Tuesday, August 31, 2010

It's going to be a long (and fruitful) night...

Last day of the month...let Fall begin...

After a Presidential address, scheduled to end at 7:30, we begin an evening of personal improvement, needed or not.

MAGNIFICENT MIND AT ANY AGE explores the many natural ways that we can not only keep our brains healthy as we age, but improve and enhance our brain power....7:30

JOEL HARPER'S FIRMING AT 50...Celebrity personal trainer Joel Harper will help viewers stretch, tone and firm with his no equipment, complete body workout...9:30

And for those of you in a hurry, PLAY PIANO IN A FLASH has the answer. Ever wish you could sit down at a piano and just play a tune? Have you taken lessons at some point in your life, but can't play a thing...watch tonight at 10:30 and you'll be tickling the ivories in no time.

Monday, August 30, 2010

It's good to know, you've got a friend...

We're in the final few days of our August Membership Drive, then it's back to regular programming...trust me, I'll be just as relieved as you...

Tonight at 7pm we have a rebroadcast of KACV's latest documentary BEN KONIS: THE ARTIST'S ARTIST...chronicling the life of the man credited with bringing pastels to the region. As an artist and teacher, he influence on our art community was enormous.

At 7:30 we bring you another run of a program getting lots of national attention...
CAROLE KING - JAMES TAYLOR LIVE AT THE TROUBADOUR. The two singer/songwriters reunited in 2007 for the 50th anniversary of the Troubadour in Los Angeles...nearly 40 years after they performed there together, along with their original band...the song list from both performers will take you back to a very special musical time...

Friday, August 27, 2010

Elvis LIVE? How'd they do that...

That's right...we're still pledgin'...highlights this weekend are ELVIS LIVE: THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT Friday at 8:30...

DANIEL O'DONNELL AT HOME IN IRELAND and CLASSIC GOSPEL SPECIAL EDITION Saturday evening starting at 6pm

and rebroadcasts of pledge favorites BEN KONIS: THE ARTIST'S ARTIST and the fabulous CAROLE KING - JAMES TAYLOR LIVE AT THE TROUBADOUR starting at 7pm on Sunday...

Don't despair...the regular weekend lineup will return next Saturday...

Thursday, August 26, 2010

introduced himself as the "Kon-Artist"...

Tonight we premiere our latest local production...a documentary about the late pastelist and art teacher extraordinaire, Ben Konis. Ben grew up in New Jersey loving cowboys and horses, married a local Texas girl he met at a rodeo in New York City, and got down here as fast as he could...where he promptly introduced the art of pastels to area artists and changed the way we see things. Don't miss THE ARTIST'S ARTIST: BEN KONIS...7pm

VICTOR BORGE: 100 YEARS OF MUSIC & LAUGHTER! is an all new Victor Borge television special narrated by Rita Rudner, featuring his funniest and most memorable skits...featuring rare archival footage from the Borge family vault...7:30pm

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Calling all hep cats, daddy-o...

On tonight's edition of our August Membership Drive we present MAGIC MOMENTS: THE BEST OF 50"S POP...featuring the 1950s pop days with The Singing Rage - Patti Page, classic moments from Perry Como, Debbie Reynolds, The McGuire Sisters and more. Phyllis McGuire, Pat Boone and Nick Clooney host...7pm

And if Pat fried your brain cells, you can grow them back with MAGNIFICENT MIND AT ANY AGE WITH DR. DANIEL AMEN as he explores the many natural ways that we can not only keep our brains healthy as we age, but improve and enhance our brain power...I feel smarter already...9pm

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

The original Nashville Cat...

Our August Membership Drive marches on...starting with an amazing performance piece...
In 1987, a group of A-list musicians gathered to celebrate the enormous influence of guitarist Chet Atkins on their lives and careers. Taped in Nashville just blocks from the famed Music Row, this star-packed program includes performances by Atkins with Mark Knopfler, the Everly Brothers, Emmylou Harris, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Michael McDonald and a band of Music City's finest players...CHET ATKINS: CERTIFIED GUITAR PLAYER...7pm

Time for something completely different...the story of Richard Proenneke, who built a cabin by hand and set out to live a very simple life...ALONE IN THE WILDERNESS...8:30pm

Then if you've got a few minutes, learn to PLAY PIANO IN A FLASH...10pm
We're only trying to help...you're welcome.

Monday, August 23, 2010

R-E-S-P-E-C-T...

Our August Membership Drive continues with a special on Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul herself, as she returns to public television in an all new "My Music" festival of original artist Soul Hits of the 1960s plus some special 70s love ballads...7pm

On the 10th anniversary of his first public television pledge special, Dr. Wayne Dyer presents a new program, based on his newest book Excuses BeGone!In Excuses BeGone!, his goal is simple but not easy: to help viewers learn how to overcome lifetime thinking habits that keep us from maximizing our human potential.
Excuses BeGone! addresses the powerfully transformative process of HOW to change habituated ways of thinking - and move into new realms of possibility...9pm

Friday, August 20, 2010

I've seen fire and I've seen rain...

Well...it's that time again. KACV begins it's August Pledge Drive this weekend with some fantastic programs...including gospel music from Bill Gaither and the Statler Brothers, the still touring Pretenders, and singer/songwriter Leonard Cohen on Saturday beginning at 7...

Sunday features Elvis Presley, Carole King and James Taylor, and the ubiquitous Roy Orbison on Sunday evening...something for most musical tastes. We hope you bear with us if your regular program is missing...our pledge drive is designed to reach more people in the hopes of expanding our membership base. Check us out - you might find something you didn't know you liked.

Thursday, August 19, 2010

Architecture is more than building...

In 1993 the late architect Samuel Mockbee started the Rural Studio, a design/build architecture program, in which students create striking architecture for impoverished communities in rural Alabama. Guided by never-before-seen interviews with Mockbee, this film shows how a group of students use their creativity, ingenuity and compassion to craft a home for their charismatic, impoverished client. Interviews with Mockbee's peers and scenes with those he's influenced infuse the film with a larger discussion of architecture's role in issues of poverty, class, race, education, social change and citizenship...CITIZEN ARCHITECT: SAMUEL MOCKBEE AND THE SPIRIT OF THE RURAL STUDIO...8pm

GLOBETREKKER goes to Kathmandu and walks the Everest Highway...9pm

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Some enchanted evening...

Tonight on KACV, a very special treat...
Rodgers and Hammerstein's classic tale of love and prejudice, "South Pacific", revived in its original glory by Lincoln Center Theater...7pm

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

All hail the Lizard King...

They look like dragons. Armed with sharp teeth, tearing claws and a whip-like tail, these fearsome creatures are not only powerful, they're also smart. Top predators with intelligence, who learn as they hunt, and who use their brain to track down prey...they are the largest lizards still walking the planet, the monitor lizards -- the Lizard Kings...NOVA - 7pm

The last day in the Gulf is the last chance to drop bombs before the Nimitz heads home. The jets take off, laden with ordnance, and return hours later, still carrying the same bombs. In the middle of flight operations, a storm arises in the South Indian Ocean. The deck pitches violently, turning the already dangerous task of landing on the carrier into a nail-biting, heart-pounding drama...CARRIER - 9pm

Monday, August 16, 2010

America's Scultor...

Tonight ANTIQUES ROADSHOW is in Milwaukee. looking at a 1952 Fender guitar...7pm

During a career that spanned three decades, Augustus Saint-Gaudens created nearly 150 works of art, including a number of major public monuments to heroes of the Civil War. The story of his personal life is woven around in-depth studies of five of his major works of art, including the contemplative Standing Lincoln in Lincoln Park, Chicago; the moving Shaw Memorial on Boston Common; the powerful Sherman Monument in Central Park; the serene Diana in the Philadelphia Museum of Art; and the stirring Adams Memorial in Washington, DC.
AUGUSTUS SAINT-GAUDENS: MASTER OF AMERICAN SCULTURE...9pm

Friday, August 13, 2010

snow in Hawaii? really???

Summer is slowing down, school is about to get started, and yardwork has lost the novelty status it enjoyed back in May...maybe there's something to watch on PBS.

Friday: WASHINGTON WEEK at 7, Britcoms at 9, and a replay of the Black Crowes on LIVE FROM THE ARTISTS DEN at 1am...

Saturday: primetime includes the classics - LAWRENCE WELK, CLASSIC GOSPEL, and ARE YOU BEING SERVED...all starting at 7. Then kick out the jams with Elvis Costello and the Band of Heathens on AUSTIN CITY LIMITS at 10pm...

Sunday: a rebroadcast of BENJAMIN LATROBE: AMERICA'S FIRST ARCHITECT at 4,
Nolan Ryan on AMERICA'S HEARTLAND at 5, then great HD footage of drama, including lava and snow in Hawaii on NATURE...7pm. Enjoy.

Thursday, August 12, 2010

from the Black Crowes to Liberace...

Tonight on our tube we have part 3 of the Roxbury Project on THIS OLD HOUSE HOUR...7pm

Southern rock heroes The Black Crowes bring their classic sound to the picturesque town of Oxford, Mississippi...a historic setting for the band's first ARTIST'S DEN appearance...8PM

And on GLOBE TREKKER, Ian Wright looks at the fantastical hotels and casinos on the Las Vegas "strip." He tours wedding chapels, enjoys the kitsch of Liberace, attends a beauty pageant with a twist and gets up close and personal with a performing Bengali tiger. Leaving the city, Ian travels to the Nevada Test Site, where atomic bombs were tested, and hikes into the Grand Canyon....9pm

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

monkey see, monkey do...

Tonight in three episodes of HUMAN SPARK, Alan Alda searches for the origins of what we know as "neanderthals", he looks at the similarities and differences between chimps and humans, and he ties it all together by getting a brain scan and...well, let's save some surprises.
That's the HUMAN SPARK...7,8,9pm

Thursday, August 5, 2010

She's got neo-soul...

In 2006 neo-soul songstress Corinne Bailey Rae became only the fourth female British act in history to have her first album enter the UK charts at No. 1...recently under the paper lanterns and vaulted ceilings of the Japanese-themed Hiro Ballroom in New York City, Corinne Bailey Rae gave her fans a special treat: an intimate performance showcasing her new hit album, The Sea, seven weeks before its release...LIVE FROM THE ARTISTS DEN...8pm

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Carmen "is about sex, violence, and racism ...

Opera lovers...listen up! One of the most popular operas of all time, Carmen "is about sex, violence, and racism -- and its corollary: freedom," says Olivier Award-winning director Richard Eyre about his new production of Bizet's drama. "It is one of the inalienably great works of art. It's sexy, in every sense. And I think it should be shocking." Elina Garanca sings the seductive gypsy of the title for the first time at the Met, opposite Roberto Alagna as the obsessed Don Jose. Yannick Nezet-Seguin conducts.GREAT PERFORMANCES AT THE MET...7pm

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Take 2 shrimp and call me in the morning...

On a typical day listless sea lions flop on their sides, too exhausted to lift their heads. Others are agitated. Another chews obsessively on a flipper. They are all victims of a marine neurotoxin made by an organism that feeds on algae. NOVA explores this crisis through the exploits of Dr. Frances Gulland, a San Francisco veterinarian, and her team, who run the equivalent of a West Coast ER for marine mammals...7pm

DAYTRIPPER visits Fredericksburg for some German food, wine, and shopping...8pm

The mission really kicks off when the Nimitz arrives in the Gulf. The conditions are extreme: flight deck personnel endure temperatures hovering around 120 degrees, while the pilots undertake grueling six-hour missions over Iraq...CARRIER...9pm

Monday, August 2, 2010

Thank ya...thank ya very much...

Tonight on ANTIQUES ROADSHOW...a fitting tribute to Las Vegas - two pieces of Elvis Presley memorabilia - an autographed record album cover and a macrame belt worn by the King at a performance in the 1970s...7PM

And on back to back episodes of HISTORY DETECTIVES, the team looks at an enduring aviation mystery...John Ott believes he may have a piece of Amelia Earhart's airplane, the missing Lockheed L-10E Electra in which she made her ill-fated around-the-world attempt. Ott says his grandfather served as a flight mechanic on the airfield in Honolulu where Earhart had a mishap on her first attempt at the flight. She crashed during takeoff, destroying the landing gear and damaging the right wing. Ott says his grandfather took a piece of the plane that came off during the accident and sent it to his mother as a souvenir...8 & 9pm