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Hossein Shanbehzadeh has been sentenced after replying with a period in response to a post on the social platform X by Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Join instructor Suzanne Balestri to learn the basics of Fused Glass and create your own glass jewelry to keep for yourself or give as a gift. This fun workshop offers a perfect introduction to Kiln-Formed (fused) glass for beginners, and allows those who have worked with glass before to hone their abilities and finesse their skills. You will learn how fused glass differs from other forms of art glass, how to use the various tools involved in creating glass art, and how to cut and grind the glass you will be using in your wearable art project. Using a colorful array of glass and pre-fired adornments, you’ll construct abstract or representational designs to be fashioned into earrings, pendants, rings, cuff links, even belt buckles! Each student will have plenty of space in the kiln for several items! Your pieces will be fired in a glass kiln to completely fuse each design into one solid piece, and will be ready for you to pick up the following week. Workshop fee includes pre-workshop instructional videos, all glass, equipment, and kiln firing of several pieces. An Additional Supply Fee of $10 (cash only) is due to instructor at the workshop. It includes pre-fused adornments plus jewelry findings for up to 3 items (excluding leather for bracelets/belts). Additional findings, chains, cording, and leather for bracelets and belts will also be available for cash purchase. This workshop is recommended for all skill levels – ages 13 and up. Beginners welcome!

Expert guidance on the realities of pregnancy and new motherhood from Life Kit. Find episodes on the menstrual cycle, egg freezing, postpartum depression and more.

Imperial Beach Mayor Serge Dedina said he met Tuesday night with Baja California officials who tentatively agreed to emergency mitigation measures to address the ongoing problem of raw sewage leaking across the border. Then, monkeypox cases have more than doubled since last week in San Diego County, a virtual town hall will be held Thursday night to answer questions about the spread of the virus. Next, San Diego County officials have stopped new admissions to Veterans Village of San Diego, after multiple deaths and numerous concerns have been reported at the rehab center. And, something completely different: San Diego pickleball enthusiasts have found themselves in a bit of a sour situation. Finally, an interview with San Diego author Pam Fong whose children’s book, “Once Upon a Forest” captures a world steeped in nature.

The San Diego nonprofit is encouraging residents affected by the storm to vote in person if they no longer have access to their mail-in ballots.

The mural depicts the first successful school desegregation case in the U.S. — 23 years before Brown vs. Board of Education.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is trying something new to introduce kids to the materials that make art.

Spending time outside in scorching weather can put you at risk of heat stroke or exhaustion. Here's what to watch out for and how to stay safe.

Watch the guitarist and songwriter perform outside on the idyllic Aspen Ideas Festival campus.

From the museum: Artist Lisa Ross describes their relationship to Uyghur shrines and culture as a story of “fate and possibly faith.” An avid traveler drawn to desert landscapes, the photo and video artist first visited the Taklamakan Desert along the former Silk Route of the Uyghur Region, officially called Xinjiang (or “New Territory) by the People’s Republic of China, in 2002. In the following decade, Ross visited over fifty holy sites nestled among sand dunes or the edges of remote oasis villages. Composed of hand-carved wooden branches and colorful flags made of silk and other fabrics, these open-air monuments are known as mazar, from the Arabic word for “shrine” or “mausoleum,” made by Uyghur pilgrims to mark the resting places of revered Muslim saints and their descendants. Ross’s work expanded through friendship and travel with Dr. Alexandre Papas, a French historian of Islam, and Dr. Rahile Dawut, a Uyghur ethnographer missing since 2017. With greater access to the Uyghur region and people, the artist began to explore other relationships in the landscape. In the prefecture of Turpan, local tradition situates beds in the open air to navigate the extreme heat of summer. Ross saw a poetic connection between the mazars and these outdoor beds, and the vast open space both occupied. Created with wood and fabric materials similar to the shrines, the beds mirror the rectangular burial markers commemorating saints, who are believed to rest in a state of eternal sleep. Following the period of the artist’s work in the region, historically unstable relations between the Chinese government and Uyghur people continued to worsen, resulting in what the US government now recognizes as genocide. Ross’s luminous photographs, first conceived as an homage to living shrines, have now become a moving visual elegy to the Uyghur homeland. They reflect the artist’s commitment to raising awareness about the atrocities against humanity currently ongoing in Xinjiang.In addition to the photographs on view, two films by Ross, entitled To Mark a Prayer and RISE, provide a glimpse into the way these sacred and beloved spaces function in the Uyghur homeland. Thoughtfully composed, poetic, and reverential in approach, Ross’s works capture the rituals and spiritual traditions associated with the desert mazars, as well as the beauty of everyday life in the region—and now represent an important archive of collective memory, histories of faith, and the perseverance of an endangered people and culture. Related links: San Diego Museum of Art on Instagram San Diego Museum of Art on Facebook Artist Lisa Ross' website