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Ballots are being mailed out Monday for next month’s special election in Assembly District 80. Democrats David Alvarez and Georgette Gomez and Republican Lincoln Pickard are the candidates running to replace Lorena Gonzalez in California’s 80th Assembly District.

The VAPA Foundation, whose mission is to enhance the quality of access to arts education in the San Diego Unified School District, will hold its third annual Spotlight benefit event, Beyond Brilliance, on April 10, at The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center in La Jolla (7600 Fay Ave, La Jolla, CA 92037). The event begins at 4 p.m. with a prelude VIP reception with a cocktail and champagne toast at the JAI, followed by a 5 p.m. welcome reception, complete with cocktails, bountiful fare and pop-up performances in the courtyard. At 6 p.m., a production featuring musical and theatrical performances by highly gifted SDUSD student artists at the Baker-Baum Concert Hall and at 7 p.m., the much-anticipated dolce & divertimenti of lively jazz, sweets and treats galore, prepared by SDUSD culinary arts students mentored by Chef Giuseppe Ciuffa. Creative, colorful attire is encouraged. The first of its kind event, co-chaired by Doreen Schonbrun and Phyllis Epstein, will honor Pradeep Khosla, Chancellor of the University of California San Diego and VAPA’S leading sponsor. Khosla will be honored for his support and partnership on many levels, including providing services to teachers in curriculum and instruction, professional development, and community collaboration. Tickets start at $100 for Friends which comes with an overture reception and spotlight performance, $200 for supporters including Dolci and divertimenti, and $350 for VIP provides a champagne reception and valet parking. For registration visit: https://give.vapafoundation.org/event/beyond-brilliance/e392159 For more information, to purchase tickets or sponsor the event, visit: https://give.vapafoundation.org/event/beyond-brilliance/e392159 Visit VAPA Foundation on Facebook + Instagram

The World Health Organization registry holds 11 million data points — key to addressing global health inequality. Yet health officials stress how much information is still missing.

One woman living in Kabul describes how, despite food shortages and repression, her family is celebrating the Persian new year with what they have.

Angering environmentalists, the water board decided that cities and farmers would get more Delta water while restricting flows for endangered salmon and other fish. The move came after Gov. Gavin Newsom suspended key environmental laws.

Top Pentagon officials are testifying Tuesday for the first time since the completion of the U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan.

"We get so stuck on categories and labels that you completely miss the point of really beautiful, authentic forms of art," Stabille told Jazz Night in America in 2015.

That's the view of Joseph Glauber of the International Food Policy Research Institute. He considers the fear the war would lead to a surge in food prices – and a dramatic worsening of world hunger.

At a news conference this week, the World Health Organization made a surprising statement: The coronavirus could possibly transmit on frozen packages of food.

Duke anthropologist Brian Hare argues that humans evolved in a way that left us more cooperative and friendlier than our now extinct human cousins, like Neanderthals and Denisovans.