We packed up the entire station and moved it to Wellington...

Tonight's August Membership Drive features KACV's latest production - "A Night at the Ritz Featuring Atteberry Station"...a rockin' show combining music and history shot live at the historical Ritz Theatre in Wellington. Back in April, we packed up the entire station, set it up in the Ritz Theatre, and recorded a live concert with a crew of 30 and a total of 12 HD cameras.
This is the kind of stuff public television does...bringing the story of our communities to life, and sharing with all the Panhandle...A NIGHT at the RITZ featuring ATTEBERRY STATION 7pm

The music specials continute...join us for Woody Guthrie at 100! Live at the Kennedy Center, a centennial celebration of American's greatest folk musician, Woody Guthrie. This concert brings John Mellencamp, Jackson Browne, Tom Morello, Ry Cooder, Ani DiFranco, Rosanne Cash, The Old Crow Medicine Show, and others together to honor the music and the man. It's a celebration like no other, recorded live at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC.
8:30pm

If you've never heard "Lost In My Mind"...

Fresh and seasoned indie rock hits the AUSTIN CITY LIMITS stage with the Head and the Heart and Gomez. Seattle's the Head and the Heart performs tunes from its self-titled debut LP. British veterans Gomez follow with their eclectic modern rock.  AUSTIN CITY LIMITS...7pm

Larry Wilmore is "Senior Black Correspondent" for The Daily Show, and a television writer. His work has appeared on In Living Color, The Fresh Prince of Bel Air and The Office. You'vew seen him on Seinfeld...now see him with Evan Smith on OVERHEARD...8pm

Leopards are the ultimate cat...

They are the most feline, the most intelligent, the most dangerous, and, until recently, one of the least understood. Leopards hunt from South Africa to Siberia, from Arabia to Sri Lanka, and are the most widespread predator of their size on land. A leopard is a cat that walks by itself, unseen, secretively. They are the beautiful killers that live in the shadows. This film accumulates the evidence and puts together a psychological profile of this extraordinarily cunning cat. We learn how these cats rarely move without a completely premeditated strategy.  NATURE...7pm

 

Remembering the quest for the elusive brass ring...

Long before the days of giant theme parks, the United States had many,many amusement parks where families gathered for a cool escape on a hot summer day. This program celebrates these pre-Disney parks, visiting Playland in Rye, New York; Holiday World in Santa Claus, Indiana; and California's Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, where vacationers can still reach for the brass ring on the merry-go-round. The special also checks out some old wooden roller coasters and other classic rides.
Rick Sebak narrated GREAT OLD AMUSEMENT PARKS...8pm 

A new way to look at autism...and ourselves.

"Neurotypical" is an exploration of autism from the point of view of autistic people themselves. Four-year-old Violet, teenaged Nicholas and adult Paula occupy different positions on the autism spectrum, but they are all at pivotal moments in their lives. How they and the people around them work out their perceptual and behavioral differences becomes a remarkable reflection of the "neurotypical" world -- the world of the non-autistic -- revealing inventive adaptations on each side and an emerging critique of both what it means to be normal and what it means to be human.
POV: NEUROTYPICAL...9pm

This show is a modern day Indiana Jones story: a tale of deception, treasure, intrepid adventurers and international realpolitik.

Did a 19th-century British landowner really discover gold, jewels and the charred bones of the Lord Buddha in an underground chamber on his estate? When Colonial estate manager, Willie Peppe, set his workers digging at a mysterious hill in Northern India in 1898, he had no idea what they'd find. Just over 20 feet down, they made an amazing discovery: a huge stone coffer, containing five reliquary jars, over 1000 separate jewels, and some ash and bone. One of the jars had an inscription that appeared to say that these were the remains of the Buddha himself. This seemed to be the most extraordinary find in Indian archaeology. But doubt and scandal have hung over this amazing find for over 100 years. For some, the whole thing is an elaborate hoax. For others, it is no less than the final resting place of the leader of one of the world's great religions, who died nearly 2,500 years ago. On the heels of PBS' series chronicling the life of Buddha, don't miss the final piece...SECRETS OF THE DEAD: BONES OF THE BUDDHA...9pm 

What's it really like in China? These bloggers get the word out...

"High Tech, Low Life" follows two of China's first citizen-reporters as they document the underside of the country's rapid economic development. A search for truth and fame inspires young vegetable seller "Zola" to report on censored news stories from the cities, while retired businessman "Tiger Temple" makes sense of the past by chronicling the struggles of rural villagers. Land grabs, pollution, rising poverty, local corruption and the growing willingness of ordinary people to speak out are grist for these two bloggers who navigate China's evolving censorship regulations and challenge the boundaries of free speech.POV: HIGH TECH, LOW LIFE...9pm