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Hundreds of people have taken to the streets in recent days in the city of Santiago.

California's three largest utilities received approval to collect $27 billion from ratepayers after utility equipment sparked tragic wildfires. The soaring price of electricity has ignited debate about how much California families should bear for the cost of wildfire prevention, whether utilities are balancing risk and affordability and whether the money is being spent wisely.

A prior investigation rejected claims that civilians were killed and wounded in the raid targeting ISIS founder Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. The Pentagon says it's reinvestigating after an NPR report.

With a long career playing among jazz and R&B greats, he remains one of the most in-demand drummers in New Orleans.

Music pioneer and jazz legend Herbie Hancock shares his musical influences, gives a history lesson on auto-tune, and reflects on the first time he saw Aretha Franklin perform. And Bill Caballero joins us to talk about his long-running Latin Jazz Jam in Barrio Logan, the importance of providing an inclusive space, and what he calls ‘Homie Jazz’. Credits: Produced and hosted by Kurt Kohnen, Jade Hindmon, and Maureen Cavanaugh. Megan Burke is senior producer.

From the gallery: Join us Oct. 29 11 a.m. - 8 p.m. for a very special one-day only Book Release and Exhibition celebrating our good Friend and Artist Andrew Alcasid @andrewalcasid This Special Exhibition is the launch of the 2nd Publication of Bread & Salt Press-Andrew Alcasid: BMT (Bone Marrow Transplant) The Exhibition is meant to act as a fundraiser for Andrew and will exclusively show the 138 original framed watercolor paintings which make up the BMT publication with an essay in the book from Aubrey Mejia @fibonacciflorals This Book is limited to 138 copies and will only be sold with the purchase of one framed original Watercolor from the book.all the books are signed and numbered by the artist The book is printed on high quality paper in the US with a letter-pressed Linen cover We hope you join us in making this fundraiser a huge success Excerpt from the Essay in the book by Aubrey Mejia- The incessant mechanical whirring. The rhythmic clicking of machinery turned off and on. The cold and clinical air and the faint scent of disinfectant. A small, plastic cup of freshly cubed watermelons. In September and October of the year 2020, fires, carried by the Santa Ana winds, swept over and ravaged the California hillsides during record breaking heatwaves. Meanwhile, a global pandemic kept millions of citizens around the world locked in their homes. Alongside this, Andrew Alcasid sat in his own kind of isolation in the Bone Marrow Transplant unit at the Jacobs Medical Center at the University of California, San Diego. Related links: Bread and Salt on Instagram Andrew Alcasid on Instagram

The new Chicano Park Museum and Cultural Center opens in Barrio Logan.

The department dropped a case against former Rep. Jeff Fortenberry, withdrew from an investigation against Rep. Andy Ogles, and moved to dismiss the case against New York Mayor Eric Adams.

NPR's Leila Fadel meets a mother preparing for the possibility of deportation by making sure someone will be able to look after her children.

From the organizers: CULTIVATE deepens Malashock Dance’s relationships with San Diego Choreographers through new commissions and remounted works that highlight the artistic breadth of our community. PROGRAM You Are Here/Usted Está Aquí The stage premiere You Are Here/Usted Está Aquí, a multi-iteration dance project that integrates a wide range of oral histories from San Diego residents and visitors to bring diverse personal narratives to life. SEED Suite The inaugural SEED Suite, a new initiative that invites choreographers from the prior season’s SEED Concert (formerly known as Everyday Dances) to remount their work. This year’s SEED Suite will include work by Gina Bolles Sorensen and Kyle Sorensen, Khamla Somphanh, and Viviana Alcazar. Companions A remount of the 2024 San Diego Museum of Art commissioned piece Companions, by Artistic Director Christopher K. Morgan and Founding Director John Malashock, who each created a dance responding to the painting A Child’s Companion by Arshile Gorky. The Dulling Effect The world premiere of Artistic Director Christopher K. Morgan’s The Dulling Effect. Inspired by a 1934 Harvard study on how radio has a dulling effect on the higher mental processes of the listener, Christopher’s curiosity on how that dulling effect may have increased over the last 90 years of technology, and his concern that current political and legislative initiatives in the US are attempting to homogenize citizens, rather than celebrating their unique individual beauty. PERFORMANCES November 2 at 7:30 – 9:00 pm November 3 at 2:30 – 4:00 pm* LOCATION Saville Theater at City College (14th and C Street San Diego, CA) Free Parking Available! TICKETS: Preferred Reserved Seating $50 Reserved Seating $45 Student/Artist $30 Children under 12 $10