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The Scripps Jazz at the Athenaeum Series open with an appearance by brilliant jazz clarinetist Anat Cohen with Brazilian seven-string-guitar master Marcello Gonçalves. Ever charismatic, prolific, and inspired, Grammy-nominated Anat Cohen has won hearts and minds the world over. Cohen and Gonçalves’s first duo album, Outra Coisa: The Music of Moacir Santos, was nominated for a Grammy as Best Latin Jazz Album in 2017. Last year they recorded their second collaboration, Reconvexo, turning to music from the Música Popular Brasileira (MPB) songbook by artists such as Caetano Veloso, Milton Nascimento, and Gilberto Gil. Date | Tuesday, March 29 at 7:30 p.m. Location | The Athenaeum Music & Arts Library Get tickets here! Members: $40 Non-members: $45 For more information, please visit ljathenaeum.org/events/jazz-22-0329 or call the venue at (858) 454-5872.

How does a scene survive when disaster strikes its venues, music schools, rare instruments and priceless archives all at once? The musicians of flood-ravaged eastern Kentucky have a few answers.

A San Diego Company that turns cooking oil into fuel is under fire because its plant emits a noxious smell.

What's it like to be a Black immigrant or refugee in America? We had a hundred or so conversations with people in Tennessee — one of the Blackest states in the country — to find out.

Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV / On demand with PBS Video App. The film chronicles Proposition 187, a California ballot measure passed in 1994 that sought to deny public services to undocumented immigrants. While the initiative was meant to keep the “immigrant threat” at bay, it mobilized non-immigrants and immigrants in Latino communities as well as their allies across the state.

Professors Setsu Shigematsu and Anne McKnight of UC Riverside lead a dialog with journalist, author, political analyst, TV news anchor, and media producer Mei Shigenobu, PhD, Visiting Scholar in the Department of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Riverside, about the politics of images, dis/appearance, transnational media politics, liberation movements, and the film The Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi and 27 Years without Images (Eric Baudelaire, 2011). Date: Monday, February 28,2022 at 11am Location: Virtual Zoom Link Cost: Free Watch the film as a guest of the UC San Diego Library, Feb. 24 - Mar. 2, through event registration. The dialog will be introduced and moderated by Daisuke Miyao (Director, Film Studies, UCSD), Judith Rodenbeck (Chair, Media and Cultural Studies, UC Riverside), and Lisa Cartwright (Director, Art Practice PhD, UCSD). For more information on this event please visit HERE! For Zoom link registrations visit HERE!

Vintage country singer, Cowboy Jack, will be performing at Mellano Farm Stand, Oceanside! Join us for this unique musical one-man show featuring his acoustic guitar and harmonica. Date | Sunday, July 18 from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. No admission charge!Do not miss this opportunity for family fun with lots of fresh produce, U-pick strawberries, flowers, wagon rides, live music and more in the beautiful country side of North San Diego County! For more information, please call (760) 517-8383.

This weekend in the arts: Cataphant at Swish Projects, Word Up in-person, cello virtuoso Zlatomir Fung livestream, folk performance from the Philippines, Trolley Dances and Omar Pimienta at Lux.

In her current series DOUBLE EXPOSURE, Cathy Cooper Scott explores the feeling of color and texture. These pieces are executed on glass with chunky strokes of oil and spray paint - with freedom to explore beyond the boundary of the frame. The DOUBLE EXPOSURE series broadly reflects aspects of a landscape aesthetic —real and imagined. Surrounded daily, living in Southern California, with stunningly vibrant, whimsical and breathtaking natural beauty, from the Pacific Ocean beaches to the high desert mountains, Cathy is inspired and motivated to capture her experience of nature. Likewise her subject and material choices reflect concern for climate change and sustainability. Date | January 8 through January 28. Opening reception takes place Saturday, January 8 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Artist reception takes place Saturday, January 22 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Location | The Escondido Arts Partnership Expressions Gallery For more information, please contact Kim Hutson de Belle/CB4 Creative Collective at 702-461-8062 or khdebelle@yahoo.com.

For years, chocolate-lovers have pointed to studies suggesting compounds in cocoa may be good for heart health. But some of the recent evidence comes from flavanol-rich cocoa, not from candy bars