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When migrants from Latin America were flown from Texas and dropped off in Sacramento with nowhere to go, a group of congregations came together to care for them.

Renowned as an extraordinary lyric poet in her own lifetime, Sappho of Lesbos has been a literary celebrity for more than 2,500 years. Her poetry – so far as it survives – seems charged with personal feelings and powerful self-expression. So, what did she look like? Or rather: What have her readers, over the centuries, wanted her to look like? Presenting fresh visual evidence, and reassessing some old iconic favorites, Nigel Spivey (senior lecturer in classics at Emmanuel College, Cambridge) considers the “portrait” of Sappho in its various symbolic forms: as an image of the female poet, an image of passion both tragic and fulfilled and, eventually, an image of female-to-female desire. For info on parking, visit www.sandiego.edu/parking/parking-information/guests.php

Grant was married to Joan Washington, an acclaimed dialect coach, for 35 years. He writes about their relationship and her death from cancer in the new memoir A Pocketful of Happiness.

Light-mapping technology is expediting the pace of archaeological discovery in the dense jungles of central Mexico. The latest find could offer clues about how humans advanced agriculturally.

When Tom Cruise battles a sentient artificial intelligence "Entity" in the latest Mission Impossible film, he joins a long list of heroes who've had to fight a malevolent machine onscreen.

On Sunday, February 19, First Lutheran Church of San Diego’s Music & Arts @Third&Ash will present BLACK VOICES/BLACK WRITERS, a staged reading of the work of classic and contemporary black writers including Toni Morrison, James Baldwin, Bil Wright, Audre Lorde, and more. The cast: Rhys Greene ("Emmett Till," ION Theatre, "Father Comes Home from the War," Intrepid Theatre, "Sizwe Banzi is Dead," San Diego Black Ensemble Theatre), Portia Gregory ("The Trip to Bountiful," ACT Award Winner Best Actress, "The Music Sounds Different to Me Now," La Jolla Playhouse Without Walls Festival ) author, playwright Bil Wright (American Library Association Stonewall Award, LAMBDA Literary Award), and Karole Foreman (Lady Day, 2019 Ovation Award, "Blues in the Night" (Northcoast Rep.), "A Little Night Music," San Diego Theatre Critics Nomination). Curtain at 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. (doors open at 3:30 & 6:30.) First Lutheran Church of San Diego, 1420 Third Ave. $20 donations suggested. First Lutheran Church San Diego on Facebook

Sofreh is a new cookbook from celebrated chef and author Nasim Alikhani. "If we as immigrants become stuck in the past, we deprive ourselves of the opportunities our new space has provided," she says.

A Columbia University professor says spiritual beliefs can decrease our rates of anxiety and depression. I needed to understand how she came to these conclusions.

A winner of the National Book Award for Young People's Literature is out with a debut novel for adults. Elizabeth Acevedo's Family Lore is about sisterhood and memory in a Dominican-American family.

Economic data show higher prices and constant warnings of a downturn haven't slowed down American shoppers. The Fed is anxious. Companies are thrilled.