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Each week, the guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: Horror in the High Desert, Emily the Criminal, and more.

Newsom's veto Monday comes amid a spike in overdose deaths amid a national opioid crisis.

Writer and performer Vivian Yoon is the host of K-Pop Dreaming, a new podcast that interweaves the history and rise of K-pop with her own personal narrative.

Enjoy City Heights Festival of Love multicultural resource fair and performance exposition, free for the whole family, and back in-person after a one-year hiatus. Connect with community resources including a vaccination station by on-site sign up. Cultural groups showcase dance, circus, a drum lesson, maskmaking, music, a kids' zone with jumpys, a giant puppet and drum parade and more. The Festival of Love promotes diversity, solidarity, and love while providing a space where diverse perspectives, cultures, and value are accepted, appreciated, and celebrated.

Chinese universities are sending students home as the ruling Communist Party tightens anti-virus controls and tries to prevent more protests by crowds angered by its severe "zero COVID" restrictions.

"One Governor should not have the power to dictate the facts of U.S. history," Democratic Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker said of GOP Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' move to ban the Advanced Placement course.

The Children, Youth and Families System of Care (CYFSOC) Training Academy and Responsive Integrated Health Solutions (RIHS) are excited to announce the 2022 CYFSOC Conference: Peers in Children, Youth and Families Services, Expanding our Community with Peers. We invite you to the Peers in Children, Youth and Families Services Conference to explore the roots of peer support, recovery fundamentals, and the improvements to the system of care when peers and lived experience are part of the service community supporting children, youth, and families. Here's what you can expect: - Explore what it means to be a recovery-oriented system of care and how it is integral to providing comprehensive and trauma-informed health care - Plenary sessions and workshops that offer an overview of how to build a supportive organizational culture and increase your staff’s sense of belonging by prioritizing staff integration of peers and lived experience - Discuss strategies to engage, retain, and provide professional development opportunities for peers - Assess your organization's readiness to integrate peer workers Date | Thursday, May 26 from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Location | Online Register here! General admission is $75. For more information, please visit theacademy.sdsu.edu/programs/rihs/cyfsoc-conference-2022 or call (619) 594-0923.

Are parents, teachers and the public feeling as divided as the headlines make it seem? A pair of new NPR/Ipsos polls reveals division, to be sure, but also surprising consensus.

One Paseo will play host to a Menorah Lighting in celebration of Hanukkah from November 28 to December 6. Bring the entire family and join us at One Paseo on Sunday, December 5 from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. for a Menorah Lighting Ceremony with the Chabad Jewish Center of Rancho Santa Fe. Don’t miss out on this special celebration! For more information, please visit onepaseo.com/events or call (858) 523-2298.

State legislators are taking action to ensure California women have access to the medical procedure.