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The city of Oceanside awaits the opening of what it calls “a world-class aquatic center.” But, it could come at the cost of an older public pool in one of Oceanside’s poorer neighborhoods.

Friday, June 24, 2022 at 8 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. on KPBS 2 / On demand now with PBS Video App. In this edition, we'll hit high notes with a San Diego Opera singer. A convergence of sculpture and Motown in a new art space. Visit a special place where creativity is front and center. And an exploration of masculinity and vulnerability through an artist's drawings.

Recent work by: Dakota Noot Tatiana Ortiz-Rubio Catherine Ruane Vicki Walsh On view Feb. 1 through Mar. 1, 2022 Receptions: Saturday, Feb. 5 from 5-7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 27, 5-7 p.m. From the gallery: The City College Gallery presents an exhibition of drawing works by four southern California based artists, Dakota Noot, Tatiana Ortiz-Rubio, Catherine Ruane and Vicki Walsh. This show combines intimate large format works, installation, mural and sculpture all rooted in the act of drawing. The artists have exhibited work in galleries and museums nationally and internationally. Details of their experience and accomplishments can be found on their websites listed below. About the artists: Dakota Noot Food is a strange, surreal, and colorful world. I explore the complexities of our diet and animal-human relationships through installations (made with drawings mounted on free-standing foam core) or wearable art taped to my body. By drawing with crayon and color pencil, I can become animals and talk about difficult topics like sustainability and food sources. I specifically use a coloring book aesthetic merged with theatre-like cutouts. I want to be seen as a cartoon character: playfully violent, entertaining, and educational. My work is often located in my apartment, making use of non-traditional spaces and backdrops. In addition, I have used cutout installations and wearable art to transform both gallery and public spaces. As a cartoon-like character, my art can be seen in different locations. Tune into my art, laugh at, and eat it. Tatiana Ortiz-Rubio I examine the experience of time as both linear and circular, as finite and infinite, of the impossibility of it being defined yet always striving to capture it. I am deeply interested in the instant: the small window of time we call the present; the space between transitions; the nebulous moment that barely exists because it goes as soon as it arrives. In my work I search for the invisible membranes that divide One from Other, past from future, life from death. Catherine Ruane Making art is a process akin to studying and note taking. Drawing for me embodies a rhythm much like a repetitive prayer in worship. My studio process is a search into the mysterious border where the physical meets the mystical. I methodically build images as a visual expression of the contrasts between the appearance of natural, wild forms and what they have come to symbolize. Vicki Walsh My paintings are mostly large works created with multiple thin layers of transparent oil paint. This process imitates the quality of human skin and gives a luminous presence. I name each series to hint at the unnoticed; Skin deep, Beyond Appearances, Touching the Surface, Mostly Mortal, Amazing Face. People’s faces are my subject, but I don’t see them as portraits. Portraiture in painting takes on a connotation of external beauty and an enhanced likeness or status of the subject. I am not interested in these things. What I am interested in is conveying something genuine, something not so tangible on the surface, the psychology, the essence of being human, that quality that makes an individual sympathetic or vulnerable, even at the risk of being rebuffed. It seems we have little room for truth in our appearance. I’m confronting that. I’m hoping to find a connection with people who think similarly, those that find superficial things to be just that; a shell, a veneer. Related links: City Gallery on Facebook City Gallery on Instagram City Gallery website

A year into the rollout of CalAIM, payment details are murky and obstacles remain in finding help for Medi-Cal recipients with mental health needs.

In Chita: A Memoir, Rivera recounts her career originating roles in major Broadway shows. Now 90, Rivera remembers West Side Story from the beginning: "I was there at the first flicker of the skirt!"

Heavily criticized 40 years ago for her Vietnam Veterans' Memorial design, the artist-architect-activist prefers to talk about her artistic process rather than her life

By ingeniously weaving improbable and conflicting forces that make up his personal history, Eurovision expert William Lee Adams affirms an idea of home that yearns to transcend space and time.

While Russian artists and institutions grapple with how they are viewed internationally, American cultural organizations make what amounts to foreign policy decisions.

As U.S. life expectancy falls, experts say incarceration has serious health impacts. The U.S. has one of the highest rates of people in prison or jail in the developed world.

On Thursday, August 11th at 7:00pm Coronado Public Library, in partnership with Warwick's, will host Marianne Wiggins as she discusses and signs her new book, Properties of Thirst. Marianne Wiggins is the author of eight novels including John Dollar and Evidence of Things Unseen, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award. She has won a Whiting Award, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, the Heidinger Kafka Prize, and was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction. She lives in Venice, California. This program is free and seating is general-admission; however, if you would like to pre-order a book and get priority seating, please call Warwicks at 858-454-0347 or visit their website. About the book, Properties of Thirst: "This magnificent novel opens every little nerve of language and sends jolts of electricity along the spine. It's a love story, and a family tale, and a song of history. It's about shame and loss and recovery and beauty. It's a novel to cherish, composed with great humanity and humour."–Colum McCann “This is a novel I wish I could have written. Keen, unsparing, and compassionate, Properties of Thirst reveals a world and a history I thought I knew, in language so beautiful, it took my breath away. Vividly alive, these characters mirror our present moment, our complex ties to this land and to each other, our most profound alienations and our fiercest loves."–Ruth Ozeki Rockwell “Rocky” Rhodes has spent years fiercely protecting his California ranch from the LA Water Corporation. It is here where he and his beloved wife Lou raised their twins, Sunny and Stryker, and it is here where Rocky has mourned Lou in the years since her death. As Sunny and Stryker reach the cusp of adulthood, the country teeters on the brink of war. Stryker decides to join the fight, deploying to Pearl Harbor not long before the bombs strike. Soon, Rocky and his family find themselves facing yet another incomprehensible tragedy. Rocky is determined to protect his remaining family and the land where they’ve loved and lost so much. But when the government decides to build a Japanese-American internment camp next to the ranch, Rocky realizes that the land faces even bigger threats than the LA watermen he’s battled for years. Complicating matters is the fact that the idealistic Department of the Interior man assigned to build the camp, who only begins to understand the horror of his task after it may be too late, becomes infatuated with Sunny and entangled with the Rhodes family. Properties of Thirst is a novel that is both universal and intimate. It is the story of a changing American landscape and an examination of one of the darkest periods in this country’s past, told through the stories of the individual loves and losses that weave together to form the fabric of our shared history. Ultimately, it is an unflinching distillation of our nation’s essence—and a celebration of the bonds of love and family that persist against all odds.