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Hate crime in California reached its highest reported level in more than a decade last year. Plus, a group of peer counselors in City Heights are trying to heal the community by connecting people to much needed resources and mental health services. And as we celebrate Independence Day this weekend, we’re going to take a closer look at some art exhibitions in San Diego that tell the wider story of who we consider to be American and what it means to have an identity linked with the land.

From the gallery: On view now at Quint ONE: An installation of lenticulars and glass-blown mixed media sculptures from the oeuvre of brothers and artistic collaborators Einar and Jamex De La Torre. The artists were born in Guadalajara, Mexico but now create on both sides of the border in Baja California, Mexico and San Diego, CA. This multicultural perspective functions literally through their employment of lenticular technology, which uses multiple images meant to be viewed independently from different angles but merge together when viewed head on. This perspective arises in the central work of the exhibition, Vodyanoy, which suffuses its title character (a creature of the swamps from slavic mythology that can care for people or drown them) with metaphors for a nature-deity serving an overdue bill for humanity’s excess. The results are shifting images of both utopian salvation and realistic warning, evidenced through the clean water flow brought on by meditative Sufi Whirling Dervishes. In the alternating image, a murky green swamp serves as the backdrop for Flemish renderings of the wounded and dead from futile wars. The De La Torre Brothers’ endless book of historical, cultural, religious, and artistic references are all compounded on and distilled in the moral storytelling which permeates their practice. Also included in the exhibition are mixed media blown glass sculptures created over the past decade whose motifs elaborate on the multi-layered concerns of the De La Torre Brothers, including financial excess, corruption, and consumerism, which often lead back to the natural disasters looming large on the planet. Vodyanoy will remain on view at ONE through October 30, 2021

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More than 100 military installations are in states where abortion is now banned.

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Premieres Sunday, April 24, 2022 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV / On Demand. This conspiracy thriller and cautionary tale tells the story of the 2009 Climate gate scandal, when the media storm undermined confidence in the science of climate change. Professor Phil Jones and his team at the University of East Anglia find themselves in the middle of a major investigation with their 30 years of research work being questioned in the first ‘fake news’ attack.

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