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In the arts this weekend: a new exhibition at ICA Central, free concerts from the San Diego Symphony, City Ballet at Balboa Theatre, Sacra/Profana sings in Fallbrook, visual art faculty group show and New Village Arts' "Into the Woods."

Fleet Week San Diego returns to the Broadway Pier and welcomes the public to meet active service members and tour military vehicles.

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The Scripps Jazz at the Athenaeum Series open with an appearance by brilliant jazz clarinetist Anat Cohen with Brazilian seven-string-guitar master Marcello Gonçalves. Ever charismatic, prolific, and inspired, Grammy-nominated Anat Cohen has won hearts and minds the world over. Cohen and Gonçalves’s first duo album, Outra Coisa: The Music of Moacir Santos, was nominated for a Grammy as Best Latin Jazz Album in 2017. Last year they recorded their second collaboration, Reconvexo, turning to music from the Música Popular Brasileira (MPB) songbook by artists such as Caetano Veloso, Milton Nascimento, and Gilberto Gil. Date | Tuesday, March 29 at 7:30 p.m. Location | The Athenaeum Music & Arts Library Get tickets here! Members: $40 Non-members: $45 For more information, please visit ljathenaeum.org/events/jazz-22-0329 or call the venue at (858) 454-5872.

La Jolla Playhouse's new theatre in residence stages "'Sense of Love" Oct. 14-16.

Much of San Diego experienced hours of thunder, lightning and pouring rain, less than 24 hours after a mild Santa Ana. Another rainstorm may be on its way at the end of the week. Plus, the oil spill in Orange County could have an environmental impact for years. Also, San Diego Nobel Prize-winner Ardem Patapoutian talks about the journey that brought him to the U.S. and a career in science. In addition, how will the new sweeping laws on policing affect law enforcement and the people they serve? Meanwhile, as parts of the United States, such as Texas, are restricting access to abortion, in Mexico, things seem to be headed in the other direction. And, while the military has become more racially diverse, a recent survey found Black, Latino, and Asian service members don’t always feel welcome off-base. Finally, the Haunted Hotel reopens to scare people in person after being closed last year because of the pandemic. Owner Greg DeFatta speaks to KPBS Arts Reporter Beth Accomando about what to expect.

This weekend in the arts: Spreckels Organ Society plays a concert tribute to Ukraine; Jonny Alexander at Swish; 50 years of San Diego Dance Theater; Word Up! returns to The Old Globe; Nathan Hubbard pairs Dorothea Grossman poetry with sound; Space 4 Art open studios; and "Retelling/Recontar."

From San Diego Weekend Arts Events (KPBS feature): The San Diego Symphony welcomes back their guest conductor, Edo de Waart to lead two performances of works by two great Russian Romantic composers, Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff, plus contemporary British composer Anna Clyne's 2016 work "Abstractions." Clyne's piece was inspired by five works of contemporary art, with each of the five movements corresponding to a work of art from the private collection of Robert E. Meyerhoff and Rheda Becker. The artworks are Sara VanDerBeek‘s "Marble Moon" (2015), Julie Mehretu’s "Auguries" (2010), Hiroshi Sugimoto’s "Caribbean Sea, Jamaica" (1980), Ellsworth Kelly’s " River II" (2005) and Brice Marden’s "3" (1987-88). The composition is enchanting and mysterious, and is propulsive — even in the moody quiet of the first movement. The piece overall pairs well with Rachmaninoff's "Symphonic Dances," which the orchestra will also perform, plus Tchaikovsky's "Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor." Details: Two performances, Saturday, Nov. 13 and Sunday, Nov. 14 at 5 p.m. The Rady Shell at Jacob's Park, 222 Marina Park Way, downtown. $25-108. —Julia Dixon Evans, KPBS From the Symphony: Edo de Waart, conductor Simon Trpčeski, piano San Diego Symphony Orchestra PROGRAM: ANNA CLYNE: Abstractions TCHAIKOVSKY: Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 23 RACHMANINOFF: Symphonic Dances, Op. 45 A night to celebrate a pair of Russian Romantics! Principal Guest Conductor Edo de Waart leads the Orchestra in Sergei Rachmaninoff's melodic and shimmering Symphonic Dances. The virtuosic pianist Simon Trpčeski performs Piotr Tchaikovsky's beloved Piano Concerto No. 1.

Professors Setsu Shigematsu and Anne McKnight of UC Riverside lead a dialog with journalist, author, political analyst, TV news anchor, and media producer Mei Shigenobu, PhD, Visiting Scholar in the Department of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Riverside, about the politics of images, dis/appearance, transnational media politics, liberation movements, and the film The Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi and 27 Years without Images (Eric Baudelaire, 2011). Date: Monday, February 28,2022 at 11am Location: Virtual Zoom Link Cost: Free Watch the film as a guest of the UC San Diego Library, Feb. 24 - Mar. 2, through event registration. The dialog will be introduced and moderated by Daisuke Miyao (Director, Film Studies, UCSD), Judith Rodenbeck (Chair, Media and Cultural Studies, UC Riverside), and Lisa Cartwright (Director, Art Practice PhD, UCSD). For more information on this event please visit HERE! For Zoom link registrations visit HERE!

U.S. District Judge Thomas Parker says the first-in-the-nation law designed to place strict limits on drag shows is unconstitutional.