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We’re in the dog days of summer here in San Diego, but an evening’s escape is only a stage away. KPBS arts reporter Angela Carone says the local theater scene has a summer bounty of musicals, including some familiar and not so familiar productions.

The housing market is still languishing this summer, leading some economists to believe prices won't begin to recover until 2014. Even Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernake says the market may be worse than most people thought.

San Diego may be thought of nationally as a conservative town with a long military tradition, not as a political groundbreaker. That could change in next year’s mayoral race.

An artist has yet to grab center stage in the Occupy Wall Street protests. The political movement has gone viral without a leading musical voice. Instead, there is a field full of freestyles.

Hundreds of San Diego veterans have teamed up with the SDSU music department for healing concerts. The partnership uses music therapy to help homeless vets.

As the U.S. government has militarized the California and Arizona segment of the Southwest border over the last two decades, illegal crossers have moved to another area. South Texas has become the new border hot spot.

It's been more than 10 years since the death of John Fahey, the mythical artist who helped invent the "American primitive" school of solo acoustic guitar. That tradition is alive and well thanks to a host of younger guitarists, a group that includes one of Fahey's close friends: Glenn Jones.

Young Cubans in the 1970s tuned their radios to faint signals from Florida to get their disco fix. Now, as Communist authorities have relaxed the rules, middle-aged Cubans are flocking to discos -- including the bar at Havana's Karl Marx Theater -- to dance to the tunes of the Bee Gees and Kool & The Gang.

Disability rights advocates celebrated the 20th anniversary of the American’s with Disabilities Act at the capitol Monday and made a push to make Disability History week official.

An East County man who skipped bail five weeks ago while facing charges of robbery, domestic violence and attempted murder in several criminal cases was captured Thursday.