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.

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

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

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

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

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

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