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Airs Wednesday, September 26, 2012 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV

In South Carolina's 1st District, most of the attention is focused on the state's gubernatorial race. But next week, the district's voters are likely to make Tim Scott the first black Republican elected to Congress from the Deep South since Reconstruction.

The Parrots are the Japanese version of The Beatles, and almost everything about them references the band, including their clothes, the venue they play, and their accents.

"The truth of poetry is not the truth of history," according to the new poet laureate of the United States. Philip Levine's work is most famous for an urban perspective that began with a youth spent working in Detroit's automobile factories.

Up the Yangtze

Just underneath China's modern, shiny surface, many aspects of life are still very traditional. Marriage is one of those areas. And women, in particular, and their parents fret about not finding a suitable partner before they grow too old and become a "leftover woman."

So, what's the deal with that smiling pile of rocks used as the logo for the Vancouver Games? It's a stylized version of an inukshuk, the stone cairns built by the Inuit people of the Canadian Arctic. But an expert says traditional inukshuks don't use the human form — unless you want to mark the spot where someone has been killed.

Single White Female Preferred

Two Mexican Sci-Fi films Open

In the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, emergency management became a critical priority. As a result, more American colleges began offering classes on how to deal with an increasingly dangerous world. Students are now seeking job security in our national insecurity.