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We talk about two plays from small but adventurous theaters, two special film screenings, and one band called the Detroit Cobras on the weekend preview.

As a child, poet Philip Schultz struggled in school, but it wasn't until his son was diagnosed with dyslexia that Schultz finally had a name for what had frustrated him all those years. In My Dyslexia, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet revisits his childhood struggles and how he coped.

People living in San Diego’s backcountry could find out tomorrow whether San Diego Gas and Electric will be able to turn off their power on high-risk fire days. State regulators will discuss the plan Thursday.

As the Mississippi reached its high point in Memphis, Tenn., and attention turns to a time-consuming clean up, farmers downriver built homemade levees to protect their crops and engineers diverted water into a lake to ease the pressure on New Orleans levees.

Later today, the San Diego City Council will consider the mayor's proposal to give firefighters a 5 percent raise next year. Other city workers are still in labor negotiations, and one of the key stic

From the buildings we work in, to the homes we live in, energy usage is one of the largest impacts in our carbon footprint. Living in southern California, we are lucky to have plenty of sunshine, and

San Diego home prices declined in January for the 22nd straight month. An index of home prices shows a 2.5 percent drop from December. KPBS reporter Andrew Phelps has details.

In the face of a persistent gender pay gap, researchers are focusing on this: Women don't ask for more money. When they try, it often backfires. A series of new efforts seek to coach women on the art of successful negotiating. There's even a Girl Scout badge to encourage girls to ask for more.

We'll hear a front-line assessment of America’s entanglement in Afghanistan from journalist and author, Rajiv Chandrasekaran.

High-speed-rail projects in California, Florida and Illinois are among the big winners of $8 billion in grants announced Thursday — the start of what some Democrats tout as a national rail-building program that could rival the interstate highways begun in the Eisenhower era.