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Ahead of Election Day, Latino parents in San Diego Unified are concerned about issues impacting their children, including an achievement gap and higher disciplinary rates than their peers.

Encore Thursdays, Aug. 3 and 10, 2023 at 7 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with KPBS Passport! Wildlife cameraman Gordon Buchanan leads a team using state of the art cameras, offering a fresh look at the lives of some of the animals in our oceans such as sharks, elephant seals, turtles and gannets in two new episodes. This week: Investigate the lives of some of Australia’s most iconic animals. Koalas, fruit bats and kangaroos take the cameras into their secret worlds.

Hard to define, for one thing. But in our disorienting digital age, these image-savvy, genre-fluid, proficient yet irreverent artists can seem like the only ones who've gleefully cracked the code.

Join the San Diego Shakespeare Society for a virtual group reading of Shakespeare's Henry VI! About the play — King Henry IV suffers from illness, so his youngest son Prince John fights the rebels, while Prince Hal prepares to be king. Meanwhile, Hal's friend Falstaff causes trouble, recruits, and speaks ill of Hal. Henry dies, and Hal becomes King Henry V. He banishes Falstaff from court, ready to wage war on France. The reading will be directed by Shakespeare Authority Kim Keeline. She has been an instructor in composition and literature at USC, Washington State, PACE program, Mira Costa College, and Southwestern College. Kim received the Star Award from the San Diego Performing Arts League in 2012 for her work at the SDSS. She is a former associate general editor of The Shakespeare Standard. Date | Tuesday, November 2 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Location | Online Register here for free! More information: • In case you don't want to read, you are welcome to show up and just watch. • If you want to act as a specific character or do a specific scene, please talk with the director before starting. • Anyone can participate, no experience needed. For more information, please visit the SDSS webpage.

Bronzeville, a neighborhood of Chicago, was the epicenter of a Black renaissance before it fell on hard times. Now, it's booming again. Here's the story of its incredible turnaround.

The Academy decides to move eight categories off live telecast.

Join the Library for the 2022 Summer Festival Jazz Concerts. Sponsored by the Friends of the Coronado Library and Hotel Del Coronado, concerts will take place every other Friday from June 3-August 26. Doors will open 15 minutes prior to each performance. On Friday, July 17, San Diego lounge scenestress Erika Davies will perform jazz standards by the likes of Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald or doing her version of Sinatra or Nat King Cole tunes. She'll also showcase some original compositions in this sure to please concert. Performer Bio: Erika Davies was born in Arizona to a military family, her father a career Navy officer and her mother a country singer/guitarist. The first time Davies sang in public was at age 8, appearing on stage with her mom in a Virginia bar. In 1991, her family settled in San Diego, where she has remained (other than a brief stay in Arizona). She first came to local attention singing with former Rugburn Gregory Page, who encouraged her to write songs and strike out on her own as a solo artist. When she isn't singing, she's busy playing the role of seamstress for Spicy Toast, her clothing company. "Handmade, one of a kind," she explains. "A little one-woman show run out of my home.... I'm responsible for the cutting, sewing, and designing of all my garments. I have been sewing for over six years and work with a Serger sewing machine, plus a conventional stitch machine. "It's quite boring to sew the same thing over and over," she adds. "I do make variations of a design. I currently sell [my work] on eBay." She says young audiences aren't always receptive to her retro Tin Pan Alley-inspired sound; she recalls "waiting behind stage, witnessing P.O.D., and then stepping out onstage to accompany the glorious Mr. [Gregory] Page in songs reminiscent of 'happier times.' Those P.O.D. fans loved what they were hearing so very much. They threw presents our way -- toilet paper rolls, empty beer bottles, etc. It was nice." Miss Davies performs original compositions and early-20th-century classics, often accompanied by guitarist John Garner. She has also teamed up with singer Gary Hankins (Scarlet Symphony), with whom she became engaged in early 2011. Follow Erika Davies on social media! Facebook + Twitter

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Wynton Marsalis, music director and trumpet Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis are coming to The Rady Shell! The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis (JLCO), comprising 15 of the finest jazz soloists and ensemble players today, has been the Jazz at Lincoln Center resident orchestra since 1988 and spends over a third of the year on tour across the world. Featured in all aspects of Jazz at Lincoln Center’s programming, this remarkably versatile orchestra performs and leads educational events in New York, across the U.S. and around the globe; in concert halls; dance venues; jazz clubs; public parks; and with symphony orchestras; ballet troupes; local students; and an ever-expanding roster of guest artists. Under Music Director Wynton Marsalis, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra performs a vast repertoire, from rare historic compositions to Jazz at Lincoln Center-commissioned works, including compositions and arrangements by Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Fletcher Henderson, Thelonious Monk, Mary Lou Williams, Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Goodman and Charles Mingus as well as by current and former Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra members Wynton Marsalis, Wycliffe Gordon, Ted Nash, Victor Goines, Sherman Irby, Chris Crenshaw and Carlos Henriquez. Follow them on social media! Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra: Facebook + Instagram Wynton Marsalis: Facebook + Instagram

Colombian artist Sebastián Yatra is coming to San Diego for his brand new Dharma Tour See him live at Viejas Arena on Sat, Sep 3 at 8 P.M. Follow on social media! Facebook + Instagram

From San Diego Weekend Arts Events (KPBS): For a new solo exhibition at Oceanside Museum of Art, artist Melissa Walter studied DNA forensics, which is the use of DNA analysis in criminal investigations since the 1990s. Some of the works even sprung from collaborations with researchers. Walter's penchant for science is no surprise to her fans — she was an illustrator for NASA and also once built an entire multi-wall installation out of small paper tetrahedrons. The works in this exhibition are curious, pulling from various stages of the evolution of DNA forensics. There's representations of phenotyping, of autoradiograms, nucleotide patterns and AI. It's fascinating and also unsettling to see DNA analysis portrayed in a stationary, visual form — something that holds so much definitive power in the justice system. And with subtle repeated patterns, blotches of pigment with almost angry mark-making or dense code, these works are also beautiful and aesthetically evocative. Details: Exhibition information. Thursday through Saturday from 12-5 p.m. and Sunday from 12-4 p.m. OMA members get early access beginning at 11 a.m., through Nov. 7, 2021. —Julia Dixon Evans, KPBS RELATED: Visual Artist Melissa Walter Makes Sense Of The Stars From the artist: "In Smallest of Places, my work considers the development of DNA analysis in relation to forensic science—the application of science to criminal and civil laws. The use of DNA analysis, invented in the 1980s, has led to the exoneration of hundreds of people incarcerated for crimes they did not commit—sometimes decades after being found guilty. It has also exonerated thousands more, removing people from suspect lists before even being charged. The subject raises the specter of rampant issues in the United States: unreliable eyewitness accounts, police coercion, and inadequate legal representation, as well as the innocent people who become suspects, or are even convicted, because of these systemic problems. While DNA analysis is not useful in all cases, it is a tool that can continue to push our legal system toward balance and equity. Yet there is still much more work to be done in order to achieve a truly just system. This exhibition explores the three main stages in the development of DNA analysis used to process criminal evidence, which began in the 1990s. The works provide an abstracted visual interpretation of elements in these processes. The mark-making techniques move from visceral to more precise, reflecting the evolution in accuracy as the technology has developed. However, evidence of labor remains, which suggests the human fallibility that continues to exist in the field, no matter how far it has advanced. Smallest of Places provides a glimpse into the science behind these processes and, ultimately, cultivates conversation around equity in the criminal justice system." –Artist Melissa Walter Exhibition Celebration: Saturday, September 18, 2021 Admission: Thursday–Sunday from 11:00am–12:00pm followed by public access until 5:00pm Thursday–Saturday and until 4:00pm on Sunday.