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A new study tries to find out what happens when girls in the developing world are on their period. And it's complicated.

Newly-elected City Council President Todd Gloria wants to make San Diego’s streets sexy, and he wants communities to help.

The Minneapolis native broke through in the late 1970s with the hit "Wanna Be Your Lover" and soared over the following decade with such albums as "1999" and "Purple Rain."

Critic John Powers says there's a boom in good fiction emerging from Mexico. He recommends Among Strange Victims, by Daniel Saldaña París, and The Transmigration of Bodies, by Yuri Herrera.

Airs Tuesday, March 17, 2015 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV

A new box set collects Matt Hawkins' comic Think Tank, which follows a sexy, scruffy scientific genius attempting to break away from his job developing lethal weapons for the military.

When a renowned Brazilian writer mysteriously vanishes in Idra Novey's novel Ways to Disappear, her children and an American translator work to uncover the reason behind the writer's disappearance.

The living Nashville legend returns with a wise, thoroughly modern expression of desire, accompanied by the harmonies of Little Big Town.

The results are in for our reader poll, and your picks for the greatest albums made by women deeply modify and sometimes openly challenge our original Turning the Tables list.

On the band's new album, old and new technologies come together in a sly but seemingly sincere way, with throwback results that keep the prospect of a party in mind.