wttw11 wttw Prime wttw Create wttw World wttw PBS Kids wttw.com THE GUIDE 98.7wfmt The Member Magazine wfmt.com for WTTW and WFMT A CULTURAL AND CULINARY JOURNEY ACROSS AMERICA TUNE IN OR STREAM FRI DEC 20 9 PM December 2019 ALSO INSIDE WFMT will present a new special, Whole Notes: Music of Healing and Peace, in response to America’s gun violence epidemic and related to WTTW’s FIRSTHAND: Gun Violence initiative. From the President & CEO The Guide Dear Member, The Member Magazine for WTTW and WFMT Renowned chef, restaurateur, and author Marcus Samuelsson is passionate about Renée Crown Public Media Center the cuisine of America’s diverse immigrant cultures. This month, he returns with 5400 North Saint Louis Avenue Chicago, Illinois 60625 a new season of No Passport Required, where home cooks and professional chefs around the country share how important food can be in bringing us together around the table. Join us at 9:00 pm on December 20 for Marcus’s first stop, as he explores Main Switchboard (773) 583-5000 Seattle’s Filipino culinary traditions. And, in December, WTTW will be hosting a related Member and Viewer Services food tour event and creating digital content for you to feast on. The tour event and (773) 509-1111 x 6 stories will focus on a remarkably diverse half-mile stretch of a single Chicago street (Lawrence Avenue between Western and California) with a selection of restaurants Websites owned and run by immigrants, representing a variety of cuisines: Filipino, Vietnamese, wttw.com wfmt.com Bosnian and Serbian, Venezuelan, Korean, and Greek. This short stretch reflects the incredible diversity and strength of Chicago and its immigrant communities in microcosm, and we are excited to celebrate it in the coming months. For details, visit Publisher Anne Gleason wttw.com/nopassportrequired. Art Director Also on WTTW, music icon John Legend plays Jesus Christ Superstar, in a production Tom Peth that landed him his EGOT (as an Emmy-Grammy-Oscar-Tony winner). A new special WTTW Contributors Julia Maish marks Sesame Street’s 50th anniversary; and among WTTW’s many holiday specials, Lisa Tipton don’t miss Lucy Worsley’s 12 Days of Tudor Christmas. On wttw.com, celebrate the WFMT Contributors holiday season with a roundup of seasonal events around Chicago, and dive into the Andrea Lamoreaux latest Call the Midwife Holiday Special with our recap. WFMT will present a new special, Whole Notes: Music of Healing and Peace, in Advertising and Underwriting response to America’s gun violence epidemic and related to WTTW’s FIRSTHAND: Gun WTTW Nathan Armstrong Violence documentary series that follows Chicagoans impacted by gun violence. Hear (773) 509-5415 a variety of festive music for the December holidays, including the live Lessons and WFMT Carols from Cambridge University during the day on Christmas Eve. Also, Metropolitan Alexander Stonor Saunders Opera performances resume, and ring in 2020 with our New Year’s Eve Midnight Special. (773) 509-5357 On wfmt.com, wrap up the year with coverage of Chicago’s musical holiday traditions, and as the 2010s draw to a close, take a look back at what they held for classical music. The Guide: The Member Magazine Finally, WFMT staff and hosts will share their musical New Year’s resolutions for 2020. for WTTW and WFMT (ISSN 2329-1338) Happy holidays from WTTW and WFMT! December 2019 Sincerely, Volume 34, Number 259 The Guide: The Member Magazine Sandra Cordova Micek for WTTW and WFMT is published monthly President & CEO (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 Inside the Guide Chicago, IL and additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Send address 3 Member Connections 14 Multi-Channel Primetime Grid changes to The Guide: The Member 4 Member Perks 19 At-a-Glance Magazine for WTTW and WFMT, 5400 North Saint Louis Ave., 5 WTTW11 Listings 20 WFMT Listings Chicago, IL 60625-4698. 6 WTTW Multicast Channel Highlights 31 Sponsors Copyright 2019, Window To The World Communications, Inc., Chicago, IL. 8 WTTW Kid Grid ON THE COVER: Chef Marcus Samuelsson, No Passport Required, Photo: Courtesy of Suzi Pratt 2 DECEMBER 2019 MEMBER CONNECTIONS FIRSTHAND: Gun Violence – Screening & Discussion Mr. Smith’s Peach Seeds and The number of victims of Chicago’s gun violence may fluctuate, but the psychological trauma Earthrise – Screening in many neighborhoods is constant. How do wounded communities heal? In the new initiative FIRSTHAND: Gun Violence, WTTW explores the personal, firsthand perspectives of people whose lives have been WHAT affected by gun violence in Chicago. FIRSTHAND: Gun Violence – Join WTTW, in partnership with Leadership Greater Screening & Discussion Chicago, to watch selections from the documentary series Photo: Stewart Copeland and discuss the critical issue of gun violence in Chicago WHERE Venue SIX10 at Spertus Institute from different 610 S. Michigan Avenue in perspectives. Chicago WTTW News and Chicago Tonight WHEN Correspondent Wednesday, December 4, Brandis Friedman 6:00 pm will moderate a discussion with two participants from FIRSTHAND – Photo: WTTW and Zakkiyyah Najeebah READI Chicago outreach worker Reality Allah and Community Policing Sergeant in the Austin 15th District Jermaine Harris – as well as WTTW producer/director Dan Protess and President & CEO Sandra Cordova Micek. Reality Allah Please visit wttw.com/events for tickets. Mr. Smith’s Peach Seeds Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts Join WFMT each Wednesday for the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts, live from Preston Bradley Hall in the WHAT Chicago Cultural Center. Enjoy solo recitals and ensemble Mr. Smith’s Peach Seeds and performances by Earthrise – Screening emerging classical WHAT WHERE artists from Dame Myra Hess Chicago Public Library, Memorial Concerts around the world, Beverly Branch produced by 1962 W. 95th Street WHERE the International Photo: © 2016 Meggan Haller/Keyhole Photo in Chicago Chicago Cultural Center, Music Foundation. Preston Bradley Hall WHEN Featured artists Jasmin Arakawa 78 E. Washington Street Thursday, December 12, 1:30 pm in Chicago this month in- clude pianist Sheng Cai and Inga Kashakashvili, and the duo of WHEN violinist Véronique Mathieu and pianist Jasmin Arakawa. (No Wednesdays, December 4, 11, performance on Christmas Day.) WTTW is partnering with the Chicago Public and 18, 12:15 pm These are free events; for more information, please visit Library, Beverly Branch, to present two brief wfmt.com. documentaries from the POV Shorts series. In Mr. Smith’s Peach Seeds, meet Roger Smith, a retired Tennessee meter reader and cattle rancher. One Nature Cat at Brookfield Zoo’sHoliday Magic day in 1968 during a break from work, Roger ate a Meet the popular WTTW Kids costumed character Nature Cat at Brookfield Zoo’s 38th annual Holiday peach and when he was finished, took out a pock- Magic, Chicagoland’s largest holiday lights festival! Enjoy a skating rink, ice carvers, a 41-foot talking etknife and carved the peach seed into a tiny pig. Christmas tree, Zoo Chats, fun activities for kids, and much Forty-three years later, Smith has carved hundreds more – all illumi- of peach seeds into hummingbirds, stingrays, gos- nated by more WHAT pel choirs, villages, even a baseball stadium with than a million Nature Cat at Brookfield Zoo’s more than a hundred figures. “Given enough time,” twinkling LED Holiday Magic he says, “I don’t think there is anything you can’t lights throughout make out of a peach seed.” the Zoo. This fes- WHERE Also on the bill: Earthrise, which tells the story Photo: Chicago Zoological Society Brookfield Zoo tive celebration is of the first image captured of Earth from space in 8400 W. 31st Street perfect for the en- in Brookfield 1968. Told solely by the Apollo 8 astronauts, the tire family. film recounts their experiences and explores the This event is WHEN beauty, awe, and grandeur of Earth against the free for Zoo mem- Saturday, December 7, blackness of space. bers; non-members can purchase separate admission tickets. 4:30-8:00 pm This is a free event; for more information, please For more information, please visit wttw.com/events. visit wttw.com/events. 2019 DECEMBER 3 MEMBER PERKS 25% Off Tickets to Deeply Rooted Dance Theater Deeply Rooted Dance Theater (DRDT) presents Reaffirmed/Reimagined, including revivals of two classic works: Essence – A Portrait of Four Women (1972) by Haitian-American choreographer Martial Roumain, and Kevin Iega Jeff’s Dedication (1982). Also on the program are Gary Abbott’s Parallel Lives (2017); Nicole Clarke-Springer’s Forces (2018); and Joshua L. Ishmon’s When Men (2016). Reaffirmed/Reimagined takes place December 13 at 7:00 pm, December 14 at 7:30 pm, and December 15 at 6:00 pm at the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, 916 E. 60th Street in Chicago. WTTW members receive a 25% discount by using the code WTTW when purchasing tickets in advance 50% Off Second Ticket to at reaffirmed-reimagined.eventbrite.com; limit two per WTTW member, subject to availability. Hyde Park School of Dance For more information, visit deeplyrooteddancetheater.org. Hyde Park School of Dance (HPSD) offers fans of ballet, modern, and hip hop its annual presen- tation of Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker, featuring Tandy Cronyn $10 Off Tickets to Tandy Cronyn in more than 175 dancers – primarily children ages 7 The Tall Boy to 18. The production includes a breakdance bat- Tandy Cronyn stars in The Tall Boy, winner of Best tle…instead of battling with swords, the Adaptation in the New York City United Solo Festival. Set mouse-soldiers tap into the power of hip hop to in occupied Germany in the aftermath of World War II, The work out their differences through creative Tall Boy couldn’t be more timely.