Search results for

One DEADLY weekend only: Enjoy "Clue!" A hilarious murder mystery farce based on the screenplay by Jonathan Lynn Performed by the talented students at Coronado School of the Arts (CoSA)... see them before they become famous! Don't miss this KILLER show! Tickets available at the door or online at cosasandiego.com Written by Sandy Rustin | Additional Material by Hunter Foster and Eric Price | Based on the Paramount Pictures Motion Picture | Based on the Hasbro Board Game CLUE| Original Music by Michael Holland

3-day event - featuring a vibrant array of folk and traditional performances, arts and cultural exhibitions, lion dances, firecrackers ... Featuring: - Eating & Drinking Contests: Pho eating contest, bubble milk tea drinking contest, dumpling wrapping contest, and featuring Bún Bò Huế eating contest-- one of Vietnam’s most flavorful and spicy noodle soups. - Lion Dance Extravaganza: featuring lion and dragon dance performances multiple times each day - Diverse Culinary Experiences: featuring many food vendors with a variety of flavors from Korea, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, China, Taiwan, and the Philippines. - Family-Friendly Fun: family fun activities for all ages, including free lucky red envelopes, wish-making trees, new year oracle reading, arts, crafts, and carnival games. - Immersive Cultural Village: featuring re-enactment of the Asian village lifestyle with highlander's house, a floating village, cultural market, bamboo huts, etc. - Children's Art Murals: In collaboration with Hoover High School Art students, children will have the opportunity to contribute to the creation of three vibrant murals. This community art project will celebrate creativity and cultural expression, allowing young artists to leave their mark on the festival. The Lunar New Year is an important Asian holiday that has been celebrated for thousands of years throughout the world, especially in Asia. 2026 marks the 16th annual San Diego Lunar New Year Festival. This three-day event will feature a vibrant array of folk and traditional performances, arts and cultural exhibitions, lion dances, firecrackers, and numerous family-friendly activities. A highlight of the festival will be the Cultural Village, which aims to recreate the traditional villager lifestyle of Southeastern Asia. Most importantly, this inclusive and festive event is open to the public and free of charge. Visit: https://www.sdlunarnewyearfestival.com/

iris yirei hu will share the work she's created as the 2025 Longenecker-Roth Artist in Residence at the Department of Visual Arts, UC San Diego. iris is a multidisciplinary journey-based artist from Los Angeles who works across paintings, installations, intercultural collaborations, writing, and public art. She roots her art practice in processes of material and spiritual transformation, as evidenced in labor intensive pieces and installations that explore the subterranean realms of grief and loss, cycles of life and death, the earthly and the otherworldly, and the infinitely evolving self. Central to her practice is working across territories and peoples, through which she investigates how geography, kinship, and the sacred are reflected in cultural technologies and ecological practices. A lifelong learner, she has undertaken rigorous study of ceramics, weaving, and papermaking by being in community with culture bearers and experts, and proposes that the preservation of craft is integral to bridging cultural, geographic, and generational divides. In 2022, LA Metro commissioned iris to design a large-scale mosaic artwork for the future UCLA/Westwood Purple Line Metro Station slated to open for the 2028 Summer Olympics. She has exhibited at the Armory Center for the Arts (Pasadena, CA); Center for Arts, Research, and Alliances (New York, NY); Museum of Contemporary Art (Tucson, AZ); Plug In Institute for Contemporary Art (Winnipeg, MB, Canada); John Michael Kohler Arts Center (Sheboygan, WI); Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery; among many other venues. Notable awards and residencies include: John Michael Kohler Arts Center Arts/Industry Artist-in-Residence in Pottery (2025), Meztli Projects Cultural Worker Fellowship (2024), California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Artists (2022), Headlands Center for the Arts Artist-in-Residence (2022), California Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship (2021), and Foundation for Contemporary Arts (2020 & 2018). iris yirei hu on Instagram

Harpo Marx — the "silent" Marx brother — can finally be heard speaking in a live album of recently recovered material, which was recorded just six months before he died in 1964.

On the second Sunday of every month, the Museum offers free admission to all visitors. No reservations are required for Second Sunday admission. From 11 a.m. – 5 p.m., explore "A Decade of Pop Prints and Multiples, 1962–1972: The Frank Mitzel Collection" and what's on view in The Collection Galleries and The Sculpture Garden. The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego on Facebook / Instagram

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s CARE Court struggles to serve Californians in acute mental health crises. Two bills are moving forward to change that.

Meanwhile, at Little Fish Comic Book Studio… As always, you can look forward to the promise of comics, good conversation, and of course donuts! Our large library of comic books and graphic novels has just about a little of everything for everyone, so please feel free to peruse our stacks. We also have a large amount of free comic books and graphic novels for attendees to go through and take home. And did we mention that this event is FREE! Feel free to bring friends, family, and of course delicious snacks if you’re so inclined. Pooches are welcome too! We have plenty of parking in the parking lot behind the studio. WHO: You! WHAT: Little Fish Comic Savvy! WHEN: Friday, January 23, 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. WHERE: Little Fish Comic Book Studio, 6822B El Cajon BLVD., San Diego, CA 92115 Little Fish Comic Book Studio on Facebook / Instagram

Humans live in a world of ideas—born in the brain, shared through language, accumulated in culture across generations, and made reality. From the first flaked stone tools to the building of shelters, from figurative and symbolic art to abstract thought, our brains are engines of imagination—an “idea organ” that has transformed both our species and the planet itself. The distinct biology of the human brain, scaffolded by language and culture, allows ideas to be formed, named, shared, and accumulated across generations. This process of cumulative culture, knowledge built upon knowledge, has propelled humans far beyond the cognitive landscapes of other large-brained animals, including our closest living and extinct relatives. This symposium will explore how the human brain develops, functions, and maintains its role as the seat of ideas. We will trace its story from molecules, cells, neuronal migration and circuitry, to the maternal, parental, and social influences that shape its growth, including the countless ways that brain function can be compromised at any stage of life. We will examine how the uniquely human interplay of biology and culture gave rise to a brain capable of perceiving and remaking the world around us. By examining the evolutionary roots of our “idea organ,” we aim to illuminate how this singular capacity emerged—and how it continues to drive human innovation. Visit: https://carta.anthropogeny.org/ Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny on Instagram and Facebook

A record 94,000 people participated in 21 separate "No Kings" protests in San Diego County on Saturday, organizers said on Monday.

A gothic horror tale, a creepy science-fiction romp, a sweeping romance, an intergenerational saga, a book about birds — here are the fiction and nonfiction our critics are most looking forward to.