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San Diego County's unemployment rate increased to 3.2% in June, up from a revised 2.7% in May according to figures released Friday by the state Employment Development Department.

From the organizers: SDBG's Fall Festival connects visitors with harvest plants and autumn traditions, alike. From pumpkins and scarecrows to Halloween and Day of the Dead, the Garden decorates and celebrates the changing colors of nature and cooler temperatures in the air. Enjoy live music, hands-on crafts, fall-themed classes, and artist Katie Ruiz’s Dia de los Muertos ofrenda (see details below)! Bring items from home to contribute to a community altar to commemorate loved ones. Saturday, October 23 to Monday, November 1 / del 23 de Oct. Al 1ro de Nov. El Festival de Otoño de SDBG conecta a sus visitantes con plantas de temporada y tradiciones de otoño. Desde calabazas y espantapájaros hasta Halloween y el Día de los Muertos, el jardín decora y celebra los colores cambiantes de la naturaleza y las temperaturas más frescas en el aire. Este evento incluyente en el Jardín decora y celebra los colores cambiantes de la naturaleza y las temperaturas más frescas en el aire. Los visitantes podrán disfrutar música en vivo, estaciones temáticas de manualidades, clases sobre temas de otoño, y la ofrenda del Día de los Muertos de la artista Katie Ruiz (vea los detalles abajo). Traiga artículos de su casa para contribuir a un altar comunitario para conmemorar a sus seres queridos. Days with Special Events / Los días de actividades especiales Saturday, October 23 / sábado, 23 de octubre 10 am - 2 pm: face painting / pintura facial para niños 10 am - 4 pm: crafts / manualidades 11 am - 12 pm: Hullabaloo kids band / una presentación de la banda infantil 2 - 4 pm: Mariachi Real de San Diego band / una presentación de la banda Sunday, October 31 / domingo, 31 de octubre 10 am - 3 pm: crafts / manualidades 12 - 2 pm: Billy Lee and the Swamp Critters band / una presentación de la banda To celebrate Día de los Muertos, SDBG has commissioned artist Katie Ruiz to create an ofrenda that will open to the public on October 23. Katie Ruiz is a Xicana artist who resides in San Diego. She was raised in Southern California and Northern Arizona. Ruiz is a figure painter and sculptor best known for her blanket series in which she portrays couples standing or lying under colorful Mexican blankets. She has a strong connection with nature and often uses natural objects like rocks, shells, leaves and sticks in her weavings and sculptures. Ruiz is dedicating the piece to another artist who recently passed away, Yolanda López—one of the most important Chicana/o/x artists working in California over the past five decades. Born in 1942 and raised in San Diego’s Barrio Logan neighborhood, López was based for much of her career in the Bay Area, where she passed at the age of 79. She is best known for her iconic Virgen de Guadalupe series, a seminal oeuvre in Chicanx feminist art she produced during the 1970s, which became some of the most-widely circulated images of a Chicano artist of her generation. López was also an activist and educator celebrated for her role in the Chicano art movement. Para una celebración especial del Día de los Muertos, SDBG ha contratado a la artista Katie Ruiz para crear una ofrenda que abrirá al público a partir del 23 de octubre. Katie Ruiz es una artista, pintora y escultora Xicana que vive en San Diego y es reconocida por su serie de mantas coloridas. Esta ofrenda se dedicará a Yolanda López – una de las artistas Chicana/o/x más importantes que ha trabajado en California durante las últimas cinco décadas, así como una activista y educadora célebre por su papel en el movimiento del arte Chicano. El Jardín también albergará un altar comunitario donde el público podrá traer artículos para conmemorar a sus seres queridos.

Pringle helped shape and safeguard the sound of NPR for more than four decades. Colleagues are remembering her prolific portfolio, technical expertise, generosity, honesty and sense of style.

Friday, Feb. 2, 2024 at 8 p.m. on KPBS 2 / Stream now with KPBS Passport! Follow Marin Alsop's journey to become the first female music director of a major symphony despite repeated rejection by the classical music industry. Features footage with her mentor Leonard Bernstein set to a soundtrack of her performances.

Businesswoman Madam C.J. Walker is the latest to join Barbie's line of Inspiring Women dolls. Walker's great-great-granddaughter said she hopes the doll will show kids they too can be entrepreneurs.

WAMU Visuals Editor Tyrone Turner pairs images to capture the connection he felt to his birthplace — the coastal regions of southeastern Louisiana — while visiting the western coast of Antarctica.

In the arts this weekend, you have plenty of options to put a younger, living spin on some traditional art forms. There’s a concert of piano music from living composers, an iconic '90s theatrical prequel to Othello, youth art and a brand new ballet.

Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego presents "Yolanda Lopez: Portrait of the Artist." On display Saturday, Oct. 16 through Sunday, April 24, 2022 "Yolanda López: Portrait of the Artist" is the first solo museum presentation of one of the most influential Chicano artists working in California over the past five decades. The exhibition presents a compendium of López’s work from the 1970s and 1980s, when she created a vivid body of paintings, drawings, and collages that reimagine representations of women within Chicano/a/x culture and society at large. Bringing together approximately 50 works in oil pastel, charcoal, collage, photography, and paint, Portrait of the Artist centers on the artist’s celebrated Guadalupe triptych and an expansive series of related works. Located Downtown - 1100 Kettner Boulevard Free Admission. Visit mcasd.org

We are excited to invite you to YAAANA’s 5th Anniversary, Yiddishland California’s First Anniversary, and our Annual Fundraiser Celebration, featuring musical stars of the Yiddish stage! Yale Strom, Elizabeth Schwartz, and Lisa Fishman will perform a concert titled No End to Yiddishland! Our President, Jana Mazurkiewicz Meisarosh, will briefly report on the highlights of Yiddishland in 5782 and the plans for 5783. Enjoy great music, company, heimish nosh and drinks, all going to a great cause! WHEN | Saturday, October 8, 2022 • 7:30 p.m. Pacific Time (9:30 p.m CT, 10:30 p.m ET) WHERE | A venue in La Jolla (address provided upon registration) and via Zoom TICKETS| Tickets can be purchased HERE! • In-person: sliding scale $60 – $180; student $36 (student ID required). • Early bird tickets for $54 available until September 24 . • Online via Zoom: sliding scale $20-36. Early bird tickets for $18 available until September 24. Donation Information: Donations of $180 and up get you a shout-out at the event, a mention in the program, and a surprise Yiddishland gift at the event. Additional donations to the fundraiser for this 501(c)(3) organization (tax-deductible to the extent allowable by law) are welcome and can be made here. Your donations will help sustain Yiddishland Califonia’s cultural center in 5783. About Our Performers: Yale Strom and Elizabeth Schwartz – internationally renowned recording artists specializing in Klezmer music and Yiddish songs and artistic advisors on YAAANA Board of Directors. Click here to listen to some of their music. Lisa Fishman – a singer, songwriter, and actress, recently performed as Bobe Tsaytl in the Broadway production of Yiddish “Fiddler on the Roof” directed by Joel Gray. Click here to listen to some of her music.

The right-wing government's push to get more control of the judiciary system thrust Israel into a crisis. The pushback led Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to delay his plan for at least a month.