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This is the March 2022 archive of breaking news about the coronavirus pandemic.

Premieres Monday, Oct. 10, 2022 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV + Wednesday, Oct. 12 at 7 p.m. on KPBS 2 / PBS Video App. Travel to desert oasis Palm Springs and learn which finds are now heating up, like a Louis Comfort Tiffany necklace, a Louis Armstrong archive, ca. 1950, and a Joseph Stella oil & original frame. One has an appraisal update of $550,000!

Oil refineries release billions of pounds of pollution into waterways each year, according to regulatory data. NPR found that pollution is concentrated near places where people of color live.

A Tainted Love performance is like reliving the 80’s in a way you have never before. They deliver the complete experience: phenomenal songs, great moves, iconic video projections, and seven of the most charismatic and accomplished musicians you’ll ever see. The band will take you back in time while keeping the party going all night long. Join Tainted Love and Metal Street Boyz for their live performance at Belly Up Tavern on Saturday, March 12 at 8 p.m. Get tickets here! Advanced admission: $26 Day-of-show admission: $29 Reserved loft seating: $46 Ages 21+ only. For more information, please visit bellyup.com/email-builder/tainted-love or call (858) 481-8140.

One of the most inventive and interactive programs Spektral Quartet has created invites concertgoers to join the creative process by writing five postcards across the evening with stimulating visuals and provocative writing prompts from the quartet. For each piece, the listener is drawn closer to the composition, using the music as the leaping-off point for audience members to pen a short message to someone special in their own life. Writing on custom-made postcards featuring the alluring work of visual artists, concertgoers become creators right alongside the Quartet…and reconnect with loved ones in unexpected ways. Date | Thursday, May 26 at 8 p.m., prelude at 7 p.m. Location | The Baker-Baum Concert Hall at The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center Get tickets here! Tcket prices ranging from $36 to $70. This event if brought to you by La Jolla Music Society. For more information, please visit ljms.org/events/spektral-quartet or call (858) 459-3728.

Wednesdays, April 12 - 26 at 8 p.m. on KPBS 2 / Stream now with the PBS App. Inspired in part by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s “Americans and the Holocaust” exhibition and supported by its historical resources, The U.S. and the Holocaust examines the rise of Hitler and Nazism in Germany in the context of global antisemitism and racism, the eugenics movement in the United States and race laws in the American south.

The San Diego Chinese Historical Museum is a platform to celebrate multiculturalism, enrich the community, and showcase San Diego as an international and cultural tourist destination. The museum’s exhibits share the heritage of San Diego’s Chinese community and the essence of Chinese arts and culture through historic photographs, miniature models, ancient artifacts and explanatory text. Special events also celebrate holidays like the Chinese New Year, the Moon Festival, and Veterans Day. The SDCHM will be hosting a special lecture titled Red Bishop, in which Dr. Robin Yuan will explore the epic story of 20th Century China through the life of Bishop Robin Chen. Date | Saturday, February 26 from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Location | Online through Zoom Register here! This is a free event open to the public. Registration is required. For more information, please visit the event's site or call (619) 338-9888.

POSTPONED: 11-week Docent Training Program Begins Tuesday, Feb. 15 - April 26, 2022 The Maritime Museum of San Diego, with an international reputation for excellence in restoring, maintaining, and operating historic landmark vessels opens their next docent volunteer training program to newcomers! Docent volunteers will learn about worldwide maritime history with a special focus on the 16th through 21st centuries represented by the vessels and artifacts in the Maritime Museum of San Diego’s collection. Docents will engage with museum visitors, fielding their questions and sharing knowledge to enrich the guest experience. Training is carried out through a series of lectures, suggested readings and walking tours. Aspiring docents are invited to attend the once-a-year 2022 training series of lectures and ship tours. Training sessions are Tuesdays from 9 a.m. to noon. The training schedule is as follows: 9 a.m. – Informal coffee/social time 9:40 a.m. – Opening announcements and docent business 9:55 a.m. – Break for parking meter payments 10:05 a.m. – First presentation 11 a.m. – Break 11:05 a.m. – Second presentation Noon – Meeting ends Classes are immediately followed with a 45-minute walking tour of one of the ships, and cover a comprehensive variety of topics. For further information, please contact Margaret Clark at MWClark01@gmail.com or call (619) 234-9153 x 129.

The two-time Olympian artistic swimmer from N.Y. will compete for the first time this week since passing out at the Budapest 2022 FINA World Championships last June.

"Water on Metal" is an exhibition of 26 watercolors by Vista artist Krista Timberlake: a collection of watercolor paintings melding animals and figures with machinery and mechanical parts. These works explore the juxtaposition of the unexpected: a mechanized world where cold metal becomes organic & fluid & takes unexpected forms by creating weird & wonderful machines rendered in untamed colors and watercolors. At City Hall, 505 S. Vulcan Avenue, Encinitas Calif. Show runs January 6 through February 27 and can be viewed during City Hall hours. Reception Saturday, January 29 from 6-9 p.m., as part of Art Night in Encinitas.