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The Music Company (TMC), a Pacific Beach-based nonprofit music studio and incubator, is joining forces with the new Pacific Beach Arts Center to invest in the neighborhood’s next generation of musicians and creatives. The partnership will kick off with SoundLab, a series of week-long hands-on youth camps designed to teach students fundamental skills in music production, audio engineering, and live performance. The partnership brings together two organizations working to expand creative opportunity and build more year-round cultural spaces in the beach neighborhood. “As we continue to expand into the community, we’re honored to partner with local organizations to enrich the art scene in Pacific Beach,” shares Michelle Sexton of the Pacific Beach Arts Center. “Our partnership with The Music Company allows teens the chance to step into a professional environment—learn real skills, build confidence, and become part of the local creative community.” Designed for aspiring artists ages 12 to 18, SoundLab will run Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. at The Music Company in three week-long sessions this summer: · June 15 – 19 · July 13 – 17 · August 3 – 7 At $350 per session, the program offers participants hands-on experience using industry-standard recording and production tools. Working in small groups with guidance from TMC’s team, campers will use professional studio tools to create an original music track and short video, learning the fundamentals of recording, editing, shooting, and post-production along the way. By the end of the week, participants will understand how sound is captured and digitized, how to operate digital audio equipment and software, and how to shape a finished creative project from concept to completion. “Access and experience is everything at the beginning of a creative career,” said Ted Pawela, Executive Director of The Music Company. “Most young artists never get the chance to work in a professional studio or see how the recording process actually works. SoundLab changes that by giving them a real starting point and a connection to a creative community that can support them long after the camp ends.” For TMC, the new camp builds on a growing mission to strengthen San Diego’s music economy from the ground up. Since launching in 2023, the nonprofit has worked to reduce the financial and professional barriers that often push emerging talent to leave the region, offering affordable studio access, educational programming, and collaborative production opportunities for musicians, producers, DJs, and engineers. For Pacific Beach Arts Center, the partnership adds a music and media component to its broader vision for a more connected, accessible arts community in Pacific Beach. The organization, a project of Beautiful PB, is transforming the long-vacant former Pacific Beach Library site at 4606 Ingraham St. into PB Arts Commons, a multipurpose arts hub designed to connect artists, students, residents, and visitors through classes, performances, exhibitions, and community programming. To register for SoundLab camps, visit www.pbartscenter.org/events/summer-camps/. To learn more about The Music Company visit www.tmcmusic.org.

A lawsuit filed over KPBS reporting on a data center in Imperial Valley hit a major obstacle on Friday.

We hear from the leaders of two local community organizations about how San Diego's Muslim community is processing last week's events — and where healing begins.

A KPBS investigation found state and county officials have given millions in tax breaks to a local nonprofit that owns the Imperial Regional Detention Facility.

Call center nurses at the health giant said workplace surveillance tools and AI prioritize speed and cost savings over quality and safety.

For years, El Cajon has long been a hub for refugees and immigrants from the Middle East and North Africa. Now, amid President Donald Trump’s refugee ban, they are coping with the help of neighborhood ties and a local nonprofit.

Pochettino was the biggest name the U.S. men's soccer team had ever hired. His rebuild was bumpy at times — but now, with the U.S. headed to the World Cup knockout stage, the players are all in.

The Tijuana-san Diego border is the world’s leading hub for skateboard production. This is where the material globalization of skate culture and all it entails originates; from here, its products traverse the seven continents. At the same time, many of its practitioners are denied this very freedom of movement, trapped by borders real and allegorical. Boarder Crossings: Patinetas, Paz, y DIY Democracy, a project of the Fred J. Hansen Peace Chair at San Diego State University, recognizes the humble skateboard, seven layers of glued-together wood, as a window through which to understand community, control, and networks of exchange within and against the border regime. In the shadow of the border fences, is there a grassroots community skating back to power and inspiring new pragmatic approaches to democracy? By learning from the practical and political ethos at the heart of these communities, might we speak of a ‘DIY Democracy’? Multiple artists, artificially separated by the border, provide a tangible response to these questions through numerous works created on boards produced in Tijuana’s maquiladoras, each depicting a border that is at once fixed and fragile – a place of deafening proclamations and silent experiences of counter-power. Positioning itself at the heart of the contradiction between mobile objects and immobilized people, Boarder Crossings imagines mending this artificial rift. The Boarder Crossings project features a total of 52 board-based artworks. The pieces not on display here are currently hanging on the walls of the Sala Central at the Centro Cultural de Tijuana (June 21–September 27). The pieces you see here are additions or works that have come from CECUT, crossing the border. while those artworks you see here are displayed here in San Diego, the "voids" left in Tijuana are symbolic of the absences many artists and people along the border live with daily, marked by family separations, deportations, desires for mobility, and severed friendships and affections. As spectators in Tijuana are doing right now, please gaze at these works, immerse yourself in their creativity, feel the absence they mark across the border, and reflect on how we might collectively build "DIY democracy" from the bottom up. Centro Cultural de la Raza on Facebook / Instagram

Join Oceanside Theatre Company for the inaugural "Books at the Brooks" Literary Series, an engaging morning celebrating extraordinary women whose lives challenged convention and helped shape the world around them. Acclaimed local authors Jill G. Hall, Elizabeth St.John, and Janell Strube will share the real stories behind their historical novels, followed by audience conversation, book signings, and a traditional English Tea. Time: 10 a.m. – Author Panel Discussion 11 a.m. – Meet the Authors, Book Signing & English Tea Admission: Author Panel Discussion – Free English Tea – Suggested $25 donation The event is generously underwritten by the Oceanside California Cultural District. Oceanside Theatre Company on Facebook / Instagram

The judge wrote in his 94-page ruling that it was "crystal clear" that the arts complex was named for the late president John F. Kennedy. He also ruled that the center could not wind down its programming and close for two years of renovations – at least for now