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The department announced it had reached a tentative settlement of $144.5 million, ending a legal back-and-forth that has lasted years.

From the organizers: As seen on PBS, join vocalist, Lauren Jelencovich, for an evening of your favorite music with stories and songs from broadway, opera, the golden age to the crossover hits we all love! Lauren has garnered great acclaim for her affecting portrayals of opera and musical theater roles throughout the world. Her sparkling soprano voice imparts her love and passion for all genres of music to thrill audiences of all ages. She is currently on tour with Yanni as his featured vocalist, performing to sold out venues all over the world such as Radio City Music Hall, Red Rocks Amphitheater and Royal Albert Hall. She can be seen on his PBS Specials/DVDs and CDs. Lauren is a Grand Prize winner of Ed McMahon’s Star Search and Andrea Bocelli’s World Scholarship. Whether it is a symphony concert or intimate theatre - one thing always rings true - the audiences keep coming back for more. “We are excited to launch our 2022-2023 season with Lauren Jelencovich,” said Alex Benestelli, Artistic Director of the St. James Music Series. “This is sure to be a fun evening of familiar songs from arias to Broadway, and nobody does it better than Lauren.” TICKETS Reserved Seating: $13-$43 Tickets can be purchased here! About the St. James Music Series The St. James Music Series is known for great performances of choral music in San Diego. The vibrant acoustic of St. James by-the-Sea Episcopal Church in La Jolla provides an ideal venue to soak up the rich texture of the human voice. Each year the St. James Music Series aims to provide a unique opportunity for audiences to enjoy diverse and impactful programs of the highest musical quality. Over the past thirty-six years, the series has featured the Vienna Boys Choir, The Australian Chamber Orchestra, Anonymous 4, The Tallis Scholars, The Choir of Westminster Abbey, The Hereford Cathedral Choir, the Venice Baroque Orchestra, VOCES8 and a mainstay of the series, the Grammy Award-winning Chanticleer. Follow the artist on social media: Facebook & Instagram

The ghost guns were part of nearly 1,500 guns seized statewide last year through a unique California program called the Armed and Prohibited Persons System.

On the duo's latest album, its first full-length released on a major country label, Tanya and Michael Trotter Jr. sing piano-driven originals with a grown-up sense of devotion.

Praise be! Writers. This “call to workshop” is our literary version of Sunday Mass in which we’ll share communion with the page. Offered the fourth Sunday of each month, members of the congregation will respond to prompts that invite us to pen our petty penchants, fractious fragments, fabricated fictions, flights of fantasy, baffling or beautiful blasphemies—whatever might come and however it might arrive on the page. Under the gentle guidance of each month’s visiting liturgical leader, we’ll be encouraged to express in writing our poetic avowals, lyrical incantations, laudatory epithets, creative connections, celebratory declarations, grammatical gratitude, and prayers to the page. Saints, sinners, non-believers, and writers of all denominations are invited to participate. May’s liturgical leader is the wonderful Bernie Nofel! Date | Sunday, May 22 from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Location | Online via Zoom Register here! Members: $10 Nonmembers: $15 For more information, please visit sandiegowriters.org/online-prompt-church-a-generative-writing-worship-service-with-bernie-nofel or call (619) 696-0363.

It's the final day to vote in Wisconsin's Supreme Court race that's broken national spending records. The winner could be the swing vote on issues like abortion, redistricting and election lawsuits.

Travel the Globe and Back Through an Artist’s Sketchbooks and Paintings Gallery Open & Events: Where: St James Gallery By-The-Sea: 743 Prospect Ave, La Jolla, CA. When: November 6-27, Saturday 11 a.m.-4 p.m. & Sunday 12-4 p.m. December 10-18, Saturday 11 a.m.-4 p.m. & Sunday 12-4 p.m. Reception 1: November 12, Saturday 5-7 p.m. & Reception 2: December 10, Saturday 6-8 p.m. Special Event Following: The Festival of Lessons & Carols, December 18, Saturday 6-8 p.m. The prolific artworks of Cherry Sweig will be blended into a solo exhibition at ‘Gallery By-The-Sea’. Guided by seven renowned collections and descriptive commentaries, participants will travel around the world and back. Sweig’s first international trip was an Art History Tour with The Bishop’s School in 1984. Since then, she broadened her techniques to draw the viewer in for their own imaginary and sensory experience. Sweig will present four themed demonstrations during assigned gallery hours: ‘En plein air’ inside and out at St James Church, Greek Skyrian equine watercolors, travel sketchbooks and an in-progress oil painting of Meteora, Greece. (See websites for demo schedules.) 1) Around the World in 80 Paintings: 2012. Eighty watercolors and oils represented the journeys encompassing the world by Sweig including California, Hawaii, South America, Europe and Egypt. 2) Gyotaku: 1988-2010. Over these years, Sweig focused on the legendary Japanese art (gyo = fish, taku = hand imprint). Ink is applied to the subject, rice paper laid and pressed by hand. A mirrored image reveals art from sea horses, Garibaldi, octopuses, flying fish to a Great White Shark. 3) Touch the Ancient Skyrian Horse: from 2006- Life-sized works revere these small horses with a monumental past. As the Parthenon’s frieze portrays Alexander the Great using them in battle, she fused stone pigments and oils on canvases. Viewers are welcomed to feel the texture! Her current project, a watercolor book, is dedicated to The Sylva Project, an equine breeding program in Corfu, Greece. 4) In Bloom: 2011- 21. Inspired by ‘plein air’ venues, garden gems come to life from Monet’s wisteria French lavender, California poppies, tropical birds of paradise to the hollyhocks of Santa Fe, New Mexico. 5) Finding Venetian Angels: 2020. Twenty oil paintings depict angels in human form, Byzantine mosaics and spirited imagery collected by Sweig during a 25 day quest in Venice, Italy. 6) In the Air: from 2018. Look up! This uplifting collection includes hummingbirds, the Eiffel Tower, Statue of Liberty, a village in the clouds of Provence and central Greece’s Meteora, six Eastern Orthodox Monasteries built on immense natural pillars called Meteoras. (suspended in air). 7) La Jolla Treasures, 2014- present: Featuring Sweig’s hometown, return to admired scenes captured in oil paintings from the La Jolla Cove, The Shores, Windansea Shack, Goldfish Point, Shell Beach, The Bishop’s School and St James by-the-Sea Episcopal Church.

It’s a FREE Sunday fun-day for the entire family at the Fall Back Festival! This FREE children’s historical street faire is in the heart of downtown San Diego’s Gaslamp Quarter, with the lively festivities taking place on Sunday, Nov. 6, 2022, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. in front of the Davis-Horton House on 4th and Island Avenue. Rally the gang and combine a day of play and educational fun, as history comes alive, while children can learn about San Diego’s rich cultural history by participating in an assortment of activities and demonstrations. Kids of all ages will enjoy this afternoon of Fall Back fun where they can observe a blacksmith displaying his trade, get down and dirty with a pie eating contest, experience a Kumeyaay Drum Circle, and more! Activities and Demonstrations for this year’s fest include: Blacksmith Demonstration Butter Churning / Candle Making Demonstration Caricaturist / Face Painter / Balloon Maker Kumeyaay Drum Circle Penny Candy Booth Fun Competitions for Prizes & Giveaways Root Beer Float Bar Stagecoach Photo-Op Tribal Weaponry Display The whole family will be immersed in the magical old-fashioned atmosphere that the Fall Back Festival will bring to life. With numerous historical demonstrators and interactive activities, this is the perfect place to spend a Sunday afternoon with family and friends. Fall Back is produced by the Gaslamp Quarter Historical Foundation and helps to advance their mission of preserving the history and culture of the Gaslamp Quarter and providing a living history of San Diego. For more information, please contact 619.233.5008 or visit www.gaslampquarter.org.

The chill in the air can only mean one thing, it's time for some Halloween trunks and treats! Join us for our annual Trunk or Treat free community event on Friday, October 28 from 5-7 p.m. in the parking lot at Point Loma Community Presbyterian Church. All are invited for free fun! Point Loma Community Presbyterian Church on Facebook / Instagram

Pope Francis opened the celebration Mass in St. Peter's Square on Palm Sunday, presiding at his first ceremony after his hospital stay for bronchitis.