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The new Sesame Place theme park opens on 17 acres that were formerly home to the SeaWorld Aquatica water park.

Saturday, March 19, 2022 at 4 p.m. on KPBS 2 / On Demand. Go inside films and TV shows through conversations with today's most acclaimed actors. This episode features Lady Gaga (“House of Gucci”) with Jake Gyllenhaal (“The Guilty”), Jessica Chastain (“The Eyes of Tammy Faye”) with Rita Moreno (“West Side Story”) and Javier Bardem (“Being the Ricardos”) with Daniel Craig (“No Time to Die”).

American Meghan Neville and her boyfriend moved to Ukraine to be near his family. But rising tension with Russia forced the couple to evacuate this week. She hopes they can go back in a month or so.

Thousands of Etsy sellers closed their online shops for a week starting Monday in an attempt to get the company to address several complaints they have about the site.

The Super Bowl is often a time for gathering, but this year health officials warn it could lead to the spread of COVID-19. Plus, the Navy has come out with its long-awaited report on racial bias. Task Force One Navy was created in June, after the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis Police. Then, this weekend in the arts, the experimental Vietnamese music of Vân-Ánh Võ, 1960's women's lithography, Human Rights Watch Film Festival and the Met Opera's "Ariadne Auf Naxos."

Gov. Gavin Newsom and legislative leaders have agreed on a $9.6 billion spending deal aimed at aiding some of those hit hardest by the pandemic. Plus, a USD professor and the Democracy Fund Foundation released a report detailing the physical, psychological and economic costs of political violence in the United States. And the new government entity, called San Diego Community Power, will launch March 1 with half of its electricity coming from renewable sources. Then, the first group of West Coast female Marine recruits officially started training at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego Feb. 10. Plus, KPBS’ “Port of Entry” wraps up its series on cross-border love stories with a tale of kids in need of love, and one woman’s work to turn her own pain into purpose. Finally, academic, author and photographer Caitlin O’ Connell is out with a new book about what we can learn about community from animals.

A special podcast today covering many of the different laws going into effect in California in 2021.

Pope Francis made a historic apology over members of the Catholic Church who ran residential schools in Canada, where First Nations children were abused. For Taylor Behn-Tsakoza, it's only one step.

Record-breaking wildfires in 2020 turned huge swaths of Western forests into barren burn scars. Those forests store winter snowpack that millions of people rely on. But with such large and wide-reaching fires, the science on the effects to the region’s water supplies isn’t well understood.

The satellite image lends credence to the idea that Russia may have exposed its troops to unhealthy levels of radioactivity.