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In this episode we profile a bilingual theater experience called The Frontera Project. It is a company of Mexican and US artists that use theater, music, movement and play to actively engage the audience in conversation about life along the US/Mexico Border. Their mission is to encourage audiences to recognize each other across differences and to spark a dialogue about what divides us and what we share. Port of Entry is back, this time with a series of stories on how the border can change minds.

A juvenile transition center in Kearny Mesa helps incarcerated teens. In other news, Scripps researchers are among those with evidence bolstering the theory that the COVID virus jumped from animals to humans in a Wuhan, China market. Plus, San Diego will be the first city in the country to provide a child care center for police officers' families.

The windows, titled "Now and Forever," were created by artist Kerry James Marshall. They show a group of protesters holding up large signs that read "Fairness" and "No Foul Play."

Oolong Gallery is pleased to present the first solo show since the gallery’s inception last June in San Diego: "Nuevo Amanecer" by Colombian-American artist Carolyn Castaño, an icon of Latinx painting in Southern California. The exhibition is mainly comprised of her new ruana mixed media paintings amongst other new pieces to be presented at Oolong. Her representative gallery Walter Maciel recently featured her work in LA for a fourth solo exhibition there to a resounding success. Opening reception: New Year's Eve, Dec 31 2022 4-8 p.m. featuring cumbia music and cocktails. The exhibition runs through Feb. 11 2023 with a special artist talk scheduled Jan. 14 at the gallery. Gallery hours are Wednesday through Sunday, 11 a.m. - 6 p.m. Read more: L.A. painter Carolyn Castaño turns the humble poncho into a portal to lush worlds (by Carolina A. Miranda | LA Times Columnist Sept 21, 2022) Related links: Oolong Gallery on Instagram

In the second of a three-part series exploring the impact two years of the COVID-19 pandemic has had on the performing arts industry, we look at the theater, with stories from an actor, set and costume designer, Broadway standby and dance captain and local theater leadership.

Heavy rain from Ophelia will also pose a risk of flash flooding from Virginia to New Jersey, according to the National Hurricane Center.

The results of wastewater testing are showing a dramatic increase in the presence of the COVID-19 virus in San Diego County. Then, details on a bill Governor Gavin Newsom signed Friday that would allow private citizens to sue gun makers for deaths from firearms banned in California. Next, the U.S. Monkeypox outbreak is swiftly expanding and in these early days of its spread, people can spend days in search of the right diagnosis. And, the project to transform San Diego’s Central Embarcadero went before Port Commissioners and the public last week. And the verdict is--- it needs more work. Then, the latest on a plan to transform northeast Mission Bay to include a campground, open space and most importantly marshland for bird and marine life habitat. Next, the Baja California legislature overwhelmingly voted to ban the pseudoscienctific practice that claims to change people’s sexual orientation but the governor vetoed the ban in favor of regulations. Finally, Comic-Con is over but for some artists who went to portfolio reviews their work may just be beginning.

Jennifer González is History of Art and Visual Culture professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a faculty member of the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York. She writes about contemporary installation, digital and activist art. She has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the American Association of University Women, and the American Council of Learned Societies. Her publications have appeared in Diacritics, Camera Obscura, Bomb, Open Space, Art Journal, Aztlán the Journal of the Archives of American Art and in numerous exhibition catalogs including Jimmy Durham: At the Center of the World (2017) and most recently Diego Rivera's America (2022). Her books include "Subject to Display: Reframing Race in Contemporary Installation Art", "Pepón Osorio, and Chicano and Chicana Art: A Critical Anthology" which was included in the top art books of the decade by ArtNews in 2020.

The latest children's book from Julie Andrews, Emma Walton Hamilton and illustrator Elly McKay is about the power of nature and music. They discussed their creative process in an interview with NPR.