KQED Headquarters, San Francisco – A two-day festival of ideas, innovations, and conversations with some of America’s most impactful journalists and thinkers was interrupted Thursday, with a breaking news announcement that President Trump issued an executive order to cease all federal funding to NPR and PBS. The announcement came as

Two feature documentaries, “Free For All: The Public Library” and “The Invisible Mammal”, premiering this week, celebrate the importance of woman power and the preservation of public libraries and bat populations, respectively.

It’s Springtime in San Francisco, which means it’s time to put your phone on silent for a while and step out into our fair city to sing, eat, and play with the wonderful people and programming on offer. Whether in the flesh or on a live stream, the journalists and

Even if the rhetorical buzzwords “capitalist exploitation” and “blue gold” are not uttered throughout Will Parrinello’s award-winning documentary Water For Life, the wrongs embodied by those buzzwords are shown so straightforwardly in this film that using the actual terms would be superfluous. Perhaps that’s why PBS (the Public Broadcasting System)

There’s relatively good food, even subjectively good food, then there’s Marnee Thai. The shotgun-style restaurant is lit in warm orange and servers are fast, attentive, prophetic. The coconut cakes arrive plentiful and hot, creamy and studded with squash and corn. It’s a restaurant so dank owner Chai Siriyarn opened Marnee

This event is in Downtown Napa, California. There’s no other way around it, I’m fucking obsessed with Jacques Pepin. Sorry to Katie Shaffer – founder of Feast it Forward – for cursing in the copy that is associated with your giveaway. But, there’s no other word that expresses how enthusiastic

In the past few years I’ve been giving people in my family DVDs as gifts.  Whether it be a season of The Wire for Hanukah or a copy of The Goonies for a birthday, DVDs have seemed to be a pretty solid bet (especially since I’m not crafty enough to

Let’s face it, if you’re broke one of the first things to go is entertainment and I’m willing to bet that a lot of New York doesn’t have cable TV. I mean how DO we go on without the Housewives of whatever. And with a lot of shows being streamed