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The Midday Movie Critics are highlighting some films that reflect trans representation on the big screen.

Get ready for some wanderlust! This unique program will take you on a visual tour around the world while Matthew Allison, adventurer extraordinaire, excites the audience with tales from his greatest adventures and tips for others on how to travel to every country in the world. Whether you're a seasoned traveler or just getting started exploring the world, this program is guaranteed to inspire! About Matthew Allison Matthew Allison is an adventurer who, as of early 2024, has become one of the only approx after almost 30 years of travel while working full time. 400 people to visit every Country in the world with the main goal of discovering the Earth's most remote corners, exploring caves, wilderness, endangered wildlife, living with tribes, and vanishing cultures. Some of Matthew’s most notable adventures are cage diving with great white sharks, piloting a small plane across Baja Mexico, staying with the Nenet reindeer herders in the Siberian Arctic with temperatures diving to -50 degrees Celsius and tracking a legendary dinosaur-like creature called the Mokele Mbembe to a remote lake deep in the Republic of Congo rainforest and most recently being one of the first Americans to travel across Taliban controlled Afghanistan. Exclusive Opportunity As part of this lecture, SDWAC partnered with the International Houses at Balboa Park's House of Pacific Relations to create a fun and interactive way to explore the International Houses more deeply! All pre-registered lecture attendees will receive a program "passport" upon arrival and check-in at the lecture. Immediately following Matthew Allison's presentation, they will be invited to visit the participating houses to learn more about each country and receive a "passport stamp" in their program. If you receive a stamp from each participating house you can turn that in to receive an entry to a raffle for a fun travel related prize! Stay tuned for more details! Visit: https://sdwac.org/event-5795649 San Diego World Affairs Council on Instagram and Facebook

Greg DeFatta has been been making people scream for 35 years, and he loves it.

The San Diego Natural History Museum (the Nat) is celebrating its 150th anniversary in Balboa Park this fall. Paleontologist Christopher Plouffe says that paleontologists are caretakers and historians — and that the best part is sharing this work with kids and adults alike.

In the world of true crime, Fall River, Mass. is known for Lizzie Borden, but another murder 60 years earlier captivated New England. Kate Winkler Dawson tells the story in The Sinners All Bow.

In The Substance, Demi Moore plays an aerobics TV star who turns 50 and is promptly ousted from her gig in Hollywood. She and Margaret Qualley duke it out in this excruciating body horror tale.

Swinton plays a woman dying of cancer in Pedro Almodóvar's The Room Next Door. "A life spent considering how we're going to spend our end is not wasted time," Swinton says.

Parsons, one of corporate America's most prominent Black executives who held top posts at Time Warner and Citigroup, was known as a skilled negotiator, a diplomat and a crisis manager.

A skateboarder presented an unusual paper at this year's big meeting of American economists.

Premieres Monday, Oct. 21, 2024 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. A debt-laden grad turns Tokyo Uber Eats biker, confronting the gig economy's harsh truths. Pedaling along the city's deserted streets, he wonders about the "Uberization" of society and what it offers to an unemployed young person with student debt.