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Meet American Indian Heritage Month Local Hero Joely Proudfit
Joely Proudfit is a Luiseño professor who wants American Indians to control how they're represented in media. She heads the largest Native peoples film festival in the state. Read more/news/2016/nov/01/american-indian-heritage-month-joely-proudfit/
Meet American Indian Heritage Month Local Hero Randy Edmonds
Randy Edmonds is a tribal elder who's coached fellow Indians through a common evolution: moving from life on a reservation, to life in the city. He's dedicated to tradition, and ... Read more/news/2016/nov/01/meet-american-indian-heritage-randy-edmonds/
Podcast Episode 119: Queer Horror
- June 8
- By Beth Accomando
FilmOut San Diego is hosting its first-ever block of gay horror shorts and it highlights how LGBT filmmakers are turning more and more to genre filmmaking. So I felt it was time to pay tribute to queer cinema and talk to some filmmakers about why they choose to work in the genre.
FilmOut Kicks Off 19th Year With Docs, Rom-Coms And A Block Of Horror
- June 7
- By Beth Accomando
FilmOut, San Diego’s LGBT film festival, kicks off on Friday at the Observatory North Park. Here’s a preview.
Roundtable: City Heights' La Maestra And SoccerCity
- May 26
- By Mark Sauer, Pat Finn
The SoccerCity initiative easily qualified for the ballot. But the San Diego city attorney does not like it that much, and SDSU has left the building. Meanwhile, critical funding to help human trafficking victims almost disappears.
Viacrucis Caravan Asylum Seekers Held After Entering US At San Ysidro
- May 10
- By Jean Guerrero
U.S. Customs and Border Protection is holding a group of nearly 80 asylum seekers who want to raise awareness about challenges faced by people escaping violence in Latin America.
What Happened To Hugo Castro, In His Own Words
- May 1
- By Jean Guerrero
The migrant rights activist who disappeared for five days in Mexico after pleading for help on Facebook Live told KPBS he recalls very little of what transpired while he was missing.
San Diego Black Film Festival Celebrates 15th Year
- April 27
- By Beth Accomando
The San Diego Black Film Festival officially launches its 15th year Thursday night at the Reading Grossmont Cinemas.
Pac-Arts' Spring Showcase Kicks Off 7th Year Of Asian Cinema
- April 20
- By Beth Accomando
Pac-Arts' Spring Showcase kicks off its seventh year Thursday night at Ultrastar Mission Valley (formerly Ultrastar Hazard Center) with the New Zealand documentary "Poi E: The Story Of Our Song."
'A Growing Passion' Takes On San Diego Hops
- April 20
- By Maureen Cavanaugh, Michael Lipkin
After an unusually rainy winter In Southern California, it seems nearly every patch of earth is in bloom. It is not something San Diego gardeners are used to, but it is a fitting time to catch the new season of KPBS' "A Growing Passion."
California Could Soon Have A State Dinosaur
- April 17
- By Associated Press, Brooke Ruth
It's looking like California will soon have a state dinosaur: Augustynolophus morrisi. A bill to add the duck-billed dinosaur to the list of state insignia has passed the Assembly and is now headed to the state Senate.
How Americans Ate During The Great Depression
- April 13
- By Michael Lipkin
Baked onion stuffed with peanut butter? That's just one of the recipes Americans turned to during the Great Depression.