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Atascosa Borderlands: Connecting the land, the wildlife, and the people
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- Atascosa Borderlands: Connecting the land, the wildlife, and the people
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- 2 months ago
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- Also on Arizona Spotlight: Dr. Jasleen Chhatwal on helping loved ones survive dark times; and, how do YOU pronounce "Sahuarita"?
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- Dickens for Christmas? Listen to Rogue Theatre's adaptation of "The Story of the Goblins Who Stol...
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- 2 months ago
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- Also on Arizona Spotlight: Family and friends hold a unique memorial for a loved one; and the musical bond shared by Emma and Martha Peterson.
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- Episode 397: Taking Arizona hearing science research to communities in Mexico
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- 2 months ago
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- REPEAT. Cochlear implants can open a world of possibilities by restoring a sense of sound and speech. Retired University of Arizona honors professor Ted Glattke is taking the latest research in auditory science to small towns in Mexico, helping children overcome hearing issues.
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- Episode 400: Studying the ways humans interact with animals
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- 2 months ago
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- Animals are filling a growing need in the field of therapy and service work. University of Arizona veterinary medicine researcher Maggie O'Haire notes it isn't always dogs who are best suited to help people with physical disabilities and mental stress.
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- Episode 398: Survival and recovery of Arizona forests
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- 2 months ago
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- University of Arizona forestry expert Don Falk talks about how woodlands might adapt to changes in climate.
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- Episode 395: Finding early clues for Alzheimer’s
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- 2 months ago
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- REPEAT. Studies into Alzheimer’s disease have found men’s and women’s brains age differently, except when men develop prostate cancer. University of Arizona neurology professor Roberta Brinton discusses research on who is more likely to develop Alzheimer’s and describes how menopausal hormone therapy might provide a key for treatment.
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- Episode 399: Focusing on prevention in the continuing fight against COVID-19
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- 2 months ago
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- Treatments for COVID-19 are effective, but it’s better if you can avoid getting the coronavirus in the first place. University of Arizona epidemiologist Kacey Ernst discusses the challenge of keeping people aware of vaccinations against COVID and other infectious diseases.
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- Arizona's abandoned mines
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- 2 months ago
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- Many groups look to locate, seal and clean up old mines, which likely number in the hundreds of thousands.
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- How the Israel-Hamas conflict is influencing academia in Arizona
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- 2 months ago
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- Protests supporting both Palestine and Israel have made their way to Arizona's college campuses and responses from stakeholders at both the state and university levels have brought criticism.
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- The Buzz Extra: Two UA faculty and staff detail their recent suspension
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- 2 months ago
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- Community liaison Rebecca Zapien and Director of the Early Childhood Education Program Becka Lopez detail what happened during an Israel-Hamas class discussion, how they felt about their suspension and whether they believe it is possible to hold class discussions regarding social justice on these types of topics.
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- A legislative look-ahead at water and agriculture
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- 2 months ago
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- The new legislative session is weeks away, so we look at the state's top water user.
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- How the state went from a surplus to a deficit
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- 2 months ago
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- Two economists walk through how the state is facing a projected $1.7 billion deficit by the end of FY 25 after starting last year with a $2.5 billion surplus.
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- Looking back and ahead at our economy
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- 2 months ago
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- Economists say growth is likely to slow, but not stop, in the region and nation.
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- Arizona Illustrated 1016 - John is Colorblind, Gavin’s Journey, Science in the Critical Zone
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- 2 months ago
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- John is Colorblind
In this story we learn all about colorblindness and witness five individuals use corrective glasses from EnChroma for the first time that allows them to see colors that they never detected before.
Gavin’s Journey
For Gavin Hugh Troy, the roots of creative life began with skateboarding,
creating something from nothing. Growing up in a time when skateparks were being torn down, Gavin and his friends built ramps, emptied swimming pools, skated ditches and rode the streets. He is one of downtown Tucson’s longest-running artists, since 1998. He pours his life journey onto his canvases with a lyrical brilliance. His paintings mirror his personal openness and serenity.
Science in the Critical Zone
Back in 2009, the National Science Foundation funded the development of a network of so-called “critical zone observatories” around the U.S. intended to be environmental laboratories focused on the Earth’s outer skin - ...
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- Desert Plants: Little Leaf Cordia
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- 2 months ago
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- The little leaf cordia is a tough flowering shrub in the Sonoran Desert that helps pollinators while serving as a good natural hedge in the home setting.
Producer: Tony Paniagua
Videographer: Robert Lindberg
Editor: Diana Cadena
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- Visit with scientists at the Critical Zone Observatory in Arizona’s Catalina Mountains
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- 2 months ago
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- Back in 2009, the National Science Foundation funded the development of a network of so-called “critical zone observatories” around the U.S. intended to be environmental laboratories focused on the Earth’s outer skin - where water, atmosphere, soil, rock and ecosystems interact. The idea was to better understand the critical zones where life happens, from the top of the canopy down to the bedrock. The Catalina Mountains in Arizona were chosen as one of these key research locations, where University of Arizona scientists from different disciplines could bring their expertise together to better understand the complexity and dynamism of ecological systems.
Producer: Bryan Nelson
Editor: Robert Lindberg
Videographers: Robert Lindberg, Diana Cadena, Clarice Bales
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- Hollywood at Home: Sunset Boulevard PREVIEW
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- 2 months ago
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- In one of Hollywood's best films, an out-of-work screenwriter attaches himself to a tragically deluded screen star attempting a comeback. The winner of 3 Academy Awards including Best Screenplay.
Watch Hollywood at Home, Saturdays at 8PM on PBS 6
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- American Experience: Nazi Town, USA PREVIEW
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- 2 months ago
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- In February 1939, more than twenty thousand Americans filled Madison Square Garden for an event billed as a "Pro-American Rally." As images of George Washington hung next to swastikas, a series of speakers railed against the "Jewish controlled media" and called for a return to a racially "pure" America. The keynote speaker, a man named Fritz Kuhn, was the head of an organization known as the German American Bund. The rally was huge demanding the largest police presence to date for any event in New York City history but it was the culmination of a movement that had been brewing for years. Nazi Town USA will tell the largely unknown story of this organization that had chapters across the country and represented what experts believe was a "very real threat of fascist subversion in the United States." Organized into 70 different districts, the Bund held joint rallies with the Ku Klux Klan and ran dozens of summer camps for children centered around Nazi ideology and imagery. Life in some of...
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- Nature: Big Little Journeys: Bloodlines PREVIEW
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- 2 months ago
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- In Madagascar’s Kirindy Forest, a matchstick-sized chameleon goes on an epic journey through high trees and ground floors to find a mate and lay eggs before it’s too late. A water vole in the Scottish Highlands swims a lake, climbs a waterfall and scales a mountain also to find a suitor and a place to raise her pups.
Airing Wednesday, January 24th at 8PM on PBS 6.
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- Finding Your Roots: Buried Secrets S10 E4 PREVIEW
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- 2 months ago
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- Henry Louis Gates, Jr. helps singer Sammy Hagar and actor Ed O'Neill uncover their roots, revealing secrets their ancestors went to great lengths to conceal and celebrating the virtue of accepting one's relatives, whoever they may be.
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- Antiques Roadshow: New York City PREVIEW
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- 2 months ago
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- ANTIQUES ROADSHOW is in The Big Apple for the first time in 13 years, where host Mark L. Walberg heads to an iconic venue, the Apollo Theater, for a ROADSHOW "Most Wanted" segment. Highlights include a Tiffany Studios mosaic inkwell, ca. 1905, likely designed by Carol Driscoll; a show run from the Beatles' first "Ed Sullivan Show" appearance along with an autographed photograph of the band; and a Joseph Kleitsch oil painting, ca.1925, purchased by the owner's father from Kleitsch's widow for $100 and now valued at $500,000.
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- Gavin’s journey from skateboarding to painting
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- 2 months ago
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- For Gavin Hugh Troy the roots of creative life began with skateboarding, creating something from nothing. Growing up in a time when skateparks were being torn down, Gavin and his friends built ramps, emptied swimming pools, skated ditches and rode the streets. He is one of downtown Tucson’s longest-running artists, since 1998. He pours his life journey onto his canvases with a lyrical brilliance. His paintings mirror his personal openness and serenity.
Producer: Özlem Ayşe Özgür
Videographers: Özlem Ayşe Özgür, Nate Huffman, Robert Lindberg, Diana Cadena
Editor: Robert Lindberg
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- John is Colorblind: Five Colorblind Individuals Receive Corrective Glasses
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- 2 months ago
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- In this story we learn all about colorblindness and witness five individuals use corrective glasses from EnChroma for the first time that allows them to see colors that they never detected before.
Producer: Cáit NíSíomón
Videographers: Diana Cardena, Bob Lindberg, Eryka Dellenbach
Graphics: John DeSoto
Editor: Danny Sax
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- Arizona Illustrated 1015 - Desert Living Home Tour, BIPOC Entrepreneurs, Desert Willow, DO(OM) Yoga
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- 2 months ago
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- Desert Living Home Tour
Watershed Management Group recently hosted its 12th Annual Desert Living Home Tour. Homes and community spaces across Tucson showcased their rainwater harvesting systems, native landscaping, composting toilets, and other features that cut down on water and energy use. Find inspiration and see how you can use nature to create more comfort and abundance in your yard and neighborhood.
BIPOC Entrepreneurs
Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) entrepreneurs receive business financing less often and at higher interest rates than white entrepreneurs. In a world where traditional banking systems often overlook and underserve the BIPOC community, Community Investment Corporation (CIC) is revolutionizing access to capital in Southern AZ. It provides interest and collateral FREE micro-loans to BIPOC-owned small businesses. The BIPOC Community Managed Loan Fund also utilizes an innovative application and approval process where all loan deci...
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- The Easy Growing Desert Willow
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- 3 months ago
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- The desert willow is a thornless, deciduous tree native to the Sonoran Desert that provides flowers much of the year. Experts say it is a fantastic choice in landscaping settings because it is decorative, helps wildlife and doesn’t “bite back” with thorns or needles.
Producer: Tony Paniagua
Videographer/Editor: Robert Lindberg
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- Secrets of the Dead Season 19 PREVIEW
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- 3 months ago
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- Secrets of the Dead is part detective story, part true-life drama that unearths evidence from around the world, challenging prevailing ideas and throwing fresh light on unexplained events.
Stream the full series with AZPM passport.
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- Empowering BIPOC Entrepreneurs with Interest-Free Micro-Loans in Southern Arizona
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- 3 months ago
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- Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) entrepreneurs receive business financing less often and at higher interest rates than white entrepreneurs. In a world where traditional banking systems often overlook and underserve the BIPOC community, Community Investment Corporation (CIC) is revolutionizing access to capital in Southern AZ. It provides interest and collateral FREE micro-loans to BIPOC-owned small businesses. The BIPOC Community Managed Loan Fund also utilizes an innovative application and approval process where all loan decisions are made by a committee of BIPOC community members, none of whom come from the banking or finance industries. The application offers a story-centered approach and limits arduous financial requirements. Unlike traditional loan applications, it is only after being approved for a loan that entrepreneurs and business owners complete the required financial and business documentation. Regal Fierce Media is a local BIPOC-owned video production busines...
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- Hollywood at Home: The Birdcage PREVIEW
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- 3 months ago
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- A gay cabaret owner and his drag queen companion agree to put up a false straight front so that their son can introduce them to his fiancee's right-wing moralistic parents.
Watch Hollywood at Home, Saturdays at 8 p.m. on PBS 6
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- NOVA: Ultimate Space Telescope PREVIEW
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- 3 months ago
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- Follow the dramatic story of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope – the most complex machine ever launched into space – in hopes of peering deeper back in time than ever before and answering some of astronomy’s biggest questions.
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- Finding Your Roots: Fathers And Sons PREVIEW
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- 3 months ago
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- Henry Louis Gates, Jr. meets actors LeVar Burton and Wes Studi two men who grew up without their fathers. With few clues to guide him, Gates introduces them to ancestors they've never known revealing connections to key moments in history.
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- Finding Your Roots S10 PREVIEW
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- 3 months ago
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- For more than a decade, renowned Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has helped to expand America’s sense of itself, stimulating a national conversation about identity with humor, wisdom, and compassion. Professor Gates has explored the ancestry of dozens of influential people from diverse backgrounds, taking millions of viewers deep into the past to reveal the connections that bind us all.
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- Antiques Roadshow: Celebrating Black Americana 1934 PREVIEW
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- 3 months ago
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- ANTIQUES ROADSHOW honors Black History with the special episode Celebrating Black Americana. Highlights include an 1821 U.S. citizenship certificate for George Barker, a free man of color; an African American beauty book written by Madam C.J. Walker, the first American female millionaire.
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- Masterpiece All Creatures Great and Small Season 4 PREVIEW
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- 3 months ago
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- It is Easter 1940 and without Tristan’s help while he’s away serving, Skeldale House is busier than ever. James and Helen dream about the future, hoping that James won’t be called up to serve. When Mrs. Hall takes a leap of faith, Siegfried offers his support.
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- Desert Living Home Tour
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- 3 months ago
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- Watershed Management Group recently hosted its 12th Annual Desert Living Home Tour. Homes and community spaces across Tucson showcased their rainwater harvesting systems, native landscaping, composting toilets, and other features that cut down on water and energy use. Find inspiration and see how you can use nature to create more comfort and abundance in your yard and neighborhood.
Producer: David Fenster
Videographer/Editor: Danny Sax
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- Claire Campbell Park-The Weaver of Hope, Color and Light
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- 3 months ago
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- Claire Campbell Park is an internationally recognized artist, lecturer, and teacher. She loves abstraction, color, and light. Her two-dimensional delicate weavings give us an illusion of eternal space. One thread at a time her magical work makes tangible sense of reverence, peace, hope, and faith. She aims to visually depict the spiritual core that unites us all. When you see her work, you will want to jump in and live in its tranquility.
Producer: Özlem Ayşe Özgür
Videographer: Robert Lindberg, Özlem Ayşe Özgür
Editor: Danny Sax
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- January 2024 Highlights and Happenings: A message from Jack Gibson
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- 3 months ago
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- Happy New Year! As we embark upon 2024 together, my first thoughts are those of gratitude for the support of our members, donors, viewers, and listeners, without whom public media would cease to exist. You are the reason AZPM is able to serve Southern Arizonans day in and day out with quality educational programming, community engagement events, trustworthy, in-depth news and information, and quality entertainment.
Watch to see what's coming this month or read about AZPM's most recent Highlights and Happenings here: https://about.azpm.org/p/about-press/2024/1/2/218594-january-highlights-and-happenings/
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- Arizona Illustrated 1014 - Rescuing Cacti, Barrio Restoration, Quad Guy, Gila Monsters
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- 3 months ago
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- Rescuing Cacti
The Tucson Cactus and Succulent Society has one mission-- to save and protect cacti and other succulents. Since its founding in 1999, the society has saved over 120,000 plants. We meet society members as they work with landowners to remove the cacti from a large family-owned property turned subdivision and replant the succulents at the Waterman Restoration Site.
Barrio Restoration
Barrio Restoration is a local community group dedicated to cleaning up, landscaping, and beautifying streets and neighborhoods in South Tucson. The goal is to foster community support for creating a safe, clean, cooperative, and welcoming environment for all who live there.
Quad Guy
Maybe you’ve seen him riding through downtown, on the west side, the foothills, hurtling down Gates Pass, or as far away as Bisbee. But one thing’s for sure, when you see him, he’s sure to make you either smile or shake your head. He’s the man, the legend, he’s...
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- Hollywood at Home: The Addams Family PREVIEW
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- 3 months ago
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- Delightful comedy based on Charles Addams' macabre cartoon family. A greedy lawyer tries to acquire the Addams family fortune by planting an impostor in the household who claims to be long-lost Uncle Fester.
Watch Hollywood at Home, Saturdays at 8 p.m. on PBS 6
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- Finding Your Roots: Forever Young PREVIEW
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- 3 months ago
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- Henry Louis Gates, Jr. meets Valerie Bertinelli and Brendan Fraser two actors who found fame when they were young and lived their lives in the limelight, cut off from their roots. Each discovers ancestors who paved the way for their success.
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- Cost of Inheritance: An America Reframed Special PREVIEW
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- 3 months ago
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- Explore the issue of reparations for African-Americans. Building on key issues of diversity and democracy; slavery and its aftermath; and socio-economic indicators, this documentary puts real people and their family histories into the reparations debate. Personal stories, expert interviews and rich archival materials underscored by evocative music weaves a narrative around the issue of reparations today so many years after the historical understanding of the end of slavery in America. Noted speakers address the cumulative impact that Reconstruction, Black Laws, Jim Crow, modern day violence, discrimination added to divergent wealth trajectories and opportunities firmly rooted in the system of enslavement. Individuals seeking to bridge our human divide share their reparations quests and we begin to understand the myriad of initiatives already happening across the country on local, state & national levels to make reparations a reality.
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- Funny Woman PREVIEW
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- 3 months ago
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- It’s the height of the swinging 60s and Barbara Parker has just been crowned Miss Blackpool – but she’s certain there has to be more to life than being a beauty queen in a seaside town. With the bright lights of London calling, Barbara packs her bags and heads off to the city where she looks to take on the male-dominated world of comedy by storm.
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- Hollywood at Home: Guys and Dolls
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- 3 months ago
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- Hollywood at Home host Victoria Lucas shares a story of how Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz, had to use creative editing to finish the film as the two lead actors, Marlon Brando and Frank Sinatra had two very different acting styles.
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- Hollywood at Home: Guys and Dolls PREVIEW
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- 3 months ago
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- In New York, a gambler is challenged to take a cold female missionary to Havana, but they fall for each other, and the bet has a hidden motive to finance a crap game.
Watch Hollywood at Home, Saturdays at 8 p.m. on PBS 6
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- Arizona Illustrated 1013 - Inspiring Individuals
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- 3 months ago
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- Scott and Abbie
The day Scott Whitley found Abbie wandering in traffic, his life changed forever.
Afro Herper
Earyn McGee is a PhD graduate, researching the impact that a drying climate has on lizard populations. She’s also @Afro_Herper, running the popular social media game #FindThatLizard, where she gets to teach people cool facts about the lizards, while shifting the idea of what it means to be a scientist. She’s also exploring ways to get more black women into natural resources careers.
Wildland Firefighter
Green Valley resident Linda Strader was one of the first women to be hired as a female firefighter by the US Forest Service. She began at the age of 20 in the mid 1970s when women were a rare sight in the field. She describes the job as exhilarating and exhausting, but also very challenging, due to stereotypes and assumptions about women in that field.
Two Spirit Powwow
Traditionally, powwow categories are lis...
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- American Masters: Hopper An American Love Story PREVIEW
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- 3 months ago
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- Discover the secrets behind Edward Hopper’s most iconic and enigmatic works. Known for “Nighthawks” and other evocative paintings of American life, Hopper has left a lasting impression on our culture. Meet the man behind the brush, and see how his marriage to fellow artist Josephine Nivison Hopper shaped his art and career.
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- Finding Your Roots: Alanis Morrisette and Ciara PREVIEW
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- 3 months ago
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- Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores the remarkable roots of singers Alanis Morissette and Ciara, using DNA analysis and genealogical detective work to travel back centuries, revealing his guest's hidden connections to history and to music.
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- From Vienna The New Year's Celebration 2024 PREVIEW
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- 3 months ago
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- GREAT PERFORMANCES continues its tradition of ringing in the New Year with the Vienna Philharmonic at the world-famous Musikverein, with PBS favorite Hugh Bonneville returning as host for a fifth year. The celebrations also showcase the virtuosic dancing of the Vienna City Ballet performed on location in sumptuous Vienna landmarks.
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- Ron Carter: Finding the Right Notes PREVIEW
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- 3 months ago
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- An intimate portrait of the quiet genius who speaks with his music, and who brought the upright bass out from the background into the spotlight.
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- Cultural Expressions: Kwanzaa
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- 3 months ago
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- Cultural Expressions: Kwanzaa is a one-hour documentary that explores the seven principles that are the foundation of Kwanzaa by sharing seven real-life stories of impact. These stories reveal how each principle plays a role in the Black community, enhanced by cultural elements of dance, storytelling, music, and spoken word.
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- Arizona Illustrated 1012 - 2023 Emmy Award Winners and Nominees
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- 3 months ago
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- Rio
Rio Finnegan is a beloved figure in the downtown Tucson music and art scene. He is a filmmaker, musician, and podcaster who was born with spina bifida. With humor, he encourages honest conversations about issues effecting the disabled community, issues that are often misrepresented through the “able-bodied” lens.
Comic Book Chemistry
Think chemistry is boring? Think again! A class with University of Arizona Chemistry instructor, Colleen Kelley, is filled with colorful characters and exciting storylines that translate complex chemistry into comic books. Yes — comic books. About chemistry. Her comics and unique imagination have turned the periodic table into a playground of chemical adventure, and have allowed elementary school students to master concepts often taught at the college level.
Favorite Places: San Rafael Valley
Join Jesus Robles of DUST Architects as he takes you on a poetic journey to one of his favorite places in Ari...