Illinois State University ISU ReD: Research and eData WGLT Program Guides Arts and Sciences Spring 5-1-2005 WGLT Program Guide, May-June, 2005 Illinois State University Follow this and additional works at: https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/wgltpg Recommended Citation Illinois State University, "WGLT Program Guide, May-June, 2005" (2005). WGLT Program Guides. 200. https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/wgltpg/200 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Arts and Sciences at ISU ReD: Research and eData. It has been accepted for inclusion in WGLT Program Guides by an authorized administrator of ISU ReD: Research and eData. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Also inside: GLT Shakespeare Night The Greencards lnterv· w On The Media summe,concert GLT Summer Concert - 2005 by Events & Promotions Director Linda Healy Last year, the combination of cool swing jazz from Nate Najar, jump blues and crooning from Sally Weisenburg and the Famous Sidemen, and the surf-revival rocking blues of Los Straitjackets playing together with Eddie "The Chief'' Clearwater sent the GLT Summer Concert into the next stratosphere. How could we possibly top that for our 5th annual? GLT Summer Well, we think we have. Get ready for the best '05 line-up yet with Seattle-based Pearl Ojango Concert offering up their own brand of"gypsy" jazz. Influenced by none other than Ojango Reinhardt, Pearl Ojango will have you swinging. Saturday, June 11 Opening for Pearl Ojango is Chicago blues artist Big Time Sarah with a big voice that exemplifies 4:00 - 9:30 pm the Chicago sound. Downtown Bloomington (on the square) featuring: Starting the whole evening off is Tera Johnson who grew up in Bloomington, but the gypsy jazz and retro swing of now hails from sunny California. We know she's bringing her sweet Pearl Django blend of jazz and blues, and we're pretty sure she's bringing along the sun. the Chicago Blues of Once again, the GLT Summer Big Time Sarah Concert will set up the stage in downtown Bloomington on the and jazz & blues from square by the old courthouse (Jefferson and Center Streets). Tera Johnson And once again there will be a tasty sampling from food vendors Sponsors: Specs Around Town, Heritage Manor Nursing Homes, who are firing up the grills and Eastland Chiropractic & Wellness Center, Fox & Hounds Day Spa, chilling down the lemons. Commerce Trust Company, Ronda Glenn Law Offices This year offers a walk-around beer garden, so you'll be able to nestle in to your favorite spot and enjoy family time together at the concert. We'll see you there! • On The Media A regular feature of On The Media is the Media Diet an appreciate essay by Assistant News Director Charlie Schlenker section. Worried about getting your daily recommended media allowance? Wondering how much Psychic Friends Network infomercial is too much? On The Media asks average working stiffs (along with famous people and How we talk about the world fashionably overused terms extremely smart people) about their media consumption. helps define it. So we should may not mean what they pay attention to not only the once meant or exactly Media Diet tracks the input of a south Bronx teen that verbiage, but the mechanics what listeners think. moves from rock to talk to cartoon time and her fantasy of managing our information Things like: at the end escape diamondsforever.com, where you can customize flow. That's the premise of On of the day, schizo, organic, your own engagement ring. The Media, which airs on GLT trial balloon, parsing, and It finds out how a doctor who sees the results of real violence at 5:00 AM Saturdays. Ouch! even mutate terrorism every day reacts to media violence. That's early. So, a second and for public consumption new airing at 10:00 AM Sundays with the season and the It takes a drive with a middle aged federal bureaucrat who responds to many listeners who'd caprice of the speaker. now finds himself listening to his father's radio stations been asking us to help them On The Media looks at and topics. avoid sleep deprivation in order the evolution of words to hear this intriguing program. Co-hosts Brooke Gladstone and Bob Garfield and phrases and their uses And Media Diet chats with a New York writer whose secret and misuses in the news. weakness is his horoscope. Hey, you may have more in On The Media does that It also sternly reviews common with that Nobel Prize winner than you thought! by exploring the meaning of terms: old media, new media, and blogoswarm. It looks pundits. Who blinked first On The Media will help you find out. at how people get their info-fixes, and how they might get them in the future: satellite and why? Who has the programming, podcasting, low power radio, or digitization. facts straight, and who is The show asks questions like: grossly exaggerating and/ or exaggerating grossly? • "How do you keep the Washington Press Corps honest?" The show lays out how various communities talk • "Is television coarsening our culture?" with each other in the • "Why do we love and hate the Hollywood blockbuster film at the same time ?" information age, how interest groups manipulate • "Who can turn the world on with a smile?" the media and the media twist back and, just • "Why does the news-crawl at the bottom of the picture creep across all channels?" maybe, make us all a Not just any staff has the range to deal with those conundrums. Managing Editor and little less credulous. Co-Host Brooke Gladstone has been on NPR's media beat since 1995 and with On The Media, produced by WNYC in New York, since January of 2001. Gladstone has also produced Weekend Edition Saturday with Scott Simon and covered lots of stories, including a little thing called the fall of communism in Russia. Co-Host Bob Garfield is a longtime columnist, essayist, author, critic, and unrecovered broadcaster. He has written fo r many top publications - a 1997 collection of his work is called Waking up Screaming from the American Dream. Buzzwords are like catnip to reporters. They surface. They catch on. They're everywhere. Suddenly, the thrill is over and they're gone. But, while they have a life of their own, the - 4- GLT Night at Twelfth Night Rhapsody in Bloom Shakespeare and GLT on the lawn under the stars couldn't be a more perfect fit. We're making an June 25-26 evening of it on the lovely grounds of Ewing Manor, which will open at 4:00 pm for GLT Luthy Botanical Garden Night at Twelfth Night. GLT has the entire house for this exclusive evening of music, Peoria refreshment, and great theater. For the same $3 suggested donation price that you'd pay just for the play, you'll be surrounded by Celtic music from Bloomsday and swing jazz from The For the third year in a row, there's something beautiful Rhapsody Swing Daddies while you savor your blooming at the Luthy Botanical Garden. It's the 3rd gourmet boxed dinner catered by annual Rhapsody in Bloom and we can't wait. in Bloom Biaggi's Ristorante Italiano. (Biaggi's ARTS FESTIVAL will also offer a cash wine bar.) Banks of roses, winding paths through verbena, and woodland flowers tucked under magnificent shade trees create the perfect See a Green Show mini play in ambiance for a festival of art, music, and food that is unique to Peoria. the cobblestone courtyard prior to the play. At 7:30PM, we'll open the Over 40 artists will display their work; there will be two stages - one for jazz and blues, theater for general admission seating and one featuring a variety of entertainment for the young and young at heart; and we'll to Twelfth Night, one of Shakespeare's spice it all up with international foods from some of the best restaurants in Peoria. finest comedies, presented by the world­ reknowned Illinois Shakespeare Festival. Stay tuned to GLT for more details as they develop or go to www.wglt.org for complete information. Your ticket includes live music by Bloomsday and The Swing Daddies, a gourmet boxed dinner, Green Show and the performance of Twelfth Night, all for $37. Proceeds from this exclusive event will benefit the GLT Equipment Fund. Summer Volunteers Needed! Invite your friends to make a party of it, bring lawn chairs or a picnic blanket, and join us for: If you'd like to help out at one of the following GLT summer events, please contact Linda Healy at 309-438-5083 or [email protected]. You can work a 2-hour shift or all day, whatever fits in your schedule: GLT Night at Twelfth Night June 11 GLTSummer Coneert Bloomington - Hours needed: noon-I 0:30 pm Sunday August 7, 2005 June 25-26 Rhapsody in Bloom 4:00pm - 11:00pm Peoria - Sat: noon-Spm, Sun: noon-4pm $37 July 9-10 Sugar Creek Arts Festival Normal - Sat: 9am-6pm, Sun: 1lam -Spm The Grounds of Ewing Manor Corner of Emerson and Towanda Streets, Bloomington, IL July 23-24 Nothin' But the Blues Festival Ticket price includes live music, gourmet boxed dinner, Green Show, and play. Bloomington - Fri: 5-midnight, Sat: llam-JOpm Tickets for this performance are ONLY available at WGLT August 11-21 Recycled Music Sale online at wglt.org or by phone to 309-438-891 D Bloomington - Day and evening hours daily 6 -7 GLT Morning Jazz host Laura Kennedy can't stop bubbling over about the prospect of If you like The Greencards (see interview and concert info on pg 14-15), Bruce Bergethon Pearl Django headlining the 5th annual GLT Summer Concert on June 11.