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17,000 fans turned up to the Hollywood Bowl for a concert by Willie Nelson and his famous friends. Owen Wilson, Helen Mirren, Ethan Hawke and Jennifer Garner all did the introductions.

U.S. murder clearance or solve rates have hit an all-time low. Experts say mutual mistrust between police and some communities is creating a vicious cycle where unsolved killings breed more mistrust.

Learn how to make the perfect loaf of sourdough bread! You will learn all about sourdough, and how to make your first loaf of sourdough bread with organic flour and local sourdough starter. Nothing tastes quite like fresh-baked, naturally leavened bread!* LEARN: We’ll explain fermentation and have a brief discussion about the benefits of making and eating fermenting foods DEMO: We’ll show you how easy it is to start making naturally-leavened bread yourself at home! TASTE: We’ll have a variety of sourdough bread flavors and will bake bread fresh during the workshop TAKE FLIGHT: You will also enjoy a flight of Babe Kombucha's many flavors, in hard or regular flavors (21+ for hard kombucha flavors) DO IT YOURSELF: Roll up your sleeves and make your very own dough (to be baked the next day!) Includes your own sourdough starter and take-home loaf of sourdough bread! * Please note: In the workshop, we will NOT be showing how to make gluten-free bread.

Saturday, Jan. 27, 2024 at 10:30 p.m. on KPBS 2 and 10:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with the PBS App + YouTube. Saxony, part of the former East Germany, remains a secret to most travelers. Rick visits the two great cities of the region: the capital city of Dresden, with the opulent palaces and art treasures of the Wettin dynasty, and Leipzig, with its Bach heritage, a massive monument to the day Europe beat Napoleon, and museums remembering its communist heritage.

Note: This production has been canceled. Feb. 17 through Mar. 20, 2022. Opening night: Feb. 26. By Miranda Rose Hall Directed by Kym Pappas From '5 plays to see in San Diego in February' (KPBS Feature) New York-based playwright Miranda Rose Hall's new work, "Best Lesbian Erotica 1995," was part of Diversionary's 2020 Spark New Play Festival, with a radio play-style virtual reading. This month's fully staged, world premiere production is directed by Kym Pappas, who also directed that virtual reading almost two years ago. The cast for this production is brilliant — including San Diego theater world titans like Laura Zee and Katie Haroff, Andrea Agosto and more. Hall's play is a tryptic of three distinct sketches: a comedy looking at lesbian erotic fiction; a study of domestic terrorism against the backdrop of the Oklahoma City bombing; and a reflection of the LGBTQ woman's role in culture in that era. —Julia Dixon Evans, KPBS. Read more here. From the theater: About the show In this triptych of love, lust, and domestic terrorism, a joyous romp through lesbian erotic fiction collides with one of the darkest hours in U.S. history. This thrilling new play from the author of The Hour of Great Mercy (Winner: Outstanding New Play, 2019 San Diego Critics Circle Awards) is a wild ride through the heights of fantasy and the depths of horror to confront a country at war with itself, and discover how to heal after tragedy. About the writer Miranda Rose Hall (she/her/hers) is a playwright from Baltimore, MD. Her plays include Plot Points in Our Sexual Development (LCT3/Lincoln Center Theater, finalist for the 2019 Lambda Literary Award in Drama), The Hour of Great Mercy (Diversionary Theatre, 2019 San Diego Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Play), and The Kind Ones (upcoming Magic Theatre). She is currently under commission from LCT3/Lincoln Center Theater, Yale Repertory Theater, Trinity Repertory Company, and Playwrights Horizons SoundStage. She has developed her work with New York Theater Workshop, Baltimore Center Stage, Woolly Mammoth, The Kennedy Center, Center Theater Group / We the Women, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, The Playwright’s Realm, National New Play Network, Orlando Shakespeare Theater, EnGarde Arts, Provincetown Theater, Two River Theater, Cygnet Theater, Single Carrot Theatre, and the Orchard Project. She is a founding member of LubDub Theatre, a New York-based physical theater company. Special events: Low-cost previews: Thursday, Feb. 17 through Friday, Feb. 25, 2022 Youth nights: Thursday, Feb. 17 and Thursday Feb. 25 at 8 p.m. Free student performances, from Diversionary Theatre. This program brings students, schools, and universities to our theater for cutting-edge LGBTQ+ programming. First Fridays for the Military: Friday, Feb. 18 at 8 p.m. Free tickets for those who serve. Contact boxoffice@diversionary.org for more information. Opening night: Saturday, Feb. 25 at 8 p.m. Pre- and post-show festivities Backstage Thursdays: Designer spotlight: Thursday, Mar. 3 at 6 p.m. (pre-show) Industry night: Monday, Mar. 7 at 7 p.m. Theater professionals get pay-what-you-can admission in advance, or $10 at the door. Backstage Thursdays: Director Happy Hour: Thursday, Mar. 10 at 6 p.m. (pre-show) Backstage Thursdays: Next Act! Thursday, Mar. 17 at 6 p.m. (pre-show) Related links: Diversionary Theatre on Instagram Diversionary Theatre on Facebook Box Office: 619-220-0097 boxoffice@diversionary.org

Gathering signatures is the first step to putting together a measure to get arts funding for every public school in California on the ballot.

A brand new green waste program is headed your way! In late 2021, Republic Services opened their state-of-the-art composting facility at the Otay Landfill. This facility will turn Chula Vista’s organic waste into usable compost and mulch – but how, and how can we participate? Join I Love A Clean San Diego, Republic Services, and the City of Chula Vista for a virtual sit down as we talk about the brand new curbside organics program. In this webinar, we’ll discuss: -Why recycling organic waste is important -What can go in your green bin -How to keep your green bin clean -What goes on at the compost facility We’ll also be joined by guest speakers from Republic Services and the City of Chula Vista, who will be answering attendee questions live! Registration is open to all, and please note that we will be focusing on the exciting new organics program in the City of Chula Vista. Feb. 1, 2022 @4pm Register here: https://cleansd.org/event/make-your-green-bin-great/

NPR's Scott Simon takes a moment to remember singer and activist Harry Belafonte, who died this week at the age of 96.

Born in the south of France, Patrick Berrogain’s foray into the music world began at the age of 13 when he bought his first guitar. It was not long before he began playing bass and guitar semi-professionally while finishing high school. At 19 he landed a touring gig with an Italian pop band, Delta Landa with whom he traveled the world. A few years later Patrick decided to follow his dream to study jazz in America.. In 2007, Patrick created his latest Gypsy jazz group the ”Hot Club Combo” playing music ranging from Michel Legrand and Edith Piaf to contemporary artists, all filtered through the lens of Gypsy jazz. Gypsy jazz (also known as Gypsy Swing or Hot Club Jazz) is a style of jazz music often said to have been created by guitarist Jean Baptiste "Django" Reinhardt in the 1930s. Because its origins are in France it is often called by the French name, Jazz Manouche or alternatively, Manouche Jazz, even in English language sources. The term is now commonly used for this style of music. Django was foremost among a group of Romani guitarists working in and around Paris in the 1930s through the 1950s, a group which also included the brothers Baro, Sarane, and Matelo Ferret and Reinhardt's brother Joseph "Nin-Nin" Reinhardt.

In the arts this weekend, we have art made by construction equipment, a virtual baroque concert, several art opening receptions in the Barrio Art Crawl, and a final week of a play that imagines Martin Luther King Jr's final night.