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No. 22 seed Frances Tiafoe defeats Rafael Nadal to end the Spaniard's 22-match Grand Slam winning streak and reach the U.S. Open quarterfinals for the first time.

Songs of Disappearance is an collection of bird calls from 53 threatened Australian species. And for a brief spell, it was a best-selling album.

Matt Pike overcame long odds to find success in metal bands Sleep and High on Fire. But his deepening obsession with conspiracy theories has created a dissonant riff.

The prevalence or importance of voter fraud seems less a matter of fact than of faith. Those who accept Trump's claims are exercising their beliefs to push back against experts, courts and academics.

From '5 plays to see in San Diego in February' (KPBS feature) In 1955, Alice Childress wrote "Trouble in Mind" about a Black actress performing in an anti-lynching play, but that play-within-a-play was written by a white playwright and directed by a white man. Racism, rivalries, misogyny, inequality, and the fraying sense of well-meaningness are all aired out as the production gets ready — and this is how the "Trouble in Mind" plot unfolds. The Old Globe has assembled an excellent cast and crew for this story, with San Diego's Delicia Turner Sonnenberg as director, Ramona Keller as the lead and local Bibi Mama (a playwright in her own right) also in the cast. —Julia Dixon Evans, KPBS Listen to our interview on KPBS Midday Edition with director Delicia Turner Sonnenberg and actor Bibi Mama, and read the full feature here. From the theater: The Old Globe is proud to present "Trouble in Mind", a thrilling new production of a too-often neglected American classic. About the play —New York, 1955. A leading Black actress and a multiracial cast rehearse a challenging new Broadway play set in the South. Backstage rivalries and showbiz egos cause excitement of their own, but artistic differences between the cast and the White director soon bubble to the surface, revealing the truths that American drama covers over and the ways in which even well-meaning people can harm others under the guise of helping. Contains strong language. The New York Times recently called Alice Childress’s groundbreaking Trouble in Mind “a rich, unsettling play that lingers in one’s memory long after its conclusion.” "Trouble in Mind" will be showing at The Old Globe from Saturday, February 5 through Sunday, March 13. Open Caption Performance on Saturday, February 26, 2022 at p.m. Click here for ticket and subscription information. For more information, please visit www.theoldglobe.org or call (619) 234-5623.

The Ukrainian government says the sixth reactor at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant is now disconnnected from the Ukrainian power grid from Russian attacks.

Come enjoy a night of strange with the legendary experimental musician and performance artist Gary Wilson, at the Kensington Club on January 6. In support, the trio INUS (The Institute for Navigating the Universal Self), will be providing some pre-postapocalyptic, post-honky-tonk-prog-skronk, space Tropicalia, math-lounge power-silence. But get there early because you won’t want to miss opening act Peymaar, with his brand of Alien Funk, Cosmic Punk.

While many Chechen fighters have deployed in Ukraine for Russia, this group is there to defend the country from the Russians.

The United Nations says "famine is at the door" in Somalia with "concrete indications" famine will occur later this year in the southern Bay region.

The KPBS Summer Music Series continues with DJ Artistic, considered an architect of the local hip-hop scene. DJ Artistic curates and produces events, makes space for emerging artists, and is a four-time San Diego Music Award winner.