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  • Growing and Knowing in the Gardens of China
    Modern writings often describe Chinese scholars’ gardens as sites of aesthetic reclusion—spaces filled with architecture, waterways, and rockeries intended to facilitate the garden-owner’s retreat from the mundane world. Plants rarely appear in such accounts, except as culturally sanctioned signifiers of the garden-owner’s character or virtue. A look at paintings and books that depict gardens from the Song to Qing dynasties offers a different view: plants were central to these gardens, for practical purposes and for contemplating humanity’s place within the cosmos. This talk will explore these themes through a discussion of the exhibition Growing and Knowing in the Gardens of China, displayed at The Huntington in fall 2024. Visit: https://sdma.ticketapp.org/portal/product/66?_ga=2.268598897.1875807529.1776286137-548490435.1761927147 The San Diego Museum of Art on Instagram and Facebook
  • Ebert Velasquez Ramos (right) works at the drive-through at a McDonald's in Morningside, Md. He doesn't have a car so he sometimes turns to Escalate, a startup that provides Uber vouchers for workers who need last-minute rides among other support.
    Missed shifts were costly to this McDonald's. An app has fixed the problem
    Unexpected absences can cost employers tens of thousands of dollars a month. An app that helps workers with last-minute transportation, food and childcare is making a difference.
  • The new Chula Vista Ferry makes way out of the Chula Vista Marina on it's maiden voyage to the San Diego Convention Center, June 1, 2026.
    New Chula Vista to San Diego ferry service officially launches
    The ferry is a long-awaited, scenic way to travel between downtown San Diego and Chula Vista.
  • People walk through Sather Gate at UC Berkeley on March 25, 2022.
    Why getting more California students into top UCs carries a big cost to taxpayers
    At its three most popular campuses, UC agreed to admit more California students and reduce the number of out-of-state students. The state covered the loss of revenue from non-resident students, who pay three times what in-state students pay.
  • Street Level X Art Walk: July
    Located in the heart of the Oceanside Cultural District, OMA invites you to step into the Museum for a drink, enjoy a docent-led tour of our current exhibitions, and explore local artists and makers featured in The Museum Store and on our Terrace. From handcrafted goods to creative inspiration, OMA is proud to be a vibrant partner with Oceanside Art Walk to connect our community through art. Bring your family, meet new friends, and enjoy an evening designed for all ages. Street Level x Art Walk is free for all guests. Drink tickets are available for purchase; guests 21+ wishing to purchase alcoholic beverages must present a valid ID. Ticket Prices: Free Oceanside Museum of Art on Facebook / Instagram
  • Orcas are known for surprising behaviors. A new study documents two cases of orcas ramming sunfish so hard that the fish explode.
    Video: Scientists watch orcas ram a sunfish so hard it explodes
    Marine biologists off of Baja California recorded one orca teeing up another to smash a sunfish into pieces. Scientists say there could be a reason for this behavior — or it could be just for entertainment.
  • Members of a Congolese Red Cross team carry the coffin of a woman suspected of having died from Ebola virus disease during her safe burial at a cemetery in Bunia on June 7, 2026.
    Ebola cases rise in Congo, as government revives travel restrictions
    The Democratic Republic of Congo's Ebola outbreak is spreading at an unprecedented pace, Africa CDC warns.
  • Book Crawl goers inside Library Bookshop SD during the San Diego Book Crawl, April 2025.
    The latest on the military beat; a San Diego poet; the book crawl
    We check in on the latest military stories from the KPBS newsroom. Then, we go to a San Diego Storytellers segment with the region's first poet laureate. And finally, how local bookstores are celebrating the annual San Diego Book Crawl.
  • Electricity prices are climbing faster than overall inflation. That, coupled with a hotter-than-usual summer, has forecasters warning of a sharp jump in utility bills.
    Summer electric bills sizzle as the cost of cooling climbs
    The temperature is climbing, and so are people's utility bills. Rising electricity prices and hotter-than-usual weather could make it especially costly to stay cool this summer.
  • Martin Shaw stars as Inspector George Gently, an incorruptible cop transplanted from London to the North East of England in the mid-1960s. Lee Ingleby stars as DS John Bacchus, Gently’s young protégé
    INSPECTOR GEORGE GENTLY: Season 4
    Stream now with KPBS Passport on KPBS+ / Watch Thursdays, July 2 and 9, 2026 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV + Encores Sundays, July 5 and 12 at Noon on KPBS TV. Gently and Bacchus are thrown into the new world of pop and media celebrity when the body of a missing schoolgirl is discovered in a shallow grave in Pinnock Woods.
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