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On June 26, KPBS will host a panel of experts to discuss the cost of living crisis in San Diego County.

Open mic Pro by Pacific Lyric Association is not like any other Open Mic. To keep up with the quality audiences come to expect from us, only professionals and select up and coming talent perform. We limit the scope of performances to opera, operetta, jazz and Broadway Open Mic Pro by Pacific Lyric Association is like a wine tasting but for music. A great introduction to opera or for the aficionado, a great opportunity to listen to a variety of performances by select local talent. There is no cover charge for the event but please register here to help the venue set up for the performance. January 24 at 6:30 p.m. at the Forgotten Barrel Winery in Escondido. Open Mic Pro is an outreach program by Pacific Lyric Association Opera. For more information visit: lp.constantcontactpages.com Stay Connected on Facebook

Join the North County Climate Change Alliance and Surfrider Foundation’s San Diego Chapter online for a deep dive into microplastics with Matt Simon, science writer for Wired magazine and author of "A Poison Like No Other: How Microplastics Corrupted Our Planet and Our Bodies". There is no charge for this online event, but please register in advance. Upon registration, you will receive a confirmation email containing the Zoom link along with additional details. This will also enable us to inform you if there are any last-minute announcements, instructions, or other information. Thank you! About Matt Simon Matt Simon has been a science writer at Wired magazine since 2011. His focus includes biology, robotics, climate change, and microplastic pollution. Matt was the creator of Wired’s Absurd Creature of the Week column, which ran from September 2013 to March 2016. This was turned into the weekly web video series Absurd Creatures. In April 2020, it was adapted into the hit Netflix series Absurd Planet. In 2017, Matt received an Alex Award for his book, The Wasp That Brainwashed the Caterpillar: Evolution’s Most Unbelievable Solutions to Life’s Biggest Problems, which cataloged the strangest creatures on Earth. His second book, Plight of the Living Dead: What Real-Life Zombies Reveal About Our World—and Ourselves, explored the science of how parasites mind-control their hosts. Matt attended UC Davis and holds an A.B. in English, Communications. For more information visit: volunteer.surfrider.org Stay Connected on Facebook

Internal emails, interviews and in-app messages show Uber and Lyft deployed a powerful lobbying playbook to stop minimum wage laws in Minnesota. But drivers had a playbook of their own.

There were very few surprises during Sunday's Tony Awards, except for one: best musical. The final award of the night went to The Outsiders, the adaptation of S.E. Hinton’s beloved book.

Some of Judge Aileen Cannon’s decisions in Trump's Florida classified documents case have baffled one former judge, who gives her assessment of the case so far.

For hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops and their families, when the Pentagon orders them to find health care off base there is none.

Sunscreen is the best way to protect ourselves against skin cancer. But doctors are concerned by a backlash against sunscreen that is spreading on social media.

The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute report says it hasn't seen nuclear weapons playing such a prominent role in international relations since the Cold War.

Loosely based on Maryam Keshavarz's own life, The Persian Version centers on an Iranian American woman who identifies as bisexual and whose mother entered into an arranged marriage as a teen.