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With the pandemic threatening to undercut graduation rates, Cal State is pushing to re-enroll lost students and reduce early Ds and Fs that can drive students to drop out.

The city of Milwaukee has an ambitious climate plan to cut its carbon emissions. Hundreds of U.S. cities have similar plans. Very few have met their goals.

Friday, June 16, 2023 at 8 p.m. on KPBS 2 / No longer available to stream on demand. Joe Papp, founder of The Public Theater, Free Shakespeare in the Park and producer of groundbreaking plays like "Hair," "A Chorus Line" and for colored girls, created a "theater of inclusion" based on the belief that great art is for everyone.

The graphic novel, "we used to move through the city like doves in the wind" is about a couple separated by the COVID border closure. The Tijuana-based artist will open a solo exhibition at The Hill Street Country Club in early 2022.

Legendary German baritone Matthias Goerne, one of the world’s most renowned Lieder singers, joined by internationally sought-after pianist Seong-jin Cho, perform a selection of songs by Wolf, Pfitner, and Strauss, and Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder. Wagner once proclaimed “I have not written anything better than these songs and very few of my works will be remembered besides them.” While history has proved him wrong, the Wesendonck Lieder stands out as an absorbing document of Wagner’s complex relationships, revealing the composer in his most fragile mode. Date | Thursday, April 7 at 8 p.m. Location | The Baker-Baum Concert Hall at The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center Get tickets here! Ticket prices ranging from $31 to $75. For more information, please visit ljms.org/events/goerne-and-jin-cho or call (858) 459-3728.

While Schulz stipulated that the strip would end with him, his iconic characters live on. His widow, Jeannie Schulz, says people still get comfort from the comic because "it talks about humanity."

"The Fabelmans" and "Bones and All" don't live up to expectations.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention held only two telebriefings in 2021. That lack of transparency has prompted criticism — and a pledge from director Dr. Rochelle Walensky to be more open.

San Diego New Music and the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library present the return of the soundON Festival (formerly known as the soundON Festival of Modern Music), featuring our ensemble-in-residence, NOISE, coming together once again after the long hiatus of the pandemic. The members of NOISE have curated a festival exploring the surreality of the gradual return to 'normalcy' and the irreversible perspective of a world transformed and that will never be 'normal' again. The eclectic and international collection of works embrace imperfection, liminality, chimeric adaptations, tension, and the cautious return to the illuminated beauty of the world welcoming us back. Dates: Jan 6-8 Times: 7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Location: Athenaeum Music and Arts Library Cost: Festival passes: $75 General Admission / $60 Athenaeum Members / $25 Students Single night tickets: $27 General Admission / $22 Athenaeum Members / $10 Students For more information on this event and ticket purchases please visit HERE.

North Coast Repertory Theatre presents Susan Claassen in the award-winning A CONVERSATION WITH EDITH HEAD, A behind the scenes feast of great movie lore and delicious stories as told by 8 time Academy Award winning costume designer, Edith Head. Susan Claassen stars in her internationally acclaimed portrayal of legendary costume designer, Edith Head. Hollywood’s golden age comes to life in an evening of wit, wisdom, and a whisper of gossip! A CONVERSATION WITH EDITH HEAD based on “Edith Head’s Hollywood” by Edith Head & Paddy Calistro, is a feast of delicious behind-the-scenes stories about Hollywood’s greatest stars that provide an intimate portrait of Hollywood’s legendary costume designer. In addition, Claassen and Calistro collected insights from Hollywood insiders who knew Ms. Head best: costume designer Bob Mackie, who once worked as Ms. Head's sketch artist; her dear friend Edie Wasserman, wife of the late Universal Studio head Lew Wasserman; and Art Linkletter, award-winning host of “House Party”, the daytime television show of the 1950s that brought Edith Head into the homes of America. Dates | Monday, March 21, 2022 and Tuesday, March 22, 2022 at 7:30pm Location | North Coast Repertory Theatre Purchase tickets here! $40/ticket Call the Box Office at 858-481-2155 or online at https://northcoastrep.org/variety_night/a-conversation-with-edith-head/