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The county reminded beach-goers that contaminated water could cause illness and is unsafe for swimming.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the Trump administration can end protections for people from Haiti and Syria. The ruling adds uncertainty for over 350,000 people, including thousands of Haitians in the San Diego region. We hear how the local Haitian community is reacting to the ruling.

San Diego once had a streetcar network connecting downtown to neighborhoods including North Park, City Heights, Mission Beach and La Jolla. We explore how the rise of the automobile reshaped development in the region and changed how people move through the city today.

Several nonprofits and immigrant rights organization told KPBS that Mayor Todd Gloria has not been collaborative or transparent in creating a response plan for how to handle a Minneapolis-style immigration enforcement operation in San Diego.

03. Around the World Kids' Camp (Ages 7–13) June Rubin & Inocente Galicia June 15–19: Monday–Friday, 9–11:30 a.m (5 days, 12.5 hours of instruction) La Jolla Studio $210/$230 +$20 materials fee paid to instructor During our five-day art camp, we will have fun making art while learning about art from many places around the world. You will make your own Mexican piñata, paint an African cheetah, fold Japanese origami, draw an Icelandic puffin, paint the pyramids of Egypt, create a San Diego collage, and paint your own Australian tropical fish. We will use watercolor and acrylic paints, origami and decorative papers, tissue paper, crayons, markers, and pencils. June Rubin has been teaching art for over 30 years. She is a graduate of both the University of California, Los Angeles and Art Center College of Design with degrees in art and cultural anthropology. She has an art studio in Liberty Station, Point Loma. She loves teaching art to kids—sharing her enthusiasm for art and encouraging everyone's creativity. Max students: 14 Athenaeum Music & Arts Library on Facebook / Instagram

"Unrolling Paradise" explores the Persian garden as a living design tradition carried through textiles, memory, and everyday objects. Interdisciplinary artist Maryam Bayat reinterprets centuries-old carpet aesthetics through sculptural works that merge traditional Persian rugs with contemporary form and function. Raised in Tehran in a family of rug producers and now based in North County San Diego, Bayat draws from inherited craft to create installations that reflect on place, belonging, and cultural continuity. Her woven sculptures—appearing as furniture, abstract trees, and domestic interiors—extend the symbolism of the garden into three-dimensional space, linking ideas of sanctuary to personal and collective memory. This exhibition is curated by Sadry Hedayat and organized in collaboration with Persian Place. The exhibition opens alongside Nowruz – Persian New Year on March 14, 2026, from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. Maryam Bayat is an interdisciplinary artist working across painting, sculpture, and functional art. Using repurposed furniture, Persian rugs, and architectural forms, she repositions domestic materials within three-dimensional space, shifting them from utility to structure. Raised in Tehran in a family of rug producers, Bayat draws from inherited craft traditions shaped by repetition, pattern, and labor. Her work examines how cultural knowledge is carried through objects and adapted across generations, connecting ideas of home, belonging, and continuity to lived experience. Bayat lives and works in the United States. California Center for the Arts Museum on Facebook / Instagram

A game once associated with grandparents is finding a new generation of fans. As mahjong clubs fill up and social media fuels curiosity, players are rediscovering a pastime that offers a mix of strategy, luck and a place to belong.

Artificial intelligence programs have been described in many ways, but perhaps the best way to understand how we can benefit as writers from the use of Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and others is to think of them as our sidekicks. Eager and helpful assistants that can do things faster and better than us as long as we give them the right instructions. This course is about which AI programs are the best for which tasks, what is possible with AI, and how to use it without crossing any ethical lines. You’ll learn how to benefit from AI when it comes to research and writing and how to design and produce amazing covers, websites, and marketing materials. AI can do things for a fraction of the cost and in the blink of an eye, including creating audio books, apps, and other complimentary (and lucrative) ancillary items. As promising as this sounds, we’ll also look at the ways in which we can lose authenticity and credibility if we take it too far. This is a hands-on, interactive, and solution-oriented program presented as a discussion and brainstorming session so we learn how to make the most of these powerful new tools to take our ideas, bring them to life, and get them out to the masses. Come with your questions and suggestions, and leave with a whole new way of working that opens up possibilities that weren’t available just a couple of years ago. San Diego Writers, Ink on Facebook / Instagram

Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Sal Veder, who was known for his iconic image “Burst of Joy,” has died.

Mayor Todd Gloria joined city Transportation Department officials at Willow Elementary School in San Ysidro to announce that the surrounding neighborhood and Otay Mesa would see the first reductions in school zones — but work will continue throughout the city in coming weeks.