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Airs Wednesday, July 4, 2012 at 8 p.m. & 9:30 p.m. on KPBS TV (8 p.m. on KPBS Radio)

A sad tale's best for winter, as Shakespeare wrote — and reviewer Alan Cheuse recommends The Snow Child, a sad but ultimately hopeful winter tale touched with myth and fairytale. Cheuse says this novel about Alaskan homesteaders, out now in paperback, has "a mysterious onward-pulsing life force."

Dozens of supporters of San Diego Mayor Bob Filner staged a rally outside City Hall while the mayor was several blocks away in a closed meeting at the U.S. Attorney's office.

In January, part-time workers who have so-called mini-med health insurance plans with very limited benefits and annual caps on payments will begin to lose that coverage.

Annica Trotter, 26, has two children and the kind of drive you wouldn't want to bet against. She used to help people with disabilities find jobs. She started her own baking business while looking for work. Now she has two jobs and works 60 hours a week.

Andrea Turkalo spent 22 years in central Africa, studying rare forest elephants. Then civil war forced her to flee — and poachers killed many of the elephants she'd shared a life with.

Stream now or tune in Friday, July 31, 2020 at 7 p.m. on KPBS 2

The 75th season of horse racing at the Del Mar Racetrack is scheduled to begin today, highlighted by the annual hat contest and the $100,000 Oceanside Stakes for 3-year-olds.

Kristopher Jansma's debut novel is a hypercomplex meditation on the boundary between truth and lies. Heller McAlpin says the book "reaches a dizzying complexity that borders on the tiresome."

Airs Saturday, December 15, 2012 at 7 a.m. on KPBS TV