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While driving through the California desert, you may come across derelict shacks spotting the landscape. These homesteads, called jackrabbits, were built by people laying claim to plots of desert land in response to the Small Tract Act of 1938. Our guests, both artists, have explored the jackrabbits in their work, through photographs, audio tours, sculpture and installation.

During WWII, hundreds of prisoners in the Terezin concentration camp in Czechoslovakia performed Verdi's Requiem as a way to passively defy their Nazi captors. On Sunday, American musicians performed the same requiem in the former Nazi camp as a tribute to Terezin's victims and survivors.

The League of United Latin American Citizens — the nation's oldest civil rights organization — meets in Washington, D.C., this week, and presidential candidates Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain are slated to speak at the convention today. LULAC's national executive director, Brent Wilkes, discusses what he hopes to hear from candidates and the role Latino voters may play in elections this November.

Airs Tuesday, November 23, 2010 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV

Sir Anthony Hopkins may have just won the Golden Globes Cecil B. DeMille Life Achievement Award last month but hes not about to rest on his laurels with any slowing down. This month he can be seen in The Worlds Fastest Indian (opening February 3 at Horton Plaza, Edwards Mira Mesa, and AMC Mission Valley), a film from down under about a retired senior obsessed with speed.

Airs Saturday, November 20, 2010 at 2 p.m. on KPBS TV

For nearly a century, California has diverted the Owens River, sending its water 200 miles south to feed the ever-growing needs of Los Angeles. After years of litigation, L.A.'s mayor flipped a switch, returning the water to the river.

What can you do to prevent rats and mice from invading your cupboard? How can you make your yard mosquito-proof? We speak to Chris Conlan, a vector ecologist for the County of San Diego, about the most common vector-borne diseases in our area and which animals carry them.

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, a Democrat from Texas, is taking up the cause of Megan Williams, who alleges she was tortured and raped. Lee is hoping for the case to be classified as a hate crime — Williams is black, the accused are white. Joining Rep. Lee to discuss the case is Megan Williams' legal advisor Malik Shabazz.

Can an author redeem herself after being convicted of literary forgery and theft? We'll talk with Lee Israel, author of "Can You Ever Forgive Me?" about what drove her to forge letters of famous peop