Living in the eye of the storm...

Cecile Richards joined Planned Parenthood in 2006, after work that included organizing low-wage workers, founding the Texas Freedom Network and serving as deputy chief of staff for Nancy Pelosi. Richards is also known to many as the daughter of Governor Ann Richards...and has a few stories to tell...TEXAS MONTHLY TALKS...9PM


An on LIVER FROM THE ARTIST'S DEN... indie-pop darling Ingrid Michaelson performs songs from Be OK- the follow-up to her breakthrough debut album, Girls and Boys(2008). Recorded at Cape Cinema, Cape Cod, MA, July 10, 2008.

Baseball's been very good to me!

As Sammy Sosa would say as he chased the home run record in the late 90's, and truer words were never spoken. In the first decade of the 21st century, baseball is booming. In an age of home runs and power, Pedro Martinez and a handful of other superb pitchers still manage to dominate. The astonishingly talented right fielder Ichiro Suzuki becomes MLB's first Japanese position player and a hero back home. As America reels from the horror of the 9/11 attacks, baseball provides solace, and in an incredible World Series, gives the country something to cheer about. As the rivalry between the Yankees and the Red Sox reaches the boiling point, long-suffering Boston fans rejoice in their first World Series victory in 86 years, while Giants and Cubs fans endure devastating losses. Barry Bonds demolishes Mark McGwire's home-run record and sets his sights on Henry Aaron's revered all time mark. The game is more popular than ever, but revelations about steroids cast a shadow on many of the era's greatest stars and their historic accomplishments.

Hey-battuh-battuh-battuh...

Thousands of bats, three home run records and one "curse" have been broken since Ken Burns last explored the history of America's national pastime with his 1994 series BASEBALL. Now, Burns and co-director Lynn Novick update the series with THE TENTH INNING. Beginning with a crippling strike that alienated millions of fans and brought the game to the brink, this film tells the tumultuous story of our national pastime up to the present. It celebrates baseball's new Golden Age -- an era of unprecedented home run totals, popularity and prosperity -- and sheds light on one of the game's darkest chapters -- the steroid era. The film examines the compelling stories of Joe Torre, Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, Pedro Martinez, Ichiro Suzuki, Cal Ripken Jr. and Barry Bonds and features insightful commentary from an eclectic lineup of writers, broadcasters, fans and all-stars...7pm

We live in a trailer, we work in a tent...

We dance on a wire, our dogs pay the rent...so goes the lives of the little band of performers and roustabouts with the legendary Big Apple Circus. This preview gives insight into how the producers were able to capture the essence of that experience and put it into a six hour series premiering in November...not to be missed! The stories are true, the magic is real...
CIRCUS PREVIEW 9:30

I am so Pretty!

What turned the young boxer Cassius Clay into Muhammad Ali? This documentary chronicles Clay's arrival in Miami in the fall of 1960 (fresh from earning a gold medal in the Rome Olympics)...over the course of the next few years -- coinciding with the height of the national civil rights movement -- in Miami Clay evolved both professionally and politically, piling up victories in the ring and adopting the black separatist teachings of the Nation of Islam.
"MUHAMMAD ALI: MADE IN MIAMI"...Sunday afternoon at 3:30

Another unusual film deals with "Nobu fever", a term in the world of classical music after 20 year-old Nobuyuki Tsujii from Japan won the 13th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 2009. This film follows Nobu, Blind from birth, through the three weeks of grueling practice, rehearsal and performance during the competition...A SURPRISE IN TEXAS...2PM

Don't think twice, it's alright.

The Wallflowers lead singer and Bob's favorite son Jakob performs on LIVE FROM THE ARTIST'S DEN tonight at 8pm...

And on TEXAS MONTHLY TALKS: Gwen Ifill fills two major roles at PBS: moderator and managing editor of Washington Week and as senior correspondent for the PBS NewsHour. That puts her at the center of political journalism in the US, with a close-up view of what's happening in Washington...she sits down with Evan Smith tonight at 9pm

...if it ain't got that swing!

Wynton Marsalis premieres his new work "Swing Symphony" tonight on LIVE FROM LINCOLN CENTER...
Join Maestro Alan Gilbert for the opening night concert of his second season, conducting the U.S. premiere of the Marsalis work, as well as Richard Strauss's "Don Juan" and Hindemith's "Symphonic Metamorphoses on Themes by Carl Maria von Weber ."
LIVE FROM LINCOLN CENTER...8pm