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PAWmicon invites pets and their people to celebrate the feats of superhero adopters at this annual Pop Culture-themed Dog Cosplay Spectacle. Returning for the 11th year, this free, family friendly event features a wide variety of activities including a cosplay contest, animal art vendors, craft beer, music, games and activities for the kids, trivia, opportunity drawings, food trucks, and more! The cosplay contest features three categories for pets and their owners: Superheroes & Super Villains, Pop Culture Pets, and Dynamic Duos, Trios, and More! Admission into PAWmicon is FREE but must be reserved in advance. PAWSplay Contest entries are $20 per pet. Trivia Contest entry is $40 per team (up to a team of 4). All proceeds support Helen Woodward Animal Center pets and programs. For more information visit: animalcenter.org

Artists and curators discuss their performance experience and approaches to its planning and care, while considering the Californias as a performance context. Jill Dawsey, Senior Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego Ricardo Dominguez, Artist, Chair & Associate Professor, Visual Arts, UCSD Daril Fortis, Independent Curator, Tijuana Matana Roberts, Musician, Assistant Professor, Music, UCSD Curated and moderated by Malik Gaines, Associate Professor UC San Diego. Part of the daylong Curating Performance Symposium hosted by the Department of Performance Studies at NYU Tisch. Register now

From the museum: ICA San Diego is thrilled to announce our inaugural monthly C You Saturday! events. Beginning this March, on the third Saturday of every month, a brand-new event series will bring together cutting-edge contemporary art exhibitions, performances, family-friendly activities, artist conversations, music, and more, to celebrate contemporary art with the San Diego County creative community. In celebration of our new exhibitions, Edra Soto: Graft and Narsiso Martínez: Rethinking Essential, we invite our community to gather and grow; chill out or be challenged in a space for enjoyment, exchange, and open dialogue. ICA San Diego is excited to be working with Art of Elan on a season of programming that is based on ICA’s Artist-in-Residence program. Each Artist-in-Residence will work closely with the musicians of Art of Elan to develop experiences that are motivated by themes in the artists’ work. Are you an ICA Member? You’ll receive a complimentary Members Only Preview with artist Narsiso Martínez and Executive Director, Andrew Utt starting at 3:30 pm and two free drink vouchers. Become a member here. Schedule for March 18: 3:30 pm – 4:00 pm | Members Only Preview of Narsiso Martínez’s exhibition 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm | Edra Soto: Graft and Narsiso Martínez: Rethinking Essential open to public. – Food for Purchase: By Flavor Lab. A conscious, plant-based test kitchen. – Cash Bar: Sundrop Coffee & Humboldt Distillery wine and spirits. Members receive two free drink vouchers. 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm | Printmaking with your Family! In conversation with Edra Soto’s exhibition, create your own print inspired by the geometrically-patterned rejas (wrought-iron gates) and quiebrasoles (decorative concrete breeze blocks) found around many Puerto Rican homes. 4:00 pm – 4:45 pm | Art of Elan Performance Art of Elan, in collaboration with ICA San Diego, explores music as an entry point into the world of visual art in response to Edra Soto’s exhibition Graft. Art of Elan’s performance takes us on a journey: from the timeless music of J. S. Bach that can be found in almost every corner of the world to the vibrant sounds of composers Marco Granados, Gabriela Lena Frank, and Angelica Negrón, whose compositions all explore the intricacies of cross-cultural identities. This immersive, multisensory, and dynamic experience provides a unique perspective of how diasporic communities shape identities in new places. 5:00 pm – 5:30 pm | Conversation with Artist-in-Residence Edra Soto 5:30 pm | Q&A Edra Soto talks with Associate Curator, Guusje Sanders, about her exhibition, Graft. In this ongoing sculptural project, Soto examines the role of architecture in the construction of Puerto Rican national identity, and how the transplantation of familiar architecture abroad can reflect the experience of Puerto Rican immigrants as they navigate the diaspora. A short Q&A session will follow. 6:00 pm – 6:30 pm | Tour of Narsiso Martínez: Rethinking Essential *Space limited Artist Narsiso Martínez and Executive Director, Andrew Utt, take us through the gallery to get an inside look at Martinez’s exhibition Rethinking Essential. 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm | After Party! The music continues, join us for a dance party with Nelson Cuberli – Dj & Producer and founder of the Magic House. Related links: ICA San Diego on Instagram Art of Elan on Instagram

Botanists and citizen scientists armed with the iNaturalist app on their smartphones are recording the biodiversity along the U.S.-Mexico border.

From Billie Eilish to Bad Bunny, JT to J.Lo, boygenius to Ice Spice, here they are: the home-run performances, the solid base hits and the outright whiffs.

Emily Nagoski is a sex educator and author of a bestseller on enhancing your sex life. The book did so well that it got in the way of her own.

Five athletes from Baja California have already qualified for the Olympics, the most in state history. And more than a dozen more athletes could still qualify through regional tournaments, according to local officials.

New research shows lifelong bikers have healthier knees, less pain and a longer lifespan, compared to people who've never biked. This adds to the evidence that cycling promotes healthy aging.

Israel and Hamas are both holding the bodies of those killed on the other side, refusing to release them. They've done so for years and are again using the enemy dead as leverage in the current war.

Cultural figureheads are expected to speak out about world events. But some are facing real-world consequences for making public declarations about the present conflict.