As oil prices have shot to historic levels, sales of GM’s once-popular line of SUVs and pickup trucks have sunk. The company is now trying to lure drivers back by making smaller and more fuel-efficient cars, like the Chevy Volt, an electric vehicle GM calls “a game changer.” Watch an interview about the new car…
Director David Gordon Green’s new major motion picture effort, Pineapple Express, is about “a stoner and his dealer forced to go on the run from the police after the pothead witnesses a cop commit a murder.” The film is a bit of a departure for Green, who made his name directing Southern Gothic coming of age tales set in small rural towns.
Watch interviews on the conflict between Georgia and Russia with Vitaly Churkin (Ambassador), Stephen Sestanovich (Council of Foreign Relations), and Robert Kagan (Carnegie Endowment) from this past week.
In 1988, Dr. James Hansen, director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, brought national attention to global warming when he said in Congressional testimony: “The greenhouse effect has been detected and is changing our climate now.” Watch an interview with Dr. Hansen:
A roundup of all streaming video online from PBS and Thirteen programs that aired last week. See the list for all full episodes and full segments.
Watch a discussion about the acclaimed one-man play Thurgood with actor Laurence Fishburne and playwright George Stevens.
A roundup of all streaming video online from PBS and Thirteen programs that aired last week. See the list for all full episodes and full segments.
Watch a discussion about the critically-acclaimed television series Mad Men as it moves into its second season with screenwriter Matthew Weiner and actors Jon Hamm and John Slattery.
A roundup of all streaming video online from PBS and Thirteen programs that aired last week. See the list for all full episodes and full segments.
Watch a conversation with David Chang, chef/owner of New York’s most competitive restaurant reservation: Momofuku Ko.
Watch the interview, aired 7/22/2008:
