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La Jolla Music Society’s SummerFest returns to The Conrad, expanded to four glorious weeks! Music Director Inon Barnatan has created an ambitious program, evocatively titled “Under the Influence,” exploring the muses that seduced and inspired some of the greatest composers in musical history. During the Festival, we’ll hear the magnetic effect of Wagner and J.S. Bach on their peers, travel to the salons of Paris, and experience the sins and merry pranks of Kurt Weill and Strauss. We’ll spend a genre-defying and unique week with opera stars, dancers, and jazz luminaries, and go further under the influence in a new intermission-free Wednesday series that welcomes audiences into the worlds of Shakespeare, Vivaldi, and more followed by a social and culinary experience in the Wu Tsai QRT.yrd. Garrick Ohlsson, Augustin Hadelich, Liza Ferschtman, Marc-André Hamelin, Caroline Shaw, Carter Brey, Joyce Yang, Anthony Roth Costanzo, Cécile McLorin Salvant, the Dover and Miró Quartets, and many more astounding artists will join us in La Jolla for a Festival you won’t want to miss! The "Under the Influence" Music Festival will run from Friday, July 29 through Friday, August 26 at The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center. View all SumerFest 2022 lineup here! Get tickets for three events and receive a special discount. For more information, please visit ljms.org/summerfest or call (858) 459-3728.

Broadway-legend-in-training Stephen Sondheim was a college sophomore in 1948 when his musical Phinney's Rainbow was produced — and recorded — at Williams College in Massachusetts.

A brush fire blackened scores of open acres in the area of Barnett Ranch County Preserve.

Stream now with KPBS Passport before the KPBS broadcast on Saturday, Aug. 19, 2023 at 7 p.m. on KPBS 2 and 9 p.m. on KPBS TV + Encore Sunday, Aug. 20 at 6:30 p.m. on KPBS 2. Join the GRAMMY-winning guitarist for his Royal Albert Hall concert taped in November 2022. The music icon brings his virtuosic playing to his greatest hits, including “Show Me the Way,” “Baby, I Love Your Way” and many more.

Rising cases of flu, RSV, and new COVID variants are raising concerns that the viruses could surge at once and stress hospitals. Then, California voters are being asked to enshrine reproductive rights into the state constitution in the upcoming election. We discuss the details of Proposition 1. Next, voters are weighing in on two sports betting propositions on the November ballot. And, political ads bombard the public with information about everything from sports betting to immigration. But who is responsible for making sure the content of those advertisements is factual? Finally, October is Filipino American History Month - and San Diego is home to one of the largest Filipino communities in the state of California. We take a look at the KPBS docuseries “Out of the Boondocks,” which features Filipino artists and creatives who discuss how the importance of their work ties into their cultural identities.

When Shane McCrae was almost 4 years old, his maternal grandparents, who were white supremacists, took him from his father, who is Black. His new memoir is Pulling the Chariot of the Sun.

From San Diego weekend arts preview (KPBS feature): Minerva Cuevas' new exhibition at ICA North is literally coated in oil. The next artist in residence at the Encinitas branch of the new Institute of Contemporary Art San Diego is the Mexico City-based interdisciplinary, conceptual artist. There are three distinct parts to this exhibition: one is a gigantic mural, with red paint and black oil, with an easy-to-imagine fantasy world where the oil has taken over the natural world. Another is sculptural displays of vintage oil and petroleum-based products and advertisements, sprouting with plastic flowers. The third, my favorites of the exhibition, are landscape paintings — think serene ocean waves gently lapping against a rocky coastline. Cuevas dips the edge of each canvas in a viscous tar used for asphalt and roads ("chapopote" in Spanish). The tar adheres but oozes thickly off the canvas, ultimately drying into a sculptural element that's equal parts ominous symbolism and grotesque, ink-black stalactites. — Julia Dixon Evans, KPBS Exhibition details: Cuevas' work will be on view at ICA North from Saturday, Feb. 19 through May 1, 2022. Gallery hours are Thursday through Sunday, noon to 5 p.m. Make a reservation here. Free/pay as you wish. Cuevas' studio work hours are February 19, 20, 26, 27, and March 5 from 3-5 p.m. Opening reception: Friday, Feb. 18 from 5:30-8:30 p.m. with music from DJ Sam Sega and an artist talk/Q&A. RSVP here. Related links: ICA San Diego on Instagram ICA San Diego on Facebook The New Institute Of Contemporary Art San Diego Wants To Question Everything (KPBS feature)

Though the Bay's vibrant rap community lit the fuse on many of the stars, styles and innovations that have blown up across the map, the region might still be best known for being underestimated.

Rapid growth has overwhelmed Tijuana’s already fragile infrastructure, with sometimes deadly consequences.

The creator of the KonMari method says there are other things that spark joy besides a totally tidy home.