Program News
Everyone’s attention is on the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. LPB and public broadcasting are keeping an eye on events as they happen. For updates and to share your stories, pictures and videos, visit our Crisis in the Gulf section of the LPB website.
I can’t believe it’s May already. Tonight at 7, Antiques Roadshow continues its stay in Phoenix; American Experience reexamines the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King at 8; and there’s an encore showing of LPB’s award-winning documentary Signpost to Freedom: The 1953 Baton Rouge Bus Boycott at 9:30PM.
On Tuesday at 7, NOVA looks at what has happened to the area around Mt. St. Helens since the eruption 30 years ago.
On Wednesday at 8, Live from Lincoln Center features violinist Itzhak Perlman, cellist Yo-Yo Ma and pianist Emanuel Ax in concert.
On Thursday at 8, everyone thought Sherlock Holmes was dead but he returns to sleuth again.
Check out the latest news from the legislative session on Louisiana: The State We’re In on Fridays at 7PM and Sundays at 2PM and weekdays on Capitol Beatat 6:57 and 9:57PM and mornings at 5:26. Also on Friday, we premiere a new PBS public affairs show called Need to Know at 8:30PM and air the McLeod Lecture Series discussion about the effect of the Right to Work Law on the state at 9:30. That’s followed by Frost/Nixon: The Original Watergate Interviews at 10:30PM.
THE 2010 LOUISIANA LEGENDS GALA SET FOR MAY 6
Friends of LPB will honor this year’s Louisiana Legends on May 6 at the Old State Capitol. The 2010 honorees are Rock and Roll Hall of Fame guitarist James Burton, former State Education Superintendent and businessman Louis Michot, arts activist Marjorie Morrison, NBA legend and Basketball Hall of Famer Willis Reed, and former Governor and Congressman Buddy Roemer.
For more information about the honorees and gala, visit the LPB website.
LPB ART ROCKS!
As usual, we had a great time at the Art Rocks! celebration to kick off the LPB Art & Travel Auction at the Louisiana State Museum. The 195 pieces of art in this year’s auction will be on display at the museum through May 7. If you can’t make it down there, visit the LPB website to see what’s up for bids. You can enter a bid for your favorite item and if there is something you just can’t live without, use the “buy it now” option to insure you have just the piece you want. The bidding will continue through the three-hour live auction show on Sunday, June 13 starting at 6PM.
There’s still time to get your raffle ticket for a 2010 G&C Honda Metropolitan Scooter. Tickets are $5 each with all proceeds going to support programming on LPB. The drawing will be held during the live broadcast. For more information or to order tickets, please call Lisa Green at (225) 767-4462.
GET YOUR TICKETS FOR DR. AMEN
World renowned psychiatrist, brain imaging specialist and best-selling author Dr. Daniel Amen will be in Baton Rouge on Sunday, June 6 to talk about his latest book, Change Your Brain, Change Your Body: Use Your Brain to Get and Keep the Body You Have Always Wanted. During his seminars he explains how boosting your brainpower can improve your weight, skin, heart, energy, and focus. The seminar will be from 3 to 5PM at the BREC Independence Park Theatre, 7800 Independence Blvd in Baton Rouge.
Tickets are $45 each for two for a $75 contribution. Both levels include a membership in Friends of LPB. To get your tickets, visit the LPB website or call the Friends Office at 800-272-8161, est. 4214 or 767-4214 in the Baton Rouge area.
If you can’t make it out to see him, Dr. Amen will be in the LPB studios that same night. Tune in from 6 to 10PM on June 6 to see his programs and to see him live on LPB.
Learn more about Dr. Daniel Amen Lecture on Dr. Amen's website.
WINNERS ANNOUNCED IN PBS KIDS GO! WRITERS CONTEST
The winners have been selected for the PBS Kids Go! Writers Contest!
Kindergarten - Ashini Modi of Shreveport – “My Mom Cooks Food”
First Grade - Grant Wilson Suire of Crowley – “Harry & Joe Go to the Moon”
Second Grade:-Veronica Sturman of Natchitoches – “Racer Honey”
Third Grade:-Alice Thibodeaux of Baton Rouge – “Dear Dad”
GREAT DEALS ON GREAT PROGRAMS!
Not only do we broadcast the best programs on television, but we make many of them available for you to own on ShopLPB. We now have permanently lower prices on the duPont Columbia award-winning Louisiana: A History series ($99) and the companion book Louisiana: An Illustrated History ($37). Every DVD, book and CD you order makes LPB that much stronger. If that’s not incentive enough, place an order before June 30th and save 15%. Just enter LPB in the “discount code” box when checking out.
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May 3-9, 2010
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