LEARN/CREATE (PT)

3:30 pm 

Mathematics Illuminated  "Combinatorics Counts"  Counting is an act of organization, a listing of a collection of things in an orderly fashion. Sometimes it's easy; for instance counting people in a room. But listing all the possible seating arrangements of those people around a circular table is more challenging. D

4:00 pm 

Hands On Crafts for Kids  "Peru"  Our first stop this season is Peru, a country in western South America, bordered by Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil, Bolivia, and Chile; home to the Incan Empire. Folk art in Peru is not just a way to show the culture but a way of life and livelihood for many people. Our crafts include traditional crafts and animals. D

4:30 pm 

Hey Kids, Let's Cook  "15-Minute Fajitas"  Are you really hungry right this minute? Well today we're showing you how to make "really fast fajitas". Yes, it's true, 15 minutes is all it takes. Top them off with fresh, homemade guacamole and you're in for a real lip smacking treat. D

5:00 pm 

Essential Pepin  "Sweets for My Sweet"  NULL

5:30 pm 

America's Test Kitchen from Cook's Illustrated  "Rise and Shine Breakfast"  NULL

6:00 pm 

Winemakers  "Can You Sell It?"  Small winemakers, like the ones the winner will become, wear many hats. And one of the most important hats is sales person. The contestants must work as three teams of three at a popular wine tasting bar during one of the busiest weekends in wine country. D

6:30 pm 

Clodagh's Irish Food Trails  "Valentia, Co. Kerry"  NULL

7:00 pm 

Ask This Old House  "Transforming Stock Shelving/Installing A New Washing Machine Valve"  General contractor Tom Silva kicks off the 11th season of ASK THIS OLD HOUSE by helping a couple transform stock shelving into a custom built-in. Then, plumbing and heating expert Richard Trethewey installs a new washing machine valve that will prevent flooding. D

7:30 pm 

Rick Steves' Europe  "Granada, Cordoba, and Spain's Costa Del Sol"  NULL

8:00 pm 

Grand View  "Great Basin National Park"  NULL

8:30 pm 

Essential Pepin  "Sweets for My Sweet"  NULL

9:00 pm 

America's Test Kitchen from Cook's Illustrated  "Rise and Shine Breakfast"  NULL

9:30 pm 

Great American Seafood Cook-Off   Fires blazed and seafood sizzled as New Orleans hosted the fifth annual Great American Seafood Cook-Off in August 2008. During the two-day competition, 15 chefs from 14 different states prepared their best dishes using the seafood indigenous to their state. Famed New Orleans chef John Besh, the winner of the 2004 competition and the 2006 James Beard Foundation's Best Chef of the Southeast, hosted the event. D

10:00 pm 

Caprial and John's Kitchen: Cooking for Family and Friends  "Cooking with Cane Berries"  The Pences gather a sampling of Oregon's abundant crop, which go into blackberry pie with pecan crumble and raspberry almond cakes.G

10:30 pm 

Rick Steves' Europe  "Granada, Cordoba, and Spain's Costa Del Sol"  NULL

11:00 pm 

Theater Talk  "Christopher Bram On Eminent Outlaws"  Our guest is writer Christopher Bram, author of Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America, his rich and sweeping chronicle of gay authors, dramatists, and poets in post-WWII America and how they influenced the course of literary history. He discusses the lives of major male homosexual writers including: Gore Vidal, Truman Capote, Allen Ginsberg and others -- men whose work helped change the informed straight world's perception of their sexuality from fear and contempt to acceptance, and now, in many cases, adulation. D

11:30 pm 

Closer to Truth  "Why The Cosmos?"  The search for meaning and purpose is humanity's never-ending quest. It is said that "How Questions" belong to the realm of science, but "Why Questions" do not. Yet startling scientific discoveries offer radical powers of explanation. D