News & Notes

Reigning American soprano Renée Fleming travels to Russia for a special visit to St. Petersburg with her friend and frequent co-star, Russian baritone Dmitri Hvorostovky.

pledge volunteers

Help your Community Idea Stations by volunteering for our upcoming WCVE Public Radio Fall Pledge campaign September 20th-October 8th, 2010. These Membership Campaigns for TV and radio are the Community Idea Stations’ most visible fundraising efforts.

painting

PBS has launched PBS Arts (www.pbs.org/arts), a new website that offers the opportunity to experience the arts and explore the creative process through special virtual exhibits, videos from PBS national and local programs and interactive features.

This September, the last leg of work on the final link of Interstate 95 begins. Just north of Philly, the interstate will be completed after decades of delay.

Great Performances

The renowned Vienna Philharmonic continues its summertime tradition with another open-air concert held in the magnificent gardens of Austria’s Imperial Schönbrunn Palace. With conductor Franz Welser-Möst at the helm, the Vienna Philharmonic returns to the Palace for “Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2010,” part of the “Great Performances” series.

Beginning on August 16, 2010, “Morning Edition” will air a special week-long series on the Congo River from NPR’s Ofeibea Quist-Arcton.

WCVE Corporate Sponsorship Team at the 2010 Retail Merchants’ Marketing Expo

The annual Retail Marketing Expo in downtown Richmond August 3rd drew a record number of exhibitors and people attending this year.  This year’s theme, “Ride the Winning Wave,” showcased opportunities to ride out the recession and into the new waves of the future.

Blind Willie McTell

The “Statesboro Blues,” a number recorded by the Allman Brothers on their album “Live at Fillmore East” in 1971, was listed by Rolling Stone Magazine as one of the all-time great rock and roll guitar songs. Although millions heard the Allman Brothers recording, the name of the song’s originator has until recently only been known by a few people.

Brian May of Queen

From Fresh Air – Brian May, the lead guitarist in the British glam-rock band Queen, is a modern-day renaissance man.

May’s interests aren’t limited to the rock world. Before Queen made it big, May was studying astrophysics at Imperial College in London.

Tiny House

From NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday – The only thing tiny about the tiny house movement is the size of the houses themselves. There are a slew of websites devoted to the scene, and tiny house evangelists based in California and Vermont are busy traveling around North America helping people build these little homes.

“Aretha Franklin Presents: Soul Rewind,” a comprehensive collection of rare performances by legendary R&B performers of the classic 1960s-70s soul era, offers an abundance of long-lost archival material that has been recovered from film vaults across the United States, England, Germany and France.

Caterpillar

From NPR’s Science Desk – The question isn’t why did the caterpillar cross the road but how? Researchers have discovered that at least one species of caterpillar precedes each step with a thrust of its gut. The finding points to an entirely new mode of animal locomotion and could lead researchers to develop new robotic tools for exploration and medicine.

Bug Flight

From NPR’s Morning Edition – Step outside on a clear day this summer and look up. What do you see? Blue. And maybe a plane or a bird up there, but otherwise ... nothing. Or so you think.

WCVE Forum

The VCU Medical Center Department of Psychiatry conducted a panel discussion, “A Conversation About Children’s Mental Health,” before a studio audience at Community Idea Stations on July 13th as a follow-up to “Voices of Hope and Recovery,” a local Public TV documentary.

SciGirls

Hey parents! Did you know about the science and math programming that you and your child can watch online anytime? PBS Kids Go! offers science and math video content that teach and entertain, which makes learning a fun experience for kids in preschool as well as elementary grade levels.

R Coronae Australis

From EOS (European Southern Observatory) – This magnificent view of the region around the star R Coronae Australis was created from images taken with the Wide Field Imager (WFI) at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile.

“Locked Out: The Fall of Massive Resistance” earned an "Award of Distinction" from the Communicator Awards. The documentary was also nominated for an EMMY Award through the Capital chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

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moon

From NPR’s All Things Considered – We’re seeing the most detailed images of the moon’s surface ever captured from afar — thanks to NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO. The space probe carries a super-powerful camera, which photographs every bit of the moon’s surface for scientists to examine.

Elvis Mitchell, host of "The Treatment"

With the ending of the Metropolitan Opera season, Saturday afternoons offer a new line-up in programming on WCVE Public Radio.

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