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A video still from Patrick Li's digital dance performance, "Closure," featured in UC San Diego's undergraduate dance performances, streaming June 4-6, 2020.

A Beloved Dance Professor Retires And Her Students Turn To Film

Patricia Rincon's retirement from UC San Diego amidst a pandemic means her students' final performances will be far from ordinary

Jordan Betscher and Courtney Crain dancing to Irving Berlin's "Isn't This a Lovely Day (To Be Caught in the Rain)?"

Isn't This A Lovely Day For A 'Top Hat' Tribute?

Irving Berlin's classic musical turns 85 this year, and a group of artists are paying tribute with a brand-new video version of one of its songs, "Isn't This A Lovely Day (To Be Caught In The Rain)?"

Charley Pride performs during his induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame at the Country Music Association Awards show at the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville, Tenn. Oct. 4, 2000.

Charley Pride, A Country Music Black Superstar, Dies At 86

Charley Pride, the son of sharecroppers in Mississippi who became one of country music’s biggest stars and the first Black member of the Country Music Hall of Fame, has died from COVID-19 complications.

A sign posted outside the National Zoo earlier this month declares its closure, along with the closure of all Smithsonian museums. They were all on the wish list for Jill Rorem, whose family plans were undone by the shutdown. But she's not alone: The shutdown's ramifications on the arts have been felt far beyond the Beltway.

As Shutdown Crawls On, Artists And Nonprofits Fear For Their 'Fragile Industry'

The partial government shutdown hasn't just shuttered museums in Washington, D.C. Across the U.S., and even beyond its borders, artists and the groups supporting them are grappling with the fallout.

In the early 2000s, DJ Drama's mixtapes launched artists' careers and defined a new sound. But when mixtapes became a scapegoat for the music industry's collapse, Drama took the fall.

The Raid That Changed Rap

When federal agents raided DJ Drama's studio in 2007 over his Gangsta Grillz empire, he became a martyr for mixtape culture. In many ways, it never recovered.

Irene Predazzi is shown riding a horse in Rome in this photo taken in 2000.

My First Day Podcast: Finding Balance Between Work And Riding

In a new episode of KPBS Explore podcast "My First Day," Irene Predazzi arrives in San Diego seeking balance between her scientific career and her love of horseback riding.

A sign (left) outside a Mongolian-language school in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, reads: "When the people have conviction, the state has strength and the ethnic minorities have hope." The sign at right says: "Rule of law."

Parents Keep Children Home As China Limits Mongolian Language In The Classroom

As it has long done with the Tibetan and Uighur languages, Beijing is reducing instruction in Mongolian in favor of Mandarin Chinese in ethnic Mongolian areas of the country.

"Picture of His Life" opened the San Diego International Jewish Film Festival on Feb. 13. The film screens again on Feb. 18 at La Paloma Theatre.

San Diego International Jewish Film Festival Celebrates Its 30th Year

Five Venues, 13 countries and 35 films

Demonstrators protest the move to have district elections in the city of Oceanside, May 4, 2017.

Oceanside Begins Move From Citywide To District Elections

The Oceanside City Council voted Wednesday to move from citywide to district elections.

'Crying Laughing' Will Have You Doing Both

Lance Rubin's new novel follows an aspiring young comedian as she navigates the rough waters of romance, improv and her father's failing health, with plenty of laughs to light the darker moments.

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