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Airs Saturday, November 1, 2014 at 2 p.m. on KPBS TV

Local artist Sheryl Oring has been inviting the public to write letters to the president since 2004. She types them up and then sends them to the White House. I joined her recently at the San Diego Museum of Art, where San Diegans dictated their letters. I brought back this audio postcard.

The San Diego Opera reaches an employment settlement with former general and artistic director Ian Campbell.

A story of love, human frailty, and genocide

Airs Friday, November 1, 2013 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV

Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani was among those who denounced The Death of Klinghoffer by John Adams, calling it anti-Semitic and anti-Israel.

Monday, Aug. 21, 2023 at 9 p.m. on KPBS 2 / Stream now with the PBS App. Did you know that Fleetwood Mac started out as a blues band in the 60s? Rock legend Mick Fleetwood returns to the stage to revisit his blues music roots along with Rick Vito

The House Budget Committee chairman says the president's budget, which includes cuts to entitlements, amounts to an "olive branch" to Republicans.

A new volume of Robert Frost's collected, unexpurgated letters reveals that the poet thought a great deal about how people read him — and was hurt when his modernist friends didn't approve of his raw, sincere style. Reviewer J.P. O'Malley says the collection gives readers greater insight into Frost the poet and Frost the man.

The giant, metal, hot-water urns are at the center of Russian tea culture — and national identity. How that came to be may have as much to do with Russian literature as common usage.