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Workshop for a New Year Kadomatsu Kokedama! Sake is served!! Traditional Japanese new year Kadomatsu bring happiness to your house! Let's get together and make a wish for coming year 2022 full of happiness and prosperity. Date: 12/27 (Mon) 10:00am~ at Japanese Friendship Garden in Balboa Park Fee: $65 for one group (Join with your family and friends/Admission to Japanese garden is not included in the ticket) Fee include all the materials needed to make one Kadomatsu kokedama decoration, instruction from Kokedama artist, and Sake to be cheers!! Kadomatsu is a decoration with three cut pieces of bamboo and pine for the Japanese New Year’s holiday. After Christmas, you will see this decoration at the entrances of houses and buildings in Japan. It is the land mark for the Shinto deity Toshigami-sama, to enter your home. In Japan, it has believed that Toshigami-sama comes to each family to bring happiness on New Year’s day. However, the deity only visits when he is invited. The kadomatsu decorations take on the role of sign at an entrance to welcome the deity. We will have a good time at Japanese garden with family and friends. Bring as many family member or friends to join this event. Looking forward to see you there! Kanako Yamada

From the Gaslamp Quarter The Gaslamp Quarter is excited to announce its expanded Halloween season programs and events. The Gaslamp Quarter’s delicious restaurants, amazing retailers, and cool bars have plenty to offer no matter how you like to celebrate spooky season. Great Pumpkin Beer Festival —The legendary Seattle Great Pumpkin Beer Festival hits San Diego for a mischievous day of pumpkin-themed brews, live entertainment, twisted experientials, squash-based foodie creations, hidden surprises and so much more! For one day only, the streets of Downtown San Diego will be transformed into a gourd-geous mecca of all things nonsensical as misfits unite to celebrate brews, boos, and beats. This isn’t your typical Halloween party —the Great Pumpkin Beer Festival is a one-of-a-kind experience with 40+ craft brews, live music, costume contests, and so much more. Date | Saturday, October 30 from 3:25 p.m. to 10:25 p.m. Location | Gaslamp Quarter, 702 Market Street Get tickets here! Tier 2, General Admission (5 Tasting Tickets): $43 Tier 2: General Admission (10 Tasting Tickets): $63 Tier 2: VIP Admission (15 Tasting Tickets): $118 General Admission – Designated Driver: $25 VIP – Designated Driver: $75 This is a 21+ event. For more information, please visit greatpumpkinbeerfestsd.com or email events@mcfarlanepromotions.com.

Each week, the guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: Peppa Pig, Apostle, and more.

From Gaslam Quarter: The Gaslamp Quarter is excited to announce its expanded Halloween season programs and events. The Gaslamp Quarter’s delicious restaurants, amazing retailers, and cool bars have plenty to offer no matter how you like to celebrate spooky season. Hard Rock Halloween: "Enchanted Forrest" —According to folklore, the forest is a place of magical refuge. Housing a hint of danger, strange surprises, unusual characters and always a promise of the unknown, it’s a place where the lines between fantasy and reality blur. In celebration of Halloween 2021, we invite you to lose yourself in a rooftop Enchanted Forest bash taking place outdoors on our Woodstock Terrace. Experience a night of drinking, dancing and musical revelry featuring a lineup of your favorite San Diego DJs. Room packages include two tickets to the event. Book yours now before they sell out! Date | Saturday, October 30 from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. Location | FLOAT Rooftop Lounge, 207 Fifth Avenue Get tickets here! Room Packages: SOLD OUT General Admission: SOLD OUT Table Reservations: Still available, please email bars@hardrockhotelsd.com. This is a 21+ event. All sales are final. No refunds will be offered & tickets cannot be moved or used for an alternate date. For more information, please visit www.hardrockhotels.com/san-diego/halloween or call (619) 702-3000.

This weekend in the arts: Alexis Smith at MCASD La Jolla; San Diego Zine Fest; Ceelo Green plays James Brown at the Shell; the juried youth exhibition at MOPA; Sidro Saturdays in San Ysidro; and Disco Riot's "Choreo and Kickball."

A new exhibition at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts offers a rare glimpse into the archives of the late songwriter Lou Reed.

More than 150,000 people are without clean water. For years, aging infrastructure and a lack of investment left residents dealing with unreliable access and worries about the safety of the water.

Chris Licht taps Don Lemon, Kaitlan Collins and Poppy Harlow for CNN's new morning show. Licht made his name reimagining mornings for MSNBC and CBS, then revived Stephen Colbert's Late Night on CBS.

Since its founding over 1,000 years ago, this Catholic music school and song group in Regensburg, Germany, has been boys only. Until now.

Tony Dow, who played Wally Cleaver on the hit TV show Leave It To Beaver, has died at 77. He had cancer.