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This week Gov. David Paterson talks with Andrew Ross Sorkin about New York state’s finances and what the stimulus package will mean for New York. Nassau County Executive Tom Suozzi explains how his county — the second wealthiest in New York state — will try to reinvent itself amid demographic shifts and the financial crisis.

This week Worldfocus spotlights the issues facing South Africa today, including xenophobic hostilities towards its immigrant population, the devastating AIDS crisis in the province of KwaZulu-Natal, and class divisions and continuing poverty in the post-apartheid era. Watch all.

The documentary film American Aloha is a celebration of Hawaiian culture symbolized by the hula dance, centering on three master hula teachers in the Hawaiian communities of California. Watch online through March 7, 2009. (originally aired: 2003)

The situation in Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, has become tense between the army and the paramilitary border guards known as the Bangladesh Rifles. Photographer Jessica Lim took these arresting images of the standoff as it was happening on the streets. Watch the slideshow.

Over the next ten weeks, Frontline will unfold an online investigation of international bribery. Covering a practice estimated at $1 trillion worldwide, the team will report on some of the largest bribery investigations in corporate history, leading up to ‘Black Money’, airing April 7th on Frontline. See new videos and print reports as they are [...]

This Saturday, Gene Kelly’s 1952 classic Singin’ in the Rain airs on Reel 13. We caught up with Andy Blankenbuehler, who choreographed In the Heights, to talk to him about Gene Kelly’s influence. Watch now.

Opera star Danielle De Niese, who has recently earned rave reviews for her role in the Met production of Orfeo ed Euridice, is making her New York recital debut at Carnegie Hall on Feb. 27. Read an interview with the young diva in the SundayArts Blog.

Students of New York’s literary history ought to be familiar with our latest location, the Fulton Ferry Hotel. Joseph Mitchell, author, immortalized the building in his 1952 New Yorker story, “Up in the Old Hotel.” Much of the hotel remains as Mitchell found it. Watch now.

Starting in 1968, Detroit public TV station WTVS produced an African-American news/public affairs show called Colored People’s Time (CPT). The show’s mission was to build more community involvement among Detroit’s largely African-American urban population. Watch segments from the show….