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The HBO documentary struggles to define who the singer-songwriter actually was — despite knitting together interviews with family members, archival clips and home movie footage.

Produced by Brandi Carlile, the eponymous 11-song collection offers snapshots of Brandy Clark the person, not Brandy Clark the pen-for-hire.

The award-winning Black Storytellers of San Diego invites you to a time for community storytelling, "Tellabration". Come listen to personal stories folktales, myths, and legends. Take the opportunity to tell your five-minute story at the open mic. Everybody has a story to tell.

The official kick-off to the holidays in Downtown Chula Vista is finally here! The City of Chula Vista and Downtown Chula Vista invite you to join us on Sunday, December 4 from 3:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. for a holly, jolly holiday celebration you won’t want to miss! Ring in the holidays in style this year as you hop on Santa’s Holiday Train and ride through Downtown Chula Vista, shop from unique local businesses at the Holiday Market curated by the Third Avenue Village Market and Las Jefas Market, enjoy live music from the main stage at Memorial Park, and take your official holiday family photo with Santa himself for free! The holidays wouldn’t be complete without an official tree lighting ceremony and this year’s is sure to put a twinkle in your eye as the City of Chula Vista and the Downtown Chula Vista Association inaugurate the new one-of-a-kind and custom Prisma Tree created by international lighting artist, Joshua Hubert. Made with the glimmer and sparkle reminiscent of the magic the community of Chula Vista creates, this new tree is also a nod to the future of the neighborhood. The tree lighting ceremony will begin promptly at 5:45pm. We can’t wait to welcome you all for the holidays!

California public health officials are encouraging eligible adults to get their booster doses of the COVID-19 vaccine as soon as possible to stave off a possible winter surge. Plus, the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department has been struggling with staffing shortages, but it’s not only because of the pandemic or the vaccine mandate — the issue is more complicated than that. And, this weekend there's brand new playwriting from San Diego Repertory Theatre, the Old Globe will be wrapping up its Shakespeare Call and Response tour, plus a wide range of visual art.

Listen to southern California's top opera singers. Artists consist of past and present Metropolitan Opera competition winners, active San Diego opera performers and guest artists who have sung all over the world. Singers will be performing works from Mozart, Verdi and Puccini. Appearing on November 9 are Norma Navarrete, soprano; Mary Boles Allen, mezzo-soprano; Cole Tornberg, tenor; and Søren Pedersen, baritone, accompanied by Michelle Scanlan at the piano. Wednesday, November 9 from 7-8:30 p.m. Cost: $10-20 suggested donation. 100% of donations go directly to the artists. RSVP: www.ljcommunitycenter.org/ow La Jolla Community Center on Facebook

This weekend in the arts: Kelsey Brookes and Nicholas Galanin at Quint, drag artist Jaye Piper Rosewell, a City Heights music festival, Javier Arreguin Villegas, and outdoor music at The Old Globe.

Quint Gallery is excited to announce that ONE, a satellite of Quint Gallery, is moving from La Jolla to Logan Heights. ONE will be relocating to Bread & Salt, a 45,000 square-foot arts center made up of multiple gallery, studio and event spaces. The first exhibition at ONE at Bread & Salt will be a work titled "Three Light Boxes for One Wall," by French conceptual artist Daniel Buren, known for his in situ installations and light-based sculptures of stripes and simplified patterns. Buren’s works are in the collections of the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, the Tate Modern in London, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, among others. He lives and works in Paris, France. Related links: Quint ONE on Instagram Quint Gallery on Instagram Quint Gallery website

The case stumped law enforcement for years, despite conducting multiple interviews and identifying suspects. The pair of shoes now rests in the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.

Threadbare demos on a new reissue of 1998's Overcome by Happiness illuminate Joe Pernice's songwriting paradox: Brill Building pop woven from homespun scruff, sarcastic but always sure-footed.