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Tim Burton and Terry Gilliam at Comic-Con

It's Thursday which means it's time to begin planning your weekend. We want to help. If you want to know more about Steampunks, there's a stylish convention in town. Or if you want to enjoy some Cajun music by the bay, we have a festival to recommend. Joining us with their suggestions are Nina Garin and Rosey Bystrak.

In a new exhibit, Michael Nye reveals black-and-white portraits of people who have suffered from hunger. He spent days with each subject — including a homeless mother of two — and distilled their stories into a single image and a five-minute sound clip.

We'll talk about what's happening in music, film and art this weekend in San Diego with critics Anders Wright and Anna Maria Stephens.

On Dec. 26, 2004, the biggest tsunami in recent memory killed more than 250,000 people around the coast of the Indian Ocean. Two years after the tsunami, people displaced by the disaster are still living intents or makeshift homes. The Red Cross promised to build 50,000 homes; so far, there are only 8,000. Host Robert Siegel speaks with the United Nations' Miloon Kothari.

Red Cliff Screens Tonight at SDAFF

Are California's sex offender and parole laws being properly enforced? What are the economic and social costs of implementing stricter laws? We'll look at the battle to make sure California's legal system is working properly.

Darkly funny, suspenseful and cunningly plotted, Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl will be published June 5. In this exclusive selection from the book's opening, we meet Nick and Amy, the seemingly perfect couple whose alternating chapters soon reveal them to be unreliable narrators — and spouses.

Sunday, June 21, 2009 at 12 p.m. on KPBS TV. Patricia Racette is Cio-Cio San in a stunning production of "Madama Butterfly." The late Academy Award-winning film director Anthony Minghella directed this new classic of the Met repertory. Patrick Summers conducts Puccini’s heartbreaking tale of a Japanese geisha betrayed by her American lover.