CIS Blogs

PBS Teachers LIVE! Upcoming Webinar: Engaging Students with Experiential Science. Join us on Tuesday, March 16 at 8 p.m. ET for the next webinar in our PBS Teachers Live! series. The webinar will feature Dr. Mae Jemison - astronaut, chemical engineer, scientist, physician and teacher - who will offer guidance to educators on how to best...

CLIFFORD THE BIG RED DOG will meet and greet new friends on Saturday, March 13th at the Children’s Museum of Richmond.  He will be there as part of the Museum’s celebration of Literacy Month.   The story, Clifford the Big Red Dog,  is a children's literary classic.   It was written by Norman Bridwell and published by Scholastic in...

John Porter – Barksdale Willow Lawn and Theatre VCU have combined forces to present Frank Galati’s award-winning production of John Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath.” Utilizing a mixture of professional and student talents, the story of the Joads as they journey from the dust-bowl to California in search of a new beginning is brought...

He’s handsome. He’s charming. He sweeps women off their feet ... and then quickly abandons them. In Mozart’s “Don Giovanni,” Mozart himself adds to the charm with his beautiful melodies, musical clues and a true understanding of his characters. Give a listen to the latest Opera Talk with Glenn Winters of Virginia Opera and Bobbie...

The Richmond Symphony announced the appointment of Steven Smith as its new Music Director. Smith succeeds Mark Russell Smith and is the fifth conductor to lead the orchestra since its founding in 1957. The search for a new music director began over eighteen months ago starting with an initial pool of over 240 applicants. Smith was one of...

This week  on Time for the Blues (3/7/10), John Porter and Henry Cook are joined by Ian Stewart, host of the World Music Show to look at blues influences on the world music scene. Ian brings great sounds from the “African John Lee Hooker,” Ali Farka Touré as well as a sampling of South African Zulu performers, all with the strong rhythms...

Commentator Brooks Smith is rediscovering Richmond’s sports history. In this segment, he recalls the life and career of tennis great Arthur Ashe. Arthur Ashe was a tennis legend whose legacy extends far beyond the tennis court.  And in the years since his untimely passing in 1993, we have only just begun to realize the full measure of our...

Leona, the lovable cub from the Emmy® award-winning PBS KIDS® television series BETWEEN THE LIONS, will meet and greet new friends on Saturday, March 6th at the Children’s Museum of Richmond.  Leona is the four-year-old in the family of lions who run a library like no other library on earth!  It is a magical place where children learn to...

Even old man winter couldn’t dampen the enthusiasm at EdTech 2010!  Despite the not-so-perfect weather conditions, almost 500 educators braved the snow and blistery temperatures to attend WCVE Education’s annual technology conference…and everyone came home a winner! Attendees left the two-day conference eager to share all they had...

Good news! Because the snow may have put a damper on story submissions for the PBS KIDS GO! Writers Contest, we have extended the deadlines for both WCVE and WHTJ.  The new deadlines are March 3^rd (for WHTJ) and March 19^th (for WCVE.) So put on your thinking caps and send us your original stories!  It’s not too late! Rules and entry...

Brad is joined by Jean Driscoll of WildAire Cellars to talk about two special offerings, “Timothy” Pinot Noir (2007) and a Tempranillo (2008). Matt and Jean Driscoll left Richmond in 2000 to begin the search for a world class Pinot Noir. They partnered with vineyards located in Oregon’s Willamette Valley to produce small batches of...