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The National Hurricane Center is predicting the largest number of storms ever forecast for the Atlantic, putting tens of millions of Americans at risk.

Join renowned social critic and New York Times contributor Eric Klinenberg as he presents his latest work, 2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed. An audience Q&A and book signing will follow the presentation. This event is free and open to the public. Reserved seating is available for you and a guest by pre-ordering a copy of 2020 from the Library Shop SD. About the Book: 2020 will go down alongside 1914, 1929, and 1968 as one of the most consequential years in history. This riveting and affecting book is the first attempt to capture the full human experience of that fateful time. At the heart of 2020 are seven vivid profiles of ordinary New Yorkers — including an elementary school principal, a bar manager, a subway custodian, and a local political aide — whose experiences illuminate how Americans and people across the globe reckoned with 2020. Through these poignant stories, we revisit our own moments of hope and fear, the profound tragedies and losses in our communities, the mutual aid networks that brought us together, and the social movements that hinted at the possibilities of a better world. Eric Klinenberg vividly captures these stories, casting them against the backdrop of a high-stakes presidential election, a surge of misinformation, rising distrust, and raging protests. We move from the epicenter in New York City to Washington and London, where political leaders made the crisis much more lethal than it had to be. We witnessed epidemiological battles in Wuhan and Beijing, along with the initiatives of scientists, citizens, and policymakers in Australia, Japan, and Taiwan, who worked together to save lives. Klinenberg allows us to see 2020 — and, ultimately, ourselves — with unprecedented clarity and empathy. His book helps us reckon with what we lived through and the challenges we face before the next crisis arrives. About the Author: ERIC KLINENBERG is the Helen Gould Shepard Professor in the Social Sciences and director of the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University. He is the co-author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Modern Romance and author of Palaces for the People, Going Solo, Heat Wave, and Fighting for Air. He has contributed to The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, Wired, and This American Life. He lives in New York City. For additional information about the event, please visit here. Stay Connected with Eric Klinenberg! Facebook | Instagram | X

Severe storms are forecast for Tuesday in parts of western Iowa and eastern Nebraska and showers and storms are also possible in parts of South Dakota and Minnesota.

Ernesto became a hurricane again as it churned away from Bermuda and headed further out in the northeastern Atlantic, sending powerful swells toward the U.S. East Coast.

Directed by Dim Sum & Jazz returning artist, Lorelei Garner, and MBHS Music Director JP Balmat, Mission Bay High School returns to Golden Island Dim Sum & Asian Cuisine for the 149TH session of Dim Sum & Jazz! MBHS will be featuring two of it's jazz groups - Mission Swing, and the award winning Preservationists! About Mission Bay High School | Mission Bay High School is an International Baccalaureate (IB) School that offers a wide variety of music courses as well as a rigorous academic course load. From Concert Band to Orchestra, Jazz to Choir, Mission Bay has something for every music student! 2020 NAMM Award recipient for “Best Communities for Music Education,” the MBHS Music Program includes entry level classes for winds, strings, percussion and vocalists. Our advanced ensembles include multiple year-long jazz ensembles that meet during the school day as well as our Symphony Orchestra, MB’s elite classical ensemble. Ensembles like the Preservationists, Swing Choir, Mambo Orchestra and Symphony Orchestra give students a cross-cultural experience they will not find anywhere else.

Lori Bell makes her debut at Golden Island Dim Sum & Asian Cuisine for the 147TH Session of Dim Sum & Jazz! Seating begins at 6p.m. and music starts from 6:30-8:30 p.m. Call (858) 578-8800 for reservations! About Lori Bell | Brooklyn native Lori Bell is a flutist and composer of admirable depth and broad musical sympathies. A resident of San Diego, she has contributed to the development of higher standards of performance while earning acclaim from both peers and critics for her artistry on stage and in recordings. Bell plays with confidence and taste, with a proclivity toward the more subtle means of emotional expression. Her playing inherently has a many-layered depth that reveals a more meaningful art. She renders ballads with exceptional sensitivity while bringing wonderful nuances to swing and be-bop, which she plays with power, agility and a natural élan. Her phrasing, evocative of birds, shows the strong influence of Eric Dolphy, yet is rendered with such purity of tone and range of timbre that it is clearly of a different ornithology. Lori Bell is a three time Global Music Award recipient recognized for her recordings, compositions, and arrangements. Like Dim Sum & Jazz? Check out the rest of the schedule here!

From Monterey, California - Eric Evans returns to Golden Island Dim Sum & Asian Cuisine for the 146TH Session of Dim Sum & Jazz! Smooth Jazz edition! Seating begins at 6 p.m. and the music from 6:30-8:30 p.m. Call (858) 578-8800 for reservations! About Eric Evans | The Eric Evans Project is a collaboration of talented musicians that produce original pop/smooth jazz music. This collaboration features Eric Evans who is a multi-woodwind instrumentalist. He plays flute, alto flute, EWI, (a unique sounding electronic woodwind instrument that can play many sounds) and alto sax. Eric has had the privilege of being a featured performer Concert Venues, Jazz Festivals and as a music director for numerous churches. He has produced Three previous CD's including his third “Waves of Grace” with Singer/Songwriter David Eugene Ivey. Eric is inspired by diverse musical influences from classical to jazz to rock to new age that help define the diversity and passion in his music. Like Dim Sum & Jazz? Check out the rest of the schedule here!

The city held a public meeting on homelessness last week.

U.S. swimmers won only one gold on Thursday. But Katie Ledecky's silver medal in a relay race brought her career tally to thirteen Olympic medals, more than any other woman swimmer in history.

Kemmerer, Wyo., is on the front line of America's energy transition, with its coal plant slated to close and a nuclear plant in the works. But some think the rush to quit fossil fuels is impractical.