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San Diego New Music presents a unique program curated by Zane Alexander and generously underwritten by Julia S. Falk, Ph.D. at the Athenaeum Art Center. The Holy Ghost is an improvisation directed by Zane Alexander and interpreted by an ensemble of fourteen outstanding musicians from San Diego. The diverse cast of musicians of all ages and musical backgrounds will come together and be given the tools to make something beautiful and unpredictable. Simplicity, trust, and choices are what The Holy Ghost is invested in. Soprano sax soloist Ryan Ebaugh and curator Zane Alexander will guide the band through this multimovement structured improvisation, spotlighting the unique voices of San Diego's instrumentalists.

The results — the most thorough look yet at the pandemic’s toll on learning — left education officials and experts neither surprised nor hopeless.

Ukraine's domestic arms manufacturers bristle at the notion the country relies entirely on military aid from the U.S. and Europe. The country's weapons development and production, they say, is robust.

The Book Catapult is pleased to host Kevin Maloney for his new novel, The Red Headed Pilgrim on Friday, January 27 at 7:00pm. Kevin will be in-conversation with local author and KPBS arts producer, Julia Dixon Evans. On a sunny day in a business park near Portland, Oregon, 42-year-old web developer Kevin Maloney is in the throes of an existential crisis that finds him shoeless in a field of Queen Anne’s lace, reflecting on the tumultuous events that brought him to this moment. Growing up in the suburbs, young Kevin suffered “a psychological break that ripped me from my humdrum existence” mainlining high fructose corn syrup and episodes of The Golden Girls. Thus begins a journey of hard-earned insights and sexual awakening that takes Kevin from angst-ridden Beaverton to the beaches of San Diego, a frontier-themed roadside attraction in Helena, Montana, and a hermetic shack on an organic lettuce farm. Everything changes when Kevin falls in love with Wendy. After a chance tarot reading lands them on the frigid coast of Maine, their lives are unsettled by the birth of their daughter, Zoë, whose sudden presence is oftentimes terrifying, frequently disturbing, and yet - miraculously - always wondrous. The Red-Headed Pilgrim is an irresistible novel of misadventure and new beginnings, of wanderlust and bad decisions, of parenthood and divorce, and of the heartfelt truths we unearth when we least expect it. Kevin Maloney is the author of the novella Cult of Loretta and the forthcoming story collection Horse Girl Fever. At times a TJ Maxx associate, grocery clerk, outdoor school instructor, organic farmer, electrician, high school English teacher, and teddy bear salesman, he currently works as a web developer and writer. His short stories have appeared in Hobart, Barrelhouse, Green Mountains Review, and a number of other journals and anthologies. He lives in Portland, Oregon, with his wife Aubrey. Related links: The Book Catapult on Instagram

Billy Crystal, Renée Fleming, Barry Gibb, Queen Latifah and Dionne Warwick will be honored for their lifetime artistic achievements as the 46th class of Kennedy Center honorees.

Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024 at 11:30 p.m. / Stream now with the PBS App. As a U.S. border bill - which includes funding for Ukraine-dies in Congress, Ian interviews two immigration subcommittee House members, Congresswoman Victoria Spartz (R, IN) and Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren (D, CA)., on either side of the political aisle about the country's broken immigration system.

From the museum: Light Cones—a term used to express the path a flash of light travels through spacetime—presents Mexican artist Tatiana Ortiz-Rubio’s long-held interest in the complexities of time. Working in charcoal and graphite, the artist’s series of cloud sketches and murals delve into the human experience of time and its contrasting, yet indivisible, philosophical, scientific, and spiritual notions. In a nod to Jorge Luis Borges’ Clouds I sonnet, “We are the ones who drift away. The host / Of evening clouds dispersing in the west / Is our very image. . . ,” Ortiz-Rubio composes immersive, nebulous scenes to explore the instant: the small window of time we call the present, and the space between transitions. Tatiana Ortiz-Rubio is a Mexican artist whose work includes oil painting, drawing, muralism, and installation. She received her MFA from the New York Academy of Art and BA in art history and visual arts at the University of San Diego. She has exhibited in the Dominican Republic, Mexico, and United States, including Centro Cultural Tijuana, Quint Gallery, Instituto Cultural Cabañas, and Bread & Salt Gallery, where she also completed a residency. Ortiz-Rubio currently teaches drawing and painting at University of San Diego. On view Nov. 12 through Dec. 31, 2022 Related events: Opening Reception: Friday, Nov. 11, 6:30–8:30 p.m. Artist Walkthrough: Saturday, Dec. 3, 11 a.m. to noon Artist Talk: Tuesday, Dec. 13, 6:30–8:30 p.m. Related links: Athenaeum Music and Arts Library on Instagram

This election season, KPBS received a lot of questions from readers about the Central Committee contests on their ballots.

California has its own connection to the British royal family, along with hundreds of thousands of other expats, Prince Harry, his wife Meghan Markle and their two children now live in California. We wanted to hear reaction to the queen’s death from former Britons living in San Diego so we reached out to Craig Tolson, President of the House of England at Balboa Park. Then, the killing of a resident at an El Cajon nursing home raises questions about why the facility admitted a patient with a long history of severe psychiatric illness and allowed him to stay even though he had reportedly assaulted other residents. Finally, for our weekend arts preview, we have lots of visual art to tell you about, along with some music and theater to round things out.

Former President Donald Trump's anecdote about encouraging Russian aggression toward some NATO countries is a sign of his foreign policy plans if elected — or maybe it's not.