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Monday, October 28 at 8 pm on KRCB TV in the North Bay. In 2018, Italy’s Morandi Bridge collapsed, tragically killing 43 people. For 50 years, the iconic bridge had withstood the elements—and stress from ever-increasing traffic. What went wrong that fateful day? And how can new engineering technology protect bridge infrastructure to prevent such tragic failures in the future? Through eyewitness testimony, expert interviews, and dramatic archival footage, NOVA investigates the Morandi disaster and other deadly bridge collapses.
Sunday, October 27 at 7 pm on KPJK TV in the South Bay. Double Take: The Art of Elizabeth King illuminates the aesthetic and engineering questions sculptor Elizabeth King puzzles over with an acute sensitivity to both life and the life-like. She has created her own genre at the intersection of the classical and automata. An accomplished artist with an eye for the intimate meaning of gesture, King obsessively manipulates her materials to produce pieces that both approximate and challenge the viewer. Newly retired from 40 years of teaching, King is more than ever able to focus on her work and examine her motives and making. With major solo shows driving her, King seems poised to get her due. In studio visits, conversations with peers and art world figures, Double Take: The Art of Elizabeth King invites the viewer to consider what looking and seeing one another means in our increasingly visual world.
Wednesday, October 23 at 7 pm on KPJK TV in the South Bay. Although you may not know his name, if you watch, listen to, or download the news these days, you are benefiting from the pioneering work of Lowell Thomas. As host of the first national radio newscast carried on both NBC and CBS, as well as the Fox Movietone newsreels shown in every movie theater, Thomas invented what we now call traditional journalism and dominated American journalism in the 1930s and 1940s as no one else has before or since.
Monday, October 21 at 9 pm on KRCB TV in the North Bay. Cover/Age follows the story of two undocumented immigrant leaders (one a caregiver, the other a policy advocate) who are confronting the healthcare exclusion of elderly undocumented immigrants in California.
Saturday, October 19 at 8 pm on KRCB TV in the North Bay. Mesmerizing and mystical, DakhaBrakha creates a world of unexpected and new music. Accompanied by Indian, Arabic, African, Russian, and Australian traditional instrumentation, the quartet’s astonishingly powerful and uncompromising vocal range creates a trans-national sound rooted in Ukrainian culture. (Photo by Andiy Petryna)
