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A Reimagining of The Nutcracker Friday, November 10, 7:00 p.m. Saturday, November 11, 2:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. California Center for the Arts, Escondido, Center Theater Join A Step Beyond for a reimagining of The Nutcracker ballet through dance, theater, music, and puppetry. The story begins at Maria’s Quinceñera and through the magic of the night, the audience journeys to Mexico in search of Maria’s father. Related links: A Step Beyond on Instagram A Step Beyond on Facebook

Reflections is an art-making workshop series designed to serve adults 55 and older. In this workshop series participants will explore how ideas about the body integrate into contemporary art. Through close looking, we will engage with artworks where the body is present, and where its notable absence invokes the body. Each workshop will include an investigation of contemporary art-making techniques and materials. No prior art experience is required. Transportation will be provided, if required. Participants may join one session (two days) or more! Session 2: October 27 & November 3 In this session, examine labor and utilizing the body as a tool. We will discuss what information can be gleaned from a silhouette, while guiding you through your own creation of a cardboard silhouette-based sculpture. We will draw inspiration from Jonathan Borofsky’s "Hammering Man at 3,110,527" (1988), representing the artist as a worker, and "Julio Cesar Morales’s Informal economy exploded vendors #1" (2022-2004), bringing heightened visibility to vendors' resourcefulness.

A beloved heirloom variety of New Mexico red chile commands high prices because of its scarcity. Finding farmers to continue cultivating it has become a challenge.

The designer, known for dressing celebs to events like the Met Gala, has advice for those willing to challenge office norms.

A new generation of blood tests can help diagnose Alzheimer's disease. But many doctors don't yet know how to use them.

San Diego Italian Film Festival Presents "Bangla," 2019 A romantic comedy with a huge heart and charm to match, promising director Phaim Bhuiyan’s film is a fresh and spirited portrait of the complications of young love caught between very different beliefs. Phaim, a young Italian Muslim of Bangladeshi origin born in Italy 22 years ago, lives with his family in Rome’s multiethnic Torpignattara neighborhood. He works as a museum steward, and plays in a band. At a concert, he meets Asia, his exact opposite: pure instinct, and no rules. The attraction between them is immediate, and Phaim will have to figure out how to reconcile his love for the young woman with the most inviolable of Islam’s rules: no sex before marriage. Italian with English subtitles. For more information visit: sandiegoitalianfilmfestival.com Stay Connected on Facebook

AFP photographer Jerome Brouillet captured the Brazilian world champion Gabriel Medina surfing through a huge wave in a ride that would net an Olympic-record score.

San Diego Students from across the county will compete for the State Finals for Poetry Out Loud. Come support your local students and hear an evening full of beautiful poetry. FREE ADMISSION Seating is first-come, first-served. Coordinated by Write Out Loud in association with the City of San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture. Stay Connected on Social Media! Facebook & X

Join us on Free Third Thursday, October 19 for a film screening and discussion in collaboration with Pacific Arts Movement and the San Diego Asian Film Festival: "Rea Tajiri, History and Memory: For Akiko and Takashige" (1991) Filmmaker Rea Tajiri’s family was among the 120,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans who were imprisoned in internment camps after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Drawing from a variety of sources—Hollywood spectacle, government propaganda, newsreels, memories of the living, and spirits of the dead—"History and Memory" offers a poetic exploration of recorded history and unrecorded memory. About: Rea Tajiri is an award-winning interdisciplinary artist and educator who creates installation, documentary and experimental films. Her work situates itself in poetic, non-traditional storytelling forms to encourage dialog and reflection around buried histories. Tajiri is a Sansei who grew up in Rogers Park, Chicago and Van Nuys, California. She earned her BFA and MFA degree from the California Institute of the Arts where she studied post-studio art. Upon graduation, Tajiri began working in video art, two early shorts were included in the Whitney Biennials of 1989 and 1991. The San Diego Asian Film Festival is the flagship event of Pacific Arts Movement (Pac Arts), one of the largest media arts organizations in North America that focuses on Asian and Asian American cinema. The festival is dedicated to highlighting the diversity and breadth of Asian Pacific Islander and Asian international images, from impassioned independent voices and provocative documentary subjects to the top hits from the world’s biggest continent, the latest works from the masters of cinema, and the fresh points of view of Asian Pacific Islander American filmmakers. Related links: MCASD website | Instagram | Facebook Pacific Arts Movement website | Instagram | Facebook

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee Conceived by Rebecca Feldman Additional Material by Jay Reiss Music and Lyrics by William Finn Book by Rachel Sheinkin Directed by Roxane Carrasco December 7-15, 2023 An eclectic group of six mid-pubescents vie for the spelling championship of a lifetime. While candidly disclosing hilarious and touching stories from their home lives, the tweens spell their way through a series of (potentially made-up) words, hoping never to hear the soul-crushing, pout-inducing, life-un-affirming "ding" of the bell that signals a spelling mistake. Six spellers enter; one speller leaves a champion! At least the losers get a juice box. Related links: San Diego School of Creative & Performing Arts: website | Instagram | Facebook