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Ongoing on Thursdays from 4 – 5:30pm Ages 6-12 welcome! Lead instructor, Hayley Winick, collaborates with guest instructors to teach this month-long series full of hands-on, engaging crafts using STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Math). The hands-on activities will allow your child to express themselves in a creative way, practice and build fine motor skills, eye-hand coordination and much more. This series is a wonderful introduction to a creative and nurturing learning environment. Projects encourage problem solving in creative and innovative ways, and include wood, textiles, clay, paper, and glass. Young students will make beautiful pieces to take home over the course of the series. All materials included. Students explore a variety of mediums to teach hand skills to children using safe, natural materials. Each project teaches craftsmanship, dexterity and material exploration. Projects range from woodworking, sewing, ceramics, paper crafts, textiles to fusing glass. Young students will make beautiful pieces to take home over the course of the series. All materials included. Projects are switched up monthly, so repeats are welcome! October focus: Textiles November focus: Reduce-Reuse December focus: Giving Back

Opera Wednesdays: Dec. 14, 2022, 7 - 8:30 p.m. Opera singer, tenor Bernardo Bermundez Opera Wednesdays features a different roster of local singers on each program, offering a selection of mostly operatic highlights (arias and art songs) as well as Broadway tunes and American classics for variety. During each concert, four singers consisting of past and present Metropolitan Opera competition winners, active San Diego Opera performers, and singers who have sung all over the world perform with some of the area's most sought-after pianists. Cost: $10-20 suggested donation; $100 percent of donations go directly to the artists. Registration: www.ljcommunitycenter.org/opera-wednesdays La Jolla Community Center on Facebook / Instagram

A Jean-Philippe Rameau opera, left unfinished at time of his death and recently completed by a musicologist, gets its premiere 280 years later, with extravagant costumes.

The singer and actor's lawsuit against Nigel Lythgoe is the latest in a string of high-profile cases filed right before portions of California's Sexual Abuse and Cover Up Accountability Act expire.

The Black and Brown Nerds Expo is a small convention focused on Black and Brown arts, comics, literature, gaming, pop culture, businesses, and Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM). The Black and Brown Nerds Expo will be on Saturday, Nov. 5, 2022 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. PST at MiraCosta College (1 Barnard Drive, Oceanside, CA 92056). Participate in contests, get educated on Black and Brown nerdism, and celebrate the day with Black and Brown nerds, artists, creators, entrepreneurs, performers, and careers. Go to blackandbrownnerds.com for more information! The first 100 attendees to register will be entered into a raffle! Register at https://blackandbrownnerds.com!

Ocean had been scheduled to headline and close out the festival Sunday.

Experience the innovative work of prolific artist Cheryl Tall as we welcome her to Front Porch Gallery. This inventive exhibition features Tall’s sculpture, paintings, and artist books, which use metaphor and myth to create surrealistic worlds. Using imaginative techniques, Tall’s work explores a range of topics including social and environmental issues, relationships, nostalgia, inherited histories, and our search for meaning and place. WHEN | July 16 – September 2, 2023 - Opening Reception – July 16, Noon – 2 p.m. - Gallery Hours: Wednesday - Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. VENUE | Front Porch Gallery ADMISSION | Free For more information about the exhibit, please visit here or call 760.795.6120. Connect with Cheryl Tall on Social Media! Facebook & Instagram

Join us, Wednesday July 19, 2023 at the historic La Jolla Comedy Store for an evening of laughs to benefit the local nonprofit organization: The Randy Jones Foundation. The American Me Comedy tour and Stefani N. Von Huben are bringing together a hilarious line-up of comics including host Jason Rogers, Kevin Mac, "Dr Botox" Danielle Marr Collins ("Dublin Housewives"), Anya Zova, Dylan Fisher, and San Diego's own Bob Hansen. It's going to be a fun night of comedy for a cause in support of The Randy Jones Foundation. Tickets may be purchased online: https://www.showclix.com/event/american-me-lj-712- Tickets are $20 and there is a 2 drink minimum per person. 21+ with VALID ID, if you have a foreign ID, you also need a passport! Proceeds from tickets sales will be donated to The Randy Jones Foundation: a San Diego non-profit organization committed since 2017 to providing new opportunities and resources for our military families, our kids and our community through education, housing, and outdoor activities. Along with sporting events, educational programs, and outdoor activities, The Randy Jones Foundation also provides youth scholarships for driven student athletes 13-18 years old. These scholarships offer children of service members education, food, housing and financial assistance that helps provide a path for them to participate in athletic programs they would not be able to otherwise afford. Renewable scholarships are awarded on the basis of athletic ability, potential to succeed, and commitment to academic excellence. College readiness is a desired outcome for these prominent military children. The Randy Jones Foundation values the military community and is compelled to bring resources that truly make a difference. Come share this special one-nite comedy event in support of The Randy Jones Foundation! With your support, we can make an impact on our San Diego community's children, our future, and change lives, one laugh at a time! Randy Jones Foundation on Facebook / Instagram

Monday, Feb. 20, 2023 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS App. Visit Music City for astonishing finds including a Civil War Union soldier archive, Disneyland railroad hat badges, ca. 1957, and an art deco diamond, sapphire & pearl necklace, ca. 1925. One find is $75, 000 to $85,000!

The pianist's 1958 recording At The Pershing: But Not For Me spent 108 weeks on the Billboard album chart.