It isn’t simple happenstance that the theme music for “Mr. Selfridge,” the eight-part drama running on Iowa Public Television’s “Masterpiece Classic,” sounds for all the world like a big, bold Broadway musical. The music, as with the man upon whom the more-or-less true-to-life tale is based, is intentionally showy and brash. Every day is opening [...]
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CEDAR RAPIDS – “Craft in America” isn’t popping up in the Iowa Public Television queue yet, but when it does show up some time in mid-November, make sure you tune in for a walk through potter Clary Illian’s Ely workshop and process. About 20 people applauded a sneak peek Tuesday night (10/23/12) at the [...]
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FRAZIER MOORE AP Television Writer NEW YORK (AP) – Consider the blessings and demands that await a consumer at any supermarket, with its dizzying array of choices to be made. Toothpaste, soda, laundry detergent – whatever. Every product comes in countless variations and competing brands. Now take that decision-making burden and endow it with the [...]
continue »CEDAR RAPIDS – As the nation marks the 60th anniversary of the start of the Korean War, former Gen. Colin Powell says it’s time to remember the men and women who preserved South Korea’s freedom and allowed it to become one of the “great democracies of the world.” Powell, a former secretary of state, national [...]
continue »The POV (Point of View) series invites you to get your pots, pans, televisions, computers and friends ready for the special broadcast of the Academy Award®-nominated documentary “Food, Inc.“, on Wednesday, April 21 at 9 p.m. on PBS, in celebration of Earth Day. Food, Inc. asks: How much do we know about the food we [...]
continue »By Leonard Pitts It is the enduring paradox of our centuries here. It is the paradox that stood its ground at Bunker Hill, paradox that made a doomed charge on Fort Wagner, paradox that stormed San Juan Hill, advanced through the Meuse-Argonne, landed on Iwo Jima, liberated Seoul and was taken prisoner in Hanoi. It [...]
continue »With the DVD release Nov. 3 of season 4 of the award-winning culinary series, “Chefs A’ Field,” PBS audiences will follow some of America’s most renowned chefs as they step out of the kitchen to travel across the U.S. exploring the country’s finest, healthiest foods available for cooking. From a pair of cousins who revitalized [...]
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