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A sampler of the many genres — garage, techno, house and bass music — that made a mark (and made us want to move) in 2012.

When defending the heavy focus on curfew sweeps in neighborhoods like City Heights, a tactic we've been exploring lately, proponents often say that most violent crime happens during curfew hours.

California has met the first target set by federal courts to reduce its inmate population as a way to improve health care in the nation's largest state prison system, prison officials said Tuesday.

A new bipartisan survey shows a surge for Mitt Romney in a key voter group following the first presidential debate Oct. 3. He leads President Obama in rural swing counties by 22 percentage points.

An artist who grew up in the east San Diego neighborhood of City Heights has turned that childhood experience into art. KPBS arts reporter Angela Carone says the work features the sounds of urban life in the 1980s, at the dawn of video games and hip hop.

Airs Wednesday, June 22, 2011 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV

There's a saying in Rwanda: "God spends the day elsewhere, but he sleeps in Rwanda." It alludes to Rwanda's physical beauty, but also to the brutality that has sometimes haunted the country. Joseph Sebarenzi captures both in his memoir, God Sleeps in Rwanda.

Now for the Best Animated Film of 2010!

Airs Wednesday, May 16, 2012 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV

Why is it important for children to have a connection to nature? How have changes in our culture and our built environment reduced our ability to access the natural world? We speak to Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies professor Stephen Kellert about the research he's done on the role of nature in the evolution of human biology and culture. We also discuss how "biolphilic design" can be used to change the way our cities are built to increase our connection to nature.