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U.S. hospitals have seen a record number of cyberattacks over the past few years. Getting hacked can cost a hospital millions of dollars and expose patient data, and even jeopardize patient care.

Author Talk with Rex Pickett UC San Diego alumnus and two-time Oscar-winning screenwriter and author Rex Pickett ’76 is featured in an Author Talk on November 9 at 5:30 p.m. in the Ida & Cecil Green Faculty Club at UC San Diego. The discussion will highlight Pickett’s most recent novel, “The Archivist,” a murder mystery that takes a deep dive into the archiving world set in a fictional Geisel Library. About The Author: Rex Pickett is the critically-acclaimed author of the novel Sideways, which was adapted into the award-winning feature film directed by Alexander Payne. Sideways won over 350 plaudits from various critics and film organizations, received five Academy Award nominations and won for Best Adapted Screenplay, received seven Golden Globe nominations and won two for Best Screenplay and Best Musical or Comedy. Rex is the author of two Sideways sequels and the screenwriter of "My Mother Dreams" the "Satan’s Disciples" in New York, which captured the 2000 Academy Award for Best Live Action Short. Additionally, Rex has written and staged the Sideways play four times, most notably with three-time Tony Award winner "Des McAnuff" (Jersey Boys) at the La Jolla Playhouse. His most recent novel "The Archivist" was published in the fall of 2021 by Blackstone Publishing. A southern California native, Rex has written/directed two indie feature films, and the Rex Pickett Papers are held by UC San Diego Library’s Special Collections & Archives. Follow on Twitter!

New works of visual art to see in the region this month, featuring Kaori Fukuyama at PHES Gallery; Aaron Glasson at ICA San Diego North; Christopher Lloyd Tucker at the Central Library Art Gallery; Carmen Argote at MCASD; and Katie Ruiz at the Women's Museum of California.

No experience necessary. Ages 10+ welcome and 8+ with an adult! Join us in crafting your very own handmade books! In this two-hour workshop, students will learn how to use bookbinding tools to create accordion and pamphlet stitch books. The accordion book is composed of one long sheet of paper folded several times into an accordion and then glued between two covers. The pamphlet stitch book gets its name from the method of sewing the book together. No sewing experience is required. • Scholarships available • Homeschoolers • Military and sibling discounts

For decades, Eastwind Books was an anchor for the Bay Area's Asian American community. Now, the husband and wife duo behind it have decided to close the shop.

The one-time, $4,000 allocations are intended to help low-income people who live the 39 county zip codes hit the hardest by COVID-19.

From the gallery: Join us Oct. 29 11 a.m. - 8 p.m. for a very special one-day only Book Release and Exhibition celebrating our good Friend and Artist Andrew Alcasid @andrewalcasid This Special Exhibition is the launch of the 2nd Publication of Bread & Salt Press-Andrew Alcasid: BMT (Bone Marrow Transplant) The Exhibition is meant to act as a fundraiser for Andrew and will exclusively show the 138 original framed watercolor paintings which make up the BMT publication with an essay in the book from Aubrey Mejia @fibonacciflorals This Book is limited to 138 copies and will only be sold with the purchase of one framed original Watercolor from the book.all the books are signed and numbered by the artist The book is printed on high quality paper in the US with a letter-pressed Linen cover We hope you join us in making this fundraiser a huge success Excerpt from the Essay in the book by Aubrey Mejia- The incessant mechanical whirring. The rhythmic clicking of machinery turned off and on. The cold and clinical air and the faint scent of disinfectant. A small, plastic cup of freshly cubed watermelons. In September and October of the year 2020, fires, carried by the Santa Ana winds, swept over and ravaged the California hillsides during record breaking heatwaves. Meanwhile, a global pandemic kept millions of citizens around the world locked in their homes. Alongside this, Andrew Alcasid sat in his own kind of isolation in the Bone Marrow Transplant unit at the Jacobs Medical Center at the University of California, San Diego. Related links: Bread and Salt on Instagram Andrew Alcasid on Instagram

AI may be the topic du jour, but for now only a human can read attentively and sensitively enough to genuinely recreate literature in a new language, as translators have done with these three works.

This weekend's British coronation will be about pomp, history and attempts to reflect diversity.

Financier Stephen Deckoff paid $60 million for Great St. James and Little St. James. He hopes to open a resort on the islands by sometime in 2025.