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  • The Trump administration may end leases for some of NOAA's offices while the agency terminates several advisory committees at the important weather and climate agency.
  • Four beautiful, bad-ass women lose their heads in this irreverent, girl-powered comedy set during the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror. Playwright Olympe de Gouges, assassin Charlotte Corday, former queen (and fan of ribbons) Marie Antoinette, and Haitian rebel Marianne Angelle hang out, murder Marat, and try to beat back the extremist insanity in 1793 Paris. This grand and dream-tweaked comedy is about violence and legacy, art and activism, feminism and terrorism, compatriots and chosen sisters, and how we actually go about changing the world. It’s a true story. Or total fiction. Or a play about a play. Or a raucous resurrection…that ends in a song and a scaffold. Featuring Nicki Barnes as Marianne Angelle, Gaby Jentzsch as Marie Antoinette, Jenna Renee Pekny as Charlotte Corday, and Adina Silva as Olympe de Gouges. Advisory: Adult language. Brief discussions of political struggle, sexism, racism, and the violence that accompanies oppression. For more information visit: lamplighterslamesa.com Stay Connected on Facebook
  • The Photographer’s Eye Gallery will present "Inner Space," an exhibit of underwater images by Steve Eilenberg and Marie Tartar, who have been photographing the ocean’s creatures, great and small, for nearly 30 years. The exhibit opens on Oct. 26 and will run through Nov. 30. "Inner Space" will feature images made during their black water dives, in which they photograph minute, translucent creatures that rise at night from the ocean’s depths to its surface to feed. The Photographer’s Eye Gallery will host a reception for the artists from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Oct. 26, and artists Eilenberg and Tartar will conduct walk-throughs of their exhibit on Nov. 9 and Nov. 30 at 3 p.m. The nonprofit Photographer’s Eye Gallery is open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays, and by appointment by calling 760-522-2170. Free parking is available in front of and behind the gallery. Eilenberg and Tartar are San Diego-based radiologists and a married couple who collaborate as Aperture Photo Arts. Their work has been displayed in several venues, including the Birch Aquarium in La Jolla, the San Diego Natural History Museum and Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. The couple began diving in 1989 and undertook underwater photography about six years later. Their photography ranges from shooting the planet’s largest creatures, sperm whales, to some of the smallest, like the wunderpus, a color-shifting octopus that emerges at dusk to hunt. “In black water, these are small, translucent larval forms of life that come up from the deep at night,” Tartar said. Shooting at night in the deep presents a set of unique challenges, the first of which is diving proficiency. “The better diver you are the better photographer you’ll be,” Tartar said. “You’re on a life-support system, (and) you have to have excellent buoyancy,” because if you drift to the ocean floor you may stir up a cloud of sand and foul your studio. Diving in black water presents the obvious challenge of how see your subject. To shoot at night the couple position themselves along a line dropped into the sea from a buoy; the line has flashlights attached. They also use their own lighting array, so that when something interesting comes into view they can follow and photograph it. Such a creature is a tube anemone larva, which lives in waters off the Philippines and rises from great depths, as much as 1,000 meters. Nutrients in the water stick to the larva’s “fingers,” which the organism licks. “As it slowly tumbles in the water column, I wait for a good body position and shoot,” Eilenberg said. “Intense strobe light defines them and accentuates features and organelles that otherwise would go unnoticed.” Not all their quarry is so small. Tartar recently visited Argentina to photograph Southern right whales, an endangered species that was hunted extensively until the 1960s. “Whales are simply too big to light with strobes or a flash,” Tartar said. Much of that photography is done at or just below surface level. The reward, they said, is in sharing images of creatures that few of us get to see. “In the end it’s about showing people a hidden world,” Tartar said. “A world that we value greatly and everyone should value, that our planet pretty much depends on. You can’t really appreciate or conserve something you don’t understand. You can’t value it if it’s an abstraction to you. It’s kind of a miracle what’s in there and we only know a fraction of it.” Eilenberg said he hopes their photographs help people realize how important it is to respect and protect the ocean. And he hopes that viewers are amazed by what they see. “I’d love for some people to just have their mouth drop open and say, ‘I can’t believe this even exists on this planet. This is not a real creature, is it?’” Eilenberg said. The Photographer’s Eye Collective on Facebook / Instagram
  • El discurso en horario de máxima audiencia de Trump fue el último hito en su toma de control de la capital del país, donde la Cámara de Representantes y el Senado —liderados por los republicanos— han hecho poco para frenar al mandatario mientras él y sus aliados trabajan para reducir el tamaño del gobierno federal y redefinir el lugar del país en el mundo.
  • Celebrate the spooky season and enjoy daily chapters of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus" sent straight to your email. Register to be sent a chapter of the story each day. No strings, no time commitments!* Your email will not be shared with other participants. Late sign-ups will receive a link to previous chapters and be added to the main newsletter list within two business days. New sign-ups may not be accepted after October 13. *An entirely optional Zoom discussion will be held on November 4 from 6:30-7:30 p.m., a few days after the final chapter is sent out. A Zoom link will be included in the final email and the session is visible on our event calendar to register for without joining the email newsletter club. For parents: This book is generally considered appropriate for older teens and adults, particularly high school age and up. There are descriptions of murder, child death, death, depression, xenophobia (briefly), corpses, and some common horror elements. Descriptions are not overly gratuitous or severely graphic. Some themes are a product of their time and should be read with that context in mind. Newsletter extras and linked-to documents will usually have content warnings, but you are the best judge for what is appropriate for your child. The views and descriptions within this book and the newsletter extras are those of their individual creators and do not represent the views of the San Diego Public Library. https://sandiego.librarymarket.com/event/frankenstein-spooky-email-serial-401659
  • Inductees this year also included A Tribe Called Quest and Dave Matthews Band, and posthumous recognition for Jimmy Buffett, MC5, Alexis Korner, John Mayall, Norman Whitfield and Big Mama Thornton.
  • Duolingo's mascot faked his death to get users to do their daily lessons, and attention from pop star Dua Lipa. Here's how he masterminded it — and why one expert sees the campaign as a success.
  • Friday, March 7, 2025 at 9 p.m. on KPBS 2 / PBS app. This episode reveals the essential role that craft appreciators play in the community. It examines how collectors affirm and inspire the artists they support and how the art enriches the lives of the collectors in turn. The episode highlights collections from Chicano art to teapots to wooden spoons, looking at what drives collectors and how their support furthers artists at all stages of their careers.
  • With uncertainties around federal funding for higher education, some schools are cutting back. Experts say that could hurt not only students and faculty, but ultimately make the U.S. less competitive.
  • A concert celebratng All Saints and All Souls Days with J.S. Bach’s Komm, süßer Tod (Come, sweet death, come, blessed rest, BWV 478), an arrangement of Borodin’s Au Couvent (In the monastery), and Rutter’s Requiem. The Greater San Diego Chamber Orchestra and Chorus is directed by Dr. Angela Yeung, with featured soloists Irene Marie Patton, soprano, and Andrew Garrett, baritone. Free admission with free-will donation at the door. Donation via Venmo, Zelle, or by check can be tax deductible. Visit: A Celebration of All Saints and All Souls with Rutter's Requiem Greater San Diego Music Coterie on Facebook
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