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Get WILL eNews Video previews, behind-the-scenes information, program schedule updates and more, delivered every Wednesday to your Moss Bresnahan, email inbox. President and CEO go.illinois.edu/WILLsubscribe Twitter: @MossILMedia PATTERNS • JULY 2018 Chef Marcus Samuelsson famous chef travels to under-explored parts july 2018 Volume XLVI, Number 1 of American cities to showcase the people, highlights places and culinary flavors of immigrant communities. ethnic food The show is slated for six one-hour episodes that follow Samuelsson as he in the US explores the best global cuisine hidden in Chef Marcus Samuelsson—co-owner of American cities, including the Arab Ameri- New York’s critically acclaimed Red Rooster can community in Detroit, the Vietnamese Harlem—embodies America’s extraor- American residents in New Orleans, the dinarily rich cultural diversity. Born in Indo-Guyanese community in the New York Ethiopia, raised in Sweden, and a proud City borough of Queens, Chicago’s Mexi- resident of Harlem, he’s inspired by this can population, the Ethiopian communi- global background to infuse his culinary ties of Washington, DC and the Haitian experiences with diverse elements of community in Miami. music, history, culture and the arts. Today, he is a celebrated award-winning chef, “Chasing flavors has been my lifelong pas- restauranteur, author, philanthropist, and sion,” shared Samuelsson. “To now be able food activist. to bring viewers on that journey with me to these amazing communities in cities across No Passport Required, hosted and execu- the U.S. is truly a dream come true. We tive produced by Samuelsson, will celebrate get to go deep into the markets, pull up to America’s diverse cultural mosaic as the the roadside stands and be welcomed into homes—all the places where people share Photo: Courtesy of Matt Dutile and celebrate food together.” Photos: Courtesy of Christine Carreira PATTERNS • JULY 2018 1 PBS Summer of Adventure continues Photo: Courtesy of Kudos Film & Television Limited 2017 Back to The Tunnel The multi-award winning British crime drama The Tunnel will return for a third season, The Tunnel: Vengeance. The six-part series begins at 9:30 pm Sunday, July 1. The emotional final season of the critically acclaimed bilin- gual crime thriller reunites Stephen Dillane with Clémence Poésy for the last outing of this beloved and unlikely Anglo-French partnership. In The Tunnel: Vengeance, the in- vestigative pair takes on a toxic and terrifying folie à deux whose mutual defining quality is an existential death wish. When the question posed by the couple—what is a life worth?—is directed straight back at Karl, he is forced to confront an utterly impossi- ble choice that will haunt the audience long after the closing credits. 10 That Changed America returns to PBS 10 That Changed America, the popular meets with historians, curators, and guides series that explores the nation’s built envi- who share the fascinating backstories ronment, returns this summer with three behind the iconic streets that connect our new episodes and a website that reveal the nation, the monuments that commemorate fascinating and often untold stories behind our history, and the engineering marvels America’s streets, monuments and modern that transformed our environment and marvels. shaped the way we live. Produced and writ- ten by Dan Protess, the series airs at 7 pm From New York’s Broadway to the Hoover Tuesdays, July 10, 17, and 24. Dam, from Mount Rushmore to the St. Louis Arch, join host Geoffrey Baer on a Kicking off the season on July 10 is summer road trip across America as he 10 Streets That Changed America, which Photo: Courtesy of Steve Smith/WTTW Photo: Courtesy of Justin Rohn/WTTW 2 PATTERNS • JULY 2018 Flirty gals Cookbook authors and culinarians Marilyn and Sheila Brass—the Brass Sisters known as “The Food Flirts”—are passionate food explorers of a certain age on a mission to tackle their culinary bucket list one bite at a time. In each episode of this new, six-episode series, the Boston-based ladies “flirt” their way into chefs’ kitchens to uncover ethni- cally unique and delicious foods, then head home to experiment with the reci- pes themselves, creating cross-cultural culinary mash-ups that viewers can try at home. The Food Flirts premieres at 9 pm Friday, July 6. “The Brass Sisters have always been two favorite food people in Boston, and I’m thrilled to bring them to a wider audience,” says Photo: Courtesy of Bruce Seidel/Hot Lemon Productions producer Bruce Seidel. reveals how streets and roads have con- Finally, 10 Modern Marvels That Changed nected the nation, divided communities, America (July 24) celebrates the visionary and changed the way Americans live, work, engineers who scoffed at the laws of na- and shop. ture, defied the naysayers—and sometimes even gravity—by undertaking amazing feats 10 Monuments That Changed America of engineering. (July 17) explores the stories behind ten wholly-original American monuments and “10 That Changed America is a history the historical moments that inspired them, series, but the subjects we tackled this from the Statue of Liberty to Mount Rush- season couldn’t be more current: the fate more, from the Vietnam Veterans Memo- of Confederate monuments, infrastructure rial to the AIDS Quilt. spending, and battles over public spaces,” said Protess. Photo: Courtesy of Michael Wolforth/WTTW PATTERNS • JULY 2018 3 weekdays 7/17 James Gaffigan conducts Bernstein, Barber, and Rachmaninov 6 am Bernstein: Symphonic Suite from On the Waterfront NPR Morning Edition Barber: Violin Concerto, Op. 14. with Steve Inskeep, Rachel Martin, David Greene, and James Ehnes, violin Noel King Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances, Op. 45 7/24 Michael Tilson Thomas conducts Prokofiev 9 am Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No. 1 in A Minor Classic Mornings with Vic Di Geronimo Op. 33 Gautier Capuçon, cello Join Vic for music and companionship and make each Prokofiev: Suite from Romeo and Juliet morning a classic morning! 7/31 Riccardo Muti conducts Schumann and Mussorgsky Noon Dvořák: Husitská Overture, Op. 67 Schumann: Cello Concerto in A Minor, Op. 129 Afternoon Classics John Sharp, cello NPR News Headlines at 3:01. Mussorgsky/Ravel: Pictures from an Exhibition 5 pm Wednesday: Carnegie Hall Live! NPR All Things Considered 7/4 The Philadelphia Orchestra with Ailsa Chang, Audie Cornish, Mary Louise Kelly, and Yannick Nézet-Séguin, music director and Ari Shapiro conductor Lang Lang, piano 7 pm Chick Corea, piano The Evening Concert Maxim Lando, piano Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue Great performances from the gr eat Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from West Side concert venues. Also on Sundays from Story 7-9 pm. Listings are subject to change. 7/11 L’Arpeggiata Monday: Christina Pluhar, artistic director The New York Philharmonic This Week Céline Scheen, soprano 7/2 Dvořák: Piano Concerto in G-Minor Giuseppina Bridelli, mezzo-soprano Martin Helmchen, piano 17th-century Italian vocal music by Luigi Rossi Dvořák: Violin Concerto 7/18 Takács Quartet Frank-Peter Zimmermann, violin Haydn: String Quartet in D, Op.