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The Times is the first major news publisher to take OpenAI to court over the use of its copyright material in its popular chatbot. The suit follows months of tense negotiations between the two sides.

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

All ages welcome! Children under age 8 must be accompanied by an adult. Instructor Hayley Haspel-Winick will show you how to recycle and reuse paper in a creative and joyful way. Come make holiday paper or paper sculptures! Art paper such as this is made from paper scraps and natural dye along with small decorative or meaningful items to sprinkle on your paper — petals from your favorite flower, seeds, leaves, yarns, fibers, or even a note with a word that holds significance to you. This workshop is meant for you to create your own special creation out of ordinary paper you might otherwise throw away. This is an excellent workshop to do with a child. If you’d like to work on one single project with your child, just purchase one ticket. Stay Social! Facebook | Instagram | Twitter

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

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

Technology-driven immersive art installations are wildly popular. And, there's plenty of money to be made from these shows. But is there any value?

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

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

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.

As relations sour with India and China, Canada is grappling with how to stand up to powerful or authoritarian nations without sacrificing its longstanding values, such as protecting human rights.