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Jackson, Miss., residents use shovels to work their way through Pearl River floodwaters on Sunday.

Hundreds Of Homes Flooded In Mississippi As More Rain Is Expected

The Pearl River crested at 36.7 feet in Jackson, Miss. — lower than feared. Flooding also hit parts of Tennessee, where one official said, "It is a chess match we're playing with Mother Nature."

With 'No Particular Roadmap,' Gus Van Sant And Gucci Make A Fashion Film

"It was like a spontaneous poem," filmmaker Gus Van Sant says of his seven-part collaboration with Gucci creative director Alessandro Michele. It's the centerpiece of the virtual festival GUCCI Fest.

'The Boatman's Daughter' Dips Her Toes In Horror, Crime And Poetry

Andy Davidson's novel follows a young girl who scrapes a living working for local criminals along an Arkansas river — but its crime story bumps up against horror in a strange yet seamless fashion.

Remote Forever: Workers Relocate In Pandemic, Forcing Employers To Adjust

With millions of Americans suddenly working remotely, some took the opportunity to move across the country — crossing their fingers that when it's safe to go back to the office, they won't have to.

Sofia Jean Gomez, Eddie R. Brown III, Christopher Michael Rivera, Anne Son, and DJ Miki Vale perform in a recent community show of The Globe for All's Tour of "Shakespeare: Call and Response."

Across the county this weekend: Theater, art and zines

Our guest for Midday Edition's weekend arts preview segment this week is Andrea "Angie" Chandler, with recommendations for visual art, theater and a photography zine signing event.

A herd of elephants, crossing a small spillway. Okavango Delta, Botswana.

NATURE: Okavango: River Of Dreams

Airs Wednesdays, Oct. 23 - Nov. 6, 2019 at 8 p.m. and Sundays, Oct. 27 - Nov. 10 at 3 p.m. on KPBS TV + Sundays, Oct. 27 - Nov. 10 at 8 p.m. on KPBS 2

Companies will need to be careful how heavy-handed they are in ordering workers back to their cubicles. "The good news is you could get everybody back in the office," says HR consultant David Lewis. "The bad news is ... not everybody is going to come back."

Workers Are Moving First, Asking Questions Later. What Happens When Offices Reopen?

As the pandemic stretched on, some employees moved hundreds of miles from the offices they're supposed to return to once it's safe. Will their bosses really make them come back?

Nona Claypool, a third year student at UC Berkeley and transfer student coordinator, at Mosswood Park in Oakland on Oct. 28, 2020. Claypool, who focuses her work on recruiting Native American transfer students from community colleges, says tt is often the students who would benefit most from higher education who are unable to access it.

Affirmative Action Ballot Measure Fails, But These Students Are Still Fighting To Diversify Their Universities

Proposition 16 failed, but students at public colleges and universities in California have been trying to increase representation of students of color at their campuses for years and will continue their efforts.

Just because the Mardi Gras parades are canceled, it hasn't stopped people's creativity. The "Little Shop of 2020 Horrors" house float is in the Algiers Point neighborhood of New Orleans.

In A Year Without Parades, Mardi Gras In New Orleans Is All About House Floats

New Orleans officials canceled all the Mardi Gras parades this year. But that didn't stop some residents from getting into the spirit anyway. They decorated their houses for drive-through parades.

'Until The World Shatters' Explores Jade's Role In Myanmar's Struggles

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to author Daniel Combs about his book Until the World Shatters, which explores the connection between Myanmar's jade industry and a long-running civil war.

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