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Forever Balboa Park offers thematic park tours that focus on the park’s unique biodiversity and highlight the park’s horticultural wonders on the second Saturday of each month. Led by park volunteer and horticultural enthusiast Bill Edwards, the free tours leave from the Visitors Center at 10 a.m. January 13, 2024, 10 a.m. Balboa Park Tours: Eucalyptus — Origins, Invasion, and Urban Tales Roughly 95% of the 800 eucalyptus species are native to Australia, New Zealand, and nearby Southeast Asian Islands. How and why did they become one of the most common coastal trees in California, and why do they inspire such passionate and contradictory love and hate emotions in their new home? February 10, 2024, 10 a.m. Balboa Park Tours: Flora of the International Cottages Built for the 1935 California Pacific International Exposition, the now 32 single-story cottages known as the House of Pacific Relations International Cottages occupy an area of less than two acres. The variety of cultures represented is matched by an equally diverse floral landscape from around the world. Most visitors focus on the many charming buildings and what’s inside. This tour will focus on the encompassing varied and typically unappreciated flora. March 9, 2024, 10 a.m. Balboa Park Tours: Gums, Bottlebrushes, Paperbarks—Australian Flora in San Diego Nearly 50% of the over 400 species of trees in Balboa Park come from Australia. A tour of this collection, their unusual properties, and how they survive here will be explored. Stay Updated with Forever Balboa Park! Facebook | Instagram | X

Those who know Pelosi best say she's no Left Coast liberal zealot. Instead she's a calculating political realist — in her own words, "reptilian."

As the South prepped for snow and more cold starting Wednesday, residents in Southern California faced off with hurricane-strength winds.

This election season, KPBS received a lot of questions from readers about the Central Committee contests on their ballots.

Join us in exploring how art brings us together and in proximity to one another. We will explore the works of Niki de Saint Phalle, Ana Mendieta, and many others as we strengthen our bonds within our neighborhoods! This exciting week will be filled with community-building and learning how art helps us connect. Create portraits of your new friends, tell stories of your community through your art, design flyers and posters, and work together on chalk murals. Stay Connected on Social Media! Facebook | Instagram | X

The San Diego County Fair opens Wednesday, and this year’s theme is “Get Out There.” It encourages San Diegans to explore the great outdoors.

R.B. Stevenson Gallery is pleased to present the exhibition "Seen & Forgotten" featuring new paintings by San Diego artist Stephen P. Curry. How to visit: The exhibition opens with a reception for the artist: 5-8 p.m. Saturday October 21. Gallery will be open at 1 pm. for early viewing. On view through November 22, 2023. Gallery Hours: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday Contact: Phone: 858.459.3917 rbstevensongallery@sbcglobal.net "Still life painting is a questioning of beauty in light of our immediate reality. These paintings begin with imagery of current events that are depictions of destruction, violence, and death in the initial underpainting process as a way to influence, contradict and subvert the act of observation and the painting process as well as the final opposing representation of the beauty of nature. These contradictory images exist simultaneously to engage in a conversation in the seen and the unseen or forgotten. At the same time challenging, yet playful compositional choices are meant to break with traditional still life and illusionistic representational effects are intentionally brought up short by the physical nature of the paint itself. Drips and splatters, dabs and smears, paint does what paint does." -Stephen P. Curry Related links: R.B. Stevenson Gallery website | Instagram | Facebook

Recent initiatives from government agencies in San Diego County suggest calls for reform are being heard.

Artists Dwight Hwang and Oriana Poindexter are proud to present Impressions in Light & Shadow, an exhibition featuring new gyotaku and photo-based prints at Perspectives Space in Encinitas, California. This month-long exhibition highlights the unique beauty and majesty of the giant kelp forest ecosystems off Southern California’s coastline. The reception is free and open to the public with an Eventbrite RSVP. Light appetizers provided by Wrench & Rodent Seabasstropub and wine by Zio Baffa. About the Artists: Dwight Hwang creates classical Japanese gyotaku art and European nature printing. Whether his subject is a fish, plants, birds, or even a person, he pushes not only the art but himself to bring awe, memories, and quiet contemplation to viewers worldwide. Partnered with institutions like NOAA and Patagonia, his work has been exhibited in museums such as the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles, displayed in hospitality such as the Four Seasons Resorts, and showcased in publications including Forbes. Oriana Poindexter is a photographer and marine scientist focused on the intersection of art, science, and marine natural resources. After working for nearly a decade in fisheries science with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and NOAA Fisheries, she now focuses on the use of photography to help viewers understand the ever-changing natural world. Her work has been featured by the Getty Museum and The Wall Street Journal, and she has created interpretive visual exhibits for the Aquarium of the Pacific and the Birch Aquarium.

Los votantes del centro de San Diego, La Mesa, Lemon Grove y Spring Valley elegirán entre cuatro candidatos en la elección especial.