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  • The presidential flag (center) is hand embroidered.
    Inside the workshop where presidential flags are lovingly made, mostly by immigrants
    Philadelphia – city of brotherly love, birthplace of American democracy. And the only place in the world where presidential flags are made.
  • The $81,739.40 bill for her mother's air-ambulance ride arrived less than two weeks after she died, Alicia Wieberg said.
    Her air-ambulance ride wasn't covered by Medicare. It will cost her family $81,739
    A frugal Tennessee resident opted out of Medicare Part B, which carries $175 monthly premiums. Now her heirs face a huge bill for an air-ambulance ride.
  • An illustration of a $100 bill in the shape of a staircase, signaling upward mobility from the guaranteed income experiments.
    More than 12,000 Californians are getting cash from guaranteed income experiments
    State and local governments, and some private funders, are launching dozens of pilot projects making direct, monthly payments to low-income residents to help meet basic needs. Researchers will study what happens next. Key question: will this money add to, reform, or supplant current welfare programs?
  • Nicki Minaj attends the 2017 MTV Video Music Awards at The Forum on August 27, 2017 in Inglewood, Calif.
    Nicki Minaj paints hip-hop pink — and changes the game
    The 2010 Nicki Minaj album Pink Friday brought vibrant new shades to hip-hop.
  • Bill Kowalcic works on wall panels in the finishing department at Advanced RV. After the company went to a four-day workweek, his team figured out how to cut time without cutting corners.
    A manufacturer tried the 4-day workweek for 5 days' pay and won't go back
    Of the hundreds of companies that have tried a four-day workweek, very few are manufacturers. Advanced RV in Willoughby, Ohio, is showing how it can be done.
  • A Scholastic Book Fair banner pictured outside a school in Queens, New York.
    U.S. book bans are taking a toll on a beloved tradition: Scholastic Book Fairs
    Scholastic created a separate fair category for diverse books, which it says is to help schools navigate the complexities of book bans. Librarians accused the company of caving to censorship.
  • Members of Safe Street Rebel place a cone on a self-driving Cruise car in San Francisco.
    Armed with traffic cones, protesters are immobilizing driverless cars
    Self-driving cars have flooded San Francisco's streets, and not everyone is happy. Street activists have been using a low-tech solution to incapacitate the vehicles.
  • Frederick Wiseman explores the lives and famed culinary artistry of the Troisgros family in the French countryside, taking us from sourcing ingredients and menu planning, to the organized chaos of the kitchen, to the ingenuity and creation of a dish.
    Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros
    Beginning Friday, March 1 this film will be available to stream on pbs.org and on the PBS App ahead of the broadcast premiere Sunday, March 24, 2024 at Noon on KPBS TV and March 24 at 1 p.m. on KPBS 2. Frederick Wiseman explores the lives and famed culinary artistry of the Troisgros family in the French countryside, taking us from sourcing ingredients and menu planning, to the organized chaos of the kitchen, to the ingenuity and creation of a dish.
  • Six String Society's The 27 Club
    Imagine some of the biggest legends in rock and roll coming together in concert! The musicians of the 27 Club greats all had one thing in common - they all died tragically at the tender age of 27. On Saturday, February 18, these music legends are brought to life for one night at the Brooks Theater by talented local musicians. The music of Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain, Amy Winehouse, Robert Johnson, and Jim Morrison will be performed by Miss Whitney Shay (Amy), Anthony Cullins (Jimi), Lauren Leigh (Janis), Austin Poel (Kurt), Blake Dean (Jim Morrison), and Robin Henkel as the spirit of Robert Johnson. Part theater, part concert, Six String Society's 27 Club will have audiences traveling across time to rock out to some of the greatest songs of our time.
  • Members of the Bengaluru Solidarity Group in Support of the Bhopal Struggle take part in a candlelight vigil to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Bhopal gas disaster in Bangalore on December 2, 2014.
    The world's worst industrial disaster harmed people even before they were born
    The 1984 gas leak in Bhopal, India, killed thousands. New research finds babies born to mothers who were pregnant at the time have suffered long-term impacts worse than those directly exposed.
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