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http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/entertainment/jan-june08/words_05-09.html The Iraq War has divided many Americans, including Frances and Ben Richey. Ben a graduate of West Point, has served two tours of duty in Iraq. His mother, Frances, opposed the war, creating a rift between a single mother and her only child. In response, Frances wrote poems about and for her son, they are collected in a new book, The Warrior. The poetry has helped bring mother and son closer. Watch The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on your local PBS station (check local listings).

Rhino Horn Lab - By analyzing the chemical "fingerprint" of rhino horns, scientists create a database that they hope will help in the fight against poaching. "Rhinoceros" airs Sunday, May 18 at 8 p.m. (check local listings). For more information, visit http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/rhino/

The Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital in Ethiopia has treated over 30,000 women who suffer from a birth injury called a fistula. These women, most of whom are rejected by society, get a second chance at life. Watch NOVA every Tuesday night on PBS. Or join us online at http://www.pbs.org/nova Funding for "A Walk to Beautiful" is provided by the Fistula Foundation, the Marianthi Foundation, The Fledgling Film Fund, and others. Funding for NOVA is provided by David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers. To learn more, visit http://www.pbs.org/nova/beautiful

Reporters Joe Collum and Connie Hicks kick off Nightly Business Report s Get Your Finances Ready for Retirement series with a look at the connections between the retirement lifestyle you choose to live and your finances. Get Your Finances Ready for Retirement is a year-long series designed to help soon-to-be and recent retirees make the financial transition from work life to retirement life. Look for the latest retirement segments to appear on the web on alternate Tuesdays of every month. For more information visit: http://www.pbs.org/nbr/site/features/special/retirement_HOME/

More than any other city, Venice is the place to get out early, or stay out late, where around each corner is an excuse to savor the magic of the city. Venice's Doges Palace, built to remind visitors that Venice was number one, showed off the wealth and power of the republic. From 1150 to 1550, the Doge's Palace was the most powerful piece of real estate in Europe. For more information on the Rick Steves' Europe TV series — including episode descriptions, scripts, participating stations, travel information on destinations and more — visit www.ricksteves.com.

Visit http://www.pbs.org/secrets for more information. PBS airdate: Wednesday, May 21 at 8:00pm (check local listings) At the end of World War II, undercover Allied agents engaged in a desperate race against one another to capture the elite of Germany s scientific community in an effort to gain a major advantage in the looming Cold War and Space Race. The Hunt for Nazi Scientists examines this crucial pursuit through eye-witness accounts of these daring missions.

Want to find out why Great Horned Owls can turn their heads 270 degrees? Join us as we meet Olivia the Owl at the Oakland Zoo.

Bay Area engineer Ugo Conti has sailed the world, but has always suffered from seasickness. A queasy stomach became his motivation to design "Proteus" - a spider-like sea craft made for smoother sailing. He designed the Wave Adaptive Modular Vessel to cross the ocean while flexing with the movement of the waves. And it may change the way people take to the high seas.

A growing number of children's advocates and political leaders are worried that our culture's disconnection from nature is harming kids. Concerns about the long-term consequences on children's physical and emotional well-being have spawned a national movement to "leave no child inside." QUEST explores why we need nature, and efforts to encourage children to play outdoors.

Alan Cumming, host of PBS' MASTERPIECE Mystery!, conducts a personal tour of the MASTERPIECE Mystery set -- and demonstrates the multiple uses of a lint roller. On June 22, the series kicks off a sizzling summer with the return of Morse's sidekick in "Inspector Lewis, Series I" (Sundays, June 22 - July 6), followed by a fond farewell to Inspector Foyle of "Foyle's War" (Sundays, July 13 - July 27), and new episodes of Elizabeth George's popular "The Inspector Lynley Mysteries" (August 10 and 17). For more, visit http://www.pbs.org/mystery

Download | Play Download | Play (h/t Heather) Bill Moyers, host of PBS Bill Moyers Journal, is one of the few remaining REAL journalists left in American media. We ve covered many of his PBS segments and it was a great pleasure to cover his appearance with Keith Olbermann on Monday s Countdown. Moyers and Olbermann touch on the corporate media, their biases and the way they are shaping, and in many cases, damaging our country and its politics by ignoring critical issues and grinding information into sound bytes and bumper sticker-type messages: Olbermann: Clearly the tendency is towards truncating everything, condensing everything into that eventual black hole of information where nothing escapes. How does it apply as you look ahead towards this general election campaign? How does it apply to each of the candidates, in turn? Moyers: I think it means for all of them that they won t really get to the deep, profound structural problems that we face as a country. We re not going to have a discourse in this campaign over the fact that the great American wealth machine is benefiting only those at the top. We re not going to get to the fact that 10% of the people own 60% of the wealth and 70% of the people have no net worth. We re not going to get to the issues of how do we rebuild the infrastructure, the sewer, the water, the highways, all that. We re just going to be constantly in this battle of bumper stickers.

Carly Simon and Tavis share stories about how they overcame childhood stuttering. Check local listings for airdates of Tavis Smiley on PBS. For more information, see http://www.pbs.org/kcet/tavissmiley/archive/200805/20080514.html

PBS Airdate: Monday, May 26, 2008 at 8 PM ET (check local listings) At ANTIQUES ROADSHOW in Las Vegas, Nevada, a woman brings in a charming piece of literary history: an original illustrated manuscript booklet of Tasha Tudor s first children s book, Pumpkin Moonshine. According to appraiser Ken Gloss, the booklet dates back to 1938, before Tudor had published any books and represents a significant piece of children s illustrated art. Check out this preview to discover more about this beloved American children s writer and illustrator and the market in her work. To view more fine art and illustration appraisals, visit the Roadshow Archive Online at http://pbs.org/antiques/archive Watch ANTIQUES ROADSHOW on PBS, Monday nights at 8 PM ET (check local listings).

The Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital in Ethiopia has treated over 30,000 women who suffer from a birth injury called a fistula. These women, most of whom are rejected by society, get a second chance at life. Watch NOVA every Tuesday night on PBS. Or join us online at pbs.org/nova. Funding for "A Walk to Beautiful" is provided by the Fistula Foundation, the Marianthi Foundation, The Fledgling Film Fund, and others. Funding for NOVA is provided by David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers. To learn more, visit http://www.pbs.org/nova/beautiful

Episode 10, Season 1 "Arthur's Birthday" Arthur is excited about his birthday. After shopping for party supplies, he makes invitations and passes them out at school. He then finds out that Muffy is having her party on the same day, at the same time. This starts a huge battle between the boys and the girls in the Ratburn class. Fortunately, Francine and Arthur devise a great solution to the problem. Author: Arthurfanatic007 Keywords: Arthur's Birthday PBS Kids Episodes Added: May 9, 2008

James Kitchen from Charley Rose on Vimeo. James Kitchen has been welding scrap metal for the past eight years at his home and studio in Chesterfield, Massachusetts. He continues to gain recognition in the world of fine arts and is eager for the day when he will be able to create his intriguing sculptures on a full time basis. “See, I’m caught in a web,” says Kitchen pointing to a metal web in a corner of his workshop with a bug swinging from it. “Like the bug, I’m just hanging, I just want to be an artist and have more time.” In his large workshop behind his house he spends his free time creating sculptures and managing his display (menagerie?) of finished pieces. Several years ago, rusted scraps of metals, and deserted antique objects began piling up in his yard. “When he started,” says his wife Karen, “and piles of metal started appearing on the drive, it was ‘what’s this junk?’ And now that I know what he can do, it’s like ‘oh, we have more inventory.’” Kitchen has a powerful sense of creativity and a nonstop drive, which turns those piles into incredible works of art. “He certainly does it on a large scale and with a lot of humor behind it,” says Heather Haskell the Director of the Springfield Museum of Fine Art. Kitchen shows a great passion for his art. Working a full time job of 50-70 hours a week, he spends the remainder of his free time welding in his unheated workshop, which will soon be converted into a studio as well. His art stems from an enthusiasm for history and a devotion to his local community. “I feel part historian and part archeologist, creating new life,” says Kitchen. All of the metal in his sculptures come from local farms, antique stores, auctions, and the occasional drive-by neighbor who leaves piles of interesting objects in Kitchen’s driveway. “I like the fact that it’s my town and community and their history.” He has even rescued cutlery, tossed from a closed factory, from the Mill River. “I’m rescuing this poor old piece,” Kitchen says holding a piece of metal, “and enriching someone’s life.” Kitchen uses nature to mature and nurture his sculptures into the finest rust patina and does little else to alter the metal. “I don’t try to reshape stuff, if it goes then it was meant to be there,” he says. He first showed his creations in 2001 at the William Cullen Bryant Art Fair and won Best of Show for the quality of his work and innovative display. Since then he has displayed his art in other local fairs, museums, and art guild shows in the Western Massachusetts area. He also shows work at L’Attitude Gallery on Newbury Street in Boston, Massachusetts. In 2003 Kitchen was one of the artists chosen to display his work in the Springfield Museum of Fine Art’s local artists series. He was selected by a panel of judges for the “ability to look at his work on a number of different levels, his creativity, and his craftsmanship,” according to the director Heather Haskell. “Our visitors greatly enjoyed the show, they stayed for a long time,” Haskell added. When people meet Kitchen they are drawn to him and his art. Neighbors leave metal scraps in his driveway. Farmers invite Kitchen to help himself to their metal piles. When people view his work they are astounded. A University of Massachusetts professor has helped produce his website in exchange for sculptures. “They populate my garden and my house like treasured friends. Please don’t tell James that websites are never finished!” “People will walk by and touch pieces, and then come back again,”says Karen, “It’s neat that they have to touch the sculptures.” His large- scale sculptures enliven the spirit and invoke a deep range of emotions. “In my heart I feel this is my calling in life,” says Kitchen, “everything I have done leads up to this.” Cast: Charley Rose

Dark matter is a cosmic enigma. We can't see it or touch it -- so what is it? We asked MIT physicist Max Tegmark about the nature of this strange substance and why it remains so mysterious. Produced by David Levin. Interview by Julia Cort. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Major funding for NOVA is provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers. Major funding for NOVA scienceNOW is provided by the National Science Foundation and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Additional funding is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0229297. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. For more fun science stories, visit our Web site at http://www.pbs.org/nova/sciencenow

Dark matter is a cosmic enigma. We can't see it or touch it -- so what is it? We asked MIT physicist Max Tegmark about the nature of this strange substance and why it remains so mysterious. Produced by David Levin. Interview by Julia Cort. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Major funding for NOVA is provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers. Major funding for NOVA scienceNOW is provided by the National Science Foundation and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Additional funding is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0229297. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. For more fun science stories, visit our Web site at http://www.pbs.org/nova/sciencenow

PBS Airdate: Sunday, May 25 at 8:00 p.m. (check local listings) The award-winning National Memorial Day Concert honors the service and sacrifice of our men and women in uniform, their families at home and all of those who have given their lives for our country. Airing live on PBS Sunday, May 25 from 8:00 to 9:30 p.m. (check local listings), the event is co-hosted by Tony Award-winner Joe Mantegna (Criminal Minds), who has dedicated himself to veteran's causes and supporting our troops in active service. Joining him as co-host is Gary Sinise (CSI: New York) and an all-star cast including Gladys Knight, Sarah Brightman, Denis Leary, Charles Durning General Colin Powell and Rodney Atkins. For more information visit http://www.pbs.org/memorialdayconcert

PBS Airdate: Sunday, May 25 at 8:00 p.m. (check local listings) As the war in Iraq and Afghanistan wages on, PBS unites our nation with the award-winning National Memorial Day Concert honoring the service and sacrifice of our men and women in uniform, their families at home and all of those who have given their lives for our country. The event, which has become the memorial service for our entire nation, is co-hosted by Gary Sinise (CSI: New York) and Tony Award-winner Joe Mantegna (Criminal Minds), two acclaimed actors who have dedicated themselves to veteran's causes and supporting our troops in active service. The top-rated show will be broadcast live on PBS from the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol on Sunday, May 25, 2008 from 8:00 to 9:30 p.m. (check local listings) before a concert audience of 300,000, millions more at home, as well as to our troops serving around the world on the American Forces Radio and Television Network. The all-star cast includes Gladys Knight, Sarah Brightman, Idina Menzel, Denis Leary, Charles Durning, General Colin Powell and Rodney Atkins in performance with the National Symphony Orchestra under the direction of maestro Erich Kunzel. For more information visit http://www.pbs.org/memorialdayconcert

FRONTLINE/World reporter Evan Williams travels undercover to Burma to expose the violence and repression carried out by Burma's government against its own people.

For Mother's Day Tavis talks about his mother and former president Jimmy Carter's book "A Remarkable Mother." Check out Tavis Smiley on PBS. For more information, see http://www.pbs.org/kcet/tavissmiley/special/tavisblog.html

The Arts Connection discovers an art lover s paradise at the Millenia Fine Art Gallery. Plus host, Secily Wilson, learns more about a local treasure that holds the largest permanent collection of Earl Cunningham s work, the Mennello Museum of American Art. And reporter, Kristen Kenney goes behind the scenes with the local creators of the new independent film, In Marjorie s Wake that will air on PBS. All that and more on The Arts Connection, your source for all things creative in Central Florida.

In March 1933, Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office and gave hope to a nation in crisis.

In March 1933, Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office and gave hope to a nation in crisis.

The Arts Connection and host, Secily Wilson, explore a classic theater in Sanford. Once called the Helen Stairs Theatre, it now goes by its new name, the Wayne Densch Performing Arts Center. We ll learn what s in store for this creative hot spot. Plus we tour the home of local art collector, Josh Garrick, and learn how we can start our own collection. Then, we uncover the Orlando connections to the Tupperware company when we meet the author of the new book, Tupperware Unsealed , Bob Kealing. All that and more on The Arts Connection, your source for all things creative in Central Florida.

Visit http://www.pbs.org/secrets for more information. PBS airdate: Wednesday, May 14 at 8:00pm (check local listings) Five thousand years ago the Minoans, Europe s first great civilization, flourished on the island of Crete. Yet in their heyday, they mysteriously disappeared. Sinking Atlantis digs deep into the Minoan soil and history, following archaeologists who are finding evidence of a massive tsunami that devastated the Minoans and may have spawned the myth of Atlantis.

Winter's End - As winter comes to an end in the Austrian Alps, the stags of the mountain herd lose their antlers in a humorous display. Once again, spring brings signs of color and life to the alpine slopes. But not everyone made it through the winter alive. "Prince of the Alps" premieres Sunday, May 11 at 8 p.m. (check local listings). For more information, visit http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/princeofthealps/

Garden correspondent Paul Epsom answers a viewer's question about types of shade and the right plant for the right place.

Sea otters, urchins and kelp, oh my! Explore the delicate balance of life in an emerald forest.