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Stream now with KPBS+ / Watch Thursday, April 16, 2026 at 8:30 p.m. on KPBS TV. If you’ve ever wondered if you could grow your own vegetables, we’ ll show you that you can. From starting seeds and seedlings, to gardening with children, to building your own raised bed, host Nan Sterman shows how experts and novices grow edibles.

Festival Celebrates 5th Year

John Williams' Stoner sold just 2,000 copies when it was originally published in 1965. It's now acknowledged as a classic work, is a best-seller across Europe and the No. 1 novel in the Netherlands.

On this week's All Songs Considered, we hear a preview of some of the albums we're most excited about this summer.

Eat 200 calories of baby carrots, and you're going to be doing a lot more chomping than if you eat 200 calories of gummy bears. Any dieter can tell you that. So can a 200-calorie photo shoot that's making the rounds on the Internet this week. But when it comes to losing or maintaining weight, a calorie is a calorie is a calorie, right?

Najla Said's father, Edward Said, was an outspoken professor and prominent voice for Palestinian independence. Yet Najla's life felt less grounded. Growing up as a Palestinian-Lebanese-American in New York City, she balanced competing cultures and multiple lives, searching for a place to fit in.

From Shakespearean comedy and contemporary dramas that explore political, religious and personal complexities to concerts featuring the best and brightest in classical music, plus acrobatic felines, here are this weekend’s highlights.

Losing Some Noir History

Airs Sunday, September 11, 2011 at 9:30 p.m. on KPBS TV

The man shot and killed by a U.S. Navy ship yesterday in the Persian Gulf was from India. The surviving Indian fishermen on the boat fired upon by the USNS Rappahannock dispute the Navy's claim that they ignored warnings their fishing vessel was getting too close to the American ship.