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Airs Tuesdays, July 16, 23 & August 6, 2013 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV

Ellis Avery's novel The Last Nude imagines the hidden affair between art deco painter Tamara de Lempicka and her model Rafaela. From afar, the boldly colored paintings appear polished and cool-headed, but up close, Avery says, you can see they were created in a state of passion.

Airs Monday, December 29, 2014 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV

The U.N. says more than 3,500 people have died in Syria's eight-month cycle of protests and government crackdowns. Residents of Homs, the third largest city in the country, report fierce fighting as government forces try to regain control of the city.

Among the 11 million undocumented immigrants in this country, some 40 percent entered the U.S. legally with a temporary visa. But once they arrived, they decided to stay.

When the sun rises over the Rio Grande Valley, the cries of the urracas -- blackbirds -- perched on the tops of palm trees swell to a noisy, unavoidable cacophony. That is also the strategy, it could be said, that local officials, health care providers and frustrated valley residents are trying to use to persuade Gov. Rick Perry and state Republican lawmakers to set aside their opposition and expand Medicaid, a key provision of the federal health law.

Local woman Zahna Moss has been deaf since birth, but she still accomplished her dream of becoming a professional dancer.

In short succession, Cameron Post loses both parents to a car accident, is outed as a lesbian and is sent to a a religious camp to be "cured." But the heroine of The Miseducation of Cameron Post, a triumphant new young adult novel, is made of strong and irresistible stuff.

Airs Sunday, March 2, 2014 at 5:30 p.m. on KPBS TV

Culture Lust contributor Kathi Diamant is clearly impressed by ion theatre's revival of "Bash: Latterday Plays" by provocative playwright Neil LaBute. Diamant says ion's whole season looks daring.