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Isolated at the bottom of the map, the Bayou City had to build its scene from scratch, and its influence inched ever outward. Today you can hear its pulse everywhere, beating slow and low.

Featuring the Bach Double Concerto arranged for Soprano Violin. The Hutchins Consort plays on the eight scaled violins of the violin octet designed and built by famed luthier Dr. Carleen Hutchins. The instruments are the first successful attempt to create an acoustically balanced set of instruments that can sound truly like violins across the entire range of written music. With instruments ranging from the tiny treble violin, tuned one octave above the standard violin, to the gigantic large bass violin, tuned one octave lower than a 'cello, the Hutchins Consort produces an astonishing palette of sounds. Follow The Hutchins Consort on Facebook!

Raskin has given himself until July 4th to announce his plans. He's weighing a run for the U.S. Senate after going into remission following intensive cancer treatment.

"Aunty Edith," as she was known, helped revive the Hawaiian language, hula and chant.

European Union states agreed to a plan after adding an exemption for cars that run on e-fuels. In the U.S., efforts to phase out gas-powered cars include future bans in several states.

The Data Pharmacy Speaker: Joshua Neves, Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair, Concordia University Respondent: Daisuke Miyao, Professor and Hajime Mori Chair in Japanese Language and Literature, UC San Diego Hosted by Wentao Ma, Ph.D. Student, Literature Department, UC San Diego This event will be held via Zoom Webinar -- registrants will receive the Zoom link prior to the event start time. Abstract This talk explores three insights from my current research and collaborations examining cultures of optimization and the entanglement of big data and big pharma. One key starting point for this work is what Paul Preciado, in Testo Junkie, calls somatechnics to describe processes whereby media technologies are not merely added to or encountered by bodies/subjects – as with McLuhanist “extensions” or ideas about spectatorship, and the like - but are rather “the very means by which corporeality is crafted.” While Preciado’s main concerns are the operations of sexuality and subjection under the new biocapitalism, his recognition that pharmaceutical and digital media industries are crucial to the reproduction of the present has yet to be taken seriously by media theorists. Building on these and related debates, this brief presentation focuses on somatechnics and three aspects of our techno-pharmacological condition – or what this lecture series terms media care – namely: changes in how we understand and perform resilience; the critical role of stimulation in animating modes of media enfleshment; and emergent forms of mood conditioning. These insights do not promise a comprehensive view, but rather signal intensifying relations between data and drugs in practices of self-making, wellness, and work. Biography Joshua Neves is Associate Professor of Film Studies and Director of the Global Emergent Media (GEM) Lab at Concordia University. His research focuses on global and digital media, cultural and political theory, and questions of development and legitimacy. Dr. Neves is co-author (with Aleena Chia, Susanna Paasonen, and Ravi Sundaram) of Technopharmacology (Minnesota University Press / Meson Press, 2022) and author of Underglobalization: Beijing’s Media Urbanism and the Chimera of Legitimacy (Duke University Press, March 2020). He is also co-editor (with Bhaskar Sarkar) of Asian Video Cultures: In the Penumbra of the Global (Duke University Press, 2017), as well as co-editor of recent or forthcoming journal issues examining convenience, paranoia, optimization, and populism. His work is published in Media Theory, Cultural Critique, Social Text, Discourse, Culture Machine, Film Quarterly, Cinema Journal, Sarai, The Routledge Companion to Risk and Media, among others. About the Media Care Talk Series Dozing at the movie theater, listening to the podcast on the subway, counseling via Zoom appointments, searching immigration policy on the internet…In this increasingly crumbling world, media offer maintenance and sustain our vitality while they also harm our well-being through abuse and addiction. This talk series examines the concept of care and showcases the process of knowledge production surrounding artificial care in media practice. We will browse a range of media objects and platforms - from cinema to teletherapy, from smart drugs to sleep apps - and explore the habitual, affective, and material potential of healing and solidarity within film and media theories. This series is co-organized by the Film Studies Program and the Suraj Israni Center for Cinematic Arts at UC San Diego with generous support from the following: 21 Century China Center, Department of Communication, Department of Visual Arts, Department of Literature, and the Institute of Arts & Humanities. Questions Email Suraj Israni Center By registering for this event you agree to receive future correspondence from the Suraj Israni Center for Cinematic Arts, from which you can unsubscribe at any time.

Members of the Writers Guild of America continue to strike against the major Hollywood studios, pushing for higher pay, more residuals and regulations on AI, among other things.

From the bookstore: Susan Dennard discussing "THE LUMINARIES" An In-Store & Virtual Hybrid Event This is an IN-STORE EVENT that will also be broadcasted live through Crowdcast for those unable to attend in person. This event will consist of a 30 minute discussion with Susan Dennard, followed by the book signing. If you're joining us virtually, Mysterious Galaxy's virtual events are hosted on Crowdcast. Click here to register for the event and here to view our virtual code of conduct. Accessibility: Real-time captioning for all Crowdcast events is available via Google Chrome. For enabling captions, please follow this guide. More info here. How to Order a Signed/Personalized copy of "THE LUMINARIES" or any of Susan's available backlist of books if you're not attending the event. Add the desired book(s) to your cart. At checkout in the "order comments" box write "signed only" or to whom your book(s) should be personalized (i.e. "To: Ms. Galaxy"). Requests for anything beyond a name, like a note or quote, are up to the author's discretion and are not guaranteed. Orders must be placed by 12 p.m. pt. on the day of the event (November 4). Please call the store if you wish to purchase a book, or add/alter personalization to an existing order, after this time. About the Author SUSAN DENNARD is the award-winning, NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author of the Witchlands series (now in development for TV from the Jim Henson Company), the Something Strange and Deadly series, and the upcoming Luminaries series, as well as various short stories and other tales across the internet. She also runs the popular newsletter for writers, Misfits and Daydreamers. When not writing or teaching writing, she can be found rolling the dice as a Dungeon Master or mashing buttons on one of her way too many consoles. About "THE LUMINARIES" Hemlock Falls isn't like other towns. You won't find it on a map, your phone won't work here, and the forest outside town might just kill you. Winnie Wednesday wants nothing more than to join the Luminaries, the ancient order that protects Winnie's town—and the rest of humanity—from the monsters and nightmares that rise in the forest of Hemlock Falls every night. Ever since her father was exposed as a witch and a traitor, Winnie and her family have been shunned. But on her sixteenth birthday, she can take the deadly Luminary hunter trials and prove herself true and loyal—and restore her family's good name. Or die trying. But in order to survive, Winnie enlists the help of the one person who can help her train: Jay Friday, resident bad boy and Winnie’s ex-best friend. While Jay might be the most promising new hunter in Hemlock Falls, he also seems to know more about the nightmares of the forest than he should. Together, he and Winnie will discover a danger lurking in the forest no one in Hemlock Falls is prepared for. Not all monsters can be slain, and not all nightmares are confined to the dark. Follow Susan on Instagram & Twitter!

San Diego County released an $8.11 billion proposed 2023-24 budget Thursday with major investments in the realms of homelessness, mental health and substance use disorder, improving the justice system and investing in core services such as roads, fire protection and parks.

Interview about "Barbarian Days" with William Finnegan and Ben Cater, hosted by the PLNU Honors Program as part of the 2023 Writer's Symposium by the Sea, Writing That Celebrates. William Finnegan is an award-winning reporter, a staff writer at The New Yorker, and the author of five books, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning book "Barbarian Days", a memoir about his lifelong passion for surfing. In addition to "Barbarian Days", Finnegan’s books include "Crossing the Line: A Year in the Land of Apartheid", which was chosen by The New York Times Book Review as one of the top ten nonfiction books of the year; "Cold New World: Growing Up in a Harder Country", which was a finalist for the Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism; "Dateline Soweto: Travels with Black South African Reporters"; and "A Complicated War: The Harrowing of Mozambique". Included in the ticket is live music to begin at 6:15, when doors open for general admission seating. The 28th Annual Writer's Symposium by the Sea will be February 21-24, 2023, also featuring Pulitzer winning writers N. Scott Momaday, Maria Hinojosa and William Finnegan. For more info, visit here!