Magazine OCTOBER 2010 Join host Steve Barnes for AETN’s Exclusive Debate Coverage Details begin page 6 Arkansas Educational Television Network Contents AETN MAGAZINE Tickets are available now in the Staff Concert Information . 3 Editor-in-Chief AETN Foundation Box Office From the Director . 4 Allen Weatherly for these exciting Editor AETN Productions . 5 Mona Dixon special events . AETN’s Debate Coverage . 6-7 Editorial & Creative Director Education . 6 Sara Willis Editorial Panel PBS Ongoing Series and Shirley Bowen, Tommy Emmanuel October Specials . 8-9, 28-29 Rowena Parr, Darbi Blencowe Saturday, October 2, 2010 David Garrett AETN Originals . 10-11 Pam Wilson, Tiffany Verkler, Kerry Krell, 7:00 p.m. Wednesday, February 9, 2011 Bryan Fields Ozark Folk Center 7:00 p.m. Primetime Schedules . 10-21 Copy Editors Mountain View Robinson Center Music Hall AETN Foundation Membercard . 20 Darbi Blencowe, Catherine Mays, Little Rock Telling Amy’s Story . 21 Karen Cooper, Pat Pearce AETN Offices Straight No Chaser Daytime on AETN-1 . 22-23 350 S. Donaghey Ave. - Conway, AR - Thursday, October 14, 2010 Video Games Live Daytime on AETN-2 Create 72034 7:00 p.m. with the 800/662-2386 Baum Walker Hall South Arkansas Symphony & AETN-3 Plus . 24-27 [email protected] - www.aetn.org Underwriter and Sponsor Spotlight . 30 Walton Arts Center Saturday, April 2, 2011 Fayetteville 7:30 p.m. AETN Foundation Underwriters . 31 El Dorado Municipal Auditorium Coming in November . 32 Celtic Thunder El Dorado Sunday, November 14, 2010 October’s Cover Story . AETN’s exclusive coverage of Arkansas Election Debates. Details on AETN Mission 6:00 p.m. Canadian Tenors pages 6-7. Photos courtesy of Arkansas Department of Parks & Tourism. Statement Arkansas Best Performing Saturday, April 9, 2011 The mission of the Arkansas Arts Center 2:00 p.m. Fort Smith Baum Walker Hall The quality programming on AETN is underwritten in part by... 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Although accurate at the time of printing, this guide should Dr. William Downs, Jr. of Dan Farley of Little Rock Viewers may reach AETN at: 501-682-4198 be used in conjunction with current newspapers, TV magazine listings and the Internet. service designed to inform, Arkadelphia Dr. Andrew Fulkerson of 1-800-662-AETN Education: KETS DT, Little Rock ~ KEMV DT, Mountain View ~ KETG DT, Arkadelphia ~ educate, motivate, entertain, Don Hale of El Dorado Paragould 1-800-662-2386 1-800-488-6689 KAFT DT, Fayetteville ~ KTEJ DT, Jonesboro ~ KETZ DT, El Dorado enlighten and inspire. Jane Krutz of Little Rock Don Hale of El Dorado 501-682-AETN [email protected] 2 Arkansas Educational Television Network Arkansas Educational Television Network 3 NEW SEASON Dear viewer, the tragic death of Amy McGhee, a domestic violence victim and former Verizon employee. AETN will air AETN Presents! 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For all your Arkansas Election 2010 details visit Webb and discussed her new book A Ticket to the Robin Becker, author of Brains: A Zombie Memoir www.aetn.org/elections, and tune in for AETN’s debates And how could we wrap up October without celebrating Circus: A Memoir. Mailer, née Barbara Jean Davis, talks to host Tommy Sanders about her debut book. Oct. 11-15. Debates will include governor, lieutenant Halloween? AETN has partnered with Hot Springs was the sixth wife of Pulitzer Prize winning-writer Becker, a New Jersey native and world traveller, governor, secretary of state, attorney general, U.S. National Park for Halloween Museum Fun Walk 2010 Norman Mailer. received her MFA from LSU in Baton Rouge in 2000 Senate and U.S. congressional districts 1-4. Ballot - The Year of the Bat. Join us on Bathhouse Row from initiatives will also be addressed. Debates are free and 3-7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 30, for a fun outing for and currently teaches writing at UCA in Conway. open to the public. Online you’ll find more information the family, trick-or-treating with Clifford the Big Red Dog, A Ticket to the Circus paints a portrait of her life on how to be a part of the audience at the debates, informational programs on bats, crafts and special art from her early beginnings in a small Arkansas town In Brains, Becker writes about a kinder, gentler broadcast times, each candidate’s biography and exhibits with local artists. and the struggle to find her way in the world. She zombie named Jack Barnes, a former college platforms, special interviews with voters around the state writes of her instant attraction to Norman Mailer professor who has retained his consciousness and and more. As always, we appreciate your continued support of your statewide public television network. Tune in, and enjoy after meeting him at a party in Russellville with wants to co-exist peacefully with humans. Convinced A new season of Community Cinema gears up in October the quality programming we are pleased to bring you hopes of obtaining his autograph inside Marilyn, a he can make a difference in the lives of zombies, at Hendrix College - and we’re working with UALR to this month and always. biography by the controversial writer in 1973. Barnes and a band of rag-tag flesh-eaters set out add a second venue in Little Rock. The first film featured to find the man responsible for unleashing the will be Reel Injun: On the Trail of the Hollywood Indian. Mailer shares many anecdotes of her 32-year “zombie-virus” on the planet. Visit www.aetn.org/engage/communitycinema for complete screening details and a list of the 2010-2011 Allen Weatherly marriage to Norman including his death in 2007. Independent Lens Community Cinema season. 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