From migrating butterflies to ancestral faces, visual artist Favianna Rodriguez uses printmaking to inspire social change.
Jan 06

By PBS NewsHour
Sep 09


By PBS NewsHour
KQED presents a report on photographer Anthony Friedkin and his efforts to document gay life more than 40 years ago. Friedkin's photographs were ahead of their time and most galleries wouldn’t show them -- until now. The culmination of Friedkin’s…
Jun 04

By John Myers, KQED
1. The Brown Bomber: No one received more votes on Tuesday than Gov. Jerry Brown, and it’s hard to see the veteran Democrat biting his fingernails about the fall contest to come. Neither of his main GOP challengers came…
Jun 02

By Scott Shafer, KQED
Four years ago, Californians joined Louisiana and Washington in passing an election reform measure designed to encourage centrist candidates for office. Called a "top two" or "jungle" primary system, the candidates -- regardless of party affiliation -- run against each…
May 19

After spending more than a decade and billions of dollars on developing zero-emission hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, carmakers are planning to release their models in California. But despite the state’s large demand for cars and tough air quality standards, California…
May 09

Times have changed, and so has California Gov. Jerry Brown. Embarking on an unprecedented fourth term, 40 years after he first won office, Brown touts the values of balance, budgeting and planning in order to manage all of that change.
Shields and Brooks on Bush Email Hacking and Super Bowl Results…
Photographer Doug Rickard sees artistic possibility in the images of people captured in the photographic drive-bys that make up Google Street View. He has travelled thousands of virtual miles, looking for potential photographs in Google's maps that have more than…
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