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For decades, government scientists have toiled away trying to make nuclear fusion work. Will commercial companies sprint to the finish?

Disney's trading card game expansion has keen art and underbaked mechanics, while Descent: The Betrayer's War and Ticket to Ride Legacy offer huge campaigns for invested gamers.

In a Pennsylvania district, school board elections have turned from debates about teacher salaries to issues like gender identity policies.

The Biden Administration has told colleges they risk losing federal funding if they don't take aggressive steps to curb attacks on Jewish students, and harassment of pro-Palestinian students.

Three strangers are ushered into a room, only to realize that they are destined to spend the rest of their miserable eternity confined together in close quarters. Based on Jean-Paul Sartre’s 1944 existentialist play, "NO EXIT" offers a simple yet diabolical vision of the afterlife, in which the tools of torture are rooted not in physical pain, but in the frailty of human vanity, spite, jealousy, and self-delusion. In its West Coast premiere, Andy Vores’s chamber opera brings musical inventiveness and dark humor to Sartre’s text, and breathes fiendish life into its assertion that “Hell is other people”. Robert Castro, director Victoria Petrovich, designer Miguel Zazueta-Cervera, tenor Mariana Flores-Bucio, soprano Leslie Ann Leytham, mezzo-soprano Jonathan Nussman, baritone Stay Social! Facebook & Instagram

Date: May 18, 2023 Time: 5 p.m. - 8 p.m. Location: UC San Diego Atkinson Hall Host: Shahrokh Yadegari Agenda: 5 p.m. Performance in Atkinson Hall's auditorium 6 p.m. Atkinson Hall pre-function area/courtyard for reception RSVP to ideasqi@ucsd.edu by noon, May 18. The Qualcomm Institute’s (QI) IDEAS series presents “Pigments of Imagination,” an interactive virtual reality experience that frames the creative process as a narrative relating the inner-workings of one’s unique imagination to the universe around us. It is an observation on the beauty, fear, adventure, sadness and loneliness of self-discovery and the artist’s ultimate recognition of process as goal, as told through the story of a small child’s journey to the moon. The installation is designed to reimagine the popular music video in a virtual space as a dynamic, emotionally engaging experience by exploring distinctive relationships between spatialization, audiovisual reactivity and interactivity, which allow for a narrative immersion that maintains a structured arc and conclusion but unique experience with each use. This piece features musical contributions from UC San Diego Music’s King Britt, Steph Richards and Zach Konick, and vocalist Nick Tolford. Singular virtual reality experiences will be offered in addition to the general presentation. Bios: Timothy Gmeiner is a San Diego, California-based interdisciplinary artist and music producer. He has toured internationally under the name “Ill Poetic” and garnered public acclaim for his releases from artists and publications such as Rolling Stone, Pitchfork and Portishead. Through his company SoundRzn Design, he has provided audio and visual services for artists, universities and companies of various industries including the San Diego Symphony, OWN and HBO. He has worked as the Assistant Director at QI’s Audio Spatialization Lab and is currently enrolled in UC San Diego’s Computer Music Ph.D. program, where he focuses on audiovisual relationships in virtual and physical spaces. Current projects and collaborations focus on spatialized and interactive compositions in virtual reality, audiovisual live performance and large-scale real-time reactive installations. Eito Murakami is a master’s student at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) at Stanford University. He graduated from UC San Diego with bachelor’s degrees in Interdisciplinary Computing and the Arts Music (ICAM) and Political Science/International Relations. Murakami is an electronic composer, performer, sound designer and virtual reality developer. By combining his classical music training with proficiency in audio and graphics software, he creates digital interfaces and instruments that promote intuitive musical performance. Specifically, he specializes in Unreal Engine to develop audiovisual infrastructure that allows multiplayer interactions in virtual 3D environments. Murakami is a former member of the Sonic Arts Research and Development group at QI.

A new show at The Globe comes from Montreal-based The 7 Fingers circus collective.

Sofia Coppola's glistening take on Priscilla Presley's life with Elvis is immersive and sad. But who exactly IS Priscilla, anyway?

Join us, Thursday, February 2 @ 7:30 p.m. at Grand Comedy in Escondido, California for an evening of laughs to benefit REINS Therapeutic Horsemanship Program. American Me Comedy and Stefani N. Von Huben are bringing together a very funny line-up of comics including Nic Novicki, Jason Rogers, Von Decarlo, Alan Henderson, and Kevin Davis! Proceeds from tickets sales will be donated to REINS Therapeutic Horsemanship Program: a non-profit organization committed to supporting and improving the physical, mental, and emotional health of disabled children and adults with adaptive equine-assisted activities. At REINS (for 40 years, with a current enrollment of nearly 200 weekly students) both children and adults with disabilities participate in various forms of therapy that benefits a wide range of disabling conditions including: cerebral palsy, autism, down syndrome, head injuries, PTSD, hearing impaired, visually impaired, multiple sclerosis, seizure disorders, speech & learning disabilities, and sensory integration dysfunction. Some of the physical, mental, and emotional benefits of REINS include normalization of muscle tone, increased balance & coordination, developments of speech & language, and improvements in body awareness & self-esteem. Tickets are $20 and there is a 2 drink minimum per person. 18+ age requirement Come enjoy our one-nite comedy event and help us stand-up together in support of REINS! It's going to be a hilarious night of #changing lives one laugh and one ride at a time. REINS Therapeutic Horsemanship Program on Facebook / Instagram Grand Comedy Club on Facebook / Instagram American Me Comedy on Instagram

The educational nonprofit behind Sesame Street has created videos and stories for caregivers or therapists to share with kids 6 and under, to help explain addiction or why parents need treatment.