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After 16 seasons, two Olympic gold medals and three WNBA championships, Candace Parker announced her retirement from professional basketball on Sunday.

Casa Fest 2023 caps off our 50th Anniversary celebration with live music, art vendors, food, and drinks! (21+ event only). You won’t want to miss performances by Mara Su Lu with Revival, Liquid Blue, Mariachi Torres, Ronda Machetera, Nortec Collective Presents: Bostich & Fussible, and more to be announced. Come join us as we honor community champions who share in our mission and are centered around lifting up historically disinvested communities. All attendees of Casa Fest must be at least 21 years old. IDs will be checked upon entrance at the gate where tickets are scanned. Casa Fest is a CASHLESS event. We accept Apple Pay, Credit & Debit Cards for food or beverage purchases. NO IN/OUT PRIVILEGES OR RE-ENTRY ALLOWED Event Schedule | Doors Open: 12:00 p.m. Program 1:00 p.m. Mariachi Internacional San Diego 1:30 p.m. Mara Sulu with Revival 2:00 p.m. Liquid Blue 3:00 p.m. La Diabla 4:30 p.m. La Ronda Machetera 5:45 p.m. Nortec: Bostich + Fussible 6:45 p.m. Event Ends 8:00 p.m. Tickets | General Admission: $60 VIP Ticket*: $150 *Includes: exclusive entrance, dedicated restrooms, access to VIP Main Stage seating, 3 free drinks + food, cash bar

Join us on Friday, September 29 to celebrate the release of "The Snakes Came Back" by Lora Mathis. There will also be a live poetry performance by Lora Mathis and Matty Terrones in Jacobs Hall and a Book Pop-Up Shop in Berglund Lobby. Refreshments will be available for purchase from The Kitchen. "The Snakes Came Back" is Lora Mathis' third collection of poems, published by Metatron Press in Montréal, Quebec. Lora Mathis’s "The Snakes Came Back" invokes mythology, dreams, and the natural world as realms of solace and wells of knowledge in the healing of trauma. In Lora Mathis’s poems, the body is a temporary resting place for the infinite, resilient soul. "The Snakes Came Back" follows a speaker contending with trauma in the slipstream of earthly time. Mathis’s poems are peopled with friends and lovers—both named and anonymous, current and past—and invested in necessary interdependence as a means of healing the self. "The Snakes Came Back" cracks open everyday tasks and familiar landscapes to reveal their haunting depths. Saturated with heat and wind, Mathis’s poems vibrate with the will to face life’s temporality, its impossible contradictions, its beauty and its pain: “There is loss, but there is renewal too.” About the Author| Lora Mathis (she/they) is a poet and artist who grew up between Southern California and Montréal. She is interested in creating immersive worlds through poetry, video, and performance. She has been sharing her art and poetry online for the last twelve years, and has utilized digital tools, such as video, graphic design, and photography, as a part of her practice. In the last two years, her practice has expanded into printmaking and sculpture. They have published two collections of poetry including, "The Women Widowed to Themselves" (2015; republished 2020). The experimental essay "Here I Am In It" was published by Burn All Books in 2022. Mathis performs poetry on their own, and with their sound collaborator and longtime friend, Matty Terrones. With Terrones, they put out the poetry and music album Sediment via Hello America Lit. Mathis is a recent graduate of UC Berkeley and currently lives in Oakland. Related links: MCASD website | Instagram | Facebook Lora Mathis website | Instagram

En colaboración con la Oficina del Sheriff del Condado de San Diego, y Alzheimer’s San Diego se va a estar proveyendo un programa de registro y educación sobre Llévame a Casa, este programa provee consejos prácticos para manejar el comportamiento relacionados con la deambulación de las personas que viven con demencia. Aprenda más sobre las razones por las que las personas con demencia deambulan y las formas de reducir el riesgo. El Departamento del Sheriff explicará cómo funciona el programa Llévame a Casa y compartirá historias de éxito. El personal de Alzheimer’s en San Diego estará disponible para inscribir a personas en el programa Llévame a Casa. *Este proyecto fue respaldado, en parte, por la Subvención No. 15PBJA-21-GG-02958-MAPX otorgada por la Oficina de Asistencia Judicial.

Multiple tornadoes over several days leveled buildings and left a trail of damage in parts of the South and Midwest.

In partnership with the County of San Diego Sheriff’s Office, the Take Me Home registration event supports you by sharing practical tips to manage wandering behavior by people living with dementia. Learn more about the reasons why people with dementia wander and ways to reduce the risk. The Sheriff’s Department will explain how the Take Me Home program operates, and share success stories. Alzheimer’s San Diego staff will be available to enroll people into the Take Me Home program. *This project was supported in part by Grant No. 15PBJA-21-GG-02958-MAPX awarded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance.

The most anticipated installment of San Diego Filipino Cinema’s year-long programming, the San Diego Filipino Film Festival (SDFFF) is back on its third year this fall from October 3-8, 2023. Held during Filipino American History Month in October, SDFFF is SDFC's centerpiece event that aims to raise awareness for Filipino cinema as an important art form and a powerful tool for representation, education, and entertainment. SDFFF will bring San Diego communities together to celebrate diversity, culture, and heritage through cinema with a diverse mix of narrative features, documentaries, and short films. DIASPORA delves into complex stories of individuals navigating the unknown outside of their comfort zones and far from their ancestral homelands.

The most anticipated installment of San Diego Filipino Cinema’s year-long programming, the San Diego Filipino Film Festival (SDFFF) is back on its third year this fall from October 3-8, 2023. Held during Filipino American History Month in October, SDFFF is SDFC's centerpiece event that aims to raise awareness for Filipino cinema as an important art form and a powerful tool for representation, education, and entertainment. SDFFF will bring San Diego communities together to celebrate diversity, culture, and heritage through cinema with a diverse mix of narrative features, documentaries, and short films. Larger Than Life sheds light on films that showcase stories that address current world issues from different perspectives of all walks of life.

Southwestern College Theatre Arts Department announces the first production of its 2023-2024 season, “The Cradle Will Rock”, by Marc Blitzstein. Written in 1936 and first produced in 1937, the groundbreaking musical comedy has been noted as a thoroughly American work, not only for its themes and its tunes, but in the ways is author captures the voice of the Depression-era working class in his musical phrasing. “The Cradle Will Rock” is set in 1937 in Steeltown, USA, when the workers at the steel mill owned by Mr. Mister are on a drive to unionize their factory. Mister, a wealthy industrialist, holds Steeltown’s political, financial, social, and religious activities in his iron grip. He forms the Liberty Committee, (comprised of the local minister, newspaper editor, physician, university president, and others) to apply pressure on the working class to keep them from unionizing. Larry Foreman, leader of the union drive proves more than a match for Mister. The conflict rages when the union drive intensifies and threatens Mr. Mister’s hold on power. As a composer, Blitzstein wrote in an advanced musical style, using a variety of rhythms, structures, and forms. His passion for the important issues he cared about are evident in the musical’s many songs, most notably “The Nickel Under Your Foot”, “The Cradle Will Rock”, and “Joe Worker” which all became anthems for the burgeoning union movement of the 1930s. The musical’s satirical, comedic style encompasses Bach’s fugue inventions, early 1900’s ragtime, 1920’s Charleston dance tunes, and heart-pounding modern ballads. Directed by Ruff Yeager and musically directed by Imahni King, the creative team includes Mike Buckley – Scenic, Lighting, and Properties Designer; Jeanne Reith - Costume Designer; Brandon Watterson - Sound Designers. The cast is comprised of talented Southwestern College Theatre Arts majors. The musical will feature on-stage cabaret seating as well as regular orchestra-level seating. Ticket prices are $20 (onstage seating), $15 for general admission. For ticket and show information, visit www.swctheatre.com

Experience a fun-filled day of North Park’s Best Restaurants, Craft Beer, Cider, Kombucha, Wine, and shopping at North Park’s eclectic boutiques all set to live music, art, and a walkabout through North Park! Join us Saturday, October 7th from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. for the Taste of North featuring over 40 Tastes located within North Park businesses! Must be 21+ for Beverage Tasting. For more information visit: tixr.com