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Premieres Friday, May 27, 2022 at 9 p.m. and Sunday, May 29 at 2 p.m. on KPBS 2 / On demand with the PBS Video App. Take an inside look at the reimagined gender-swapped production as it returns to Broadway during the COVID-19 pandemic. Features new interviews with Tony and Grammy-winning cast members Katrina Lenk, Patti LuPone, Sondheim and more.

Celebrate western lore and other tales and music with members of Storytellers of San Diego, in an evocative old-timey atmosphere. Come early for the crafts market, stay for stories and join our open mic (actually no amplication) to complete a day filled with acoustic delights. And there are plenty of those from members of Fold Heritage who will be holding the stage nearby. Dress up encouraged! In the Porter House: 11:00am - Host JT Moring (guitar, banjo) "Scoundrels and Others" 12:00pm - Host Marilyn McPhie "Tales from Old California" 1:00pm - Host Fred Laskowski "Wild West Women (and Men)" 2:00pm - Hosted Open Mic - tell us a story! (warm and supportive atmosphere.)

San Diego County will establish a regional film office intended to create new job opportunities and support San Diego film and arts.

On Charli XCX's Crash, the artist leans fully into a mainstream pop persona for the first time in almost a decade.

The University of California system is the latest to announce free tuition for native students — but many say colleges shouldn't stop there.

Robert Louis Stevenson's classic Victorian tale gets pop opera treatment.

The past year has forced us to think differently about how our choices directly impact those around us. It challenged our perceptions of safety, risk, and uncertainty. Nevertheless, marginalized, oppressed, and displaced peoples around the globe continue to pursue justice. Join our virtual panel as we discuss the parallels between local, regional, and global voices and movements for social justice. This empowering event will emphasize recognition and dignity; but also acknowledges bias, marginalization, violence, and other limits to identification, association, and mobility. Dr. Antonio De La Garza will share unique perspectives on the intersection of migration and gender in the US/Mexico borderlands. Henry Edward Frank will share American Indian views from Northern California. Dr. Meshack Simati intends to discuss electoral rules, elections, election violence, and judicial independence in sub-Saharan Africa. Dr. Darren Byler’s expertise on the ongoing struggles for the Uyghur people in Western China will enlighten the audience on how this group of indigenous Chinese continue to pursue dignity in the face of an authoritarian regime. Date | Thursday, October 14 from noon to 2 p.m. Location | Virtually through Zoom Reserve your spot here! CSUSM Students: Free Community: Optional donation Faculty/Staff/Alumni: Optional donation For more information, please visit the CSUSM Arts & Lectures site or email Gina Jones at gjones@csusm.edu. 

The IRS is delaying the 2020 tax filing deadline until May 17. How will provisions in the latest stimulus bill will affect your taxes? Plus, Moderna has begun testing its COVID-19 vaccine in children under 12, another step to getting everyone protected. Then, San Diego’s freeways and public transportation were empty in the early days of the pandemic. Traffic and transit ridership are now recovering, but will they ever come back all the way? And, Carlsbad’s GenMark Diagnostics, developer of rapid COVID-19 testing kits, was sold for $1.8 billion — a testament to the San Diego region’s biotech industry innovation during the pandemic. Also, the controversy over how to safely move millions of pounds of nuclear waste from the shuttered San Onofre power plant is back in the headlines. And, efforts to improve the environment around the Salton Sea were widely expected to begin at Red Hill Bay in 2015 but the project remains undone. Finally, KPBS arts reporter Beth Accomando speaks with Turner Classic Movies host Eddie Muller about contextualizing classic films that might be problematic and often downright offensive for contemporary audiences.

This weekend in the arts: Dance, art and music in the garden, a three-day outdoor music festival, art from plastics in the ocean, and live graffiti with a silent disco.

The new Institute of Contemporary Art San Diego opens in Balboa Park this weekend with artist Gabriel Rico's found objects, ethereal neon and taxidermy, with a companion installation at The Nat.