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Spend your Sundays with us at Harry Griffen Park in La Mesa, where you can enjoy an afternoon filled with live music. La Mesa Park & Rec Foundation on Facebook / Instagram

Wednesday, July 22, Insert coin and enter the arena for Ready Party One: The Final Level, XLE’s signature Comic Con kick-off party, marking Night 1 of Party HQ Comic Con 2026 at Parq Nightclub. This year, your quest loads into a neon-soaked digital battleground where arcade legends, console warriors, and fighting game champions collide. Inspired by the golden age of gaming, iconic versus fighters, and the pulse-pounding anticipation surrounding the next era of cinematic martial arts mayhem, this party is your chance to step into the ultimate player-select screen. Battle your way through immersive interactive environments, discover hidden bonus levels, and unlock encounters with unforgettable characters. Enter the main arena dance floor, where fan-favorite flashback band The Flux Capacitors returns once again as a staple of Ready Party One since 2018, delivering a power-up packed live performance. After Flux and guest performers finish their final combo, the DJs take control and keeps the party in endless mode into the wee hours. Ready Party One: The Final Level has everything that has made it the favorite SDCC party since 2018, including jaw-dropping performances, incredible cosplay, unique experiences, and a night packed with music, laughter, nostalgia, and pure multiplayer chaos. Experience Level Entertainment on Instagram

In Cape Verde, a small island nation off West Africa, World Cup qualification is transforming dreams on and off the pitch.

Warner Records artist Warren Zeiders is one of Country music’s newest and most promising stars. At just 26, the Pennsylvania native has already made an undeniable mark on the genre, with more than 3.6 billion global career streams, 2 billion TikTok views and 7.9 million monthly listeners on Spotify. In 2024, he won a CMT Award for “Breakthrough Male Music Video of the Year,” earned two, fan-voted PEOPLE’s Choice Country nominations, was featured on the star-studded Twisters Soundtrack, and earned his first No. 1 Single with his RIAA Double Platinum Certified “Pretty Little Poison” (which was the No. 2 most-played song on all of Country radio in 2024). This year, he released his 21-track album "Relapse, Lies & Betrayal", encompassing heartbreak, personal evolution, and emotional healing. The album was featured on NPR All Songs Considered’s New Music Friday playlist, GQ, Cowboys & Indians, Forbes + more. Zeiders was also recently featured on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, The Kelly Clarkson Show, GQ’s Real-Life Diet and People Magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive. Zeiders kicked off 2025 with his first European headline tour, followed by standout moments including headlining Houston Rodeo and his "Relapse" tour, which spanned more than 30 US cities. Visit: https://www.sdfair.com/events/2026/warren-zeiders Warren Zeiders on Instagram and Facebook

The city is fighting an uphill battle against its own road system while efforts to reduce traffic volumes or raise new revenues stall, highlighting the unsustainability of car-oriented cities.

In the distant past (2008), Mark A. Clements taught a six-class series entitled “The 600 Pound Gorilla.” Its premise was simple: there’s a hulking anthropoid in the room that many writers either ignore or fail to notice: they aren’t trying hard enough. They say “I’m done” too soon; “that’s fine” when it’s not; “I can’t do any better” when they can. The truth is this: 1) the odds are excellent that you can make whatever you’re working on right now much better (more powerful, moving, beautiful, authentic, etc.) than you think; and 2) the most certain way to burn out or lose your way as a writer is to ever stop trying to improve. But before you can do better, you must first acknowledge the presence of the gorilla. Then you have to accept it. And then you must develop the skills to get the beast working with you rather than against you. That’s what “The 600 Pound Gorilla” series is meant to do. Now, as in 2008, it can benefit you no matter what stage of your writing career you’re in. But of course this is 2026, and things have changed: online publication, AI, new knowledge about reading, writing, motivation and creativity…it’s time for an update and a reboot. Therefore, the new iteration of the Gorilla will cover topics including: Passion: when it benefits you and when it doesn’t. When being satisfied is unsatisfactory. The Fundamental Questions to ask yourself about yourself and your work. Theme: understanding what you’re really writing about, and how it can change everything. “Ploterization”: why plot and characterization are not enemies. How to make them work together. Style: finding what makes you, you, and how to weaponize that power. Originality: Losing your fear of pouring your true self into your writing. Editing: yeah…you’re probably stopping too soon. Dealing with publication: The Most Important Factor, Now and Forever. And much more… There will be lecturing. There will be discussion. There will be exercises. There will be questions and answers. There will be cupcakes (not really; to maximize opportunities for participation, this will be a remote extravaganza). San Diego Writers, Ink on Facebook / Instagram

Activists sailing on dozens of boats attempting to break Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip to deliver aid say Israeli forces intercepted them, detaining the crews while the flotilla was sailing near the Greek island of Crete.

The park will be the largest in the city, and the first to honor the nation’s veterans.

California has new rules meant to speed up ballot counting, but elections experts and county officials say close races could still take weeks to resolve.

Under new rules, plastic producers have to cut single use plastic, increase recycling rates and pay $5 billion to remedy harms from plastic pollution. Plastic producers have until June to come up with a plan for how they’re meeting state mandates.