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Pop culture critic Linda Holmes has been making this annual list since 2010. Big, small, inspirational, silly — what these items have in common is that they are all wonderful and brought her joy.

Opening Sept. 10 at Bread and Salt is "Middle," a solo exhibition of works by San Diego-based artist Yasmine Kasem. Reception: Sept. 10 from 5-8 p.m. during Barrio Art Crawl. About the artist: Yasmine Kasem is a multi-diciplinary artist creating works that focus on the perception of identity, navigating hybridity, reflections of personal history and remarks on social stigma. Related links: Bread and Salt website Bread and Salt on Instagram

Marjane Satrapi's memoir has a history of garnering controversy — it's been on the ALA's list of most challenged books and continues to be the subject of debate about inclusion in school curriculums.

South Korean actor Lee Sun-kyun, who played a rich entrepreneur in the Oscar-winning film Parasite, was found dead on Wednesday. Police suspect he died by suicide.

Canceled Ages 9-12 Welcome! Guest instructors teach this month-long series full of hands-on, engaging crafts using STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Math) to teach hand skills to kids using safe 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 constantly, so repeats are welcome! Follow on social media! Facebook + Instagram

Multidisciplinary artist Samora Pinderhughes has explored mass incarceration for the last eight years. With this sizeable grant, he hopes to sustain "The Healing Project" for decades to come.

After touring "Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest" across the country for five years in over 40 live engagements, Kristina Wong’s critically acclaimed one woman show is finally captured in her first ever concert film through the dynamic direction of Michael Closson. An unforgettable tour de force performance. Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is Kristina Wong’s raucous and whip-smart take on the high rates of depression and suicide among Asian American women. She sets out to single-handedly save them all by the end of her 80-minute film! She fails fantastically, creating hysterical laughter and a sobering coda. It’s one hell of a roller coaster ride! But don’t worry… it’s all fiction. Post-screening Panel Join us for a post-screening panel with Kristina Wong, Windi Sasaki (Associate Director of Asian Pacific Islander Middle Eastern Desi American Programs and Services - APIMEDA), and Dr. Louie Limas (Counseling and Psychological Services - CAPS). Related links ArtPower information Kristina Wong on Instagram

This is an extra special workshop - build priceless memories with your child in our Fa-La-La Holiday Cookies & Craft Workshop. Registration for this class is for 1 adult and 1 child. Projects included in your registration is one Youth Canvas Apron, two Holiday Ornaments and one snowman cookie set to be shared and completed together in the workshop. Our guest instructor, Jen Pillado, an awesome local cookie artist and owner of Rx: cookies. will teach us the art of cookie decorating. This is an interactive 3-hour specialty workshop and is $69 for 1 adult and 1 child. This event will start with a DIY workshop to make your choice of Youth Apron, just in time for all your holiday baking (or just cookie snacking)! Then you will have a cookie decorating lesson from Jennifer of Rx: cookies. Learn techniques, tips, and tricks from our local cookie artist. Take home your DIY project, 6 decorated cookies, and some sweet knowledge on this tasty skill! Registration fee includes your DIY project and cookie decorating instructions. Due to the custom nature of this event and product preparation needed, registration will close 3 days prior to the workshop. Stay Social! Facebook & Instagram

Exhibition on view: Aug. 22 – Sept. 8, 2022 RECEPTION: Thursday, Aug. 25, 4 – 7 P.M., ART GALLERY FA 103 FREE PARKING IN LOT # 1. PARK IN STAFF SPACES ONLY. MASKS REQUIRED. San Diego Mesa College Art Gallery hosts this exhibition of pictorial and sculptural investigations on color, light and texture, featuring recent artworks by San Diego-based artists Christian Garcia-Olivo, Kaori Fukuyama and Melissa Walter. The advent of Modernism inspired artists to explore abstraction and in the 20th century painters were motivated to pursue explorations with a variety of media in order to capture both the material and the immaterial. Jackson Pollock’s drip paintings, physically vigorous in form and action, can be contrasted with the ethereal rigor of perceptual light works by the Southern California Light and Space movement of the 60s and 70s; and to the interest on phenomenology of some conceptual art. The three artists whose works are assembled together in "The Weight of Color", "The Shape of Light", delve into these legacies; there’s a push and pull of the picture plane, a celebration of both organic and synthetic pigments while surface and materials are manipulated in novel and unexpected ways. These artists manipulate paint and pigments in novel and unexpected ways: Shaped canvases vibrate in contrasting colors; paint becomes solid like skin and thread; pulverized lava dust shaped into words. Gallery hours: M,T,W 12 - 5 pm, TH 12 am - 7 pm or by appointment. Closed Fridays, Weekends and School Holidays. For info call (619) 388-2829. Gallery website: www.sdmesa.edu/art-gallery FREE and OPEN to ALL San Diego Mesa College Art Gallery: Facebook Instagram

The controversial Israel-Hamas war is not openly included in school curricula around San Diego County.