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"Water on Metal" is an exhibition of 26 watercolors by Vista artist Krista Timberlake: a collection of watercolor paintings melding animals and figures with machinery and mechanical parts. These works explore the juxtaposition of the unexpected: a mechanized world where cold metal becomes organic & fluid & takes unexpected forms by creating weird & wonderful machines rendered in untamed colors and watercolors. At City Hall, 505 S. Vulcan Avenue, Encinitas Calif. Show runs January 6 through February 27 and can be viewed during City Hall hours. Reception Saturday, January 29 from 6-9 p.m., as part of Art Night in Encinitas.

Glazing Bowls Choose your date from the drop-down menu | from 2 – 4 p.m. All ages welcome! Looking for something fun and creative to try with mom, your besties, or your family? Curious about the glazing process? Join artist Lydia Kardos as she leads this outdoor workshop decorating and glazing pottery bowls. She’ll show you how to get lovely colors and teach creative techniques for customizing your bowl. The bowls we prepare for you to glaze are made from high quality, mid-fire clay, which is food-safe and will last for years and years. Fun for all ages and skill levels. Projects will be ready for pick up 1 – 2 weeks after the class. Note: Price is per person making a project, so please add to your order as many as will participate in making their own project. • Scholarships available • Homeschoolers welcome • Military and sibling discounts Social Media Facebook | Instagram | Twitter

Countertops made of the engineered stone "quartz" are incredibly popular, but public health experts say cutting this material unsafely can expose workers to deadly dust.

Though defined from the start by outsiders — hip-hop flyover country one day, scrutiny magnet the next — Chicago's poets, brawlers and hustlers remain the last word on what gives the city its soul.

On Tuesday, January 10 at 7 p.m. the Coronado Public Library, in partnership with Warwick's, will host Matthew Black as he discusses and signs his new book, Operation Underworld: How the Mafia and U.S. Government Teamed Up to Win World War II. This event is open to the public, seating is first-come, first-served, subject to availability. Guaranteed preferred seating is available with purchase of Operation Underground through Warwick's Bookstore. Please visit here or call them at 858-454-0347 for more information. Matthew Black is a labor and crime historian who was recruited by James P. Hoffa's office in 2016 to author Dave Beck - A Teamsters Life. Black has also worked as a staff writer for the San Diego Union-Tribune and has written articles for Alaska Airlines magazine. He has published dozens of articles on History101, where he has individually brought some 42 million readers to his work. Born and raised in Seattle, he is a graduate of the University of Washington with an honors degree in history. While he travels the country and the world at a feverish pace in search of stories, he calls San Diego home, where he lives with his wife and daughter. About "Operation Underworld": In 1942, a rational fear was mounting that New York Harbor was vulnerable to sabotage. If the waterfront was infested with German and Italian agents then the U.S. Navy needed a recourse just as insidious to secure it. Naval intelligence officer, Commander Charles Radcliffe Haffenden had the solution: recruit as his own spies, members of La Cosa Nostra. Pier to pier, no one terrified the longshoremen, stevedores, shopkeepers, and boat captains along the harbor better than the Mafia gangs of New York, who controlled the docks in Manhattan and Brooklyn. Haffenden was prepared to make a deal with the devil–the man who put “organized” into organized crime. Even from his cell in Dannemora State Prison, former Public Enemy #1, Charles “Lucky” Luciano still had tremendous power. Luciano was willing to wield it for Haffenden. But he wanted something in return—Luciano’s contacts in Italy to track the Nazis’ movements. "Operation Underworld" is a tale of espionage and crime like no other, the unbelievable, first-ever account of the Allied war effort’s clandestine coalition between the Mafia and the U.S. Government to protect New York, vanquish the Nazis by taking the fight to the enemy in the 1943 U.S. invasion of Sicily. It was an ingenious strategy carried out by some of history’s most infamous, improbable, and unsung heroes on both sides of the law. It was a Faustian bargain that brought homefront enemies together but, as journalist and crime historian Matthew Black reveals, one that ultimately succeeded in helping the Allies win World War II. Stay Connected on Social Media! Facebook | Instagram | Twitter

From The Book Catapult: The Book Catapult is pleased to welcome back GennaRose Nethercott for her debut novel, Thistlefoot on Sunday, January 8 at 5:00 p.m.. Like her previous event at TBC in 2019, the event will feature an intricate shadow-puppetry crankie box which animates segments of the text through scrolling, panoramic hand-cut paper images! In the tradition of modern fairy tales like Neil Gaiman's American Gods and Naomi Novik's Spinning Silver comes a sweeping epic rich in Eastern European folklore - a debut novel about the ancestral hauntings that stalk us, and the uncanny power of story. The Yaga siblings - Bellatine, a young woodworker, and Isaac, a wayfaring street performer and con artist - have been estranged since childhood, separated both by resentment and by wide miles of American highway. But when they learn that they are to receive a mysterious inheritance, the siblings are reunited - only to discover that their bequest isn’t land or money, but something far stranger: a sentient house on chicken legs. Thistlefoot, as the house is called, has arrived from the Yagas’ ancestral home in Russia - but not alone. A sinister figure known only as the Longshadow Man has tracked it to American shores, bearing with him violent secrets from the past: fiery memories that have hidden in Isaac and Bellatine’s blood for generations. As the Yaga siblings embark with Thistlefoot on a final cross-country tour of their family’s traveling theater show, the Longshadow Man follows in relentless pursuit, seeding destruction in his wake. Ultimately, time, magic, and legacy must collide - erupting in a powerful conflagration to determine who gets to remember the past and craft a new future. An enchanted adventure illuminated by Jewish myth and adorned with lyrical prose as tantalizing and sweet as briar berries, Thistlefoot is an immersive modern fantasy saga by a bold new talent. GennaRose Nethercott is a writer and folklorist. Her first book, The Lumberjack’s Dove, was selected by Louise Glück as a winner of the National Poetry Series, and whether authoring novels, poems, ballads, or even fold-up paper cootie catchers, her projects are all rooted in myth—and what our stories reveal about who we are. She tours nationally and internationally performing strange tales (sometimes with puppets in tow) and composing poems-to-order for strangers on an antique typewriter with her team, the Traveling Poetry Emporium. She lives in the woodlands of Vermont, beside an old cemetery. Thistlefoot is her debut novel. (Seen here, GennaRose and her "crankie box" for Thistlefoot.) Related links: The Book Catapult on Instagram

Jazz saxophonist Charles Lloyd performs with his Ocean Trio, filled out by guitarist Anthony Wilson and pianist Gerald Clayton. Bassist Larry Grenadier will be joins as a special guest. Lloyd is widely revered as one of the greatest living jazz artists, having played the world’s leading festivals and stages throughout a remarkable seven-decade career. The concert will not be held at the Athenaeum, but will take place at the Irwin M. Jacobs Qualcomm Auditorium in Sorrento Mesa. This 85th birthday celebration is an opportunity to hear a jazz legend still in his prime backed by an excellent crew. Follow on Social Media! Facebook + Instgram

The all new Del Mar Antiques + Art + Design Show organized by Dolphin Promotions will be held from Friday, January 14 to Sunday, January 16 at the Del Mar Fairgrounds Bing Crosby Hall and feature nearly 60 quality dealers from California and across the U.S. The Del Mar Antiques + Art + Design Show will present nearly 60 premier exhibitors offering a broad range of quality antiques including fine antique furniture, silver, paintings, bronzes, weaponry, porcelain, Asian antiques, antique and estate jewelry and watches, pottery, lighting, crystal, prints, rugs, rare books, textiles, posters, toys, dolls, vintage designer clothing and accessories, crystal and porcelain repair, and much more! Get tickets here! For more information including a list of exhibitors visit www.delmarantiques.com or email info@dolphinfairs.com. Dolphin Promotions can also be reached at 708-366-2710 or 954-202-1955.

A blockbuster new study finds that America's elite private colleges are systematically giving huge advantages to rich kids over their equally bright, yet less privileged peers.

The Puerto Rican vocalist brings her distinctive songs of desire and longing to the Tiny Desk.