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"Drawings show the hand of the artist," says Nicola Lorenz, Executive Director of Manhattan's Forum Gallery and curator of this exhibition. "No two artists make their marks in the same way,"

NPR's program, All Things Considered, debuted on May 3, 1971. ATC creator Bill Siemering and former co-host (then production assistant) Susan Stamberg look back on the iconic first broadcast.

A private Tijuana university offers a business degree in English that's become a low-cost alternative for American students. A growing number of U.S. students are crossing into Mexico to pursue college degrees at CETYS. In addition to Tijuana, the school has campuses in Mexicali and Ensenada.

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of NPR's first original on-air broadcast, we look back at our origins in radio, how we grew from a staff of 65 to thousands, and into our future in the digital space.

It’s Black Friday, but for locally owned stores, it’s Small Business Saturday that matters. We’ll take a look at the impact of small businesses and how the city of San Diego aims to give them a boost through its Storefront Improvement Program. Plus, San Diego City Council President Georgette Gomez is running for Congress. She sits down with KPBS to talk about her impact and legacy in District 9. And, the director for "Wally and His Lover Boys" at Diversionary's Black Box Theatre is familiar with staging a show, just not in this way before.

Firefighters battled destructive wildfires north of San Francisco and in western Los Angeles neighborhoods on Monday, trying to beat back flames that forced thousands to flee their homes.

Rights lawyers became targets in President Xi Jinping's push to put the Communist Party above the law. Now they're losing their licenses.

Mayor Todd Gloria announced a package of initiatives Monday aimed at producing more homes across the city that residents of all income levels can afford.

A man in Border Patrol custody was held for three weeks while his family and lawyers had no idea where he was or if he was even alive. KPBS has an exclusive look at how one man became lost in an overloaded immigration system. Plus, hospitals and the medical devices inside your body could be vulnerable to cyber hackers. So why are federal regulators teaming up with hackers? And, Rep. Duncan Hunter was in court Monday to see if a well-known San Diego former prosecutor could represent him at his corruption trial in January. Hunter recently fired his legal defense team.

The military found that video games are more effective than traditional recruiting methods. Anyone who came to a recent Army recruitment event was able to play the new "Call of Duty" game as long as they also spoke to recruiters. Plus, Californians may be more likely to get a whiff of marijuana while walking down the street, now that the drug is fully legal in the state. One of our listeners wanted to know whether anyone's raising the alarm about secondhand pot smoke. We have an answer. And, scientists at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography found that microplastics are a million times more abundant in the ocean than previously thought. Those tiny pieces of plastics are ending up in the food chain and ultimately in humans with unknown health effects.