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FILM FORUM CORONADO presents “Sita Sings The Blues” Wednesday, June 7, 2023 at 6 p.m. Coronado Public Library (Winn Room) 640 Orange Avenue, Coronado, CA 92118 Phone: 619-522-7390 Website: www.coronadolibrary.org Film & Discussion Adults Free “SITA SINGS THE BLUES” (2008. 82 minutes) - Nina Paley’s audacious, original, cranium-bursting jukebox musical. Using an eclectic array of techniques — cutouts, painting, collage, photos, underground comic books and Yellow Submarine — she mingles an autobiographical tale of romantic woe and mythological travails of Sita, the Hindu Goddess from the epic Sanskrit fable “The Ramayana”. Set to the 1920s cool jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw. (Animated). (In English). FILM FORUM CORONADO is held in the Winn Room at Coronado Public Library, on the first and third Wednesdays, with a brief introduction before the film and a discussion afterward, led by Ralph DeLauro. FILM FORUM CORONADO is presented by Coronado Public Library, Friends of the Coronado Library and Coronado Island Film Festival.

Among the most prominent of blooming plants that are seemingly everywhere this year following an unusually wet winter is the highly flammable wild mustard.

FILM FORUM CORONADO Presents “Nayak: The Hero” Wednesday, June 21, 2023 at 6 p.m. Coronado Public Library (Winn Room) 640 Orange Avenue, Coronado, CA 92118 Phone: 619-522-7390 Website: www.coronadolibrary.org Film & Discussion Adults Free “NAYAK: THE HERO” (1966. 117 minutes) - Satyajit Ray seamlessly integrates rueful flashbacks with surreal dream sequences in this sly, satiric, psychologically rich meditation on art, fame and regret. A brash matinee idol (Uttam Kumar) on the brink of his first flop is sent reeling down the path of self-examination when interviewed by a journalist (Sharmila Tagore) while on route to receive an award. (In Bengali with English subtitles) FILM FORUM CORONADO is held in the Winn Room at Coronado Public Library, on the first and third Wednesdays, with a brief introduction before the film and a discussion afterward, led by Ralph DeLauro. FILM FORUM CORONADO is presented by Coronado Public Library, the Friends of the Coronado Library and Coronado Island Film Festival.

The popularity of basketball in Rwanda can be seen on courts around the country, and some young players see it as a path to a bigger future.

Mandy Messinger is one of hundreds who lose loved ones to climate-linked extreme weather each year in the U.S. Her father Craig Messinger was killed in a 2021 flash flood in the Philadelphia suburbs.

Researchers hope to use a $3 million state grant to build a tool to help understand when pathogens will foul the water off Imperial Beach.

Nineteenth-century artists were enamored with polar regions and viewed these extreme locales as unparalleled sources of visual wonder. Freighted with romantic ideas about the sublime and scientific debates about geological time, frozen places factored into the representational interests of many leading American painters like Frederic Edwin Church, whose classic investigation After Icebergs with a Painter (1856) lends this exhibition a title. As part of the Humanities Center’s multiyear inquiry into landscapes and human meaning, "After Icebergs: Conceptual Photography and Climate Crisis" looks at the persistence of creative fascination with ice during an era when glacial melt and accompanying species extinction are urgent concerns. "After Icebergs" will feature photographic works by Mark Dion and Farrah Karapetian, whose photographs suggest the varied approaches to this subject. Dion is a conceptual and installation-based artist whose ongoing project, Ursus Maritimus (begun 1994), documents the often uncanny framing of polar bears in museum dioramas, even as the species itself disappears from its primary habitat. Karapetian is an artist and writer whose series "Slips and Pushes" (2013–2015) deploys melting ice as both a formal element and as a metaphor for, among other things, forced migration due to climate change. Karapetian’s color photograms, cameraless images, are eerily luminous while Dion’s blunt black-and-white documentation prompts questions about the purposes of museum displays. A rare selection of works from "Ursus Maritimus" and "Slips and Pushes" make up the installation at the Humanities Center Gallery. The gallery is open Monday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. For information visit: sandiego.edu

The rapper's performance radiates with his decadeslong passion as an emcee and producer.

The blanket of debris covering a village has become more unstable with rain and streams trapped under it, officials say, and villagers digging with bare hands through muddy rubble is also concerning.

During a career that lasted more than three decades, the 62-year-old Hernández was often scorned by players, managers and fans for missed calls and quick ejections — some in high-profile situations.