Audie Cornish

Aug 15, 2024 | kpbs.org | Ailsa Chang |Audie Cornish |Christopher Intagliata

On a recent Friday evening, a hooded figure in dark sunglasses climbed the pulpit at the First Congregational Church of Los Angeles. Just below, a few dozen singers gathered at the front of the packed sanctuary, conducted by a woman on stilts — elevated to see the choir in full. This was a first for Louis Cole, the man in the pulpit. Cole is known primarily as a drummer, and his music over the past decade has fallen in the nexus of jazz, funk and rock, albeit with a flair that’s hard to categorize.

Jul 25, 2024 | kpbs.org | Jonaki Mehta |Christopher Intagliata |Ailsa Chang |Audie Cornish

At the crack of dawn in California’s Central Valley, birds sing their morning songs and critters chirp unabashedly. In a shady grove next to a river, an owl swoops down from the spindling branches of an oak tree that has stood its ground for centuries. A few feet above the tree’s base, its massive trunk is lined with a white ring, indicating how high the San Joaquin River rose during a flood last year.

Jul 4, 2024 | kpbs.org | Brian Mann |Ailsa Chang |Audie Cornish

Hawaii's Democratic Gov. Josh Green says President Biden has yet to make a final decision about whether he will continue his bid for a second term. "If the president doesn't think he can beat Donald Trump, he will hand it off to Kamala [Harris]," Green said during an interview on Saturday with NPR. "The president has to make this decision with his life-long colleagues from the Senate and his wife. Jill Biden is a superstar. They'll make the right decision," Green added.

Jun 7, 2024 | kpbs.org | Ailsa Chang |Audie Cornish

We often think of couples therapy as some last-ditch effort that people make when they're pretty much ready to break up. One documentary series is challenging that idea by following the experiences of couples who are in therapy at different stages of their relationships. Couples Therapy gives viewers a rare look into real-life therapy sessions and the deeply intimate conversations that are normally private.

Jun 3, 2024 | kpbs.org | Ailsa Chang |Audie Cornish |Mallory Yu |Patrick Jarenwattananon

As much as we would all love to ignore COVID, a new set of variants that scientists call “FLiRT” is here to remind us that the virus is still with us. The good news: as of last Friday, the CDC says that the amount of respiratory illness in the U.S. is low. The not-so-great news: the U.S. has often flirted with summer COVID waves because of travel and air-conditioned gatherings.