News & Notes
Chet Atkins

On May 15, 1987, a group of A-list musicians gathered to celebrate the enormous influence that guitarist and producer Chet Atkins had on their lives and careers.

Chris Botti

Continuing the amazing performance by trumpeter Chris Botti (and friends) at Boston’s Symphony Hall, this new program contains footage not seen in 2009’s Chris Botti In Boston.

Alien Earth

From NPR's All Things Considered – The 20th anniversary of a photograph was recently observed. It's a very dramatic photo, even though, at first glance, it's mostly dark and seems to show nothing at all.

earthquake

From NPR’s Morning Edition – The recent magnitude 8.8 quake in Chile apparently changed the length of the day — and shifted the way the Earth wobbles, according to scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Mega Fish

From the NPR Science Desk - During the age of the dinosaurs, the oceans were filled with fierce marine reptiles. Like the terrible lizards on land, these toothy giants swam around snapping up their prey. But a new study suggests that’s a rather one-sided picture of that ancient watery world.

Cygnus Spacecraft

From NPR's Morning Edition – NASA’s administrator is defending the president’s proposed budget for NASA, which cancels the space agency’s planned space shuttle successor and instead relies on private companies to taxi crews into orbit.

Capitol Events

Capitol Events is a weekly 30-minute news and interview program, hosted by Bill Miller. Bill interviews politicians and political analysts at the Richmond State Capitol each week during the General Assembly Session to examine the issues of the week, track important legislation, and shed light on the political process.

Lolo Beaubrun

From NPR's John Burnett – When we walked into Lolo Beaubrun’s garden in Port-au-Prince and sat down, he’d invited three young musicians from a group called All Four Stars to back him up on a song they’d written in the days after, in Beaubrun’s words, “that thing that happened to us.”

Art and Science

From NPR's Talk of the Nation – Creating realistic and accurate museum exhibitions requires close collaboration between artists and scientists. Ira Flatow talks with exhibit designers about what is involved in recreating animals and environments that disappeared long ago.

From NPR–Scientists have found evidence of some of the original coloration of a dinosaur that lived about 125 million years ago, showing that it had rings of orange-brown bristly feathers around its tail.

Fossils have revealed a lot about the lives of dinosaurs, but researchers always used to think that the fossil record couldn't show what color they were.

Clifford

The annual Great Big Greenhouse “Kid’s Day in The Garden” event was Saturday, January 23rd, and everyone’s favorite Big Red Dog, Clifford showed up to meet his fans.

Lights Up

Genworth BrightLights Education Center at Richmond CenterStage will celebrate its official grand opening with “Lights Up,” a family festival and open house. The 2-day event starts at 12:00pm on Saturday, January 23rd and concludes on Sunday, January 24th at 9:00pm.

volunteers

Help your Community Idea Stations by volunteering for our upcoming Television Spring Pledge campaign, March 6-28, 2010. These Membership Campaigns for TV and radio are the Community Idea Stations’ most visible fundraising efforts.

Garrison Keillor

A Prairie Home Companion is coming to the big screen at Virginia Center 20 in Glen Allen. In an exciting first for the show, on Thursday, February 4th, 2010, a performance of A Prairie Home Companion at the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Minnesota, will be beamed live in high-definition exclusively to some 500 participating movie theaters and performing arts centers across the U.S. and Canada.

Jenner

From scienceheroes.com – Edward Jenner was an English country doctor in the late 1700s. In his practice, smallpox was one of the most common and worst problems he encountered. Smallpox at that time was greatly feared and was a major killer of the young.

Miramar
WCVE Public Radio’s Peter Solomon filed this report on Miramar, a newly formed group that specializes in performing boleros. The term bolero can mean many things, but in this instance it refers to the tradition of tragic love ballads, which are popular throughout Latin America.

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PBS Kids Video Player

PBSKIDS.org has launched the newly expanded PBS KIDS video player giving free, online access to hundreds of streaming, full-length episodes and video clips from some of the most popular PBS KIDS programs -- at PBSKIDS.org/video.

Carl Kasell

From NPR – After 30 years of waking up at 1:05 a.m. to anchor the top of the hour newscast during Morning Edition, Carl Kasell has decided the time has come to sleep in. He will leave his newscast post at the end of this year... but happily for all of us he isn’t going far.

Economy Feed

The Economy Feed is a new online offering from the Community Idea Stations. The purpose is to bring to you real stories, history and news to help you gain perspective on our economy.

“Locked Out” is the story of the fall of Massive Resistance and the desegregation of public schools told by the students who lived through it. “You know we were kind of all in denial. Oh they'll never shut the schools down. They can't do that. People have to go to school.” - Robert Hamlin, Prince Edward County