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Birds are everywhere, but the greatest concentration of different birds — the "Bird mecca" of America — is not in our great parks, not in our forests, not where you'd suppose. Not at all.

NPR TV critic Eric Deggans ranks Amazon's new batch of five series pilots, asking why none of them seem break the rules of TV quite enough to draw attention.

"I'm a carpenter/cabinet-maker/woodworker, and I think I'll be retiring the day I die."

The news of Hostess' return to Emporia, Kan., sparked an ecstatic response in this beleaguered town -- even though there will be only half as many jobs.

You think bringing a new toothbrush to market is easy? The seven-year saga of two dental entrepreneurs struggling to bring their patented brush to consumers suggests otherwise.

Airs Tuesday, August 27, 2013 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV

Electrical engineer Fred Hatfield bought an Apple-1 computer in 1976, one of Apple's first computers. At an auction in Germany this weekend, it sold for $671,400.

The all-tied World Series resumes tonight, with Game 3 between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Boston Red Sox. Ahead of the game Saturday, the main storyline centers on the change of venue to St. Louis, where the Red Sox, and their pitchers, will have to adapt to National League rules.

Sunday, June 26, 2011 at 12:30 p.m. on KPBS TV. Stars James Maddalena as Richard Nixon, a role he created at the opera’s world premiere in 1987. With a libretto by American poet Alice Goodman, the opera is based on significant moments during President Nixon’s visit to China in February of 1972, with the key political figures as the lead characters

The strategy of going to the Supreme Court to challenge Proposition 8 was controversial within the gay-rights movement. Now, Jo Becker's new book is proving to be controversial as well.