Trusted. Valued. Essential. MAY 2017 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 Federal Funding Investment Business Manager s you may have read, there are some in Washington who support the Brandon Merrill elimination of federal funding for public service television stations like Engineering, IT & Emergency Response Director George Molnar Vegas PBS. When we’ve faced this challenge before, we’ve always found strong Content Director Cyndy Robbins bipartisan support in Congress for continued federal support. Still, this Workforce Training & Economic Development Director Aseems an appropriate time to share some thoughts on how we invest federal dollars and Debra Solt what an elimination of this funding source might mean for the services your member- Corporate Partnerships Director ship support helps sponsor. Bruce Spotleson This year,Vegas PBS will receive $1,308,231 in federal matching funds.This amount Southern Nevada Public Television Board of Directors is equal to about 59 cents a year for every person in our viewing area, and makes up Executive Director about 11 percent of our annual budget. For these 59 cents, we are required to broad- Tom Axtell, Vegas PBS cast a free, universally accessible program service that (1) provides at least 35 hours President of curriculum-correlated educational children’s programs weekly, (2) produces local Bill Curran, Ballard Spahr, LLP programs, public service promotions, and/or outreach events that address community Vice President Nancy Brune, Guinn Center for Policy Priorities concerns, (3) provides a redundant path for transmission of Presidential and local emergency messages via TV channels and cell phone networks, and (4) secures most of Treasurer and Chair, Planned Giving Council Mark Dreschler, Premier Trust of Nevada our funding from non-federal revenues. Chair, Community Council To meet the children’s programming requirements, we license and broadcast 79 hours Charlotte Hill, Carlisle Collection a week of educational programs on Channel 10.1, plus an additional 168 hours a week Chair, Desert Meadows AHEC Council on PBS KIDS. We hold more than 1,100 educational workshops annually to help Loretta Moses, Clark County Medical Society of Nevada parents better use PBS KIDS programs, websites and mobile apps to increase their CCSD Liaison to SNPT Board children’s academic and social achievement. We partner with public, private, charter Carolyn Edwards, Clark County School District Trustee and home schools to provide online classroom resources and tools to assist special Board Members needs children with their education. Vince Alberta, UNLV All this for just 59 cents per person a year. Linda Ammons, Community Volunteer Tracy Bower, National Security Technologies, LLC To meet the local programming requirements, Vegas PBS annually produces over Cheri Colbus, US Bank 250 hours of local television on education, public health, arts, outdoor recreation and Rachelle Crupi, Bank of Nevada local history, and an additional 250 hours of educational videos, public service Mo Denis, Nevada State Senator announcements and public access meetings for Internet distribution with over 200 com- Thomas Gallagher, TreVista Group, LLC munity partners. We extend the impact of our over-the-air programming by hosting Dema Guinn, Community Volunteer more than 15 job fairs a year and annually enroll almost 127,000 adults in career Stephen Greathouse, Las Vegas Hotel & Gaming Industry, retired programs that result in a high school diploma, continuing education credit or a career Sandi Herrera, “Got Core Values!” Albert Z. Kovacs, Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP certification. Lori Lea, AECIndustryPro.com For just 59 cents per person a year. Nora Luna, Nathan Adelson Hospice To meet the public safety requirement, the PBS interconnection system serves as Marydean Martin, Marydean & Associates part of FEMA’s Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS), and our trans- John Restrepo, RCG Economics, LLC mitters carry text messages for Wireless Emergency Alerts and encrypted data for local Geraldine Tomich, Marquis Aurbach Coffing Attorneys first responders. Irene Vogel, Community Volunteer Thomas Warden, The Howard Hughes Corporation For just 59 cents per person a year. It bears mention that federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting Contact Vegas PBS with comments and suggestions: is distributed primarily to local PBS stations using a matching formula. The more Vegas PBS & Southern Nevada Public Television 3050 E. Flamingo Road, Las Vegas, Nevada 89121 non-federal funding we raise, the greater our share of the CPB matching funding. 702.799.1010 • Fax 702.799.2806 At Vegas PBS, individuals, corporations, foundations and competitive grants provide VegasPBS.org • email: [email protected] nine dollars for every one dollar we earn in federal matching funds. Vegas PBS Source, Volume No. 5, 2017 This is a spectacular public-private partnership – led by donors like you. Whatever Vegas PBS Source Art Director your position, please share your thoughts on federal funding with me and our elected Anton Tielemans officials. For more information please visit ProtectMyPublicMedia.org This magazine is printed on Tom Axtell recycled paper MAY 2017 5 May 2017 Contents Cover Story 8 Outdoor Nevada, Season 2 Grab your travel gear and join host John Burke as he crisscrosses the state on the ultimate road trip. Departments 5 Message to Our Members Letter from General Manager Tom Axtell 14 Upcoming Member Events 20 A Message from the Outdoor Nevada Producer Features 10 Drama Get Lost in the Drama 11 This Month on Outdoor Nevada 12 Memorial Day In Honor of Our Heroes 8 13 Spotlight Food, Glorious Food 13 Special Great Performances at the Met: Nabucco 15 Spotlight FRONTLINE 18 How-To Lucky Chow 18 Spotlight Secrets of the Dead 32 City in the Sky 33 Time to Laugh 34 Remembering Jewish-American Heritage Month 35 Princes of the Palace 10 12 37 Vegas PBS Rewind/Worldview/Jackpot! Program Menu 21 Weekdays/Children’s Lineup 24 Primetime Programming 32 Weekend Daytime Programming 36 Vegas PBS Create Programming Vegas PBS Channels 38 Vegas PBS Sponsors 2513 18 MAY 2017 7 COVER STORY Outdoor Nevada, Season 2 Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m. beginning May 10 The crew has been out gathering stories from north to south, east and west, and are excited to deliver ten new episodes in season 2! Grab your Depiction of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark travel gear and join host John Burke as he crisscrosses the state on the ultimate road trip. Nevada’s ideal climate and varied environments Lewis and Clark: The Journey provide endless inspiration for our exciting outdoor adventures. Whether of the Corps of Discovery Sunday, April 30 at 3 p.m. we’re horseback riding in Red Rock Canyon, riding on a seaplane at Lake Sent by President Thomas Jefferson in 1804 to find the fabled Northwest Passage, Tahoe or land sailing outside of Las Vegas, we’re having a blast. John Meriwether Lewis and William Clark led the most important expedition in American his- takes us on experiences ranging from the extreme to the serene and tory – a voyage of danger and discovery from St. Louis to the headwaters of the Missouri everything in-between. Tag along as we meet with locals who share River, over the Continental Divide to the their stories and experts who convey valuable information related to Pacific Ocean.This is the remarkable story of the entire Corps of Discovery – not just of the natural history and science. Please see page 11 for descriptions of this two Captains, but the young army men, French-Canadian boatmen, Clark’s African- month’s episodes. Encore broadcasts on Saturdays at 4 p.m. and Sundays American slave, and the Shoshone woman named Sacagawea, who brought along her at 8:30 a.m. infant son. Tag along as we meet with locals who Nature share their stories and experts who convey Wednesdays at 8 p.m. “ (with encore broadcasts the following valuable information...” Sundays at 9 a.m.) Sponsored By Dolphins Spy in the Pod May 3 and 10 The camera eyes of 13 ingenious Spy Las Vegas • JLRLV.com Creatures, including Spy Dolphin, Spy Nautilus and Spy Turtle, capture the dol- phin’s “superpod” behavior never filmed before. Infiltrate the social world of dolphins from strange gatherings to gang rivalries and learn their mysteries of communication and strategies. Go undercover to meet the Orca, the largest dolphins, and race the Dall’s por- poises, the fastest dolphins in the world. ...Meriwether Lewis “and William Clark led the most important expedition in American history...” 8 VEGAS PBS SOURCE ...an in-depth look at “the intriguing behavior of orchids and carnivorous plants...” Animal Misfits May 17 Alongside the fastest, strongest, smartest animals are nature’s misfits, odd, bizarre and unlikely creatures that at first glance seem ill-equipped for survival. Left at the starting line in the race for life, these are the appar- ent losers in the story of evolution, yet some- how they manage to cling to life and in some cases even thrive. Discover some surprising details about how evolution really works, demonstrating that all animals are remark- ably well-adapted to their chosen way of life. Gathering of Swarms May 24 Get a look at some of the planet’s great Jumping bottlenose dolphins gatherings and creatures that come together in inconceivable numbers — sometimes in Nature’s Miracle Orphans others have failed? This special celebrates millions, billions, even trillions. Included are Thursday, May 4 at 8 p.m. the most successful animal groups on Earth bats and bees, locusts and ants, monarch but- Growing up in the wild is always rough – – from apes to elephants, ants to bears.