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Join us for a three-day Lantern-Making Workshop at The Woo, presented in collaboration with All For Logan and inspired by the cultural traditions of Fiesta de la Guadalupana. This hands-on workshop invites participants of all ages to explore the history, symbolism, and storytelling that shape this beloved celebration. Across three guided sessions, attendees will learn the foundations of lantern construction, reflect on personal and collective narratives, and design illuminated lanterns using tissue paper, natural elements, photographs, text, and more. The workshop blends cultural education with creative expression, culminating in lanterns prepared for a community procession. Workshop Schedule: • Wednesday, December 10 | 5–8 p.m. Introduction to lantern-making, imagery, and the history behind the Feast Day. • Thursday, December 11 | 5–7 p.m. Building lantern panels, assembling tealight holders, and beginning lantern structure. • Friday, December 12 | 5–7 p.m. Final assembly, decorations, and preparation for community display. All materials are included. Families are welcome. This workshop is a warm invitation to create, learn, and honor tradition through art — strengthening community ties and preserving cultural memory. Location: The Woo, Barrio Logan Registration on Eventbrite

The 2026 San Diego Art Prize winners were recently announced: three visual artists — Tatiana Ortiz-Rubio, Ingrid Hernández and Danielle Dean — creating in vastly different forms and processes, from photography and murals to immersive installations.

Note: Though this class is offered as part of the Certificate in Memoir Writing, there is no pre-requisite to join this class. All students, members, and nonmembers are encouraged to enroll. In this workshop, participants will deepen their character work and learn how to craft a compelling memoir scene complete with description, details and dialogue that will bring the written word to life. A deeper understanding of the two voices of memoir will be explored; the voice of innocence and the voice of experience. Participants will gain a strong understanding of how and when to create real, conversational dialogue and utilize flashbacks. Tools to communicate clarity of character will be taught to bring the people in the story to life for the reader. Participants will be encouraged to submit another chapter of their work for peer review. (Those following the certificate program will have 3-5 chapters written by the end of this class.) Class structure: Except for the first class, the first hour will be lecture and the second hour will be read and critique where participants can workshop their material or class assignments. Tone of class: We strive to create a supportive, nurturing environment where participants feel encouraged to share, risk and connect to their most creative self. Our textbook, "7 Essential Writing Tools," is available for purchase on the first day of class for $10 or on Amazon/Kindle. Note: There will be no class on March 28 (San Diego Writers Festival) or April 4 (Easter)! Please also note that you will receive your Zoom link via email 24 hours before the start of this class. San Diego Writers, Ink on Facebook / Instagram

People gathered for pro-democracy protests across the country today.

An opinion editor at the San Diego Union-Tribune speaks to KPBS about her abrupt firing this week. And UCSD researchers are using their shake lab to test a new type of steel. Voice of San Diego CEO Scott Lewis is back to talk about the city’s new budget. Then, organizers of last weekend’s “No Kings” protest say even more people than the 60,000 that were initially estimated marched in San Diego. Finally, hear how the World Beat Cultural Center is honoring Juneteenth.

The library’s new tool lending program is the first of its kind in San Diego County and features everything from jackhammers to sewing machines.

"The Many Worlds and Identities of Guadalupe" with Alberto López Pulido / "Los Muchos Mundos e Identidades de Guadalupe" con Alberto López Pulido Over the years, Mexicanos and Chicane/a/os have been preoccupied with questions of identity in relation to its fluid and multidimensional nature. Through the power of Chicana and Chicano Art, "The Many Worlds and Identities of Guadalupe" explores Guadalupe as an embodiment of these worlds in an attempt to better understand Chicana/o culture and identity in our contemporary world Alberto López Pulido is the founding chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of San Diego, where he has taught since 2003. A native of San Diego’s South Bay, his upbringing between borders shaped his fronterizo perspective. He began his education at Southwestern College before earning degrees in Sociology and Chicano Studies from UC San Diego. He later completed graduate studies at the University of Notre Dame under the mentorship of Dr. Julian Samora. Pulido’s research explores the intersection of Chicana/o/x communities, spirituality, and cultural expression. His award-winning work on Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in Logan Heights is among his important works of scholarship. A trained sociologist, he has published widely on ethnic studies, Chicano/a studies in higher education, and material culture. Mingei International Museum on Facebook / Instagram

John Gutmann (1905–1998) and Max Yavno (1911–1985) were photographers who spent most of their careers in California’s two largest cities of the mid-twentieth century. Gutmann fled Nazi persecution in Germany and immigrated to San Francisco in 1933 while Yavno, a native New Yorker, moved to California in 1945, living in San Francisco and Los Angeles. These contemporaries photographed prominent aspects of modern American life, especially in their adopted home state of California. From a pervasive car culture to street life, signage, architecture, and sports and entertainment, they emphasized urban grit and energy while revealing distinct ways of seeing. Trained as an Expressionist painter in Germany, Gutmann approached these themes as a European in a new country, using the strong diagonals and daring, often low angles he learned from popular magazines in interwar Berlin to defamiliarize the everyday. Yavno’s more plainspoken and detached observations, by contrast, embody the prevailing direction of American photography of this era and his greater sociological impulse. Taken together, Gutmann and Yavno demonstrate how California was home to interconnecting, even conflicting strains in modern photography of the American scene. On Display: Aug. 9, 2025–Jan. 11, 2026 Visit: https://www.sdmart.org/exhibition/john-gutmann-max-yavno-california-photographers/ First Floor: Galleries 14/15: Mrs. Thomas J. Fleming Sr. Foyer San Diego Museum of Art on Facebook / Instagram

A university report found a sharp rise in first-year students lacking high school math proficiency. At UCSD, where more than half of undergraduate students are pursuing STEM degrees requiring math coursework, that's a problem.

A KPBS investigation revealed that data collected by the El Cajon Police Department was used in immigration-related searches more than 550 times in 2025.