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Bancroft Elementary prepares to welcome students back to their campus on Monday after a month of extensive flood damage repairs.

It capsized a few hundred meters into the journey along the Fimi River, the latest such tragedy to strike Congo.

Mathew Klickstein's podcast "Comic-Con Begin" is now an engagingly designed book on fandom.

The tropical moisture was predicted to move across Southern California Friday night, followed by weak ridging Saturday afternoon through Sunday for warm, dry weather.

From Craig Martin, Founder and Music Director of Classic Albums Live: Led Zeppelin really do sound like the hammer of the gods… at first listen it’s the guitar riffs that grab you. Then the drums. Then the honey-sweet voice of Robert Plant. What’s funny is that after years of listening and dissecting the album, it’s the bass guitar that I’m now drawn to. Led Zeppelin II has it all: drum solos, guitar solos, lemons! I get emails from people telling me that their kids were conceived to this record! Perhaps that’s the ultimate compliment you can pay to an album! Zep fans are unrelenting in their love for the band. Many people don’t realize that during the ‘70s no other band or artist came close to selling as many albums as Led Zeppelin. At the time the critics were panning them and making fun of them, but the people spoke. They bought the albums and went to the concerts. The nerdy naysayers were left licking their wounds. Led Zeppelin were the people’s band, and Led Zeppelin II was their call to arms. Every rock musician who picks up an instrument gravitates toward Zep. Every musician says they can play Zep but most can’t. There’s an undefinable quality to their music. Once every couple of months, I stay up all night and comb the internet for bands that can play Led Zeppelin better than CAL… I never find anyone that comes close. I have put together the greatest Led Zeppelin band in the world. I can’t believe my luck; I get to rock out with an audience of like-minded people. I can’t think of anything better than being in a beautiful communal setting and reveling in one of the greatest albums ever made. “Thanks to you I’m much obliged – for such a pleasant stay” Note: the San Diego Symphony does not appear on this program.

Opera Wednesdays: Dec. 14, 2022, 7 - 8:30 p.m. Opera singer, tenor Bernardo Bermundez Opera Wednesdays features a different roster of local singers on each program, offering a selection of mostly operatic highlights (arias and art songs) as well as Broadway tunes and American classics for variety. During each concert, four singers consisting of past and present Metropolitan Opera competition winners, active San Diego Opera performers, and singers who have sung all over the world perform with some of the area's most sought-after pianists. Cost: $10-20 suggested donation; $100 percent of donations go directly to the artists. Registration: www.ljcommunitycenter.org/opera-wednesdays La Jolla Community Center on Facebook / Instagram

From the gallery: The Hill Street Country Club is proud to present AGRIDULCE: a solo exhibition by Jezabeth Roca Gonzalez. The show features video works, soil prints, and terrazzo tiles that take a speculative fiction approach to explore connection, collaboration, and care against a backdrop of climate change and the lingering structures of colonialism in Puerto Rico. “My work is about imaginaries.” - Jezabeth Featured video works like the multi-channel piece, Isla Flotante uses a speculative fiction approach to the visual narrative and realities of the every day, that is they do not recount any particular event. Instead of constructing a story with casted characters and a final lesson, Jezebeth collaborates with their family acting as editor and composer of their personal experiences as seen through the family’s group chat. This lets each participant exist as a complex individual and brings viewers into the everyday acts of imagination and creativity required to connect across generations, space, and time. Jezebeth’s terrazzo tiles and soil prints are firmly grounded in a sense of place, literally. The distinct red/orange soil found around Jezabeth’s family’s home is a recurring material used in sculptures and printmaking processes. Accessible materials are a core part of Jezabeth’s practice and another point of collaboration with their family who collect and ship the earth from Puerto Rico in bricks. By positioning themselves as collaborator and caretaker, Jezabeth invites viewers to reconsider how we might draw on personal and material resources symbiotically. What does creativity look like when it is liberated from productivity? How might imagination be a means to stay connected in a world that is both passively changing and being actively changed? AGRIDULCE - Meaning: the mixture of something sour and sweet. Something that can be pleasant and unpleasant at the same time. ABOUT JEZABETH: Jezabeth Roca Gonzalez (they/them/Elle/Le) is a multidisciplinary Cuir-Diaspo-Boricux artist based in Oceanside, California. They hold an MFA from the University of South Florida where they received the Dedalus MFA Fellowship In Painting and Sculpture in 2020. Jezabeth has completed multiple residencies in the United States and Canada and is currently in residence at the Hidrante project space in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Schedule a free appointment to view the exhibit here. Gallery hours: Feb. 27 5:30-8:30 p.m. Feb. 28 5:30-8:30 p.m. (with the artist) Mar. 28 6-7 p.m. (with the artist; food and drinks provided) Artist talks: Sunday, March 5 11 a.m. Tuesday, March 14 6-8 p.m. Related links: The Hill Street Country Club on Facebook The Hill Street Country Club on Instagram Jezabeth Roca Gonzalez on Vimeo

Israel's domestic security agency had Hamas' battle plans for the Oct. 7, 2023 attacks but didn't take them seriously. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu deflected responsibility for the failure.

San Diego’s ’s Climate Action Plan 2.0 is in the works. Meanwhile, the rate of San Diego’s increase in home prices is starting to slow. Plus, a piece of art at the California Center for the Arts in Escondido is causing controversy.

A new proposal from California regulators would change how power companies calculate their customer's bills.