Great Free Screening and Discussion: city’s past and present, and Baer’s narration to American Read. As the The Great American Read delve into music from the Columbian Exposition big reveal of America’s (marking its 125th anniversary), the Great WHERE favorite book nears, Chicago Cultural Center, Claudia Migration, the birth of blues and gospel, our WTTW invites you to Cassidy Theatre beloved skyscrapers, champion sports teams, and view a bit of the series 78 E. Washington Street in Chicago more. and hear from some This special performance will be followed by Chicago authors as they WHEN a wine-and-dessert reception in Pritzker Pavilion’s Saturday, October 20, 2:00 pm share their own favorite choral hall to celebrate Chicago a cappella’s silver books and explain how anniversary; all ticket holders are invited to they have influenced attend. their writing. Join us for this free event! For more information and to For more information about this event and RSVP, please visit wttw.com/events. three other area Chicago, Chicago performances, please visit wttw.com/events. 2018 OCTOBER 3 MEMBER PERKS 2-for-1 Tickets to The Mystery of Edwin Drood Welcoming the audience to get involved in the action, the Saint Sebastian Players (SSP) open the company’s 38th season with the multiple Tony Award-winning musical The Mystery of Edwin Drood with book, music, and lyrics by Rupert Holmes. Based on Charles Dickens’ final un- finished novel, this hilarious whodunit invites the audience to solve its mystery by choosing the identity of the murderer, potentially chang- ing the show’s ending at each performance. The tale is presented as a show within a show, as the Music Hall Royale – a delightfully loony Victorian theatre company – presents Dickens’ brooding mystery. Performances are October 26-November 18, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 pm and Sundays at 2:00 pm at St. Bonaventure, 1625 W. Diversey in Chicago. Free parking is available in two lots. WTTW members may purchase two full-price tickets for the price of one, subject to availability, by emailing [email protected] 2-for-1 Tickets to Halloween and mentioning WTTW. For information, please visit saintsebastianplayers.org. Spooktacular The Music Institute of Chicago welcomes the 2-for-1 Tickets for Tere O’Connor Dance Halloween season with a “Spooktacular” Concert The Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago presents the return of Tere O’Connor Dance. Long and Haunted Musical Open House. The appropri- Run is a major new work from O’Connor that pits the rigid geometry of the stage against the organic bodies ately “scary” concert program features selections crossing over it in a kinetic exploration. Long Run pushes the emotional content of O’Connor’s movement from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera to new physical extremes, allowing time- and Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor, per- based elements like polyrhythms, velocity, formed by the Music Institute’s acclaimed faculty. and duration to overtake the performers as The Haunted Musical Open House invites guests they struggle to bring their bodies into a state to travel from room to room for music, trick-or- of calm. O’Connor has a great love of move- treating, and other activities. Audience members ment and a deep commitment to choreo- of all ages are encouraged to wear costumes and graphic craft and design, while more philo- get into the spirit of the event.