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Now that official COVID emergency declarations have ended, how should people evaluate their risk of SARS-CoV-2? That's the subject of our frequently asked questions offering.

Poet and critic Harmony Holiday spent her year interviewing descendants and torchbearers, finding that the soul of jazz needs preserving offstage and outside of the booth.

The U.S. Supreme Court officially reversed Roe v. Wade, declaring that the constitutional right to abortion upheld for nearly a half century, no longer exists.

Gold leafing is fast, fun and an easy way to bring life to and shimmer to your art. And this is the perfect workshop to make a gift for moms or to take with your mom! In this workshop, artist Shirin Nikoukari shares different ways to apply gold leaf and shows you how to apply it quickly and properly to your artwork. Students will learn about materials, difference between imitation and real gold leaf, material compatibility, and the most effective way to apply gold and other metal leaf so that it will last for years to come. This workshop includes gold leafing materials and wood panels and students will go home with their own gilded creations. Feel free to bring your own brushes and paint colors or an existing painting that you want to gold leaf. Date | Saturday, May 7 from 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Location| Art on 30th Get tickets here! Admission is $95 per person. Cost includes all supplies. All skill levels welcome. Students are encouraged to bring snacks or a bagged lunch For more information, please visit eventbrite.com/e/gold-leaf-birds-botanicals-a-mothers-day-workshop or call the venue at (619) 894-9009.

From Montego Bay to Miami, sargassum is leaving stinky brown carpets over what was once prime tourist sand. But whether it gets ignored or removed, it comes with high health and environmental risks.

Artist Griselda Rosas, Wolf Parade, the Plays By Young Writers Festival and San Diego Museum Month

Bring the whole family and celebrate the season with mural-painting in Balboa Park! This activity is once again taking place outside in our museum's front plaza. The Timken Museum of Art will provide two large canvases and a variety of paint supplies for all park visitors to come and paint together on a large collaborative mural. The museum provides all the supplies. Our museum's mission is to celebrate the important role of art as a way of enriching lives and nurturing the creative spirit in us all. Date | Saturday 19 and Sunday 20 of February from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Location | Timken's Front Plaza It's a free event, open to all, with no experience required! For more information, please visit timkenmuseum.org/creation-station-mural-painting-activity or call (619) 232-7931.

"The Great Leap" runs through Feb. 16 at Cygnet Theatre in Old Town. The playwright, Lauren Yee, is a UC San Diego graduate and one of the two most-produced playwrights in the country right now.

Diablo IV teems with demonic life and nearly endless possibilities. Is it enough to redeem Activision Blizzard in the eyes of their fans?

From '5 plays to see in San Diego in February' (KPBS feature) New Village Arts (NVA) will open Roy Sekigahama's new play, "Desert Rock Garden" on Feb. 19, which will mark the 80th anniversary of executive order 9066 — the 1942 directive to create what we now know as the Japanese incarceration camps. Sekigahama's play was written for NVA's 2019 Final Draft New Play Festival, and this will be its world premiere. It's set in 1943 and follows an orphan and an older Japanese immigrant who met in the Topaz War Relocation Center in central Utah. Topaz held more than 11,000 people, and the dry, high desert conditions were harsh. Fuzzy (played by Lane Nishikawa) and Penny (played by Chloris Li) build a friendship in the inhospitable-in-many-ways setting. NVA executive artistic director Kristianne Kurner said in an announcement that this play also marked the company's first National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) grant. The production is directed by Yari Cervas. —Julia Dixon Evans, KPBS From NVA: Note: This production has been postponed until Feb. 19, 2022. (Low-cost previews run Feb. 11-18). New Village Arts, North County's cultural hub, is hosting the world premiere of "Desert Rock Garden", a memory play about belonging, family, and creating something beautiful out of nothing. About the play: This fictionalized historical story about a young orphan and a Japanese immigrant who forge a friendship in the Topaz Relocation Center in 1943 reveals the inherent human ability to transform nothing — loneliness and barren desert — into something long-lasting and precious. February 19, 2022, marks the 80th Anniversary of Executive Order 9066 resulting in the forced removal of 120,000 men, women and children of Japanese ancestry to incarceration camps across America. You can enjoy the play from Feb. 19 through Mar. 13, 2022 at the New Village Arts Theatre. See full schedule. Get tickets here. Admission starting from $16 - $52. For more information, please visit newvillagearts.org/season-pass/desert_rock_garden or call (760) 433-3245.