Thursday, November 27 at 7:30pm. Neuroscientist, author, philosopher, and outspoken atheist Sam Harris discusses how yoga, meditation and other spiritual practices can improve your life. His new book, Waking Up, is a guide to spirituality without religion. Harris writes, "I have been waiting for more than a decade to write Waking Up. Long before I saw any reason to criticize religion (The End of Faith, Letter to a Christian Nation), or to connect moral and scientific truths (The Moral Landscape, Free Will, Lying), I was interested in the nature of human consciousness and the possibility of “spiritual” experience. In Waking Up, I do my best to show that a certain form of spirituality is integral to understanding the nature of our minds. My hope is that Waking Up will help readers see the nature of their own minds in a new light. A rational approach to spirituality seems to be what is missing from secularism and from the lives of most of the people I meet. The purpose of this book is to offer readers a clear view of the problem, along with some tools to help them solve it for themselves."
Wednesday, November 26 at 9 pm. In 1992 a small group of community leaders in Portsmouth, Ohio asked, "How can we create pride in our community, improve the local economy and change a dying part of town into the vibrant place it once was?" This is the story of the local visionaries and extraordinary artists who transformed a drab 2,200-foot section of the town's floodwall into a vast display of public art, history and pride.
Monday, November 24 at 9:00pm.
Don't miss this empowering chronicle of the Choctaw soldiers who were code talkers during World War I, a story which has been buried in history for nearly 100 years. With testimonies from family members and Choctaw tribal leaders, the program brings a unique perspective to these forgotten heroes and their wartime contributions.

Sunday, November 16 at 8 pm. A coach races up to a country house with a hysterical passenger shrieking, "Murder!" What better way to continue Jane Austen's immortal novel Pride and Prejudice? This delicious homage to Austen, adapted from P.D. James' clever whodunit, stars Anna Maxwell Martin ("The Bletchley Circle"), Matthew Rhys ("The Americans"), Matthew Goode ("The Good Wife") and Jenna Coleman ("Doctor Who"). Elizabeth and Darcy never knew marriage would be like this! Six years after the end of Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth and Darcy plan a ball with fatal consequences. A family enemy takes charge of the case.
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