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Our picks for the arts this weekend: Tom Driscoll at ICE Gallery, Anne Mudge, Kline Swonger, Marisol Rendón and Bianca Juarez at Cannon Art Gallery. Plus Sine Kwento Filipino stories and film, Camarada's Latin chamber music and ArtWalk Liberty Station is back.

The Adam D. Kamil Guest Lecture was established to inspire undergraduate students and to provide insight into the career of an established artist working in media production. Alex Rivera is an award-winning filmmaker whose work explores themes of globalization, migration, and technology. His first feature, a cyberpunk thriller set in Mexico, ‘Sleep Dealer,’ won multiple awards at Sundance and Berlin. Rivera’s second feature, a documentary/scripted hybrid set in an immigrant detention center, ‘The Infiltrators,’ won the NEXT: Audience Award and the Innovator Award at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, was released theatrically in the U.S., and is currently being developed as a scripted series by Blumhouse. Rivera is a 2021 MacArthur Fellow, a Sundance Fellow, and was The Rothschild Lecturer at Harvard University. He studied at Hampshire College and lives in Los Angeles. Date | Wednesday, May 11, 2022 at 6pm Location | UC San Diego, Price Center Theatre Register here! For further information on this event please visit: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/alex-rivera-adam-d-kamil-guest-lecture-tickets-320316724947 Alex Rivera Social Media: Facebook | Twitter | YouTube

Shamir's new album, 'Heterosexuality,' confronts how the public viewed him back in 2014, when his debut single nearly made him a pop star at the age of 19.

The return of an audience favorite at Marie Hitchcock Puppet Theater comes on the heels of pandemic-era Instagram teatimes with an eccentric, prolific artist — and his friend Henri.

Christmas is the tamale season for many families. One mom from the extended KPBS family tells us how she makes them.

The bands may be smaller this year, but students say they're prepared to keep the culture alive and entertain hundreds of thousands of revelers.

The transcendent new album from Ani Di Franco, Revolutionary Love (out January 29, 2021), marks the latest proof of one of her most powerful gifts as an artist: a rare ability to give voice to our deepest frustrations and tensions, on both a personal and political level. “My songs have always reflected an acute connection between my personal life and the life of my society,” says the trailblazing musician and activist. “As I started to come out of years of dealing with marriage problems, I saw my entire country in the same situation; the complete breakdown of communication and loss of empathy and connection. But after what seems like unforgivable damage, then where do you go? You can’t kick each other off the planet, you can’t change the past, so what then?” Come see them perform at Belly Up Tavern on June 21, 2022. The doors open at 7 p.m., show starts at 8 p.m. Ticket Price: $42 advanced / $45 day of show / $74 reserved loft seating (available over the phone or in person at out box office) Genre: singer songwriter

Cinco de Mayo is just around the corner and we want you to celebrate the right way- with all your buddies (I mean puppies!). The Dog Society will be hosting a Mexican fiesta filled with Mexico's favorites - tacos, music, and beer! From local Mexican artisanal vendors to Bueneveza micheladas, mocha cold brews, and Mexican corn —they will have you saying MÁS POR FAVOR! Date | Thrsday, May 5 from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Location | The Dog Society For more information, please visit dogsocietysd.com or call (619) 780-0235.

The actor was known for cult martial arts classics like The Street Fighter, as well as his role in Kill Bill. He died of complications from COVID-19.

A Kharkiv metro station became a bomb shelter as the city came under Russian attack. Now, at the holiday season, it's also a Christmas village where kids can drop off letters to Grandfather Frost.