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A portrait of Patience Gray taken in 1959 by a colleague at the Observer. A British food writer, Gray advocated slow food and foraging long before the rest of the food world. Her work had outsized influence on chefs from Alice Waters on. A new biography tells her story.

'Fasting And Feasting': The Remarkable Life of Patience Gray

A British food writer, Gray advocated slow food and foraging long before the rest of the food world. Her work had outsized influence on chefs from Alice Waters on. A new biography tells her story.

After a gunman fired from windows in the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino at the Route 91 Harvest music festival in Las Vegas, guitarist Caleb Keeter, who was on stage Sunday, is calling for gun control — "RIGHT. NOW."

Las Vegas Massacre Prompts Musician To Call For Gun Control: 'Enough Is Enough'

Caleb Keeter, a guitarist for the Josh Abbott Band, says, "my biggest regret is that I stubbornly didn't realize it until my brothers on the road and myself were threatened by it."

Earbud Nation: Your favorite podcast hosts can seem like open books — but to them, you're a blank slate.

It's All In Your Head: The One-Way Intimacy Of Podcast Listening

An attempt to come up with rules to explain the singular appeal of roundtable discussion podcasts by a guy who's on one — and who's listened to hundreds more.

A Cal Fire truck is pictured at the Cal Fire Air Attack Base in Ramona, May 7, 2015.

Cal Fire Suspends All Burn Permits Amid Heightened Fire Risk

Heightened wildfire danger posed by ample dry vegetation and increasingly warm, arid weather in the San Diego area prompted Cal Fire to suspend all burn permits for local outdoor residential fires in unincorporated areas beginning Friday.

Ponary, Poland, Jews digging a trench in which they were later buried, after being shot. (undated photo)

NOVA: Holocaust Escape Tunnel

Airs Wednesday, April 11, 2018 at 9 p.m. & Sunday, April 15 at 2 p.m. on KPBS TV

Hurricane Willa has made landfall as a Category 3 storm near Isla del Bosque in Sinaloa.

Hurricane Willa, A 'Life-Threatening' Category 3, Makes Landfall In Western Mexico

The storm brings deadly storm surge, wind and rainfall to west-central and southwestern Mexico, forecasters say.

An oil derrick stands out on the bitter, icebound terrain near Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, in 1974.

Alaska's 40 Years Of Oil Riches Almost Never Was

Oil began flowing down the trans-Alaska pipeline in 1977, transforming Alaska into a wealthy state. But if it wasn't for one man, the Prudhoe Bay oil field may not have never been found.

A member of the Syrian Democratic Forces walks on a building near Raqqa's stadium Monday, as they cleared the last positions on the front line in the fight against ISIS.

ISIS Makes Last Stand At A Stadium In Raqqa, Its Doomed 'Capital'

As of Tuesday, the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces control "more than 90 percent" of Raqqa, says U.S. Army Col. Ryan Dillon.

A satellite image by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows Hurricane Willa in the eastern Pacific, on a path toward Mexico's Pacific coast on Monday.

Hurricane Willa, A 'Life-Threatening' Category 4, Nears Mexico

The storm is expected to bring potentially deadly storm surge, wind and rainfall to west-central and southwestern Mexico beginning Tuesday afternoon.

The Fine Print In The 'State of Black America' Report

This year's "State of Black America" report took the unusual step of warning that the organization now has a new priority: protecting areas of progress from retrenchment during the next few years.

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