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Join us on Sunday, September 4 from 12:00-2:00pm for artmaking. Draw inspiration from bright colors, tongue-in-cheek humor, pop culture and found object artworks highlighted in Pop Smoke: A Veteran Art Exhibition and create shoes that POP! Add vibrant paint, whimsical bling, vintage fabrics, stickers, and retro tchotchkes inspired by pop culture to your own shoes or decorate shoes provided by OMA. All materials supplied! Bringing your own shoes to decorate is highly encouraged. This family friendly event is FREE along with admission to the museum. Just bring your imagination! Follow on social media! Facebook + Instagram

Martin Mull came to national fame with a recurring role on the Norman Lear-created satirical soap opera “Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman,” and the starring role in its spinoff, “Fernwood Tonight."

A pipeline connecting to San Diego’s wastewater recycling plant will be placed underwater in the Miramar Reservoir this week.

The legacy of over 2,000 nuclear weapon tests and the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan has had profound global effects. SWANS is a collective including artists Nancy Buchanan, Judith Dancoff, Jane C. Mi, Hillary Mushkin, Sheila Pinkel and elin o’Hara slavick, who mine their personal connections to nuclear physics in artworks that challenge the nuclear state. The group explores the past and future of nuclear proliferation, with explosive visuals that interrogate the legacy of the bomb, nuclear power and uranium mining. Since 1945, atomic bombs have altered global politics, ecosystems and even our biology. Can art alter those landscapes? Come join us at 12:00 p.m. at the Kellogg Library Reading Room for coffee and to attend this workshop and panel!

This weekend in the arts: "San Diego Views" at Joseph Bellows Gallery; "Music at the Museum" plus Shinpei Takeda at Oceanside Museum of Art; Chris Warren's sound immersion at Art Produce; City Ballet's "Don Quixote"; and Plays by Young Writers at Joan Kroc Theatre.

The city of San Diego Monday opened applications for emergency relief grants for small businesses and nonprofits impacted by the Jan. 22 flooding and subsequent storms.

Karla Duarte’s “Sentir el Son” is a hero’s journey of an Afro-Mexican woman told through poetry, music and dance.

Artists Dwight Hwang and Oriana Poindexter are proud to present Impressions in Light & Shadow, an exhibition featuring new gyotaku and photo-based prints at Perspectives Space in Encinitas, California. This month-long exhibition highlights the unique beauty and majesty of the giant kelp forest ecosystems off Southern California’s coastline. The reception is free and open to the public with an Eventbrite RSVP. Light appetizers provided by Wrench & Rodent Seabasstropub and wine by Zio Baffa. About the Artists: Dwight Hwang creates classical Japanese gyotaku art and European nature printing. Whether his subject is a fish, plants, birds, or even a person, he pushes not only the art but himself to bring awe, memories, and quiet contemplation to viewers worldwide. Partnered with institutions like NOAA and Patagonia, his work has been exhibited in museums such as the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles, displayed in hospitality such as the Four Seasons Resorts, and showcased in publications including Forbes. Oriana Poindexter is a photographer and marine scientist focused on the intersection of art, science, and marine natural resources. After working for nearly a decade in fisheries science with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and NOAA Fisheries, she now focuses on the use of photography to help viewers understand the ever-changing natural world. Her work has been featured by the Getty Museum and The Wall Street Journal, and she has created interpretive visual exhibits for the Aquarium of the Pacific and the Birch Aquarium.

The Federal Reserve is expected to hold interest rates steady this week — and possibly for months to come — as policymakers try to sort through mixed signals about the U.S. economy.

Sixty years ago, America began closing mental hospitals. A growing chorus is blaming that for the crisis of mentally ill folks living on our streets.