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Thursday, Aug. 4, 2022 at 11:30 p.m. on KPBS TV + Friday, Aug. 5 at 10 a.m. on KPBS 2 / PBS Video App. Platforms like Facebook and Twitter can help drive positive change in society, but they've also helped fuel division, violence and even genocide. Ian Bremmer interviews Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen about whether social media can be fixed.

From San Diego Weekend Arts Events: Bach Collegium, under the direction of Ruben Valenzuela, will kick off their new season with some early works from Bach and Handel — both written in 1707. Handel's "Dixit Dominus" ("The Lord said") is reported to be his earliest surviving, dated autograph, or handwritten manuscript. And Bach's "Christ lag in Todes Banden" ("Christ lay in death's bonds") is said to be one of his earliest church cantatas, based on a Martin Luther hymn. Valenzuela has titled this season "Total Sound Explosion," which is a nod to the drama and intensity of these works. They'll also be kicking off a professional recording project with this show, so if you want your applause forever burned into the musical archives, show up. Side note: the performance will be held at All Soul's Church, home of the stunning botanical stained glass wall by iconic regional artist James Hubbell. —Julia Dixon Evans, KPBS From the organizer: Bach Collegium of San Diego presents: 1707: A SONIC YOUTH One set Rome on musical fire, while the other deepened his musical roots at home in Thuringia. Each would forge their own path and leave a distinct musical mark. DIXIT DOMINUS HWV 232 G.F. Händel CHRIST LAG IN TODESBANDEN BWV 4 J.S. Bach Date/Location: Oct. 30, 2021 @7:00 p.m. All Souls' Episcopal Church For more information on this event please visit: https://bachcollegiumsd.org/1707asonicyouth

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The Department of Housing and Urban Development disproportionately sells homes in flood-prone areas, NPR finds. Housing experts warn that this can lead to big losses for vulnerable families.

This year's performers included J. Cole, Drake, Usher, Burna Boy, City Girls, Ari Lennox, Summer Walker, JID and many more.

To sing the Great American Songbook convincingly, it helps to believe in chance. All the legendary composers of standards - George and Ira Gershwin, Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, Harold Arlen, the list goes on - had something to say about life's serendipities. Their songs are full of unexpected encounters, fine romances that blossom out of nowhere. Their wistful and often impossibly beautiful melodies convey the magic of happenstance and also its flipside, the capricious cruelty of fate. Their lyrics celebrate the notion that life can change in an instant - when that vision of loveliness steps out of a dream and you suddenly find yourself bewitched, bothered and bewildered. See Boz Scaggs perform at Humphreys Concerts by the Bay, on June 7 at 7:30 p.m. .