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It's Art Month in Nigeria — and a highlight is the celebration of art that is Art X, a wide-ranging fair that highlights "Black portraiture" as well as other creations from the continent.

San Diego voices calling for an immediate ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war are also demanding action from U.S. Senator Alex Padilla. In other news, Rady Children’s Hospital allegedly secretly surveilled a bedridden teenager and her parents using at least one hidden camera in a hospital room. Plus, what you can expect at the 15th annual San Diego Beer Week happening now in the county.

Money to keep more than 1,000 people in hotels runs out on June 21.

San Diego County health officials released an updated water contact closure and advisory list for county beaches that is in effect Monday.

The City of Encinitas, in partnership with the North Coast Symphony Orchestra, presents the inaugural 2024 Youth Piano Concerto Competition Concert on Saturday, June 15, 2024 at 2:30 p.m. at the Encinitas Community Center, 1140 Oakcrest Park Drive, Encinitas. The award-winning performers include Frank Luo, Mozart Piano Concerto No. 23 in A, Movement 3; Luna Lee, Beethoven Concerto No 1, Movement 3; and Maxwell Tran, Shostakovich Concerto No. 2, Movement 1. The winners competed for the first-place prize of a $250 contract to perform one movement of a selected concerto with the orchestra on a Steinway D concert grand piano. The orchestra will also perform Beethoven’s Prometheus Overture. Admission: $25 first row, $15 general. For information and tickets, visit https://www.encinitasca.gov/community/cultural-arts/piano-competition View this event on Facebook

A convalescing Pope Francis greeted the crowd in St. Peter's Square on Palm Sunday, in yet another reassuring public sign of his recovery from a life-threatening battle with double pneumonia.

Californians who install rooftop solar after Friday will now earn less for the electricity they generate thanks to new energy rules kicking in Friday. The solar industry has seen an influx of customers rushing to secure lower rates, but some worry that boom will become a bust. Then, artificial intelligence has caused San Diego-based tech company Qualcomm to remodel its mission. Finally, our local deserts have two major art events — Coachella and Desert X. We’ll have details and tips on how to go.

The San Diego Early Music Society is thrilled to present famed American soprano Amanda Forsythe and Italian ensemble Opera Prima led by Cristiano Contadin. They will explore the torments of passion in the music of Monteverdi, Rossi, Legrenzi, Cavalli, and others in an exciting San Diego debut. Opera Prima’s recording of John Dowland has been described as “wonderfully free and inventive, quirky and virtuosic… expressive throughout” (D. James Ross, Early Music Review, 2023). For her part, Forsythe is lauded as “one of the best Baroque sopranos on the scene today. Her voice is light and nimble, and her high notes spin with vibrato and subtle dynamic shading” (Aaron Keebaugh, Boston Classical Review, 2018). For more information visit: sdems.org Stay Connected on Facebook

The free, family-friendly event celebrating Afrofuturistic art, film, writing and thinking takes place at Jackie Robinson YMCA in Mountain View.

Join us in the original social media, storytelling! Up close, live and personal, folkloric and literary stories to delight and amaze--told Moth-style--no notes. Alchemy in its many manifestions will inspire members of storytellers of San Diego--Fred Laskowski, Lissette Ryan with harp, Arlyn Hackett, Marilyn McPhie and hosted by Mindy Donner. Let's see what transforms! Delicious java and snacks for sale in an arts-filled atmosphere. Designed for those aged twelve and up.