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Trusted. Valued. Essential. FEBRUARY 2017 Spy in the Wild, A Nature Miniseries Vegas PBS A Message from the Management Team General Manager General Manager Tom Axtell, Vegas PBS Educational Media Services Director Niki Bates Production Services Director Kareem Hatcher Communications and Brand Management Director Shauna Lemieux Individual Giving Director Kelly McCarthy Business Manager Brandon Merrill African American History Month Engineering, IT & Emergency Response Director George Molnar ocumentaries are a powerful form of storytelling on television that Content Director illuminate our present and chronical our past. PBS is strongly commit- Cyndy Robbins ted to this art form. Ken Burns is considered a master and so are the Workforce Training & Economic Development Director documentaries on American Experience and FRONTLINE, or those by Debra Solt Corporate Partnerships Director independent producers on Independent Lens and POV. For nearly 50 Bruce Spotleson Dyears, Vegas PBS has also produced more than 100 long-form documentaries to tell Southern Nevada Public Television Board of Directors the story of Southern Nevada and create a shared sense of place for all those who Executive Director live here. Tom Axtell, Vegas PBS This month we premiere, African Americans: The Las Vegas Experience, high- President lighting the momentous events that defined Las Vegas throughout the civil rights era. Bill Curran, Ballard Spahr, LLP In trying to tell this story, we found that there is not “a” history but many histories Vice President Nancy Brune, Guinn Center for Policy Priorities that represent this period in Southern Nevada. Called by some “the Mississippi of the Treasurer and Chair, Planned Giving Council West” during the civil rights era, Nevada has a surprising history of discrimination Mark Dreschler, Premier Trust of Nevada and official segregation, civil protest, court Chair, Community Council cases, and eventual reform. In African This program is Charlotte Hill, Carlisle Collection Americans:The Las Vegas Experience, view- the latest in our Chair, Desert Meadows AHEC Council ers will hear this story from the perspective “ Loretta Moses, Clark County Medical Society of Nevada of the leaders of many civil rights initiatives. renewed emphasis on CCSD Liaison to SNPT Board This production was made possible local storytelling.” Carolyn Edwards, Clark County School District Trustee through a remarkable partnership with the Board Members UNLV Libraries Special Collections and the Community Partners of the African Tracy Bower, National Security Technologies, LLC Cheri Colbus, US Bank American Collaborative. We are pleased we can provide a narrative introduction to Mo Denis, Nevada State Senator the richness of their document collections and their oral history archives. Funding Dema Guinn, Community Volunteer was provided by grants from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services and Sandi Herrera, “Got Core Values!” the Commission for The Las Vegas Centennial. Additionally, Boyd Gaming granted us Albert Z. Kovacs, Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP Lori Lea, AECIndustryPro.com use of their hotel facilities to recreate pivotal scenes from our civil rights history. Nora Luna, Nathan Adelson Hospice This documentary is one of several programs scheduled throughout the month on Marydean Martin, Marydean & Associates Vegas PBS to honor the lives, struggles and accomplishments of African Americans. John Restrepo, RCG Economics, LLC Irene Vogel, Community Volunteer See pages 12-13 for more information on Black History Month programming. This program is the latest in our renewed emphasis on local storytelling. Recent Contact Vegas PBS with comments and suggestions: Vegas PBS & Southern Nevada Public Television projects include Makers: Women in Nevada History, The Test, Restoration Neon, 3050 E. Flamingo Road, Las Vegas, Nevada 89121 Broadway in the Hood, and Our Chest of Dreams. These programs seek to fulfil our 702.799.1010 • Fax 702.799.2806 VegasPBS.org • email: [email protected] mission to “use television and other technologies to amplify and extend” the mission Vegas PBS Source, Volume No. 2, 2017 of community partners. Combined, these partnerships create a growing collection of Vegas PBS Source Art Director documentaries that help create a more complete understanding of the unique commu- Anton Tielemans nity of Southern Nevada. Tom Axtell This magazine is printed on recycled paper FEBRUARY 2017 5 February 2017 Contents Cover Story 8 Spy in the Wild, A Nature Miniseries This exciting new five-part series employs more than 30 animatronic “spycams” disguised as animals to secretly record behavior in the wild. Departments 5 Message to Our Members Letter from General Manager Tom Axtell 14 Upcoming Member Events 22 Spotlight on Philanthropy by Janice Allen Features 10 History History Comes Alive 11 The Royal Treatment 8 12 Special A Celebration of Black History Month 15 Spotlight Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope (Season 9) 18 Drama A New Season Awaits 19 Drama Premiere The Coroner 20 The Arts Celebrating the Arts 32 Keeping Up Appearances (2nd Annual Bucket Bowl!) 33 Moveable Feast with Fine Cooking 34 Secrets of the Dead: Cleopatra’s Lost Tomb 11 15 35 The Coroner 37 Vegas PBS Rewind/Worldview/Jackpot! Program Menu 23 Weekdays/Children’s Lineup 24 Primetime Programming 32 Weekend Daytime Programming 36 Vegas PBS Create Programming Vegas PBS Channels 38 Vegas PBS Sponsors 19 34 FEBRUARY 2017 7 COVER STORY Spy in the Wild, A Nature Miniseries Wednesdays throughout the Month at 8 p.m. Vegas PBS viewers share a sense of monkeys that get drunk and a wealth of other February 15 Friendship curiosity about the world, and we strive to extraordinary behavior, they reveal that the Spy Creatures and their new wild friends bring the very best in science and nature pro- roots of our own actions lie hidden in our ani- rely on each other to look out for predators. grams to help satisfy that curiosity! Now, in mal past. Drawing on the latest scientific dis- A Spy Meerkat babysits meerkat pups while the most innovative series Nature has ever coveries, the Spy Creatures discover that we a Spy Cobra pretends to attack the mob. Spy presented, this exciting new five-part series are not so different from other animals after Crocs witness a convenient partnership employs more than 30 animatronic “spycams” all. The programs repeat the following between real crocodiles and birds. disguised as animals to secretly record Sundays at 9 a.m. February 22 Bad Behavior behavior in the wild. These Spy Creatures February 1 Love Spy Creatures infiltrate the underground reveal that animals show emotions and Spy Creatures explore the rarely seen world of animal mischief, crime and retribu- behavior similar to humans – a capacity to emotions of animals, revealing whether they tion. Spy Monkey is caught between cross- love, grieve, deceive, cooperate and invent. are as strong and complex as our own. Join fires as real monkeys fight over beach bar The Spy Creatures turn their beady cam- the spycams as they are accepted into a wild alcohol. Spy Egret is also a waterhole victim era eyes on their most fascinating subject dog pack, witness elephant love and are when elephants throw mud everywhere! yet: animals that behave like us, including mourned by a troop of monkeys! March 1 Meet the Spies chimps, meerkats, elephants and wolves. February 8 Intelligence 34 different brand new spy creatures were These lifelike robots infiltrate the natural Spy Creatures infiltrate the world of ani- created for the series, including Spy world to film surprising human-like behavior mal intelligence, ingenuity and creativity. Orangutan, Spy Sea Otter,Spy Bushbaby, Spy – all captured from the animal’s point of Watch our spies disguised as animals observe Squirrel, Spy Crocodile, Spy Caterpillar, Spy view. As they discover chimps that keep pets, a gray squirrel stealing Spy Nut, a sea otter Cobra and Spy Macaw. dolphins that bear gifts, meerkat babysitters, cracking open a meal, and an orangutan washing with soap. 8 VEGAS PBS SOURCE Spy Creatures David Pogue delves into the powerful world of batteries NOVA Wednesdays at 9 p.m. Explore the latest scientific innovations along with the spectacular world of nature. February 1 Search for the Super Battery We live in an age when technological inno- vation seems to be limitlessly soaring, but many of these gadgets share a frustrating weakness: the batteries. Even though there NOVA: Ultimate Cruise Ship have been some improvements in the last century, batteries remain finicky, bulky, tions is: can the mathematics of origami be Sir David expensive, toxic and maddeningly short-lived. boiled down to one elegant algorithm – a fail- Attenborough The quest is now on for a “super battery.” proof guidebook to make any object out of a With climate change looming, electric cars flat surface, just by folding? And if so, what , and renewable energy sources like wind and what would that mean for the future of design? solar power could hold keys to a greener February 22 Why Trains Crash future... if we can engineer the perfect bat- Trains are essential for moving freight and tery. Might the lowly battery be the break- people throughout the world, but they are far through technology that changes everything? from accident-free. 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