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The thing I love about PBS "Frontline" is its willingness to call out people in power in American life.

If you want to feel good again about what's possible for public television, don't miss 'Coming Back with Wes Moore,' which airs Tuesday night on Maryland Public Television.

Despite the sneers of MSNBC hosts and the disdainful manner of White House Press Secretary Jay Carney, Benghazi matters. And it matters in ways we don't yet even understand -- deep, fractious ways that reveal a major front in the culture war almost no one seems to understand or want to even talk about.

The Anne Arundel Community College Symphony Orchestra continues to surpass audience expectations under music director and conductor Anna Binneweg, now in her eighth season at the college.

f you want to see a documentary made with passion and guaranteed to rock your soul at least two or three times before the final credits roll, don't miss "Muscle Shoals" at 9 tonight on WETA-TV (Channel 22), Washington's PBS outlet.

Ralph Dawson Matthews Jr., a former managing editor of the Baltimore Afro-American who worked closely with Malcolm X in the early 1960s and once shared a house with a young Miles Davis, died April 3 at the Adelphi House

Baltimore's celebration of the "Star-Spangled Banner" bicentennial will be broadcast live on PBS Sept. 13.

It is both his groundbreaking ideas in the field of particle physics known as supersymmetry and his ability to explain them better than anyone else that have landed James Gates seats on the state school board and on the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.

While there has been strong focus on concussions in recent years (all 50 states and the District of Columbia now have concussion safety laws), no similar effort has been made in this country to enact laws to protect children playing sports from abuse -- whether it be physical, emotional, psychological or sexual -- at the hands of coaches, parents and other athletes.

Artistic director reflects on response to works with black themes

PBS stays on a Friday-night, arts-programming roll with a "Great Performances" concert staging of Sting's upcoming musical "The Last Ship."

Documentaries were supposed to be a dying genre -- and living proof that we were becoming dumber as a nation.

Friends and former classmates of Darion Marcus Aguilar painted a portrait Sunday of a quiet 19-year-old who never raised his voice or caused trouble in class. The Aguilar they knew stood in contrast to the person Howard County police say shot and killed two people before taking his own life.

Southern High School student Zoe Kasprzyck has won a prestigious national art award.

Scrabble at the Bain Center perfect way for seniors to scrabble their brains.

They might be a little snooty, but it would be hard to find a family more welcome in these parts than the Crawleys of "Downton Abbey" at least in Owings Mills, home of Maryland Public Television.

Scrabble at the Bain Center perfect way for seniors to scrabble their brains.

Sun's critic is wrong to berate PBS for news practices common on network television

After decades of writing about television and media, this is the year that I have lost journalistic faith in two TV news institutions in which I have long believed: 60 Minutes and CNN.

Tuesday night, as I was cycling through the nightly newscasts, I came upon something even I couldn't remember seeing: A last half hour of the "NewsHour" that consisted of two stories that had already aired somewhere else and one interview segment that I would be generous in describing as an infomercial for PBS.

Online TV service Aereo will expand to Baltimore metro area Dec. 16

American Voices festival at the Kennedy Center was capped by a mixed-bag program that needed better organizing, while Baltimore Concert Opera tackled 'Norma.'

Baltimore programmer brings, diversity, excellence to public TV's fall festival.

Dennis Gaubatz, 25, the former LSU star immediately became the defensive signal caller for a team that would win an NFL championship and three division titles in the next four years.

"Woodward & Lothrop: A Store Worthy of the Nation's Capital" is latest release by BSO oboist Michael Lisicky

Reports of PBS NewsHour's death are greatly exaggerated

'PBS NewsHour,' once one of the nation¿s most influential broadcasts, is on the brink of marginalization - if not extinction.

Samuel J. English III, a former WBAL-TV staff announcer and weather forecaster who later held broadcasting positions at Maryland Public Television and Towson University, died Sunday of respiratory failure at his Pikesville home. He was 79.

"PBS NewsHour" has lost 48 percent of its audience in the last eight years, compared with an average of 18 percent for the three commercial nightly news shows.

"A Raisin in the Sun Revisited: The Raisin Cycle at Center Stage," a documentary that traces the arc of Lorraine Hansberry's 1959 drama from its setting on Chicago's South Side to Baltimore's Center Stage in 2013, is one of the bolder and better things PBS has done this TV season.

R. Todd Stevens moved to Crownsville after the Crownsville Hospital Center had been closed. Now he's exploring the past of the state psychiatric hospital by making a documentary film.

Catonsville native Dennis Towns recently won his second Emmy for his work mixing sound on HBO's "Behind the Candelabra"

When the Maryland workers building the sets for "House of Cards" started sawing and hammering the offices and homes of characters like Francis and Claire Underwood 20 months ago in Harford County, most of them were thinking only of earning a steady paycheck, not being part of TV history.

Public Broadcasting's POV takes on a pro-Palestinian slant

The heart of Al Jazeera America's prime-time lineup is an attractive one if you are looking for news, context and a fresh visual perspective on U.S. and world events.

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