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"Weird Al" Yankovic's self-titled debut came out 40 years ago, on May 3, 1983. So our resident super-fan listened to all of his songs and ranked the 40 best.

Dive into photography and digital media with Outside the Lens at our after-school program for students in grades 3-5: Photo + Mixed Media. You’ll learn how to brainstorm and create unique photography and mixed media projects. You will learn from Outside the Lens Media Educators through different hands-on projects that include mixed media, animation, digital art, and photo collage! Through participatory, arts-integrated projects, you will explore the world around you and express your story. Photo + Mixed Media takes place at Chavez Elementary School, Monday through Thursday after school from 2:25 p.m. to 5 p.m. (12:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m. on half days), starting on March 7 through June 13. For more information, please visit outsidethelens.org/workshops or call Outside The Lens at (858) 349-7578.

Join us in a celebration for a cause, bringing light and resources to suicide awareness and mental health with an interactive music and art experience. This inaugural event is inspired and dedicated to singer/songwriter Kiela Gwin, who died of suicide at the age of 27 in 2019. During this unique and uplifting event, we will come together to hear Kiela's beautiful music, interactively paint a mural that honors all loved ones lost to suicide, and raise money for the incredible work of local nonprofit, Survivors of Suicide Loss (SOSL). There will also be a silent auction, DJ and hors d'oeuvres. All proceeds from this event will go directly to SOSL. In bringing this fundraiser to life, we are hoping to shine a light on the issues surrounding suicide and give people an avenue to come out of the shadows and celebrate the lives of those lost together, making this a topic of discussion for everyone to have –not just those directly affected. Date | Thursday, February 24 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Location | FruitCraft Fermentery & Distillery Get tickets here! General admission: $40 VIP admission: $100 Premium + Art admission: $75 Donations are highly appreciated. We will have a live stream of the event available on the Catch Your Light Facebook page for those who cannot attend in person. For more information, please visit eventbrite.com/e/catch-your-light-a-suicide-awareness-fundraiser or call the venue at (877) 484-6282.

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

Dive into photography and digital media with Outside the Lens at our after-school program for students in grades 3-5: Photo + Mixed Media. You’ll learn how to brainstorm and create unique photography and mixed media projects. You will learn from Outside the Lens Media Educators through different hands-on projects that include mixed media, animation, digital art, and photo collage! Through participatory, arts-integrated projects, you will explore the world around you and express your story. Photo + Mixed Media takes place at Ibarra Elementary School, Monday through Thursday after school from 3:25 p.m. to 5:15 p.m. (12:45 p.m. -5:00 p.m. on half days), from March 7 to June 13. These workshops are designed for grades 3rd to 5th. For questions regarding this program please email grants@outsidethelens.org.

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 race is on for the San Diego County Board of Supervisors District 4 seat. The district includes parts of central and Southeast San Diego, La Mesa, Lemon Grove and Spring Valley.

The race is on for the San Diego County Board of Supervisors District 4 seat. The district includes parts of central and Southeastern San Diego, La Mesa, Lemon Grove and Spring Valley.