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July 20 @ 1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m. Everyone is welcome! All skill levels, abilities, and allies are invited to roll into Pride with a slow, celebratory, and colorful ride. Start: Meet us at 1:30 p.m. at Bird Park (northeast corner of Balboa Park, Upas Street and 28th Street). We roll out at 2 p.m. sharp! End: Our ride will finish around 3 p.m. at the Pride Festival on the West Mesa of Balboa Park. What to bring? - Your bike! (and a helmet!) - Your most fabulous Pride outfit! The Route: The ride is approximately 5-6 miles , with fun social stops along the way. It’s a leisurely pace to enjoy the festivities and connect with our community. Let’s celebrate love, equality, and the joy of biking together. See you there! San Diego County Bike Coalition on Facebook / Instagram

SEGA revives a franchise that began in 1980s arcades with Shinobi: Art of Vengeance. From the developers of the gorgeous Streets of Rage 4, the new game bursts with striking animation and snappy action.

San Diego County Orchid Society hosts its large, annual spring show and sale – "Orchids of the Earth" – in Balboa Park on Easter weekend. Enjoy hundreds of magnificent plants, free classes, and conversations with orchid experts. See, learn, and shop at this grand celebration of beauty and color. Casa del Prado Room 101 and Patio A. 1800 El Prado, San Diego, CA, 92101. Free admission and parking. Friday, April 18, 12 p.m. - 6 p.m.; early bird sales 10 a.m. Saturday, April 19, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. Sunday, April 20, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Visit: San Diego County Orchid Society Spring Show and Sale San Diego Orchid Society on Instagram and Facebook

Ever stress-eaten cupcakes at a PTA meeting? Had an existential crisis on a trampoline? Fantasized about quitting your job mid-Zoom? Then grab a front-row seat at "Park Bench Confessions," a new staged reading from the What Next? Collective. Saturday, May 10, 2025 at 4 p.m. (Doors open at 3:30 p.m.) at National Comedy Theater located at 3717 India St, San Diego Tickets: $25 Talk-Back/Q&A: Immediately following at Shakespeare’s Pub, just down the street Directed by Jena Joyce and set in the fictional Friedland Park, this hilarious and heartfelt collection of five short plays serves up comedy, catharsis, and a whole lot of “Yep, been there.” Written by San Diego-based playwrights and performed by a knockout cast of local actors, "Park Bench Confessions" dives headfirst into the invisible labor women take on—at work, at home, in their bodies, and in each other’s business. The show features a talented cast of local San Diego actors, including Julie Alexandria, Isabel Canzoneri, Susan Clausen, Maria Costello, Blair Hatch, Lucinda Moaney, Analia Romero, and Naomi Welsh. Featured San Diego based playwrights include Lindsey Salatka Julie Alexandria Melissa Jordan Grey Lolo Moreno Ines and Caroline Gilman More Info

The 14th annual Oceanside International Film Festival showcases diverse films, from environmental documentaries to star-studded shorts, all embracing unique stories and values.

"Picturing Health" curated by Elizabeth Rooklidge features works by Philip Brun Del Re, Maria Mathioudakis, Bhavna Mehta, Tatiana Ortiz-Rubio, Elizabeth Rooklidge, and Akiko Surai Exhibition runs: Saturday, Nov. 9 - Saturday, Dec. 14, 2024 Gallery hours (during exhibitions): 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. About the exhibition: From the KPBS Fall Arts Guide: Curated by Elizabeth Rooklidge, a curator, professor, artist and scholar on disability in art, this exhibition at Best Practice (inside Bread and Salt) includes work by local artists Philip Brun Del Re, Maria Mathioudakis, Bhavna Mehta, Tatiana Ortiz-Rubio, Rooklidge, Akiko Surai and Christina Valenzuela. Many of these artists comprise the advisory committee for the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego's "For Dear Life" exhibition (a major historical survey of disability in art) — and it's significant that these living, local artists also have a space and exhibition to showcase their own work on disability, illness and impairment. Each artist brings a unique approach and style, and many will be familiar to San Diego visual art audiences. Brun Del Re's text-based work is accessible, disruptive and delightful; Mathioudakis' sculpture is profound and simultaneously beautiful and disturbing; Mehta's papercut and embroidery works are stunning both in scale and detail; Ortiz-Rubio's murals and large-scale works often play with concepts of physics, memory and time; Rooklidge's recent series, "Sick Women," collects and collages stills of women in their sick beds in modern cinema; and Surai's work draws on a variety of mediums like embroidery, collage, photography, drawing, found objects and poetry to insightfully comment on highly researched concepts like memory, neurology and more. —Julia Dixon Evans, KPBS Related links: Best Practice website | Instagram

Visit 14 independent bookstores over three days, collect stamps in your literary passport and earn prizes during San Diego’s annual book crawl.

Here are recommended reads about the United States — perfect for the history buff on your gift list, or anyone looking to learn more about how the U.S got to where it is today.

A Republican push to alter the census may lead to a radical shift in redistricting for state legislatures — drawing districts that don't take into account children and non-U.S. citizen adults.

From comedies to contemporary classics, these theater productions showcased the variety and talent of the city’s live performance scene.