From the President & CEO The Guide

Dear Member,

February is Black History Month, and on WTTW we’ll premiere Building/Blocks: Architecture of Chicago’s South Side, a special hosted by architecture photographer and writer Lee Bey; Live from the Harris Theater: Adrian Dunn’s Emancipation, a multi-genre musical celebration of what it means to be Black and free in 21st century America; and NOVA: Star Chasers of Senegal, the story of a visionary astronomer in West Africa who attempts a high-stakes observation of a distant asteroid vital to a NASA mission. On wttw.com, meet Earl Wiley Renfroe, a pioneering Chicago orthodontist and the first Black professional to have an office in the Loop and learn about Father Augustus Tolton, the first Black Catholic priest in the U.S. and founder of a church on Chicago’s South Side. This month and throughout 2023, WTTW will launch FIRSTHAND: Life After Prison, the award-winning multiplatform, multi-year initiative focusing on the firsthand perspectives of people facing critical issues in Chicago. The project will offer an intimate look at the challenges and opportunities facing people returning to society after spending time in prison, as they seek to restart their lives while carrying the stigma of a criminal record. On page 4, you’ll find an interview with documentary producer/director Mario Tharpe.

WFMT Presents will feature “Rediscovered Composers,” a concert by the BBC Philharmonic that includes Margaret Bonds’s Montgomery Variations, a seminal work about the civil rights movement. The program also features pianist and scholar Samantha Ege, a leading interpreter of music by underrepresented composers. LaRob K. Rafael will curate and present music by Black composers on his weekday morning Black Music Spotlight and Listening to Singers will feature a tribute to opera legend Leontyne Price, curated and co-hosted by Grammy Award-winning baritone Kenneth Overton. On wfmt.com, with Mavis Staples performing at Symphony Center this month, we’ll take a look back at the iconoclastic Chicago singer and civil rights champion’s greatest moments on and off stage, and share five new opera titles by Black composers, including Errollyn Wallen and Nkeiru Okoye.

Finally, please make sure to watch the WTTW News Mayoral Candidate Forum on Tuesday, February 7 – live streaming on the PBS Video app, wttw.com, Facebook, and YouTube at 7:00 pm and on Chicago Tonight at 10:00 pm.

On behalf of all of us at WTTW and WFMT, I hope you enjoy everything we have to offer this month, and thank you for making it possible.

Sincerely,

Sandra Cordova Micek President & CEO

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The Guide: The Member Magazine for WTTW and WFMT (ISSN 2329-1338)

February 2023

Volume 36, Number 296

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Independent Lens: Outta the Muck

Beyond sending more than a dozen players to the NFL, the rural Florida town of Pahokee possesses a legacy of resilience and achievement in the face of great storms and personal trauma.

Saturday, February 11, 10:30 pm

In the Spotlight

Programmer’s Picks on WTTW11

Antiques Roadshow

Visit Nashville, Tennessee for astonishing finds including a Civil War Union soldier archive; Disneyland railroad hat badges, circa 1957; and an art deco diamond, sapphire, and pearl necklace, circa 1925.

Monday, February 20, 7:00 pm

MORNING-AFTERNOON

6:00-4:00 WTTW Kids

4:00 Lidia’s Kitchen: GoTo Cravings

4:30 Cook’s Country: Pennsylvania Dutch Country

5:00 BBC World News

Outside Source

5:30 BBC World News America

EVENING

6:00 PBS NewsHour

7:00 Nature: The Elephant and the Termite Witness the dramas of Africa’s great wildlife meeting place: the waterhole.

8:00 NOVA: London Super Tunnel

9:00 Secrets of the Dead: King Arthur’s Lost Kingdom

Uncover new archaeological evidence that suggests the legend of King Arthur started in a sophisticated trading village in 5th-century Britain.

10:00 Chicago Tonight

NOVA: London Super Tunnel

Thousands of engineers, technicians, and workers confront immense challenges as they race to build Europe’s biggest construction project: London’s new underground railroad, the Elizabeth Line. As NOVA launches its 50th season, go inside the process of creating this new subterranean metro line that will connect the city’s existing underground system.

Wednesday, February 1 8:00 pm

Wednesday 1

EARLY MORNING

12:00 Antiques Roadshow: Santa Fe’s Museum Hill (Part 2 of 3) [R]

1:00 The Great Chicago Fire: Downtown Disasters [R]

2:00 Antiques Roadshow: Indianapolis (Part 2 of 3) [R]

3:00 Austin City Limits: The War on Drugs [R]

4:00 Nature: Soul of the Ocean [R]

5:00 Chicago Tonight [R]

5:30 BBC World News

NOVA: New Eye on the Universe

Follow scientists as they peer deep in time to answer some of astronomy’s biggest questions. How did the first stars and galaxies form? And what role did supermassive black holes and dark matter play?

Wednesday, February 22, 8:00 pm must find a priceless Papal tiara hidden in a 15th century castle.

9:00 Shakespeare & Hathaway, Private Investigators: Thy Fury Spent Frank and Lu become involved in a dispute over the opening of a new Shakespeare center.

10:00 Chicago Tonight

10:30 BBC World News

11:00 Amanpour and Company

Friday 3

EARLY MORNING

12:00 Nature: The Elephant and the Termite See Wed. Feb. 1 at 7:00 pm. [R]

1:00 NOVA: London Super Tunnel See Wed. Feb. 1 at 8:00 pm. [R]

2:00 Secrets of the Dead: King Arthur’s Lost Kingdom See Wed. Feb. 1 at 9:00 pm. [R]

10:00 Chicago Tonight

10:30 BBC World News

11:00 Amanpour and Company

Saturday 4

EARLY MORNING

12:00 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review [R]

12:30 Pioneers of Television: Comedians See Thurs. Feb. 2 at 7:00 pm. [R]

1:30 Doo Wop, Pop and Soul Generations

4:00 Aging Backwards 2 with Miranda Esmonde-White

5:00 Chicago Tonight [R]

5:30 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review [R]

10:30 BBC World News

11:00 Amanpour and Company

Thursday 2

EARLY MORNING

12:00 Finding Your Roots: Rising from the Ashes [R]

1:00 Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World - The Foundation (Part 1 of 4) [R]

2:00 Frontline: Putin and the Presidents [R]

3:00 The Brain Revolution

5:00 Chicago Tonight [R]

5:30 BBC World News

MORNING-AFTERNOON

6:00-4:00 WTTW Kids

4:00 Steven Raichlen’s Project Fire: Barbecue on a Budget

4:30 Cook’s Country: Motor City Favorites

5:00 BBC World News

Outside Source

5:30 BBC World News America

EVENING

6:00 PBS NewsHour

7:00 Pioneers of Television: Comedians Explore the techniques of America’s favorite comedic actors.

8:00 Father Brown: The Final Devotion Father Brown

3:00 Pain Secrets: The Science of Everyday Pain

5:00 Chicago Tonight [R]

5:30 BBC World News

MORNING-AFTERNOON

6:00-4:00 WTTW Kids

4:00 My Greek Table with Diane Kochilas: Tasty Teardrops and Tomatoes - Chios

4:30 Cook’s Country: Never Enough Chocolate

5:00 BBC World News Today

5:30 BBC World News America

EVENING

6:00 PBS NewsHour

7:00 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review

7:30 Washington Week

8:00 Making Black America: Through the Grapevine (Part 1 of 4) Part one explores how free Black people in the North and South created robust networks to address the needs of the entire Black community.

9:00 Making Black America: Through the Grapevine (Part 2 of 4) Part two explores how African Americans turn within, creating a community that not only sustains but empowers.

In the Spotlight

Saturday Night Mysteries

Baffling mysteries abound in the balmy Caribbean in Death in Paradise, in 1920s-era Toronto in Frankie Drake Mysteries, and in a seemingly tranquil English village in Midsomer Murders. Join us on Saturday evenings, and try to solve the crimes before the detectives do!

Saturdays, 7:00 pm

FIRSTHAND: Life After Prison launches at wttw.com/firsthand on February 13.