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A plan is in the works to remove cars from a stretch of Fifth Avenue in downtown San Diego to make the area more pedestrian-friendly. The plan is modeled after other car-free zones such as the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica.

KPBS Anchor Maya Trabulsi and author Kwame Alexander discuss his book “The Crossover,” which was selected as KPBS’s One Book For Teens.

Artistic director Matt Morrow says the theme is 'we are'

Focus on the AIDS Epidemic, Overcoming Obstacles & Family

More shakeups at San Diego's regional planning agency, the disappearing Southern California coastline and the proposed tower near Seaport Village.

The improvements come as the Port of San Diego is looking to redevelop the entire area in the next 5 to 7 years.

Local readers submitted over 400 nominations for the 2019 One Book, One San Diego title. Seven finalists made the cut.

Thursday, March 28, 2024 at 8:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with the PBS App + Encore Monday, April 1 at 8:30 p.m. on KPBS 2. In collections of small plots, your friends and neighbors grow a bounty of produce; sometimes enough to sell at local farmer's markets. We visit a variety of community gardens.

Thursday, March 7, 2024 at 8:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with the PBS App + Encore Monday, March 11 at 8:30 p.m. on KPBS 2. We visit a range of miniature gardens to enjoy their whimsy as we discover how they are carefully designed and meticulously constructed. Host Nan Sterman tries her hand at making miniature gardens, too!

Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024 at 8:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with the PBS App. Bromeliads are a unique group of plants with amazingly colored and patterned foliage along with vividly colored flowers. Bromeliads have evolved in some of nature's most challenging conditions, from desert to rainforest to cloud forest. Spanish moss is a bromeliad. Air plants are bromeliads, too.