Coming Up on PBS

[shaveice]

i don't have any relationship with pbs but i did wanna pass these notes on in case any of interests you. pbs puts out good stuff but i often miss it cuz i didn't even know what was around the bend:

The New Heroes

Tuesday, June 28 at 8 and 9 p.m.
THE NEW HEROES tells the dramatic stories of 14 daring social entrepreneurs who are undaunted by the chronic challenges of poverty, illness, unemployment, violence and ignorance they see in the world around
them. With a revolutionary passion for transforming society, brilliant insights to achieve fundamental change and an unstoppable will to overcome
obstacles that preserve the status quo, these individuals tackle the most intractable social problems and achieve extraordinary success.

“Dreams of Sanctuary” (8 p.m.) – The first episode travels around the world to profile social entrepreneurs who are helping the desperate, the destitute and the determined to make a new beginning. In Africa, Moses
Zulu has created a home and school for AIDS orphans and other children in Zambia to nurture their growth into productive adults. In India, Kailash Satyarthi rescues brutally enslaved children in daring and dangerous
raids, and has a radical vision to put an end to the market for products made with forced child labor. In San Francisco, former drug addicts and criminals find training, employment and encouragement through Delancey
Street, which runs a restaurant, a moving company and other businesses to provide the first stable step to a new life.
............

“Technology of Freedom” (9 p.m.) – Technology that transforms life is often out of reach of the impoverished in the undeveloped world. The second episode explores the ethics and work of innovative “compassionate
capitalists,” who have created self-sustaining business enterprises that are designed to maximize human benefit, not profit. Applying the segmented
labor process of a fast food restaurant to what is normally routine eye surgery in the Western world, an Indian doctor and American businessman have together created a healthcare and business model that provides
200,000 cataract surgeries a year to prevent unnecessary blindness. Recognizing that poor irrigation was diminishing the fertility of land in Kenya, the founders of ApproTEC invented a manually operated low-cost
water pump that can double the yield of a small farm.

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Roadtrip Nation
Saturdays, beginning July 2 at 7:30 p.m.
ROADTRIP NATION maintains the quest to empower college students and
anyone
seeking their true calling by providing some surprising answers to the
age-old question, “What do you want to do with your life?” The series
follows three green RVs that are driven by college students as they
travel
across the U.S. interviewing leaders including; an astrophysicist for
NASA, editors of national publication, the executive director of
Greenpeace USA, Hugh Hefner, the park superintendent of Mt. Rushmore, a food critic and many others

Episode 1 – Meet the teams and watch insightful interviews in Southern California with the CEO & co-founder of Volcom Clothing and a music director who is credited for the American radio premiere of Moby and Garbage.

[Linkmeister]

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[shaveice]

if you missed tonight's episode of new heros, you missed a pretty inspiring program. those guys have more balls in their little pinky than i have in my entire body.

showtimes for the other episodes can be found here
http://www.pbs.org/opb/thenewheroes/about/schedule.html

and for a general overview, here
http://www.pbs.org/opb/thenewheroes/

[DaveNSoKona]

A seemingly apropos to many topics on this forum the new series on PBS "Guns, Germs and Steel" asks questions like:

# Why were Europeans the ones to conquer so much of our planet?
# Why didn't the Chinese, or the Inca, become masters of the globe instead?
# Why did cities first evolve in the Middle East?
# Why did farming never emerge in Australia?
# And why are the tropics now the capital of global poverty?

The series based on the book was, 'Inspired by a question put to him on the island of Papua New Guinea more than thirty years ago, Diamond embarks on a world-wide quest to understand the roots of global inequality. “Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo, but we black people had little cargo of our own?”'

Anyway, might be interesting for those Anthopology buffs.

P.S. The PBS website says Guns, Germs and Steel screens across the country on PBS from July 11 for three weeks on Monday nights at 11pm in most cities.

[shaveice]

thanks for the head's up, dave. sounds really interesting!

for those who want to read a little more about it, check out this site:

http://www.pbs.org/gunsgermssteel/

[shaveice]

dave, thanks for the head's up. watched episode one last week and it was really interesting. for those who wanna catch the next one, it'll be on monday night at 10 pm:

In Part 2 (of three), Jared Diamond explores reasons why Spanish Conquistadors conquered the Incas in 1532 “instead of the other way around.”

(how goes the sale of your place? looks super beautiful!)

[shaveice]

don't know if you like their music (i do) but here's a head's up:

Soundstage
Thursday, July 28 at 10 p.m.
Repeats on Saturday, July 30 at 8 p.m.
“Heart (Part 1)” – Few rock bands can claim a successful three decade-spanning career; the feat is even more impressive for women-fronted rock bands. Often hailed as the “female Led Zeppelin,” Heart dominated
the classic rock realm with their debut album, 1975’s Dreamboat Annie, hitting platinum status. Songs like “Crazy On You” and “Magic Man” from the debut,
as well as Little Queen’s “Barracuda” remain rock staples today.

enjoy....

[shaveice]

the third part in this series airs tonight...

Guns, Germs, and Steel: A National Geographic Presentation Monday, July 25 at 10 p.m.
Repeats on Saturday, July 30 at 9 p.m.
“Haves and Have-nots” – The third episode examines the development and colonization of Africa by South Africans and Europeans, and explains why geography is still a factor in forming the divide between those with money
and resources and those without. End of series.

[cezanne]

don't know if you like their music (i do) but here's a head's up:

Soundstage
Thursday, July 28 at 10 p.m.
Repeats on Saturday, July 30 at 8 p.m.
“Heart (Part 1)” – Few rock bands can claim a successful three decade-spanning career; the feat is even more impressive for women-fronted rock bands. Often hailed as the “female Led Zeppelin,” Heart dominated
the classic rock realm with their debut album, 1975’s Dreamboat Annie, hitting platinum status. Songs like “Crazy On You” and “Magic Man” from the debut,
as well as Little Queen’s “Barracuda” remain rock staples today.

enjoy....

I like Heart and will try to watch that. But the "female Led Zeppelin"? Soundwise, maybe. But lyrically, I don't think so!

[kimo55]

I like Heart and will try to watch that. But the "female Led Zeppelin"? Soundwise, maybe. But lyrically, I don't think so!


even soundwise. Not even close.

Does that make Led Zeppelin the "male Heart"!?

why compare at all?

[cezanne]

even soundwise. Not even close.

Does that make Led Zeppelin the "male Heart"!?

why compare at all?

I can imagine Bob filling in nicely for Ann if she happened to call in sick. He might be laughing his butt off singing those songs but he could fake it. :D

[kimo55]

I can imagine Bob filling in nicely for Ann if she happened to call in sick. He might be laughing his butt off singing those songs but he could fake it. :D



I dunno; I don't think Robbaht would wanna stoop.

No... they covered some o zep's stuff. that is when the audience really goes wild.
they can do his stuff, but da king won't denegrate hisself...

[shaveice]

hey cezanne and kimo, oh yeah. i totally agree with your comments about the little blurb that i got in my email about the heart show. i guess the writer felt like going over the top!

[kimo55]

ya know they outta stand on their own... rather than be compared, oranges to unripe tangerines...
cuz heart was influential and had staying power.
Barracuda was a rock anthem for some o us back then, but of course, nothing compares to the hammer of the gods and their prolific catalog.

I do think it's quite cool cameron crowe is married to da cutest of the heart girls.

[shaveice]

since you mentioned crowe, thought i'd throw in this tidbit:

"He began his writing career as a 15-year old highschool student, with articles on music submitted to Rolling Stone magazine, and only a few years later had his first script, for Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982). And this movie was important for more than his career - his future wife Nancy Wilson had a small role in the film....."

(by the way, fast times is one of my all time favorite movies. sean pean was perfection as spicoli and phobe cates was breathtaking! so many classic scenes and lines from that movie...)

[cezanne]

Last night, I caught the middle part of Soundstage:Heart right when they started playing... guess... a cover of Zep's Battle of Evermore. It was really good even though they sang the wrong lyrics in a couple places. :)

[kimo55]

I hear a tribute band is coming to town;
Called:
"Tart"

they are a buncha girls who do a tribute to Heart
but they only do Led Zep songs... the way Heart does them.

[shaveice]

eh cezanne, wasn't that good? i'm glad they ended with two of their hits (crazy on you & magic man); very well done. also, to my surprise, i found myself looking at the keyboard player! don't know who she is but she had a cool librarian-by-day, wacked-out-keyboardist-by-night look with her hair in what looked like pigtails done too quickly! awesome combination! ha! ha!

(oh, the lead guitarist was pretty good, too....)

[shaveice]

Tuesday, August 2 at 10 p.m.
Repeats Saturday, August 6 at 11 p.m.
“In the Realms of the Unreal” – Reclusive janitor by day, visionary artist by night, outsider artist Henry Darger moved through life virtually unnoticed. But after his death, a treasure trove was discovered in his one-bedroom Chicago apartment: a staggering 15,000-page novel and hundreds of illustrations that continue to inspire artists around the world.

http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov2005/intherealms/

http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov2005/intherealms/about.html

wow! what a life!

[kimo55]

eh cezanne, wasn't that good? i'm glad they ended with two of their hits (crazy on you & magic man);



ugh. "magic man"
that song always sounded to me like a car trying to start and then when it finally did, never knew what direction it wanted to go off to.

[shaveice]

ha! ha! kimo, i know what you mean. it has a lot of starts and stops! dunno why but i still like it :D

[kimo55]

sounds like a shoe factory.

and she screams over and over 'traaah tuh unnastayund..."
and then tells us: "essuhmushimaeee..."
in a low mumbling voice.

aaagggh!

[shaveice]

in case anyone's interested, here are two programs coming at you this week:

* Harry Chapin – Remember When Tuesday, August 9 at 9:30 p.m. The special features classic performances of the late Harry Chapin’s notable songs, including “Cats in the Cradle,” “Taxi,” “I Want to Learn a Love Song,” “All My Life’s a Circle,” “Dreams Go By” and others, as well as insightful and personal commentary from his widow, Sandy Chapin (the subject of “I Want to Learn a Love Song” and co-writer of “Cats in the Cradle”) and their children Jennifer and Josh. Chapin died in a car accident in 1981 on his way to perform a benefit concert for the World Hunger Fund.

* Motown – The Early Years Thursday, August 11 at 7:30 p.m. Repeats on Saturday, August 13 at 3 p.m. This new performance special in the MY MUSIC series presents a mix of classic full-length archival performances and rare and never-before-seen performance footage mixed with the current line-up of Motown groups performing all their big hits charted between 1960 and 1966/67. Mary Wilson, Martha Reeves and Duke Fakirr of the Four Tops co-host.

[lurkah]

in case anyone's interested, here are two programs coming at you this week:

* Harry Chapin – Remember When Tuesday, August 9 at 9:30 p.m. The special features classic performances of the late Harry Chapin’s notable songs, including “Cats in the Cradle,” “Taxi,” “I Want to Learn a Love Song,” “All My Life’s a Circle,” “Dreams Go By” and others, as well as insightful and personal commentary from his widow, Sandy Chapin (the subject of “I Want to Learn a Love Song” and co-writer of “Cats in the Cradle”) and their children Jennifer and Josh. Chapin died in a car accident in 1981 on his way to perform a benefit concert for the World Hunger Fund.
I saw this show just last night. Excellent!

[shaveice]

eh, howzit lurkah! watched the harry chapin program last night and i agree: it was excellent :D

also coming up on pbs, the new independent lens series begins on October 11th. you can find all of the stories and summaries at this link:

http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/guide.html

[shaveice]

FYI, tonight at 7:30 pm

Island Insights – Special Edition
Monday, August 22 at 7:30 p.m.

“The Akaka Bill” – The featured panelists are: Mark Bennett, attorney general for the state of Hawaii; Robert Klein, former Hawaii Supreme Court Justice and current board attorney for the Office of Hawaiian Affairs;
Bruce Fein, a constitutional law attorney; and Kaleikoa Kaeo of Hui Pu and NOA (Not of America). Tina Shelton hosts.

.........................................

this thursday at 8 pm:

Hawaiians
Thursday, August 25 at 8 p.m.
From their ancient and mythical origins to their modern-day attempts to reclaim their culture and land, HAWAIIANS is the definitive historical account of the native people of the most famous islands in the world.

This 3-part series traces the evolution of Polynesians into what are now known as Native Hawaiians...from their own creation story, through centuries of non-instrument ancient voyaging, to their near-destruction by Western contact...and into modern times where young Hawaiians are fighting to restore their language, hula, culture and land.

HAWAIIANS features the spectrum of contemporary society, from political activists to “living treasures”; from Don Ho to the finest slack-key musicians; from the ancient chants to the modern hula, HAWAIIANS tells the moving story of a land and a people unlike any other in the world, and showcases the unique qualities which have enabled both to survive and thrive.

Episode Two – “Innocence Betrayed” examines the effects of Western contact from Captain James Cook through the mahele – the loss of land and overthrow of the Hawaiian government.

[pzarquon]

There's a story in today's Star-Bulletin about Kayo Hatta's (Picture Bride) last project (http://starbulletin.com/2006/04/25/features/story01.html), "Fishbowl." A short, low-budget film based on a story from Lois-Ann Yamanaka's breakout book, "Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers," "Fishbowl" airs tomorrow night locally, and then nationally on May 9 as part of PBS's "Independent Lens" series.It's a slice-of-life portrait of Waialua plantation town life set in 1975. Halloween is approaching, and two outsider adolescent friends -- Lovey and Jerry (Mie Omori and Billy Lam) plan to go to the town party as their favorite singers, the Captain and Tennille. Their classmates (and class rivals), the stuck-up Japanese girls of the social club Rays of the Rising Dawn, are constant reminders of how they'll never be "cool."

[kimo55]

the musical, South pacific will be seen on yer telly! tune In kids!


PBSHawaii
CHANNEL 11
Great Performances: `South Pacific' in Concert from Carnegie Hall
Wednesday, April 26, 9:00pm
“ 'South Pacific' in Concert from Carnegie Hall.”
Great Performances: `South Pacific' in Concert from Carnegie Hall
Saturday, April 29, 8:00pm
“ 'South Pacific' in Concert from Carnegie Hall.”

[Miulang]

New documentary (http://starbulletin.com/2006/07/11/features/story02.html) to be aired on PBS Hawai'i at 8 p.m. Thursday night. Looks like it'll be a good one to watch if you care about the clash between ancient culture and science. This same battle is going on on Haleakala, too, but it's not quite as significant as what's happening on Mauna Kea.

Miulang

[Leo Lakio]

New documentary (http://starbulletin.com/2006/07/11/features/story02.html) to be aired on PBS Hawai'i at 8 p.m. Thursday night. Looks like it'll be a good one to watch if you care about the clash between ancient culture and science. This same battle is going on on Haleakala, too, but it's not quite as significant as what's happening on Mauna Kea.

Miulang
Miulang - did you catch this doc when it aired here (in Seattle) a month or so back? I taped it, but haven't yet viewed it.

[Miulang]

Miulang - did you catch this doc when it aired here (in Seattle) a month or so back? I taped it, but haven't yet viewed it.
No, didn't see it. Was it shown at a film festival or on TV? I think I may have to buy the DVD. I heard the visuals were stunning. There's also one that was just released about the kanaka maoli in Lahaina (I think its premier was at the Maui Film Festival). That one's also supposed to be stunning. I'm really glad that there are films like this coming out that have the potential of being seen by millions of people in the US and around the world. Only then will people understand why Hawai'i is different.

Miulang

[Leo Lakio]

No, didn't see it. Was it shown at a film festival or on TV? I think I may have to buy the DVD. I heard the visuals were stunning.

Miulang
TV - the Tacoma PBS station aired it once.

[Erika Engle]

This evening, Leahey & Leahey (Jim and son Kanoa) debuts on PBS Hawaii. June Jones is (of course) their first guest.

I'm told Rick Blangiardi, Emmis Sr. VP and GM of KGMB, will be their second guest, on next week's show.

I know they've done radio together, but I have to tell you that I had so much fun interviewing father, son and friends for a "Family Tree" story about them for the Star-Bulletin -- that I would encourage even non sports-fans to tune in this evening, next week, etc. just to experience it.

I suspect that the lead photo in the S-B story on them reveals a true sampling of what's to come.

http://starbulletin.com/2004/02/22/business/story1.html

By way of disclosure, Leukemia survivor Jim Leahey was a huge inspiration to my late husband, who died of the same disease six years ago.

[Lei Liko]

I suspect that the lead photo in the S-B story on them reveals a true sampling of what's to come.

http://starbulletin.com/2004/02/22/business/story1.html



The commercials they aired on KHON were funny enough to make me want to watch it tonight. ;)

Kanoa's ears have always been a favorite. :D

[pzarquon]

Ma Ka Malu Ali'i: The Legacy of Hawaii's Ali'i
Ma Ka Malu Ali'i documents the struggles and foresight of five ali'i in 19th century Hawaii. In a time of disease, diminishing the Hawaiian population and the imminent deposition of Hawaii's reigning monarchy, Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop, Queen Emma, King Wiliam Charles Lunalilo, Queen Lili'uokalani, and Queen Kapiolani displayed incredible fortitude and vision by creating their respective institutions: Kamehameha Schools, The Queen's Health System, Lunalilo Home, Liliu'okalani Children's Center, and Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children to help not only the people of their time but generations yet to come.Tonight at 8 p.m.

[shaveice]

i hope it's not a repeat (if so, i'm sorry) but this program seems kinda interesting.

"..."Make art not war" is Jimmy Mirikitani's motto. The 80-year-old artist was born in Sacramento, California, raised in Hiroshima, Japan, traveled the U.S. and even cooked for artist Jackson Pollock. But by 2001, Mirikitani was homeless, living on the streets of New York City. As tourists and shoppers hurried past, Mirikitani sat alone on a windy corner in New York’s SoHo, drawing pictures of whimsical cats, bleak internment camps and the angry red flames of the atomic bomb. When local filmmaker Linda Hattendorf stopped to ask about his art, a friendship—detailed in THE CATS OF MIRIKITANI—began that changed both their lives..."

http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/catsofmirikitani/

Tuesday, May 8, 10:30pm

Saturday, May 12, 8:30pm

[Miulang]

i hope it's not a repeat (if so, i'm sorry) but this program seems kinda interesting.

"..."Make art not war" is Jimmy Mirikitani's motto. The 80-year-old artist was born in Sacramento, California, raised in Hiroshima, Japan, traveled the U.S. and even cooked for artist Jackson Pollock. But by 2001, Mirikitani was homeless, living on the streets of New York City. As tourists and shoppers hurried past, Mirikitani sat alone on a windy corner in New York’s SoHo, drawing pictures of whimsical cats, bleak internment camps and the angry red flames of the atomic bomb. When local filmmaker Linda Hattendorf stopped to ask about his art, a friendship—detailed in THE CATS OF MIRIKITANI—began that changed both their lives..."

http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/catsofmirikitani/

Tuesday, May 8, 10:30pm

Saturday, May 12, 8:30pm

We went to a show of his at the Wing Luke Asian Museum last year. Many of his cat sketches were featured. But he also did many sketches of war and death. Being a street artist, he doesn't use canvas...just newsprint paper, but his cat art is very whimsical and sweet. The epilogue to his story is he doesn't live in the streets anymore.

Miulang

[shaveice]

...The epilogue to his story is he doesn't live in the streets anymore.

Miulang

that's good to know :) i wonder if he was on the streets cuz of bad luck, mental issues, etc? i'll check the website tonight and see if i can find out...

[kiwidiva]

A documentary on BLACK GRACE - a a dance troupe of Maori and Pacific Island men is to be shown on PBS Hawaii tonight. Black Grace: From Cannon's Creek to Jacob's Pillow shows their rise from a small town in New Zealand to Jacob's Pillow, the pinnacle of the modern dance world. Black Grace appeared in Hawaii in 2005.

http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070621/ENT05/706210309

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JF5VDdHJsw4

[greentara]

Thanks Kiwidiva ~ checking the local listings in SF ~ hoping they air it here as well.:)

[shaveice]

thanks also for the head's up; if you wanna learn more about jacob's pillow, check out this link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZ4-8R4EibU&NR=1

[pzarquon]

PBS is presenting several special programs surrounding "The War," a documentary by Ken Burns. PBS Hawaii, our own island affiliate, is participating (http://www.pbshawaii.org/programs/war/).

[sansei]

:( hi this is sansei and sorry of where im posting this only tonight on pbs,i watched on how the mofu in a type of old africa on how they live and how the must trust on Insect's to help them drive out pest's like the termite's and how when the crop grows that the people of this group help one another in harmony and they the mofu cook and eat bug's and this is their harmony toward's them.


well thank's for your time:(

[Ron Whitfield]

First show of the season, and my bud, Hawaiian steel guitarist Bobby Ingano (he's Filipino) will be the subject in the first segment.

8:30pm

[shaveice]

thanks for the reminder; unfortunately, i missed it and peter rockford espiritu is on now; i wondered if it might be online but iTunes list of Long Story Short seems to be lagging behind what's happening:

http://ax.phobos.apple.com.edgesuite.net/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/browserRedirect?url=itms%253A%252F%252Fax.phobos.a pple.com.edgesuite.net%252FWebObjects%252FMZStore. woa%252Fwa%252FviewPodcast%253Fid%253D280783208

too bad!