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A literary celebration is coming to San Diego. More than 40 award-winning authors are participating in interactive panel sessions and book signings at the inaugural San Diego Book Festival taking place on Saturday, August 23, 2025, 10am - 4pm, on the University of San Diego campus.

Join us Saturday August 9 from 6 p.m. - 10 p.m. for the opening reception of "Concussion" curated by acclaimed painter Brady Willmott, hosted by Distinction Gallery. The artwork on show ranges from the off beat and unsettling to the sweet and surreal, though all are a showcase of skill, sophistication and artistic tenacity. Artists include Allois, Brandon Hurley, Sierra Colt, Jon Ching and more (full list below). Each artist brings their own unique sensibility to the pieces on show. There will be live music and drinks available for purchase by Last Spot (21+). "Concussion" featured artists: Allois, Andrew Brando, Anthony Ausgang, Bill Brown, Bob Dob, Bradford Schneider, Brandon Hurley,Charlene Mosley, Espana Garcia, Evgola, Frank Forte, Frau Sakra, James McLeod, Jon Vaux, Jon Ching, Kate Joiner, Kelley Sutphin, L Croskey, Marion Willmott, Mark Covell, N. C. Winters, Peter Ferrel, Ravi Zupa, Sean O’Neill, Sierra Colt, David Gough, Brady Willmott. Brady Willmott on Instagram

ProgJect – The Ultimate Prog Rock Experience is the brainchild of drummer Jonathan Mover and came to fruition out of his childhood love of Prog. Visit: https://artcenter.org/event/progject/ California Center for the Arts on Instagram and Facebook

The Puppetry Arts Guild of San Diego invites you to the 3rd annual Puppets in the Park event on June 7, 2025 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Villa Norte Park in Tierrasanta. Puppet Making and Puppet Shows. Free Fun for All.

California over the past dozen years enacted a series of criminal justice laws that were meant to give more people an opportunity to be resentenced and thin out the state’s severely overcrowded prisons.

Assata Shakur, a Black liberation activist who was given political asylum in Cuba after her 1979 escape from a U.S. prison, has died. Officials in New Jersey, where Shakur had been arrested, convicted and imprisoned, said she was 78.

The major broadcasting groups said in statements the late-night talk show will return to their TV stations on Friday.

As part of OTC at the Brooks’ new film series, Movies at The Brooks, "Top Gun: Maverick" takes to the skies with free screenings on Saturday, April 26 at 12 p.m., 4 p.m., and 8 p.m. Thanks to a generous grant from Las Patronas, OTC is bringing cinema back to the historic Sunshine Brooks Theater (217 North Coast Highway, Oceanside, Calif.), now featuring a state-of-the-art screen and projector. After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell is where he belongs—pushing the envelope as a courageous test pilot and avoiding the advancement in rank that would ground him. When he’s tasked with training a group of Top Gun graduates for a specialized mission, Maverick meets Lt. Bradley Bradshaw, call sign “Rooster,” the son of Maverick’s late friend, Goose. Facing his own past and deepest fears, Maverick is drawn into a mission that demands the ultimate sacrifice from those chosen to fly it. Reserve your seat at OceansideTheatre.org. Oceanside Theatre Company on Facebook / Instagram

Four performers mount their treadmills, and the challenge begins. Burnout Paradise tests the limits of mind, body, and spirit in an increasingly frenetic juggling act of absurdity. A delusional love letter to the reckless labor and euphoric optimism before burnout, demonstrating that the system isn’t designed for us: it’s designed to break us. Australia’s Pony Cam evokes the recklessness, euphoria, and optimism that comes before burnout. What begins as a simple wager between performer and audience becomes a desperate and hilarious attempt to complete a series of escalating tasks that challenge the performers’ bodies, spirits, and minds. This is not an endurance feat. Nor is it performance art. It is a spirited realization that overachievement is no mere spectator sport. It relies on the kindness of strangers. “One of the most frenetically uproarious shows of gloriously demented ecstasy.” – Time Out “Magnificently chaotic, breathlessly frenetic fun” – THE SCOTSMAN “A truly exceptional theatrical experience” – BRITISH THEATRE GUIDE Visit: "Burnout Paradise" La Jolla Playhouse on Instagram and Facebook

This week on Roundtable, we bring together a few journalists covering one of the things we love most about San Diego: food.