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Our top picks for Halloween fun in San Diego this season: Lon Chaney, "Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors," and the return of 'Rocky Horror."

There's nothing quite like a tailgate, where fans serve food to strangers who share the same passion. We went to a Philadelphia Eagles tailgate to learn what drives this uniquely American tradition.

Premieres Tuesday, July 1, 2025 at 10:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. Syria's uncertain future under Jihadist-turned-statesman Ahmad al-Sharaa. After the fall of Bashar al-Assad, Correspondent Martin Smith travels the country tracing al-Sharaa's rise to power, and the emerging threats to the country's stability.

The pop star's fourth album, her first since 2021's polarizing Solar Power, finds the 28-year-old shedding the stoic self-possession that defined her early career.

An evening with Mr. Poe and Other Authors of the Macabre WRITE OUT LOUD, an organization founded in 2007 with a commitment to inspire, challenge and entertain by reading literature aloud for audiences of all ages, announces “Poe and His Progeny,” at the Villa Montezuma Museum in Sherman Heights. This historic Queen Anne Victorian was named “The Palace of the Arts," by Jessie Shepard, the musician, spiritualist and author who designed it in 1887. Performances will take place on October 25, 26, 31 and November 1. There are three performances each evening at 6 p.m., 7:30 p.m. and 9 p.m. Tickets are $30. Patrons can reserve tickets at https://writeoutloudsd.com/poe-and-his-progeny/ or by calling 619-297-8953 Join Edgar Allan Poe and his guests, Mary Shelly, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Guy de Maupassant, and others, for the retelling of The Fall of the House of Usher, Frankenstein, A Tress of Hair and more, while immersed in the stunning Victorian backdrop of the Villa Montezuma. Experience the gripping imagery of Gothic masters of the mysterious, shared by some of San Diego’s most talented performers. Write Out Loud Artistic Director, Veronica Murphy shared “For this haunting season, we are once again partnering with the Friends of Villa Montezuma to bring our audience a chilling literary experience. The mansion’s music room serves as a backdrop for these stories by some of our favorite authors.” Location:The Villa Montezuma Museum is located at 1925 K St., San Diego 92102. The Villa Montezuma is an historic building with no elevator. Performers include: Paul Maley, Laurence Brown, Rhianna Basore, and more San Diego favorites.

The website Rest of World got entries from 45 countries for a photo contest focusing on technology. Here are their top picks — from facial scans for migrants to kids in a Mongolian tent transfixed by a film.

Aren Skalman Community Room Artist in Residence July 31 to Aug. 20. 2023 About Aren’s Residency at Art Produce: Transforming an object’s form and function is an exercise in navigating the fluid and reciprocal boundaries between self and other. During this residency I will be revisiting my family’s history of traveling to other countries in order to pursue creative endeavors. By displaying objects and imagery, painting, sculpting, and conversing with the community, I will examine ideas around inspiration, hybridization, appropriation, and evangelism. About the Artist: Aren Skalman is an artist based in San Diego. In 2012 and 2013 he traveled to India as a Fulbright Scholar, where he constructed a rolling, musical sculpture. Aren presented a solo exhibition of sound-generating objects at the Athenaeum Music and Arts Library in winter 2016. His work has been included in group exhibitions at Bread and Salt, Space 4 Art, SDSU Downtown Gallery, San Diego Art Institute, the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, San Diego City College and Centro Estatal de las Artes, Tijuana & Ensenada. In 2017—along with other Ready Lane participants—he exhibited site-specific objects, altering the space inside a decommissioned Boeing 747 aircraft on the campus of Instituto Tecnológico de Tijuana, in collaboration with the aeronautics department. Aren is currently the Lead Exhibits Designer + Fabricator at the San Diego Natural History Museum. Aren Skalman on Instagram Gallery Hours: Wednesday 5-8 p.m.* Thursday 2-8 p.m. Friday 2-8 p.m. Saturday 5-8 p.m. Sunday 5-8 p.m. *Entry through Botanica Wednesday-Sunday 5-8 p.m. Art Produce on Facebook / Instagram

During our Chocolate Making Classes you will learn, create, eat and laugh! We offer chocolate making classes for adults and children 5 years and older*. Our hands-on chocolate making classes are about 1 ½- 2 hours long and limited to 10 students (or 10 child/ parent teams). There you will learn the basics of working with chocolate, create your own bark, molded chocolates and more. During class, students will play with favorite flavors like salted caramel and peanut butter cup and select monthly themed flavors made by chocolatier Michelle Lomelin. Students will also select from more than two dozen ingredients as they personalize a chocolate bark – with favorite flavors including freeze dried fruits and savory pretzels, potato chips and a wide selection of nuts. Plus, you will get to keep all your creations! Our chocolate making classes are offered one Saturday a month and each month has its own theme. AUGUST- “Paradise Bound!” This month we can work with the flavors of the islands! For molded chocolates we will have coconut cream ganache and passion fruit caramel. For barks we will have toasted coconut and macadamia nuts, dried pineapple and mango. *each child 5-12 yrs. old must have a parent helper. Children 13 yrs. old and older are purchased as individuals. All adults are purchased as individuals. *As a thank you, we offer 15% off our retail selection For more information visit: sweetpetiteconfections.com/events Stay Connected on Facebook and Instagram

As Part of the Far South Border North Grant Katie Ruiz, The founder of the Pompom Project engaged the community throughout the city of San Diego in Craft making- Pompom workshops. Ruiz's ongoing Pompom Project engages diverse communities in a collaborative creative process. The experience of coming together to create with one's hands and working towards a shared goal promotes investment and pride in community and shared spaces. Through the communal act of making, strangers come together to work for a common goal resulting in relationship building and community care. Hundreds of participants produced over 1000 pompoms during 8 public workshops over the last four months. The free workshops offered lessons on "Craftivism" a term coined by Betsy Greer in 2003 which refers to craft and activism coming together through art. The Pompoms have been installed in two locations; Sew Loka, a textile store in Logan Heights that focuses on slow fashion and community building, and Villa Merced, senior community room, a branch of Casa Familiar. Sew Loka comprises partners Claudia Biezunski Rodriguez and Manny Biezunski, both of whom are artist. Claudia makes one of one clothing items from recycled and reclaimed materials. Manny is a videographer and marketing person who created a documentary of the pompom project FBSN grant process. The reveal of the public facing art installation and the documentary will be on view at the reception on May 25, 2024 from 12 - 6 p.m. During the reception you are invited to view the new Pompom installation, watch the documentary of the process, make your own pompom, and view one of a kind Sew Loka fashions. For more information visit: katieruizart.com Stay Connected on Instagram

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