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NEW YORK, Aug. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Football is far and away America's sport. On the opening weekend of the NFL's regular season, Smithsonian Channel strips away the glitz and glamour of a sport that at its core is about competition with a story that can be heard in cities and towns across the country. It's a tale of champion versus challenger, the haves against the have-nots. On Saturday, September 11 at 9PM ET/PT, Smithsonian Channel presents the world television premiere of THE RIVALS,...

NEW YORK, Aug. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Smithsonian Channel is now on the go with the launch of its first app for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Viewers can stay connected whenever and wherever with an app that features select full length episodes and hundreds of video clips of Smithsonian Channel's award-winning programming. The app also includes artiFacts, a feature that offers little known nuggets about history, science and music, along with program information and the Channel's programming...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- The Smithsonian's Anacostia Community Museum presents the groundbreaking exhibition "Word, Shout, Song: Lorenzo Dow Turner Connecting Communities through Language" on view from Aug. 9 through March 27, 2011. Curated by Alcione Amos and the first exhibition based almost entirely on one of the museum's special collections, "Word, Shout, Song" looks at the life, research and scholarship of Lorenzo Dow Turner, perhaps the first African American linguist. It...

WASHINGTON, July 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following was released today by Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum: WHEN: Wednesday, Aug. 4 10:30 a.m. WHERE: Smithsonian's Anacostia Community Museum 1901 Fort Place S.E. Washington, D.C. WHO: Alcione Amos, curator, Anacostia Community Museum The Smithsonian's Anacostia Community Museum will host a press preview of the groundbreaking exhibition "Word, Shout, Song: Lorenzo Dow Turner Connecting Community through Language." Curator...

Scientists find excess nitrogen favors plants that respond poorly to rising CO2As atmospheric carbon dioxide levels rise, so does the pressure on the plant kingdom. The hope among policymakers, scientists and concerned citizens is that plants will absorb some of the extra CO2 and mitigate the impacts of climate change. For a few decades now, researchers have hypothesized about one major roadblock: nitrogen.Plants build their tissue primarily with the CO2 they take up from the atmosphere. The...

NEW YORK, June 29 /PRNewswire/ -- The Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center, at the Anchorage Museum, relocates the Institution's Alaska Native collections from Washington, D.C., to their place of origin and houses them in a new state-of-the-art research and display facility. Part of an Institution-wide effort, the Arctic Studies Center is the fulfillment of a long-held goal of Congress and the Smithsonian to distribute its indigenous artifacts to centers of learning near the communities where...

WASHINGTON, June 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is being released by the Smithsonian Institution: WHAT: Opening ceremony of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival WHEN: Thursday, June 24 10:30 a.m. - noon (performances begin at 10:30 a.m.; remarks begin at 11 a.m.) WHERE: Asian Fusions stage on the National Mall SPEAKERS: Daniel Sheehy, director, Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Smithsonian Richard Kurin, Under Secretary for History, Art, and...

LOUISVILLE, Ky., June 22 /PRNewswire/ -- A series of posters for the Kentucky State Fair have put Kentucky's largest advertising agency, Creative Alliance, in the history books. Part of one of the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibits since 2008, the posters represent the traditional form of letterpress printing, a hand-set, inked and cranked form of printing still used today by Hatch Show Print, Nashville. American Letterpress: The Art of Hatch Show Print has exhibited in Seattle,...

Fifth Annual National Design Week to Be Held Oct. 9-17 NEW YORK, June 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum will celebrate outstanding achievement in design this fall with its 11th annual National Design Awards program. Today, Cooper-Hewitt Director Bill Moggridge announced the winners and finalists of the 2010 National Design Awards, which recognize excellence across a variety of disciplines. The Award recipients will be honored at a gala...

"Up Where We Belong: Native Musicians in Popular Culture" WASHINGTON, June 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C., announces the opening of its latest exhibition, "Up Where We Belong: Native Musicians in Popular Culture." The panel exhibition, which also features several objects, opens Thursday, July 1, at the museum on the National Mall, 4th Street and Independence Ave, S.W., in the second-level Sealaska Gallery. The...