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One of the nation's best-known media literacy events for high school students is expanding as demand grows for skills to identify deepfake images and online conspiracy theories.

A shared love of jazz led author Lesa Cline-Ransome and illustrator James Ransome to discover inventor Antoine-Joseph "Adolphe" Sax and the instrument named after him.

Froberg's voice was unmistakable. In Hot Snakes and Drive Like Jehu, the frontman had the sweet mix of snarl and shrill.

On Sunday evening, January 8 at 6 pm, PHES Gallery, in conjunction with the newest exhibition, Gallery Artists 2023, will host an artist talk with Lynn Schuette. Lynn Schuette will talk about Still Life, her recent series that uses painting as a way to address social issues and upends what the still life painting can be. The second installation in the series Still Life #2 (for Uvalde) is currently on view at the PHES and includes 19 paintings. The artist will discuss her research and work process and her previous related work. _________ Lynn Schuette is a visual artist whose practice includes painting, drawing, and mixed media. Schuette often explores the body and nature, ranging from classical figurative and landscape painting to anatomical/medical imagery often laced with contemporary social issues. Schuette’s work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions including California Connections: Selections from the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego at the California Center for the Arts, Escondido (2017) and Homing In, an Exhibition of 50 San Diego Artists at Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla (2009). She was one of four featured artists in the Nature Improved exhibitions at the Oceanside Museum and the San Diego History Center, was included in the inaugural exhibition of the new San Diego Central Library Gallery, and was featured on ArtPulse TV (all 2013-14). Her work is also included in public, corporate, and private collections including the City of San Diego Art Collection, the San Diego History Center, and Self Help Graphics, Los Angeles. In addition to her art practice, Schuette is an arts consultant and the founder and former executive director of Sushi Performance & Visual Art (1980-1995). She is recognized for introducing nationally-acclaimed performance and dance artists to the San Diego community including Karen Finley, Guillermo Gomez-Pena, Whoopi Goldberg, Rachel Rosenthal, Joe Goode Performance Group, and the Black Choreographers Moving Project. For information on the Artist Talk and Still Life #2 (for Uvalde): phesgallery.com/special-event/ This is a free event. __________ Gallery Artists 2023 features the work of 12 local artists; Juanita Perez-Adelman, Judith Christensen, Becky Cohen, Ellen Dieter, Kaori Fukuyama, William Gullette, Paul Henry, Anne Mudge, Norma Pizarro, Gail Schneider, Lynn Schuette, Cheryl Tall. Gallery Artists 2023 will be on view through February 4, 2023 PHES Gallery is open Thursday-Saturday, 2-7 pm, and by appointment. info@phesgallery.com / 760-696-3022 Follow on social media: PHES: Facebook + Instagram Lynn Schuette: Instagram

Sparks Gallery is pleased to announce San Diego artist Kathleen Kane-Murrell’s solo exhibition, “Wayfinding in Suspended Times,” opening on May 7, 2023 in conjunction with Sparks Gallery’s annual small works show, “minis 2023.” The small works exhibition will feature over 60 works that are 12×12 inches and under; each are $500 retail or less. This exhibition is a chance to collect a small work of art from both prominent and emerging artists from California. Below is a preview of several small works that were selected for the exhibition. Kane-Murrell’s work is inspired by her observation of the interconnectivity between humans and nature, and her longing to reconnect after isolation during the pandemic. Her solo exhibition brings her perceptions and musings to life through her highly textured collage techniques. Many of her works present themselves like a miniature ecosystem; reverse-painted plexiglass panel is placed between the viewer and the textural backdrop of the work. Highly detailed renderings of butterflies, gingko leaves, and other organic elements painted on the transparent plexiglass appear to float over the materials affixed to the layer behind. Kane-Murrell’s specific style of mixed media collage both unites and contrasts familiar icons of nature with abstraction and human-designed composition. She reflects “My work is abstractly narrative. I aim between spontaneous and controlled…patinas of layered mark-making reflect my perception of light, color, and sound. When a viewer reaches to touch my work to understand what is seen, I have achieved an elusive goal.” Kane-Murrell’s work investigates the human experience as but one aspect of the natural world. With work inspired by wondrous natural phenomena that scientists are only beginning to understand, the artist explores the concept of our place in this interconnected web of life. The idea that everything is intertwined, even in ways we may not expect or be aware of, also brought Kane-Murrell comfort during the isolating time of the pandemic. Kane-Murrell holds reverence for the mycorrhizal network (in which trees communicate with each other through their underground root systems), the migration patterns of monarch butterflies, and starling “murmurations” – birds that fly together collectively in groups of seven. This philosophy is visually explored in the repeating motifs within each work; the artist repeats butterflies, leaves, or cut paper shapes across the piece, drawing attention to their similarities and mass as a group. Subtle changes in these repetitions, such as unique colors or placement, differentiate individual elements from each other. Yet the abstract work is undoubtedly unified, communicating the connectedness of every unit to the entire composition as a whole. Regular Gallery Hours: M,TH,F 10 a.m. - 6 p.m., Saturday 11a.m. - 7 p.m., Sun 11a.m. - 5 p.m. Sparks Gallery on Facebook / Instagram

With too many negative representations of Africa, entrenched in images of war, disease, poverty, and famine, our festival seeks to redress the balance and highlight the fantastic range of cultures, foods, music, and artists that make this great continent one of the most vibrant and emerging in the world. Taste of Africa aims to show Africa before it was colonized. It aims to bring unity and celebrate the diversity of Africa. Tickets include | • Ethiopian Coffee Ceremony • Kemetic Yoga (Egypt) • Afro-Beat Dance workshop (Nigeria) • Live African entertainment by Eyo, the Stilt Walker (West Africa), Djelia Kadi West African Drum & Dance Ensemble (Burkina Faso), Akayaa Atule and Bolga Zohdoomah (Ghana) and Ibrahima Ba (Senegal). • Also don’t miss the jallof rice competition! Travel the world through taste and support San Diego’s local restaurants and caterers with food from Nigeria, Ethiopia, Sudan and Liberia. Also try wine from Ethiopia and Nigeria. Food and drinks sold separately by each vendor.

Characters from Puss ‘n Boots to Little Red Riding Hood gather to celebrate the birth of Princess Aurora, but all is not well in Storybook Land. Pageantry, beauty, and humor all come together in one of ballet’s greatest works. Sleeping Beauty is a fairytale for everyone, told in SDB’s signature whirlwind 90-minute style! Click here to learn more information about this performance!

Learn to draw your own still life with Emma Grey Rose Monday, November 13 from 3:30-5:30 p.m. The B Gallery 4697 Newport Ave #13 San Diego, CA 92107 Contact Diana to reserve your spot: Text or Call: 415-385-6295 Or reserve your spot online: https://obmg.one/index.php/events/drawing-workshop-1113 $50 per class Materials included To receive updates on future classes with Emma, contact Diana

After her father died when she was 24, Catherine Coldstream entered a Carmelite monastery where she lived a life of prayer and obedience for 12 years. Her new memoir is Cloistered: My Years as a Nun.

About a quarter of the county’s population over 25 is reading at — or below — the third-grade level.