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KPBS found six San Diego-based artists who are emerging into the comic industry and are either selling, signing or schmoozing in or around the convention.

Israel blocked all supplies into Gaza for nearly three months, the longest blockade it has ever imposed on Gaza. But Israel is relenting amid international pressure to allow food into the territory.

Sunday, December 1, 2024 7:30 p.m. The series continues Sunday, December 1, with the Billy Childs Quartet, featuring Childs on piano, Matthew Stubbs on clarinet, Dan Chmielinski on bass, and Benjamin Ring on drums. Multi-Grammy-winner Billy Childs has been a favorite performer on the Athenaeum series going back to his debut at the library in 1996. He remains one of the most diversely prolific and acclaimed artists working in music today. As a composer, he has been commissioned by Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the Los Angeles Master Chorale, the Kronos Quartet, the Dorian Wind Quintet, the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, the American Brass Quintet, the Ying Quartet, the Lyris Quartet, and Anne Akiko Meyers. His canon of original compositions and arrangements has garnered him the Doris Duke Performing Artist Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a composer’s award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Chamber Music America composer’s grant. Childs has received 17 Grammy nominations and 6 Grammy Awards (2 for Best Instrumental Jazz Album, 2 for Best Instrumental Composition, and 2 for Best Arrangement Accompanying a Vocalist). The Los Angeles Times wrote, “As a pianist, he possesses the improvisatory skills and powerful sense of swing one associates with world-class artists … Childs is an inventive composer and arranger whose efforts in those areas consistently expand the dimension of the jazz genre—and beyond.” Visit: https://www.ljathenaeum.org/jazz Billy Childs on Facebook

In the San Diego Archaeological Center’s adult-friendly Ancient Echoes series, we look back into the archaeological record at the origins of many of our favorite things and breaking the conceptions of their modernity. Have you ever wondered about the roots of mead, chocolate, or beer? What about the importance of art, dance, and music to Ice Age hunter-gatherers? Ancient Echoes explores these topics and more, offering an interactive experience aimed at connecting us back with our deep past. In this installment of our Ancient Echoes, you’ll make art the ancient way! Using natural pigments and a little human creativity, you’ll produce a one-of-a-kind paleolithic art piece (no cave required). All art materials will be provided. Tickets include 2 drinks per person (non-alcoholic options available). 21+ only. Cost: $40; SDAC Members $35 Visit: Ancient Echoes: Pints & Pigments San Diego Archeological Center on Instagram and Facebook

The dynamics of your purpose and career show up very clearly in the auric field. Building the spiritual power to manifest all that you are meant to do is key to your success. Join us and explore energy techniques to help fulfill your purpose and career potential whether you’re wishing to strengthen the work you are currently doing or looking to find a new purpose/career. Based on the bestselling book Change Your Aura, Change Your Life, discover: Unique ways career and purpose shows up energetically in the aura. Keys to generating more spiritual power to help reach your potential. How to work with the spiritual energy rays of guidance and inspiration to make better decisions and more effectively follow through on divine direction. How your career is part of your purpose in life. For more information on our metaphysical school, please visit Spiritual Arts Institute Visit: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/spiritual-keys-to-fulfilling-your-purpose-career-potential-tickets-1025007032627?aff=oddtdtcreator Spiritual Arts Institute on Instagram and Facebook

Join me under the neon glow of the historic Les Girls Theater for Stripper Energy: Fighting Back from the Fringes. Former stripper and current owner of Les Girls Theater, Kata Pierce-Morgan, provides unlimited access to a half century of archival material that uncovers a dark chapter of San Diego history from the 1970s and 80s. Prepare for sassy strippers, corrupt cops, and a fierce activism launched from the unlikely stage of a strip club. Viewer discretion is advised for explicit content.

Art Through the Glass is a public exhibition that transforms empty storefronts at the Chula Vista Center into vibrant galleries. This initiative breathes new life into the mall, reimagining vacant spaces as dynamic art installations. Visitors are invited to stroll through and experience a diverse array of artistic visions and narratives. For more information visit: sdartsociety.com Stay Connected on Facebook and Instagram

Our top picks for book events to check out this season: Fantasy, found family and queer joy; the life of Kenny G; Pulitzer Prize-winner Viet Thanh Nguyen; the return of a beloved book festival; and a queer rom-com debut.

From the organizers: CULTIVATE deepens Malashock Dance’s relationships with San Diego Choreographers through new commissions and remounted works that highlight the artistic breadth of our community. PROGRAM You Are Here/Usted Está Aquí The stage premiere You Are Here/Usted Está Aquí, a multi-iteration dance project that integrates a wide range of oral histories from San Diego residents and visitors to bring diverse personal narratives to life. SEED Suite The inaugural SEED Suite, a new initiative that invites choreographers from the prior season’s SEED Concert (formerly known as Everyday Dances) to remount their work. This year’s SEED Suite will include work by Gina Bolles Sorensen and Kyle Sorensen, Khamla Somphanh, and Viviana Alcazar. Companions A remount of the 2024 San Diego Museum of Art commissioned piece Companions, by Artistic Director Christopher K. Morgan and Founding Director John Malashock, who each created a dance responding to the painting A Child’s Companion by Arshile Gorky. The Dulling Effect The world premiere of Artistic Director Christopher K. Morgan’s The Dulling Effect. Inspired by a 1934 Harvard study on how radio has a dulling effect on the higher mental processes of the listener, Christopher’s curiosity on how that dulling effect may have increased over the last 90 years of technology, and his concern that current political and legislative initiatives in the US are attempting to homogenize citizens, rather than celebrating their unique individual beauty. PERFORMANCES November 2 at 7:30 – 9:00 pm November 3 at 2:30 – 4:00 pm* LOCATION Saville Theater at City College (14th and C Street San Diego, CA) Free Parking Available! TICKETS: Preferred Reserved Seating $50 Reserved Seating $45 Student/Artist $30 Children under 12 $10

Saturday, November 2, 2024 7:30 p.m. The fall series opens Saturday, November 2, with the Ben Williams Quartet, featuring bassist Williams with vibraphonist Sasha Berliner, guitarist Andrew Renfroe, and drummer John Davis. Since winning the prestigious Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition in 2009, Williams has made his mark as a producer, bandleader, arranger, and avidly sought-after accompanist for heavyweights in and beyond jazz, including Wynton Marsalis, Lauryn Hill, José James, and Pat Metheny (with whom he won a 2013 Grammy for the album Unity Band). As a bandleader, the Washington, D.C., native is a calmly charismatic presence whose music taps directly into the deepest wellsprings of African American culture. With his latest album, 2020’s I Am A Man, he extended his sonic purview with his captivating, soul-steeped vocals, establishing himself as a leading force in both straight-ahead acoustic jazz contexts and electric, R & B–infused settings. The New York Times wrote, “Ben Williams has a dark, righteous sound on an upright bass, and an almost liquid mobility through the fullness of his range.” DownBeat called him “one of his generation’s finest bassists.” He is joined by rising star vibraphonist Sasha Berliner, of whom All About Jazz wrote, “Berliner is in the firmament of the here and now in modern jazz and appears likely to occupy that upper stratosphere for some time to come.” Visit: https://www.ljathenaeum.org/jazz Athenaeum Music & Arts Library on Instagram and Facebook