"Crypto is something that nearly everyone has heard of," says the producer of a new NOVA on cryptocurrency and blockchain, "and yet at the same time, essentially no one understands it." 

In his new book, Pour Me Another: 250 Ways to Find Your Favorite Drink, Milk Street's editorial director J.M. Hirsch offers ways to discover new cocktails you love. For whiskey lovers who avoid gin, he suggests a Bijou, which he describes as like a light Old Fashioned. 

An author was both popular and loathed because of her books, which gained an audience but created plenty of enemies. So Annika's team have lots of people to investigate when the author turns up dead.

Charles needs Susan to decide whether she will take over Clover Books from him, as she continues to learn more about Alan's death—and the real-life dramas he incorporated into his final novel. 

Patrick Nash has come to see Eliza as a rival undercutting his business and so wants to hire her by any means necessary. But Eliza refuses, instead competing with Nash to solve a case before him and prove herself. 

Take a look at Orchestra Hall's more than 100-year history and the prominent Chicago architects who have shaped and renovated the home of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, at a time when the New York Philharmonic's newly redesigned hall is receiving all the attention.

J.M. Hirsch, the editorial director of Milk Street, travels nearly half of the year in search of recipes and techniques he can bring back to the American home cook. He also wants to help people discover cocktails unfamiliar to them in his new interactive book. 

Cook What You Have, the new cookbook from Christopher Kimball's Milk Street, focuses on making easy meals out of pantry staples that you always have on hand. This recipe for frijoles charros, or "cowboy beans," is a perfect example.

Among WTTW's Native American Heritage Month programming is a new documentary of the Indigenous musician, artist, and activist Buffy Sainte-Marie, plus films that explore the varied experience, present, and past of Native Americans. 

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Annika turns to Michael for advice on her daughter as Morgan begins therapy, all while also investigating another murder, of the chemical analyst at a nonprofit fighting for contaminant-free water. 

Atticus Pünd continues to investigate the death of Sir Magnus Pye and his housekeeper Mary Blakiston, who opposed her son Robert's marriage to Joy Sanderling: a possible motive for murder? Susan continues looking for the final chapter of the mystery.

William and Moses reluctantly work together when Eliza comes under suspicion of a series of break-ins at the city mortuaries and has to go into hiding. Ivy also helps out Moses, while Eliza finds a new helpful accomplice. 

An eerie sculpture near the grave of an early Chicago settler at Graceland Cemetery comes with a spooky legend.