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Don't miss the 12th Annual San Diego Asian Film Festival Spring Showcase, April 20-27 at the UltraStar Mission Valley. Audiences will enjoy eight days of films from Japan, Hong Kong, Iran, Pakistan, Singapore, South Korea and more. This year's Sunday Series is a retrospective on legendary actor Leslie Cheung, featuring new restorations of Hong Kong classics. April 20-27, 2023 - A week-long presentation of Asian cinema. For tickets and the full lineup, visit: sdaff.org The UltraStar Cinemas Mission Valley is the primary venue for the 2023 SDAFF Spring Showcase. Free parking is available on the ground level and in the underground lot. The theater is immediately across from the Hazard Center trolley stop on the Green Line. Plenty of cafes, restaurants, and conveniences are located nearby. Pacific Arts Movement on Facebook / Instagram

Franchises like Final Fantasy are moving on from old-school mechanics and aesthetics, but indie developers are taking up the retro RPG mantle.

Two of the nation's most high profile governors will debate Thursday night in Georgia, even though only one of them is actually running for president in 2024.

The De Winton's golden mole was last spotted in 1936. But with the help of a mole-sniffing dog and new environmental DNA analysis, researchers are taking it off the most wanted lost species list.

Nearly 30% of the world’s population suffers from moderate to severe hunger, yet nearly 40% of the world’s food goes uneaten. Learn how you can reduce your household’s food waste, use excess/unwanted food scraps in creative ways, and recycle inedible food back into the soil with our Fight Climate Change From Your Kitchen workshop, sponsored by the City of San Diego! Please learn more and register in advance here!

For many of the poets of Ukraine, the war is not some distant event one hears about in the papers. It is part of their personal history. Yet in most of the poems, the war is not the focal point. It’s a blur…it is what blurs all of other images, distorting them, changing them into something new and strange. The violence is outside the frame. We sense it, without seeing it. What makes the images in these poems beautiful is the spirit of power and hope they conveyed, a commitment to victory against all odds. Please join us for a workshop of reading, discussion and writing prompts including the sharing of our poetry.

The Hot Chocolate Run series is back LIVE for the 2023/2024 season! Join the chocolate movement that's taking over the country. This race has it all - two distances, premium swag and a post-race chocolate experience like no other. And, for the second year in a row, we're proud to partner with St. Jude Children's Research Hospital® to help end childhood cancer and other life-threatening diseases. To learn more about or purchase tickets for our San Diego event, visit: hotchocolate15k.com/city/san-diego Ticket Details: 15K: $59 5K: $39 10k: $49 To learn more about our other event locations and our Hot Chocolate virtual option, visit: hotchocolate15k.com

California has just introduced a way for survivors of sexual assault to track the testing of evidence in their cases. And, if you’re a renter, there’s a chance your rent has gone up over the past few years. A recent ProPublica investigation looked at whether widely used rent pricing software could be driving up rental prices in housing markets across the country. Then, voters are being asked to choose a new county assessor. What does the job entail and who are the candidates? Next, academic excellence is now riding on the wheels of some gnarly skateboards at a school in the La Mesa-Spring Valley school district. Then, a preview of the 23rd annual San Asian Film Festival which kicks off on Thursday with the documentary “Bad Axe” at the San Diego Natural History Museum. Finally, the late musician and activist Ramon “Chunky” Sanchez is already a fixture in San Diego’s Chicano history. A new documentary about his life and legacy, “Singing Our Way To Freedom” airs Thursday on KPBS television.

A months-long investigation by The California Newsroom found that the department continues to fumble key responsibilities related to forest management and wildfire mitigation

Kissinger's guiding foreign policy principle was that strategic national interests take priority over more idealistic aims, like the promotion of human rights and democracy.