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Census Bureau data show the number of foreign-born people rose by nearly a million in 2022 after years of little growth. Experts say the increase coincides with a gradual reboot of legal immigration.

Saturday, Sept. 9, 2023 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV + Encore Sunday, Sept, 10 at 6:30 p.m. on KPBS 2. The three-time GRAMMY-nominated guitarist and 25x Billboard chart-topper Joe Bonamassa has just released "Tales Of Time," a sprawling and expansive live concert film and album shot at the breathtaking Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado. Hailed as “a near spiritual experience” by Classic Rock Magazine this program captures a stratospheric performance by the blues-rock titan, as his virtuoso guitar style and unique technique and flair elevate the evening to an almost heavenly high.

Experience the transformative power of receiving Divine Light from your Higher Self to bless uplift your auric field and life. By meditating with Divine Light to improve and strengthen your aura, you can make changes in your life faster, more effectively and with greater chances of sustained success. There are many spiritual energies to work with, and each offers inspiration and enrichment in any aspect of life from relationship, career, prosperity and healing, as well as to develop your soul’s potential and draw closer to the Divine source. Join us every week for a twenty-minute live, guided meditation. Based on the meditation practice taught in the international, bestselling book "Change Your Aura, Change Your Life" and a 4,000 year tradition developed by mystic clairvoyant and teacher, and co-founder of Spiritual Arts Institute Barbara Y. Martin. Visit: https://spiritualarts.org/events/higher-self-meditations-with-divine-light/ Spiritual Arts Institute on Facebook

Premieres Wednesdays, April 3 - May 8, 2024 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS App + Encores Sundays, April 7 - May 12 at 9 p.m. on KPBS 2. A unique six-part documentary series about our futures and how we can reimagine them. THIS WEEK: Ari Wallach examines the ways we often see the concept of the future, the crucial need to think much, much bigger about what could come next, and how we all have more personal agency than we realize.

From the San Diego Opera: Ahead of the world premiere of "El último sueño de Frida y Diego (The Last Dream of Frida and Diego)," San Diego Opera has planned a special lead-up series of events. In partnership with UCSD Park & Market, SDO will host concerts, lectures and panel discussions throughout the month of October. Join us at the newly opened UCSD Park & Market in East Village as we explore the lives of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera through music, art and politics. Lecture with Gregorio Luke – “Frida and Diego: An Artistic Marriage” Monday, October 3, 2022 at 7:00 pm Explore the politics, economics, and art in the time of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, drawing on the expertise of UCSD Mexican Studies faculty and featured speaker Gregorio Luke, former Director of the Museum of Latin American Art. This lecture presents a portrait of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, with more than 300 slides of their paintings, photographs, and rare film footage. The free lecture will be held inside UCSD Park & Market’s Guggenheim Theatre. RSVP required. Gregorio Luke is a lecturer, author, and specialist in Mexican Art and Culture. He is the former Consul of Cultural Affairs for the Consulate General of Mexico in Los Angeles, Deputy Director of the Mexican Cultural Institute of Washington D.C., and First Secretary of the Embassy of Mexico in Washington D.C. The Songs of Frida Kahlo (Las canciones de Frida Kahlo) Did you know that Frida Kahlo loved to sing? Enjoy a 50-minute concert featuring singers and guitarists as we dive into the musical world Frida Kahlo with selections of her favorite songs from the 1930’s and 1940’s. Musical works include opera favorites, popular songs like “La Llorona,” “La bruja”, and “Puttin’ On the Ritz,” and much more! Wednesday, October 12, 2022 at 7:00 pmTickets are $20. The concert will be held inside UCSD Park & Market’s Guggenheim Theatre. Thursday, October 13, 2022 at 5:00 pmFree. The concert will be held at Chula Vista Public Library Civic Center Branch, 365 F Street, Chula Vista, CA 91910. Wednesday, October 19, 2022 at 7:30 pmTickets are $10 for the General Public and $5 for Students. The concert will be held at the Southwestern College Performing Arts Center. Click here to purchase tickets for this event. Who were Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo? (¿Quienes fueron Diego Rivera y Frida Kahlo?) Thursday, October 20, 2022 at 7:00 pm Witness an in-person conversation between Diego Rivera’s grandson, Juan Coronel Rivera and Roxana Velasquez, Executive Director of the San Diego Museum of Art. These two experts will discuss the tumultuous relationship between the two iconic artists from Mexico, Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. Their passions and resentments, adoration and pain were sources of inspiration for the world premiere of El último sueño de Frida y Diego (The Last Dream of Frida and Diego). Rivera and Velasquez will connect themes and images from the new opera to Diego Rivera’s mural Un domingo en la Alameda and the Mexican celebration of Día de los Muertos. This is a free event. The conversation will be held inside UCSD Park & Market’s Guggenheim Theatre. RSVP required. FRIDA (2002) Directed by Julie Taymor Starring Salma Hayek as Frida Kahlo Film Screenings at the Digital Gym Cinema Located on UCSD Park & Market’s campus, the Digital Gym Cinema will present three showings of Frida (2002). This film is a biography of painter Frida Kahlo, and her encounter with the personalities of her time. Despite being confined to a wheelchair as a result of polio, operations and amputations, she channels her pain into her work. For more information or tickets, visit https://digitalgym.org/movies/frida/. Showtimes: October 5, 2022 at 7:00 pm October 11, 2022 at 7:00 pm October 16, 2022 at 3:00 pm Related links: San Diego Opera on Instagram San Diego Opera on Twitter San Diego Opera website - Frida Festival

Laura Bray couldn't watch her 9-year-old's leukemia go untreated. She started campaigning to fix a broken system and get patients the treatments they need in the face of drug shortages.

In a landmark U.N. study, researchers found nearly half of the world's threatened migratory species have declining populations. More than a fifth of the assessed animals face extinction.

The World Health Organization has just released the latest worldwide statistics of the global burden of cancer. Here are five takeaways from WHO's top expert on cancer.

"Okalolies" ring in the new year on the world's most remote inhabited island by visiting the population of not quite 250 in masks and making mischief, an annual chance for the community to come together.

A new study of kelp fossils from the coast of Washington state show that kelp forests, which host all manner of marine life, developed tens of millions of years ago.