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The stunning animated film Tyger screens for free tonight. (Guilherme Marcondes)

Checking in on the Testosterone Levels at Theaters

Experts say the current educational system and private-sector training efforts aren't preparing workers for job opportunities. So, a metal-parts factory near Boston has done something unusual to ensure its workers have the necessary training: It started its own school.

Airs Wednesday, August 26 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV- CANCELLED

In the immediate future, the UT won't replace me, but I'm certain the editors won't let theater go uncovered. It's just too important. They're likely to fill the position from the inside, perhaps with Jim Hebert who's a wonderful writer and has done quite a bit of theater reviewing and feature writing. However, neither he nor I know that for sure. We do know that Jim Chute, the arts editor, is committed to getting the beat covered, whether with two or three staffers or Jim and a free-lancer. I just don't know.

Most people only eat a few different vegetables on a regular basis. But urban foragers say most areas of the United States have at least 75 edible, wild vegetables available for picking through the year. Adding wild foods — especially greens — to the typical American diet can provide flavor, nutrition and variety.

Airs Sunday, August 23, 2009 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV

San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders wants to get the city back on track financially in the next 18 months. Sanders spoke about his goals for San Diego in his State of the City speech Wednesday night.

I spent Father's Day with my preacher father's diaries, all twelve volumes of them. We were poor, truly poor, but when I was young in North Carolina, everyone was poor. Father's churches never could pay him more than one thousand dollars a year, along with free rent and promises of farm produce at harvest time and at hog-killing time.

Nine months after the quake in Haiti, Haitian-born author Edwidge Danticat is sharing the earthquake story with an audience that was largely shielded from it — children. Eight Days is a book about a boy who gets buried in the rubble and is not rescued until eight days later.