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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.

“Hollywoodland” pays homage to the undeniable influence of Hollywood on culture and music. This program traces the influence of the “Hollywood” sound on Rachmaninoff’s iconic Symphonic Dances, the jazz obsession of Russian composer Nikolai Kapustin, the romantic minimalism of Polina Nazaykinskaya’s cinematic “Nostalgia,” and the Oscar-nominated score by Hans Zimmer, The Interstellar. These diverse composers have in common the influence of the uniquely American art forms of jazz and minimalism, while their musical narratives are guided by principles of motion picture storytelling. The show will be narrated by Jacopo and Konstantin with a moderated Q&A at the end.Date | Friday, October 14 at 8 p.m. Location | The Baker-Baum Concert Hall at The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts CenterGet tickets here!Ticket prices ranging from $25.50 to $58.For more information, please visit ljms.org/events/hollywoodland or call(858) 459-3728.

Votar como estadounidense viviendo en el extranjero es más fácil de lo que piensa, incluso para miembros militares estacionados en el extranjero.

It was a pretty wild year for music. Here are some KPBS staff picks for the best albums of 2022.

Saturday, May 3, 2025 at 3 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with the PBS app. For the first time ever in the recent prestigious Houston Rodeo BBQ competition, a Mexican placed third. Luis Rivas brings all that flavor home with his BBQ restaurant Riv’s. Pati visits the restaurant to taste the difference between carne asada and ‘Texas style’ BBQ.

Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025 at 3 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with the PBS app. Two sisters have taken a shack that serves one dish, traditional cortadillo stew, and made it into a must-visit restaurant. And about 10 minutes down the road in the town of Allende is another restaurant that uses traditional stews in their famous empalmes, or stacked tacos.

It was a heart-pounding, dance-inducing, head-spinning year in Latin music, from Bad Bunny's exponential rise to a relentless commitment from up and coming artists to play between genre lines.

Cinema Junkie chronicles a century of Black cinema, from silent films to superheroes and beyond.

To celebrate this year's Public Radio Music Day, we asked KPBS staff what they're listening to right now, and why they love it.

Salons were the cultural and intellectual hub of Paris; open forums for the city’s most creative minds to engage in thought-provoking and often subversive conversations. These events, along with the famed Masquerade balls, were rife with stirring and seductive new ideas, art, literature, and music. The pieces on A Weekend in Paris: The Salon and The Masquerade emerged from these glamorous salons and range from the charming piano duo by Debussy and Sarasate’s devilishly virtuosic Carmen Fantasy to Ravel and Caplet’s decadent and macabre evocations of Edgar Allan Poe’s story "The Masque of the Red Death."This event is part of La Jolla Music Society's SummerFest 2022, and features a prelude lecture by Jennifer Walker at 6:30 p.m. at the The JAI.Date | Friday, August 5 at 7:30 p.m.Location | The Baker-Baum Concert Hall at The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts CenterGet tickets here! Ticket prices ranging from $48 to $98.For more information, please visit ljms.org/events/salon-and-masquerade or call (858) 459-3728.