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The recent retirements of Nancy Pelosi and other longtime House Democrats have led to more calls for aging members to pass the torch. Incumbents argue their experience is crucial as the executive branch is upending the balance of power in Washington.

Stream now with the PBS app + YouTube / Watch Saturday, Aug. 16, 2025 at 8:30 p.m. on KPBS 2. Ancient Greece laid the foundations of Western art. Traveling from its sun-splashed isles to the rugged mainland to bustling Athens, we trace the rise of Greek culture. We marvel at the timeless Acropolis, perfect Parthenon, and Golden Age theaters. And we watch as art evolves from stiff statues to perfectly balanced Venuses to the exuberant Winged Victory, capturing the spirit of the age.

First published in 2019, this story features Comic-Con spokesperson David Glanzer recalling his early days attending as a fan — including meeting Matt Groening before "The Simpsons."

What’s your New Year’s resolution for 2025? How do you feel about New Year’s resolutions in general?

Premieres Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2025 at 10 p.m on KPBS TV / Stream with KPBS+. Amid Trump’s immigration crackdown, a Venezuelan family struggles to keep its legal status. With ProPublica, two films about the uncertain future for those who fled to the U.S., including the stories of men sent to a notorious prison in El Salvador.

Send us a voice memo about a song that hit you hard in 2025 — one you listened to on repeat, made you cry, or just got you in your feels like no other.

The title of his poetry workshop for beginning or seasoned poets comes from a line of poetry by Pablo Neruda. The great Chilean poet was describing the way poetry affected him. Moreno reported that he was watching the movie "Il Postino," a film about Neruda’s relationship with a postman. The movie was over, and Moreno was watching the credits on VHS when a few lines of the poem, Poetry, appeared. Moreno stated that the words mesmerized him, and he had to rewind the film until he had copied all the words in the poem. When we read a poem, written by a poet in love with the art, how does it affect us? This class will review men and women poets whose love for the spoken word embodies what Moreno calls IMIC: Inspiration, Motivation, Imagination, Contagion. In other words, a poem inspires us, then motivates us to write, then calls the gift of our imagination, then creates contagious composition among anyone hearing the poem and is inspired by the sound, the rhythm, & the story of the poem. The first 90 minutes will include poetry from Rumi, Kim Rosen, Kalil Gibran, and Naomi Shihab Nye that may inspire healing, hope, and kindness in the poets attending this class. Film clips of these poets will be blended with poems read by Moreno that counter hate and ignorance and might be named poetry for trying times. Moreno remembers Neruda’s quote that the poet’s task is to comfort the disturbed and to disturb the comfortable. The great American poet William Stafford stated this about the work of Naomi Shihab Nye: her poems combine transcendent liveliness & sparkle with warmth and human insight. She is a champion of the literature of encouragement and heart. Reading her work enhances life. The second 90 minutes moves the poetry to local poets who have inspired Moreno: Sharon Elise, Steve Kowit (R.I. P.), Delores Fisher, Rudy Francisco, and Joe Milosch are strong storytellers who hold the promise of inspiration to any who will carve out time to listen. If you are looking for a critique group this is not the class for you. This class, as are all Jim’s classes, is taught in a container of safety and respect. San Diego Writers, Ink Website / Facebook / Instagram

The San Diego Public Library will celebrate "Wuthering Heights" with dance this Saturday.

Robert Spano, conductor Conrad Tao, piano San Diego Symphony Orchestra ADAM SCHOENBERG: Cool Cat JOHN ADAMS: Century Rolls RACHMANINOFF: Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 44 An exuberant celebration of music by three composers, all of whom came from elsewhere to live in California. The youngest, Massachusetts-born Adam Schoenberg, is famous for his ability to meld popular idioms into energetic pieces for classical audiences and Cool Cat is no exception. This delightful fanfare of an overture celebrates the life of P-22, the world-famous mountain lion who lived for a decade in the hills above Los Angeles. John Adams, one of the most renowned American composers, wrote his piano concerto Century Rolls in the 1990s as a celebration of the great age of American player-piano recordings a century ago by artists such as Jelly Roll Morton and Gershwin. Russian-born Rachmaninoff himself spent much of the last quarter century of his life in the US, becoming a citizen and owning homes in New York and Los Angeles. Rachmaninoff was a huge admirer of American popular music and in the last movement of his Third Symphony we can hear his delight in Hollywood film-music and especially the movies of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. San Diego Symphony on Facebook / Instagram

Nobel winners Olga Tokarczuk and Peter Handke bring us a reissue and a new book respectively this week. Also, a story from a fictional African country and a commentary on beauty.