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Pascale Sablan was told she'd never become an architect because she's Black and a woman. Now she works for one of the world's top firms and she wants more people who look like her to join the field.

Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022 at 5 p.m. on KPBS TV + Livestream. With the control of the House and Senate hanging in the balance, PBS NEWSHOUR Judy Woodruff leads live coverage of the results as they come in. KPBS will also broadcast NPR's Election program from 5 p.m. - 9 p.m.; the California Report Election Special is 9 -11 p.m. on KPBS FM / Livestream. Results will be available on kpbs.org. Our Community Conversation will be from 9:30 -10:30 p.m. on the KPBS YouTube channel, Facebook and our website.

Tens of millions of Americans who work at companies with 100 or more employees will need to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by Jan. 4 or get tested for the virus weekly under government rules issued Thursday. Plus, Rep. Mike Levin on the contents of a $1.75 trillion dollar social benefits package being debated in Congress right now. Also, San Diego spent millions of dollars on contact tracing to fight the pandemic, but was it worth it? And, KPBS arts reporter Beth Accomando has a preview of San Diego's first ever Age-Friendly Film Festival, opening Nov. 13. Finally, five songs by San Diego musicians to discover in November.

This year's tastefully refurbished Dead Space provides plenty of reasons to revisit the sci-fi horror classic.

Philippine film regulators are reviewing Barbie after a senator said it depicts a map that China uses to lay claim to nearly all of the South China Sea. Warner Bros. says it's just a "doodle."

A new show at The Globe comes from Montreal-based The 7 Fingers circus collective.

Across the street from the jazz icon's home in Queens, a site of pilgrimage for fans from around the world, sits the new Louis Armstrong Center, which brings his 60,000-item archive back to the block.

Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV / On demand with PBS Video App. The film chronicles Proposition 187, a California ballot measure passed in 1994 that sought to deny public services to undocumented immigrants. While the initiative was meant to keep the “immigrant threat” at bay, it mobilized non-immigrants and immigrants in Latino communities as well as their allies across the state.

Legendary German baritone Matthias Goerne, one of the world’s most renowned Lieder singers, joined by internationally sought-after pianist Seong-jin Cho, perform a selection of songs by Wolf, Pfitner, and Strauss, and Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder. Wagner once proclaimed “I have not written anything better than these songs and very few of my works will be remembered besides them.” While history has proved him wrong, the Wesendonck Lieder stands out as an absorbing document of Wagner’s complex relationships, revealing the composer in his most fragile mode. Date | Thursday, April 7 at 8 p.m. Location | The Baker-Baum Concert Hall at The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center Get tickets here! Ticket prices ranging from $31 to $75. For more information, please visit ljms.org/events/goerne-and-jin-cho or call (858) 459-3728.

It's hard not to get swept up in this journey — full of filthy one-liners and priceless sight gags. And the film pulls it off with a level of savvy about Asian culture still rarely seen in Hollywood.