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The San Diego County Fair is back with live music and entertainment every day! The lineup for the Toyota Summer Concert Series on the Corona Grandstand Stage features entertainment on a heroic scale, such as Prince Royce! These shows include same-day admission to the San Diego County Fair. Date | Thursday, June 9 at 7:30 p.m., doors open 90 minutes prior to showtime. Location | Del Mar Fairgrounds Get tickets here! General admission ranging from $25 to $50. We suggest you arrive two hours prior to the show to allow for traffic and parking delays. San Diego County Fair traffic and parking can be congested, especially at night and on weekends. Come early and enjoy the fair! For more information, please visit sdfair.com or call (858) 755-1161.

American drivers, on average, wasted 51 hours last year sitting in traffic jams, costing $869, according to a new report. Chicago had the worst traffic, with drivers losing 155 hours to congestion.

Russian forces fired its largest air barrage into Ukraine in nearly two weeks Thursday as Ukrainian air defenses repelled several drones and missiles throughout the attack.

Barrett Strong was one of Motown's most gifted songwriters who collaborated with Norman Whitfield on such classics as "I Heard It Through the Grapevine," "War" and "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone."

The 15th century was one of astonishing and almost uninterrupted artistic achievements in the area controlled by the Dukes of Burgundy and referred to as the Burgundian Netherlands. Artists from the Burgundian Netherlands extended the boundaries of painting until they seemed as limitless as the blue-tinged mountains of the distant horizons in their masterpieces. This included Jan van Eyck and Rogier van der Weyden who became the most renowned painters in Europe. Van Eyck acquired legendary status perfecting impeccable detail with oil paint. This practice clearly distinguishes Northern art from Italian art as well as art from the preceding centuries. Works by these masters were sought by princes and merchants throughout Europe, who prized them for their remarkable qualities of verisimilitude, technical and coloristic virtuosity, and heightened expressive power. This docent-led talk will focus on how Burgundian Netherlandish artists achieved their common goal - to make the painted image vividly present and to render the unseen palpable. Date | Thursday, April 14 from 11 a.m. to noon Location | Online Register here for free! This event is free and open to the public. Registration is required to attend. For more information, please visit timkenmuseum.org/calendar/event/virtual-talk-the-conquest-of-reality-early-netherlandish-painting or contact Alexandra Riley at ariley@timkenmuseum.org or by phone at (619) 550-5955.

In Canada, a growing network of clinics helps active drug users get high more safely. Many public health experts want similar "harm reduction" programs in the U.S., where drug deaths have surged.

Bellwether Coffee, the creator of the world’s first all-electric, zero-emissions coffee roaster, is bringing its Roast Accelerator to San Diego! Roast Accelerator offers underrepresented coffee retailers a Bellwether Roaster with no start-up costs, subsidized financing, and full access to support services in an effort to increase diversity in the coffee industry and act as a catalyst for underrepresented business owners to roast their own coffee to grow their business. Applications are now open in San Diego for coffee retailers who are looking to grow their business through roasting. Applications are then reviewed by a board consisting of three program ambassadors and a previous recipient. When a winner is selected - they receive a roaster with zero upfront costs and subsidized monthly rental rate for the first year. Apply today! Click here. Accepting applications through April 15. For more information, please visit bellwethercoffee.com/roast-accelerator or email roastaccelerator@bellwethercoffee.com.

Join us this Mother's Day to celebrate and honor all of the amazing 'mother figures' who have nurtured us in our life! Come to the gardens to enjoy a delectable, garden-inspired brunch paired with refreshing mimosas! We will also create beautiful bouquets with flowers foraged straight from the garden. Everyone in the family is invited for this special day of garden fun! Visit: https://www.olivewoodgardens.org/events/mothers-day-brunch/ Olivewood Gardens and Learning Center on Facebook + Instagram

In a new special exhibition of works by living artist Fernando Casasempere at San Diego Museum of Art, you'll find four distinct installations, each revolving around Casasempere's use of clay, color and the earth's deeply rooted history — specifically the industrial waste from Chilean copper mines. This exhibition opens in conjunction with Art Alive, the museum's annual floral show, and is Casasempere's first solo exhibition in the U.S. On view in the museum's first floor galleries 4 and 5. Related events: Tuesday, May 3, 2022, 10:00 a.m. to noon: Art and the Environment: An Artist Panel Discussion From the museum: Fernando Casasempere (b. 1958) moved to London from Santiago in 1997 with 12 tons of earth from his native Chile. He uses the earth as his medium as well his subject to explore ideas of landscape, architecture, and history with a foreboding sense of environmental collapse. The four installations of the exhibition include: Reframing Our Relationship with the Earth features a mound of earth with thousands of individually hand-pressed clay components resembling bone fragments that speak to humans’ impact on the planet. Earth Book/The Sphere of Things to Come presents a series of clay books and a spherical structure representing the earth, together making up a physical archive of what may be lost if no change is made. Salares features hanging landscape formations made of clay that pay homage to the salt flats of the Chilean Atacama Desert, as well as enlarged mortar bowls that speak of itinerant diasporas, representing civilizations forced to flee from natural disasters caused by the changing climate. Reminiscences presents ceramic constructions representing fragments of archaeological ruins, gesturing to the threat of cultural loss due to humans’ extractive relationship with the Earth. Read more here. Related links: San Diego Museum of Art on Instagram San Diego Museum of Art on Facebook Visiting information

Prosecutors had sought six years for his role in the scheme to get the children of wealthy parents into universities. He was also ordered to pay more than $19 million in restitution and forfeitures.