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This year, the symposium will focus on transboundary conservation, specifically across the US-Mexico border, which spans nearly 2,000 miles across six distinct ecoregions and shapes a landscape that is home to more than 15 million people. It represents a unique opportunity to explore how to improve conservation outcomes for both people and ecosystems – and how to do so in the context of multinational, transboundary collaboration. The symposium will explore such topics as opportunities for, and barriers to, effective conservation in Mexico and the border region; climate change impacts; how to balance cultural needs, sustainable economic development, security, and the health of natural systems; the role of Indigenous leadership; and how the region’s distinct history and biogeography offer insights and learnings for other parts of North America. The 2022 symposium will be a hybrid format, with options for both in-person attendance in Denver, CO, as well as virtual participation.

In 2005, Kim Osorio sued The Source for gender discrimination, sexual harassment and hostile work environment, retaliation, defamation. Responses to the case reinforced hip-hop's culture of silence.

Join us in celebrating the FOURTH year of this competitive exhibition. Opening reception is September 24 from 4-7 p.m. Many of the artists will be on hand to discuss their work. Light refreshments. If you can't attend the opening reception, normal gallery hours are Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-5 p.m. OR by appointment (e-mail donna@thephotographerseyecollective.com). Social Media: Facebook & Instagram

Nov. 9 – Dec. 15, 2021 Reception: Friday, Nov. 12, 3 – 7 p.m. Art Gallery FA 103 at San Diego Mesa College Free Parking in Lot # 1. Park in STUDENT spaces ONLY. Participating Artists: Jenny Armer - Aurora Bewicke - Claudia Cano - Evan Chau - Cloud Club Collective - David Contreras - Ty and Sam Creighton - Bronle Crosby - Alex DeCosta - Dana Edwards - Francisco Eme - Gabrielle Espina - Scott Gengelbach - Rosario Glezmir - Sofia Gonzalez - Chitra Gopalakrishnan - Julia C R Gray - Steve Harlow - Doug Harvey - Vijay Hingorani - Terri Hughes-Oelrich - Amanda Kachadoorian - Sophie Kamdar - Desiree Lawrence - Elena Lomakin - Santiago Lopez - Isa Medina - Teresa Mill - Michelle Montjoy - Kathy Nida - Elizabeth Parr - Omar Pimienta - Wendy Ponomarenko - Kim Reasor - Josie Rodriguez - Taylour Rudzinski - Elizabeth Salaam - Julia San Román - Sage Serrano - Jennifer Spencer - Elizabeth Tobias - Litzy Torres - Thuyduyen Jenny - Jennifer Vargas. From the gallery: In times of isolation, division and hopelessness, art has played a significant role in reminding us of the power of What Can Be. This exhibit brings together 44 remarkable visual, sound and performance artists to address issues of disharmony in our present lives—in our relationship with the land, with each other and with ourselves—to seek solutions for a more sustainable and hopeful future. The collection incorporates a diverse variety of media, from oil on canvas and assemblages to encaustic works and installations with living fungi. It represents artists of all ages and from all backgrounds. Together, they invoke the power of art as a universal language and as a catalyst for change and healing. Artist highlights: Omar Pimienta, Jenny Armer and Julia C R Gray examine the ecology of our region and the decisions we make as a society to protect or plunder the natural resources of our land and sea. Omar Pimienta is an interdisciplinary artist whose Sediment/o series delves into transborder waterways and questions the “decisions we make as societies to modify or preserve our environments.” Thick concrete text is overlayed on landscape photographs, poetically defacing them just as our modern urbanscapes alter our natural environs. Jenny Armer’s delicately crafted miniature watercolor prints resemble wildlife fieldnotes and bring attention to water conservation as we face record-breaking droughts and extreme heat in Southern California. The series of prints illustrate the hydration needs of select native plants and encourage a reduction of our lawn-driven dependency on water. The female torsos of Julia C R Gray’s sculptural series, SHE-Shell Sea Wisdom, merge gold luster and pearlescent aqua glazes with colorful texturized bases resembling coral. Like a porcelain figure lost at sea and decorated with aquatic growth, her pieces seem fragile yet tempered by time. When given proper protection, our delicate coastal seas can rebound into healthy and vibrant ecosystems. Bronle Crosby and Sofia Gonzalez reveal the vital interconnectedness of our relationship with the natural world. Bronle Crosby is a realist painter whose self-described “focused natural histories” seem sharp and photographic from afar, but soften upon closer inspection. They awaken a deep, Zen-like awareness of the profound and fundamental relationships that exist in the space between breaths. “We need to nurture, not interfere with the magical interconnectivity of life,” Crosby states. Sofia Gonzalez employs regional plants to dye pieces of raw silk and cotton. She then layers the fabric into a soft-sculpture series, documenting and reflecting on the chronological history of the land and the possibilities of a synergistic and reciprocal relationship with it. Through cataloging the migration and interaction of native and non-native plants in the region, she also excavates and acknowledges the history of the Kumeyaay. Julia San Román and Vijay Hingorani ponder concepts of nurturing and renewal in our society. Julia San Román’s 250 Hours/The Seeds pays homage to foreign-born agricultural workers with a powerful reminder that the seeds we plant speak of more than the fruit we bear, but of the social and legal systems that can serve as fertile grounds or unyielding wastelands to those looking for a better future. Her canvas explodes with bright colors and a woman’s floral headpiece blooms into beautiful abstraction. She is focusing not on the dark plight of these workers, but on their steadfast contributions as “the seeds, the fasteners, the wheels, the gears of our society.” Vijay Hingorani’s Renewal, a woodcut handprinted on Unryu paper, captures an intimate moment full of hope—of a child making a wish and blowing on a dandelion, scattering the seeds to root into new beginnings. Join us at the reception on Nov.12, where visitors can create and take home “Seed Pops,” small seed bundles designed to stick in the ground and grow, as part of a participatory installation performance by artist Elizabeth Tobias. Together, let’s sow the seeds for a brighter tomorrow. Image design credit: Juan Carlos Araiza

A biologist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography found that elephant seals take multiple 10-minute naps underwater during their nearly 10-month foraging trips out to sea.

Premieres Friday, April 28, 2023 at 10 p.m. / PBS App + Encore Sunday, April 30 at 3 p.m. on KPBS 2. Jazz stars from around the globe come together to celebrate the unifying power of music, featuring performances by Herbie Hancock, David Sanborn, Shemekia Copeland, Gregory Porter, Lizz Wright, José James, Hiromi, Marcus Miller, Ravi Coltrane and more.

Learn about music and dance with Elizabeth Wistrich’s “Carnival of the Animals” set to the humorous musical suite of fourteen movements by the French composer Camille Saint-Saëns. WHEN| November 12, 2022 at 2 p.m. • The lobby opens at 1:30 p.m. with special activities for children. Crafts, coloring, and photo opportunities with the City Ballet dance artists. • The ballet performance begins at 2:00pm in the theatre. WHERE| Balboa Theatre • 868 4th Ave. San Diego, California 92101 ADMISSION| Tickets can be purchased here! • Tickets start at $43+

Teamsters were picketing outside First Transit in El Centro as of Tuesday morning, according to the local's Twitter feed. Drivers in San Diego stopped work in solidarity.

Kelly Fremon Craig's terrific adaptation of Blume's 1970 novel doesn't pretend to have all the answers. But by the end, the awkward preteen at its center has achieved her own state of grace.

This exhibition has been extended through May 1, 2022. The Museum of Photographic Arts' new exhibition of the late American photographer Aaron Siskind's work focuses on the period in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Siskind's photography is abstract and softly obscured, and this particular period marks when he turned to paintings for inspiration — and painters as contemporaries. While in some ways it marked a rift in his relationship with the photography scene, this shift (and Siskind's work and success) helped elevate the photograph's place in the larger visual art world. Details: On view Saturday, Oct 2, 2021 through Feb 13, 2022. Friday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. MOPA, 1649 El Prado, Balboa Park. Pay what you wish. —Julia Dixon Evans, KPBS From the museum: "Aaron Siskind: Mid Century Modern" focuses on photographs made by Siskind during the late 1940s and 1950s while he was interacting with the major figures of mid-twentieth century painting. The exhibition runs: Oct. 2, 2021 - May 1, 2022 Admission = Pay What You Wish Visit MOPA.org or call 619.238.7559 Located within Balboa Park at 1649 El Prado in San Diego.