The Top Ten PBS Children`s Shows of All Time (After Sesame Street)

The 40th Anniversary of Sesame Street has NPT Media Update Children’s Programming Correspondent and Sesame Street enthusiast Erin McInnis thinking again. This time, it’s about the plethora of OTHER great PBS children’s shows over the years. She’s compiled her favorites. Let the reminiscing (and debating) begin!
By Erin McInnis
Sesame Street kicked off its 40th year [...]

Between the Folds: Free Screening Sunday Nov 15 at Downtown Library

Come early at 2:30 for a light reception and origami craft led by Emily Winckler of the Consulate-General of Japan in Nashville.
When you look at a piece of paper, what do you see? If your answer is a flat, two-dimensional square, then BETWEEN THE FOLDS will astound you. Blurring the mysterious [...]

Happy Birthday Sesame Street: Let`s Get Dressed Up

Next week marks the 40th Anniversary of Sesame Street. As NPT’s Erin McInnis points out, that’s two generations, at least! There’s no understating the educational and cultural impact of the show over the years, and to prove the latter point, I guarantee that you saw at least one Sesame Street costume this past Halloween, and [...]

NPT Music Monthly November 2009

It was 35 years ago when a self-described “rag tag bunch of long-haired hippie public television types” caught Willie Nelson on video camera and produced the very first episode of Austin City Limits. To celebrate the show’s anniversary and his new record, Nelson returns with Ray Benson and Asleep at the Wheel for a very [...]

Stuck In Nashville: Win Tickets to See John Fogerty at the Ryman

[UPDATED: We've updated language to clarify how long the verse should be. Basically, just write a new verse to the song]

Enter Our “Stuck In Nashville, Again” Lyric Contest and Win Tickets to See John Fogerty at the Ryman Auditorium
John Fogerty will not only be on NPT on Saturday, November 7 at 8:00 p.m., with [...]

Beth Curley is Principal For a Day at Meigs Magnet School

NPT President and CEO Beth Curley was invited this week by the PENCIL Foundation and Meigs Magnet Middle School in East Nashville to be Principal for a Day. Beth assisted principal Jon Hubble in normal school day activities, beginning at 7:30am with the greeting and morning announcements* for 730 students. From there she walked the [...]

Over and Under: Bill Cosby`s Mark Twain Prize and History with PBS

Earlier this week, at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in D.C., legendary comedian, actor, author, television producer and activist Bill Cosby was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Honoring Cosby that night were Chris Rock, Jerry Seinfeld, Sinbad, Carl Reiner and Cosby Show alums Phylicia Rashad and Malcolm-Jamal Warner, [...]

Join Us for Art:21 Screenings at the Frist October 23 and 30

If you caught the excellent Independent Lens season opener HERB AND DOROTHY, you discovered a couple whose life was consumed with the beauty and joy of experiencing and collecting contemporary art. Herb and Dorothy Vogel are a husband and wife of modest means who need art in their lives the way [...]

Put Down The Duckie: Our Favorite Sesame Street Musical Guests

Word that Jason Mraz will spoof his mega-hit “I’m Yours” on Sesame Street this season, by re-writing it as “Outdoors,” has us at NPT thinking about all the other musicians who have stopped by the show, to either parody one of their own songs, sing one straight, or join the gang in a singalong celebration [...]

From Warhol to Chuck D? Copyright Criminals at the Downtown Library

Is there a connection between Andy Warhol’s painting of Campbell’s Soup cans and Public Enemy’s sampling of Clyde Stubblefield’s drum beats? Is sample-based hip-hop art or theft? The two questions have been at the base of a legal and cultural debate for almost two decades now, and while legally it appears [...]