Chicago auction buyers get their chance to be television stars when veteran auctioneer Leslie Hindman serves as guest auctioneer at Butterfields Chicago, 441 W. Huron St., where Thea Flaum Productions will be shooting the Home & Garden Television series, At the Auction during Butterfields sale of Chicago furniture and decorative arts. The sale, which is free to the public, will be held from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. May 21. No reservations are required. For information, call 377-7500, ext. 3941.
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Iowa gardener Karen Strohbeen is back with the second season of her genteel and inspirational television show, “The Perennial Gardener” (2:30 p.m. Fridays on WTTW-Ch. 11). The series is conversational in tone and well worth learning how to set the VCR.
— Dennis Rodkin