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  • A graphic of several covers of albums released in 202 with white text reading: KPBS staff picks best albums 2023.
    KPBS Staff Picks: Best Albums of 2023
    Our 2023 staff picks for albums this year range from disillusionment to political to disco and plenty more.
  • People look at a lowland gorillas at the Bronx Zoo's Congo Gorilla Forest exhibit on July 8, 2003, in New York City.
    Opinion: A movie theater for gorillas
    After the Toronto Zoo warned visitors against showing videos to gorillas, NPR's Scott Simon wonders what sort of motion pictures might entertain a great ape.
  • People injured from Israeli air strikes on Oct. 12 wait outside a hospital to be treated. The sheer volume of medical need is overwhelming the small and exhausted number of staff at Gaza's medical facilities, says Dr. Mohammad Mattar, head of the radiology department at Al Shifa Hospital, the Gaza Strip's largest medical complex.
    Doctors in Gaza describe the war's devastating impact on health care — and civilians
    After the brutal attack on Israel by Hamas militants, Israel has begun air strikes on Gaza. The World Health Organization warns that the health system there is at a breaking point.
  • Spring Harp Fest - Free Family Music Festival Featuring American Blues Harmonica
    Since 1999, the Spring Harp Fest has introduced local musicians and music lovers to the great American art of Blues Harmonica. The unique once-yearly showcase includes local jams, competition among unknown players, and some of the best professional players in the music scene.Guests are encouraged to bring their mouth harps (harmonicas), hula hoops, cameras, bubbles, and dancing shoes, and enjoy the beauty of Harry Griffen Park while the music plays.
  • Blacktronika: Where I Stand Festival
    From the organizers: Blacktronika: Where I Stand Festival brings together six innovative musical groups to create a full day of sonic cultural expression. The liberation-oriented free jazz of Irreversible Entanglements, Caribbean influenced multi-instrumentalism of Xenia Rubinos, the Grammy nominated cosmic funk from Georgia Ann Muldrow to the Zimbabwean hip hop of Chimurenga Renaissance, electro-acoustic time travelers Tyshawn Sorey and King Britt and UC San Diego’s debut of multicultural supergroup, 5hz . Freedom music for your mind body and soul. Blacktronika is a UC San Diego Music course created by Prof. King Britt, that honors the innovators of color who have contributed to the global advancement of electronic music. About the event: Runs from noon to 7 p.m. at the new UC San Diego Epstein Family Amphitheater. Free, but registration is required to reserve a spot. Related links: Professor King Britt's Blacktronika on Instagram UC San Diego Music on Instagram
  • As epic snow melts, a California community braces for floods
    In the heart of California, some rural communities are facing the prospect of being marooned or flooded out by rising water.
  • Jared Davis stands beside his charter fishing boat, Salty Lady, as it sits in dry dock in Richmond on March 8, 2023.
    No California salmon: Fishery to be shut down this year
    The salmon industry, worth about half a billion dollars, is devastated. The culprits: Drought and decades of water diversions and development.
  • Danai Gurira in GREAT PERFORMANCES "Richard III."
    GREAT PERFORMANCES: Richard III
    Encore Sunday, Jan. 28, 2024 at 2 p.m. on KPBS 2 / Stream now with KPBS Passport! Experience The Public Theater’s Free Shakespeare at the Park production of Shakespeare’s tragedy with one of his most indelible villains starring Danai Gurira in the title role. Recorded live in July 2022 from Central Park.
  • People take a selfie with rainbow Pride flags before the start of the Equality Parade in Warsaw, Poland, in June 2023. The Equality Parade was celebrated under the slogan "We predict equality and beauty!"
    After years of legal discrimination, Poland's same-sex couples await civil union law
    The new government of Prime Minister Donald Tusk has promised to introduce legislation that would legalize civil unions in Poland, one of the few nations in Europe that doesn't recognize them.
  • A Black principal and Black Panther Party members sit down to talk in the documentary short "Black Moderates and Black Militants" (1969), which screens as part of Turner Classic Movies MLK Day celebration.
    TCM honors Martin Luther King, Jr. with night of civil rights documentaries
    Chicago Film Archives provides collection of shorts and features from 1960s.
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