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First You Laugh, Then You Join Greenpeace
The vinyl industry's environmental and health dangers hit home when documentarian Judith Helfand's family installs vinyl siding. Helfand caught it all on tape in her toxic comedy, Blue Vinyl.
"...the week A Healthy Baby Girl aired on the PBS series POV. She was using her DES story as..."

Nov. 8, 2002 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Making Everyone Happy
The state's textbook adoption process focuses more on pleasing everyone than on teaching children.
"...the country; it is even being made into a PBS series. The New York Review of Books even deemed..."

Sept. 13, 2002 News Feature by Michael May

(Backroom) Journeys With George (and James)
Revisiting The War Room -- the electrifying '92 campaign documentary starring the Lone Ranger and Tonto (Stephanopoulos and Carville) -- with executive producer R.J. Cutler.
"...vérité mode, like American High [the highly acclaimed 1997 PBS series that shadowed several suburban high school students]. Not..."

Sept. 6, 2002 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Down Mexico Way
South of the border, six stories high, at the Texas State History Museum's IMAX theatre
"...who could be portrayed just as well by a PBS special, but instead attempts to create an ambitious collage,..."

Aug. 30, 2002 Screens Feature by Will Robinson Sheff

TV Eye
Fall in the air, fall on the air
"...Check local listings for airtimes.I Pledge Allegiance -- Local PBS affiliate KLRU launches its membership drive this month, meaning..."

Aug. 9, 2002 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

O Brother
How a bluegrass soundtrack turned out to be the biggest music business success story since Guns N' Roses' Appetite for Destruction.
"...spark a wave of Civil War nostalgia to make PBS filmmaker Ken Burns rabid with envy. If nothing else,..."

July 19, 2002 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

BK Baby
The once-future Kurt Cobain, Ben Kweller, grows up to be Elliott Smith.
"...Kweller of the most obvious difference between the world-famous PBS postcard and playing one song on Late Night With..."

July 12, 2002 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Naked City
"...in advance of its national release July 23 on PBS. Set in Norco, a small South Louisiana community named..."

July 12, 2002 News Feature

High Art and Holy Spirit Team Up at the Ragamuffin Film Festival
The Hope Arts Festival and local film collective Project Seven host an Evangelical Christian film festival at the Alamo Drafthouse Downtown this weekend.
"...and have to make do shooting guerrilla docs for PBS series The Territory or doing some God-sanctioned culture jamming..."

July 12, 2002 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

TV Eye
Good riddance to Bill Maher, with reservations.
"...is. With precious few exceptions (Bill Moyers' Now on PBS comes to mind), absent from the airwaves is serious,..."

June 28, 2002 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

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