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 Vote for the Viewer Pick for Saturday, March 20, 9PM

• Hey Pinhead!: An hour of hilarious sketch comedy featuring Dr. Science himself, Dan Coffey.
• Kumina: Drumming and dancing performance from the Jamaican cultural form known as "Kumina".
• Living within our Means: What is good for the economy? Should we save or spend? How should we spend? A local panel tries to answer these and other critical questions.
• Seven Artist Profiles: The National Gallery of Art in Washington explores American Art from 1785 – 1926.

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Vote for the Viewer Pick

The winner for this week is PJ Harvey. The English musician and singer-songwriter gives an interview and performs some of her songs.

Vote for the Saturday Night Viewer Pick

The winner for this week is “Where’s MacGuffin?” Every family produces a mystery movie while on vacation, right? This one did. Watch as they search the San Francisco area for the ever-elusive MacGuffin.

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This week’s winner is Breaking the Bank: “After the Seattle victory that stopped the World Trade Organization in its ‘fast’ tracks, tens of thousands converged on D.C. to challenge the Int’l Monetary Fund and World Bank.”

Vote for the Viewer Pick– also posted in General

This week’s winner is Monster Road. A 2004 documentary about 56 year old, underground clay animation legend Bruce Bickford. Most famous for the strange, dark animations he made for Zappa in the 70s.

Vote for the Viewer Pick for Saturday, February 13, 9pm

 Vote for the Viewer Pick for Saturday, February 13, 9pm

• Intellectual Freedom Festival: What producing, sampling, remixing and broadcasting have to teach about copyright, featuring The Chaircrusher, Marco Maisto, Kembrew McLeod, and PATV's own Tack-Fu.
• The Man Who Knew Too Much: Hitchcock and Stewart team up for this Oscar-winning thriller in which a family vacationing in Morocco accidentally stumble onto an assassination plot.
• Mr. HappEEEE TimEEEE Fun Hour #3: What you'll see: a man in a mask, a sleepy puppet, a guitar, countless effects pedals, crazy special effects. What you won't see: interview with the cast of Lost.
• New Pi Co-op Presents: Everyone needs chocolate. Chef Kurt Michael Friese demonstrates how to make a decadent Chocolate Mousse Torte. Get sugared up for Valentine's Day.

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This week’s winner is Video Works by Bonnie Sparling: This collection includes a documentary in which women share their ideas of what roles they have in relationships and society.

Vote for the Saturday Night Viewer Pick

This week’s Saturday Nite Viewer pick is, Midnite Mausoleum: Marlena Midnite presents another horror classic. Why can’t werewolves and vampires just get along?

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 Vote for the Viewer Pick for Saturday, January 23, 9pm

• Bike-in Theater: Heat Vision & Jack get into trouble, Elvis meets the Beatles, Strindberg & Helium are feeling kind of down… and What to Do on a Date!
• Directing Workshop: Ty Clancey, a Cedar Rapids native now working as a director & editor in LA, presents an in-depth workshop about film directing.
• Martin Luther King Jr., An Amazing Grace: One of the most charismatic and effective leaders of the 20th century, he helped bring an end to segregation. This documentary remembers his journey.
• Vic Chesnutt: A collection of performances by musician Vic Chesnutt whose musical style is described as a "skewed, refracted version of Americana that is haunting, funny and poignant."

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Viewer Pick for Saturday, January 16

Snow Beast: In this made for TV film, an enormous and angry bigfoot creature begins to terrorize a Colorado Ski Resort during a winter carnival, by eating several skiers.