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A team of volunteer doctors and nurses speak with a room full of patients. "The Adventists 2" explores the global story of this American-born strand of Christianity known as Seventh-day Adventism, including the church's medical mission work internationally and their more than century-old commitment to provide health and healing in some of the most remote regions in the world.

Airs Tuesday, September 24, 2013 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV

The building envelope at Smuttynose's Towle Farm brewery in Hampton, N.H., keeps the interior temperature consistently cool or warm, prevents energy loss and ultimately saves money.

Survival Of The Greenest Beer? Breweries Adapt To A Changing Climate

Breweries are grappling with more weather extremes — heat waves, snowy winters, heavy rains and drought. Many are coming up with creative ways to adjust to their changing environments.

Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg has directed <em>Stereo, Crimes of the Future, Fast Company, The Brood, The Dead Zone, The Fly, Naked Lunch, M. Butterfly, Crash, A History of Violence, </em><em>A Dangerous Method </em>and many more.

Virtual Reality, Corporeality Collide In Cronenberg's First Novel

Director David Cronenberg's debut work of fiction is not for the faint of heart. Consumed follows two journalists as they chase stories of cannibalism, backroom surgeries, self-mutilation and murder.

Michael Feinstein. High atop 30 Rockefeller Plaza in the newly restored Rainbow Room, this celebration recaptures the heyday of the glamorous New York nightclubs.

Michael Feinstein New Year's Eve At The Rainbow Room

Airs Thursday, Dec. 31, 2015 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV - CANCELLED

A history actor/interpreter at Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia.

American History Lives: A Story Of The People, By The People, For The People

All across the country, people are recreating, reinterpreting, acting out history in some way. These living historians remember the past – and they don't mind repeating it.

Grant Ensminger is one of the artists highlighted in the art half of The Blacklist Art and Film Festival this Saturday.

Local Event: The Blacklist Art and Film Festival

Horror Fest Comes to San Diego

American indie rock band, Best Coast will be performing Saturday at San Diego IndieFest

Eighth Annual Indiefest Brings Music, Film to San Diego

The eighth annual IndieFest, with two days of live music, film screenings and other performances, continues its run Saturday.

Ted Cruz came to NPR headquarters on Tuesday to share his plans on how to protect the U.S. from terrorist attacks and discuss his views on climate change.

Cruz Won't Criticize Trump, But Offers His Own Plan To Bar Refugees

The Texas senator and GOP presidential candidate tells NPR's Steve Inskeep his plan to curb immigration of Middle Eastern refugees — and why he may disagree with but won't criticize Donald Trump.

The dung beetle rolls dung into a ball as food and as a place in which to lay eggs that are later transformed into larvae. Ancient Egyptians saw the dung beetle -- or scarab as they called it -- as a symbol of the heavenly cycle of the sun god Ra rolling the sun across the sky each day and of the idea or rebirth or regeneration.

Insects In Religion: Sacred Scarabs To Harbingers Of Doom

TheNAT's King Tut Exhibit Prompts A Discussion About Bugs And Religion

Sister Wendy Beckett (pictured), the world-famous “art nun,” explores the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, Calif., a repository for one of the most extraordinary collections of Old Master, Impressionist, Modern and Asian art in the United States. In her trademark manner, she offers her own inimitable reflections on some of the collection’s most famous works and some of its lesser-known gems. She points out her personal favorites and reflects on Simon’s choices as well.

Sister Wendy At The Norton Simon Museum

Airs Friday, January 18, 2013 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV

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