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Please join the North County Climate Change Alliance to hear from Dr. Scott Kelley, co-leader for SD 350’s Raise the Alarm Team. Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMtdeqsrDMjH9MPwVmphcR3OHbC8kLN0fmA?fbclid=IwAR3Cy67eo_aPxcGSNtsAZCOjhOb8Nw-XWH2O-jho28xBUVzVfiOvTlpcRkY He will tell us the story about how Sempra used its subsidiary SDG&E to force San Diegans to pay for its fracked methane fossil fuel empire. Methane is 86 times more potent than CO2 as a greenhouse gas, and leaks from the Permian Basin alone are the equivalent of burning 50 train cars full of coal every single day. Sempra is trying to hook us onto this gas for the next 30 years and is accelerating LNG transport around the world. Not only will this massively exacerbate global warming, but it is also ruining the health of people in frontline communities and will keep us from transitioning to a clean energy future. For more information: ncccalliance.org/event/the-world-according-to-sempra

Recent polls show many Californians were undecided heading into Election Day on Gov. Newsom’s Proposition 1, which would fund new mental health treatment facilities.

Nimesh Patel is a comedian and Emmy-nominated writer who has risen the ranks to some of comedy’s biggest stages due to his unassailable joke writing, prolific output, and pioneering use of technology. In the past 2 years Nimesh has self-released three stand-up specials and has charted a path from sold out comedy clubs to major theaters. Nimesh most recently appeared on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon and before that made his late night debut on Late Night with Seth Meyers. His self-released specials “Jokes To Get You Through Quarantine,” “Thank You, China,” and “Lucky Lefty” have amassed millions of views. His first writing job came after Chris Rock saw him perform standup and hired him directly to write for The Academy Awards in 2016 and tour with him. Since then, he has written for “Saturday Night Live,” “A Little Late with Lilly Singh,” The White House Correspondents Dinner, and was a producer for “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee.” Please Note: This event is recommended for mature audiences. Connect with Nimesh Patel on Social Media! Facebook | Instagram | Twitter

Taylor Swift, Miley Cyrus, Victoria Monét and Billie Eilish were among the winners of major awards at the 66th Grammy Awards, presented on Sunday, February 4, but no one artist dominated prizes.

ARTIST | Buck-O-Nine WHEN | Thursday, September 8, 2022 TIME | 7 p.m. VENUE | Soda Bar ADMISSION | $22.59 Further information about the event and tickets can be accessed here. SOCIALS: Facebook Twitter Instagram

From Bad Vibes Good Friends (BVGF): On July 27 and 28, we are bringing a two-day Art and Music showcase to Barrio Logan's Corazon del Barrio, promising a unique sensory experience. The event will feature curated music, art, live visuals, and cocktails, showcasing a diverse blend of internationally and locally acclaimed talents from the cordillera of Colombia to the deserts and coast of California. Thursday, July 27: Collaborating with the renowned Latin American record label ZZK, Bad Vibes Good Friends has secured two monoliths of contemporary Colombian music for their San Diego showcase: Meridian Brothers and Cerrero y La Marea. Eblis Alvarez, the songwriter/multi-instrumentalist and bandleader of Meridian Brothers, has been hailed as an "Eccentric Mastermind" by the New York Times's Ed Moreno, and championed as Bogota's frontiersmen of Neo-Tropicalismo and Cumbia for two decades. Diego Gomez of Cerrero y La Marea is also considered a pioneer in the contemporary music scene of Bogota. His collaborations and record labels, Disco Pacificos and Llorona Records, have introduced the world to folk acts of Colombia roots like Los Gaiteros de San Jacinto while blending his electronic music expertise with other traditional Latin American influences. Cerrero y La Marea, his current project with Grupo Bejuco's William Martinez and Tomaco's Marimba de Chonta master Juan Carlos "Cankita" Mindinero, continues this intriguing fusion. Fresh Veggies Micro Brass, a local emerging psychedelic circus, will also be featured that night. Fresh off festival performances at Lighting In A Bottle and Same Same But Different, this New Orleans marching band gone mad is an eccentric amalgamation of members of Sure Fire Soul Ensemble, and Euphoria Brass Band. DJ Strange Bouquets (Rory Morison), the musician, artist, and founder of Bad Vibes Good Friends, will be spinning vinyl selections from his extensive collection of international music. Rees Withrow, an analog video artist, has been captivating San Diego audiences since 2014 with his unique brand of visuals using circuit-bent hardware to create psychedelic, glitched-out images on old-school CRT TV screens. Encapsulating the flavors of the night with a menu of curated cocktails will be the duo Super Purple. Comprised of Leigh Lacap and Nick Sinutko two prolific minds behind some of the most respected beverage programs in San Diego (Craft and Commerce, Campfire, Frankies, Jeune et Jolie), Super Purple sees the two consolidating their artistic aptitudes and peculiar imaginations into color-drenched, multi-sensory beverage activations. Friday, July 28: WAND, a band formed in late 2013 in Los Angeles, quickly earned great praise for brandishing a genre contrarian path and quickly separating themselves from the emerging southern Californian psych/garage scene. With 10 years, 7 releases, and relentless touring under their belt, Wand is a legendary shapeshifting juggernaut, leaving a collection of post-punk, psychedelic, metal art-rock classics in their wake. Local bizarre-o quintet Drug Hunt, often championed for their seditionist attitude, will also perform. While often categorized as Neo-Psychedelic, the band is more accurately a bastardization of Psychedelia, championing the angular idealism of American Post-Punk and the orphaned swagger of early British Hard Rock. Named one of NBC's "Top 9 Bands To See Live In San Diego," Drug Hunt is a local powerhouse on stage, and they will be debuting and performing two new songs featuring Grammy Award-winning saxophonist Adrian Terraza Gonzalez of The Mars Volta. Hailing from Joshua Tree, This Lonesome Paradise delivers reverb-soaked retribution, lounge lust, and the enigmatic echoes of western noir. Their dark musical cinema evokes the blood thirst of a Cormac McCarthy novel and the poetic surrealism of a David Lynch flick. Recently earning them an acolyte and production stewardship/collaboration with genre heavyweight Taylor Kirk of Timber Timbre, This Lonesome Paradise is a well-kept secret soon to be a headline. New Tongues is a binational sound art and music group based in Baja, Mexico, and San Diego, California, will also grace the stage. Founded in 2023 by artist and musician Preston Swirnoff, along with field recordist/sound designer Xareni Lizarraga and violist/producer Kathia Rudametkin, New Tongues is an adventure in interdisciplinary collaboration. Using sound sculptures, field recordings, visual art installations, and traditional instruments, they craft electroacoustic song forms that celebrate intimacy, relationship ecologies, and deep listening. San Diego projectionist Sebastian Bañuelos, known as Gonzo Liquid Light, blends the realms of analog and digital video effects for concert performances. Mentored by liquid light pioneers from the 1960s, Gonzo adds his own artistic touch by utilizing contemporary VJ software and digital effects. Andrew McGranahan Graphic Artist/Designer is most notably recognized for his art works in the music industry: posters, album art and other merchandise. He’s also the lead designer for the music festival Desert Daze, one half of San Diego Freak Out and a well recognized Dj in San Diego. He’s the artist behind the 3rd annual Bad Vibes Good Friends poster and will no doubt satiate the audience with his extensive collection of deep cuts and odd international assortments. Este Güey, the bar duo of Esteban Kauffman and Josue Gonzalez, will complement the raucous atmosphere of night two. Known for their exemplary roles in bars such as Herb and Wood and Swan Bar, this uncanny team brings an elevated yet no-frills mentality to their cocktail ethos. Formed in a sweaty cumbia punk dance party, they have been known to shake your cocktails in the throws of a mosh pit. And if that's not enough both nights' walls will be graced with the astonishing art work of 16 emerging and established artists of the San Diego, Tijuana, and Los Angeles art scenes. Thao French, Amanda Kazemi, Kolten French,CJ Troxell, Strange Bouquets, Gray Morison, Laura Arango, Jake Fitzgerald, Eyegato, This Girl Hugs Trees, Jorge Guitierrez, Valazo, Rancho Cherenchitov, Jazmine Puentes, Luis Cendejas, and Jesse Sunwolf Tickets: Night 1: July 27 Night 2: July 28

Premieres Monday, Aug. 21, 2023 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS App. Recorded in July 2022, Bernstein protege Marin Alsop conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Bernstein's "Kaddish" Symphony at the Ravinia Festival. Creating a musical meditation wherein women's voices are the tether to the highest powers, and examining the essential, eternal questions of humanity and faith, also featured are soprano Janai Brugger and Jaye Ladymore as narrator, along with the Chicago Children's Choir.

Firefighters aided by rain have made progress fighting a massive blaze that swept through the California desert into Nevada and is threatening the region’s famous spiky Joshua trees.

From ArtPower at UC San Diego: Atamira Dance Company is the leading international creator of contemporary dance and performance. Based in Aotearoa, New Zealand, a remote and wild landscape where indigenous Māori stories are a powerful voice in the arts locally and, increasingly, internationally, Atamira is integral to the contemporary Māori performing arts conversation and movement. The company performs it’s powerful new full-length dance work Te Wheke, which brings together Aotearoa’s leading names in contemporary dance. The piece explores the dimensionsof human experience symbolised by the eight tentacles of the Te Wheke—the Octopus, a powerful guardian on this journey from past into the future. Related links: ArtPower on Facebook ArtPower on Instagram