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The San Diego Ballet, Fear No Art at the Central Library, Golden Howl pens a score for 'Hurricane Diane' and The Frights

California's State Board of Education has approved the nation’s first statewide model ethnic studies curriculum for high school students. It comes as the country is reeling from the latest spate of deadly hate crimes and racism.

All 200 of SDSU’s in-person classes — mostly lab work classes — would move online after 64 students tested positive for COVID-19. Students who live in campus housing may move out if they want. Plus, UC San Diego Health is recruiting participants for a national clinical trial as part of an effort to develop a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 by the end of the year. And as Mayor Kevin Faulconer gets close to signing a new deal with a private company, activists push for “municipalization,” which means the city takes over the power grid. Also, the number of people dying at home from complications of COVID-19 are climbing in San Diego County and some victims did not get the medical care they needed or received false negative test results. Finally, San Diego songwriter Al Howard has teamed up with his mother, the artist Marian Howard to create a multimedia project: He’s writing 100 songs each accompanied by her original watercolor painting.

Michael Gene Sullivan's 'The Great Khan' closes series on Monday

Airs Saturday, Nov. 21, 2020 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV + Sunday, Nov. 22 at 6:30 p.m. on KPBS 2 + Nov. 22 at 9:30 on CREATE

Stream or tune in Friday, Dec. 25, 2020 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV

As the real world feels scarier each day with a pandemic in full swing, police brutality and people just behaving badly filling social media, and a president fanning the flames of hate and unrest, the horror genre has had to adjust. This year's Horrible Imaginings Film Festival has had to move online for its annual showcase of horror, sci-fi and fantasy. Festival founder and executive director Miguel Rodriguez says that the films this year serve up less gore and tales of physical harm and instead focus on horror relating to undefined dread, to not being able to distinguish what's real from what's not, and to stories where you just can't figure out what it is that is trying to hurt you. We discuss the diverse array of shorts, features and documentaries available through Sept. 7 as well as discuss the role horror can play in a world that makes us increasingly anxious.

The links between hip-hop and the prison system are on display in laws and lyrics stretching back decades. If you're caught between these two American institutions, it might look like a trap.

In a new episode of KPBS' border podcast "Port of Entry," filmmaker Ebony Bailey talks about her documentary about Black migrants in Tijuana and her other work focusing on the mixing of cultures and the beauty that comes from it.

Pro-democracy activists and artists in Cuba say they will hold public protests on Monday, despite the government's statement that such demonstrations will not be permitted.