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The top prize, the 2024 Sweepstakes Trophy, went to the San Diego Zoo for the float “It All Started With a Roar.”

Starting next month, landlords will be able to file eviction notices for people who have not paid rent due to hardships from the COVID-19 pandemic. San Diego is continuing its push to build more protected bike lanes. The city of Oceanside is debuted the first advanced water purification facility in San Diego County.

Jennifer González is History of Art and Visual Culture professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a faculty member of the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York. She writes about contemporary installation, digital and activist art. She has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the American Association of University Women, and the American Council of Learned Societies. Her publications have appeared in Diacritics, Camera Obscura, Bomb, Open Space, Art Journal, Aztlán the Journal of the Archives of American Art and in numerous exhibition catalogs including Jimmy Durham: At the Center of the World (2017) and most recently Diego Rivera's America (2022). Her books include "Subject to Display: Reframing Race in Contemporary Installation Art", "Pepón Osorio, and Chicano and Chicana Art: A Critical Anthology" which was included in the top art books of the decade by ArtNews in 2020.

An evening of operatic performance art, contemporary dance, electronics, and an experimental vocal choir at Intervals, a new gallery and performance space run by artist Preston Swirnoff in Little Italy. Joseph Keckler, NY’s operatic songsmith, trickster performance artist, raconteur poet, and many other things performs his San Diego debut! Keckler was crowned New York’s “best performance artist” by Village Voice and his work has been acclaimed by New York Times, Artforum, Bomb, and Wall Street Journal. Keckler's Tiny Desk on NPR and several other mind blowing performances have been attracting fans and audiences worldwide. For his performance at INTERVALS Joseph will perform a solo set with video, voice, spoken word, and probably other things we haven’t been told about. Mala Forma is a contemporary dance group led by Justin Morrison who will perform with musical accompaniment by improvisers Everything Will Be Okay. Mystery Cave is an electronic musician who creates ethereal dreamworlds of sound and has performed over the last 13 years at venues such as MCASD, The Casbah, and Che Cafe. San Diego New Verbal Workshop is an experimental vocal choir who will perform “The Great Learning, Paragraph 7” by avant garde composer Cornelius Cardew.

The tectonic collision of two entertainment powerhouses — the NFL and Taylor Swift — dominated TV screens this fall. Now, sportsbooks are looking for their bite at the apple.

For three decades the San Diego Latino Film Festival (SDLFF) has been showcasing diverse voices from around the globe. This year it serves up 160 films, food, and music for an eleven-day celebration of Latinx culture.

The 258-page transcript paints a more nuanced portrait of the president than was described in Robert Hur's report. The most confusing part concerned the timeline surrounding the death of his son Beau.

The Autism Society San Diego is excited to announce our 5th annual Lights! Camera! Autism! Join our community of friends, families and supporters as we present an evening of music, food, art and film. The event will showcase autistic adults in every aspect of the evening including: ‣ Art show with more than 25 artists in attendance ‣ Film with panel discussion, featuring Dani Bowman, star of Netflix's Love on the Spectrum, and founder of DaniMation Entertainment, who has premiered 11 animated short films at Comic Con. ‣ Music performance by Jake Woodruff. This event is designed and intended for people 16 and over. Cocktail attire suggested.

Ben Harper is a 3-Time Grammy Winner. He will preform solo, up close and personal. We are honored to have him headline our Concert of Hope. Whitney Shay will open the concert. She has won 5 San Diego Music Awards including Artist of the Year. This will be an amazing evening of music and help homeless youth get off the streets in San Diego. Be an ANGEL for homeless youth and please join us. Doors of Change is a 501-C-3 Organization that has helped over 2600 homeless youth get off the streets and into safe housing since 2001. Many of these youth become self-sufficient as a result. Our Homeless Youth Advocacy program develops trust very quickly with youth. Once trust is established, homeless youth ask for help. We help the most vulnerable youth, the transitional age youth (TAY) ages 17 to 25. Most are homeless because they come from such dysfunctional families, it is safer to live on the streets or if they are LGBTQ+ and come out, their parents kick them out of their home. Since COVID-19, we have broken records for the past 3 years in placing youth in safe housing. In 2022 we shattered the record by 188 youth, placing 349 youth in safe housing in San Diego. 100% of your tickets sales will go to help homeless youth because our amazing corporate Angels have underwritten all the costs of the concert. Any donation or ticket sale with be Matched dollar per dollar and doubled by the J.D. Bud and Vonda Webb Foundation. You will hear from ex homeless youth Justine’s amazing “Rocky Story” of living on the streets from 12 to 15 years old and graduating from LAW SCHOOL in March 2023. For Sponsorships: Contact Jeffrey Sitcov at 760-505-7077. Connect with Ben Harper on Social Media! Facebook | Instagram | Twitter

From the gallery: Quint Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of paintings by San Diego-based artist Perry Vásquez from January 25-February 18, 2023. Some Palms centers the palm tree as a symbol for the idealism of California, simultaneously mythologizing and interrupting its appeal. Date palms, synonymous with the California landscape, were imported by Franciscan monks in the late 1600s as ornamental nods to the plant’s appearances in the bible, transforming Southern California from an arid desert into an oasis. These palms, with only one species native to California, provide neither shade nor fruit, and require vast resources of water from near and far watersheds in order to thrive. Vásquez has considered this ecological quandary to create paintings of palms engulfed in flames, an image which has become synonymous with accelerated rates of wildfires across the region. In other paintings, he further dissects the myth of the palm tree with paintings of Monopalms, the concealed utility structures that use synthetic materials to conform to the foliage that encapsulates the Southern California ideal. At times, Vásquez’s lone, burning palm confers quasi-religious comparisons to Roman-Catholic representations of purgatory and the anima sola (or lonely spirit). Prayed to in devotional art in Europe and Central America, the image of the anima sola depicts a woman breaking free from her chains in a fiery prison in between heaven and hell, marking her destiny to reach the afterlife. From this perspective, the artist explores the palm tree’s symbolic past and uncertain future as iconography of an increasingly unwelcome environment. Ultimately, Perry Vásquez reframes these icons as fixtures of cultural impermanence, moving between realist renderings to atmospheric gestural compositions emphasized by impasto flames against an otherwise flat surface. Perry Vásquez, originally from Los Angeles, has been working in the San Diego region since 1987 and earned his MFA in Visual Art from the University of California, San Diego. He is a recipient of the 2021 San Diego Art Prize. Vásquez has exhibited his artwork in group and solo exhibitions locally and internationally and is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego and Laguna Beach Art Museum, the City of San Diego and the County of San Diego. Vásquez is currently a Professor of Art at Southwestern College, CA. Related links: Quint Gallery on Instagram