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Epstein, a convicted sex trafficker who took his own life in 2019, has been linked to some of the world's most powerful men. Names included in the court documents aren't evidence of wrongdoing.

Full of rhythmic drive and blues, this 60-minute program of violin-piano works explores how American and French composers were inspired by American jazz and musical friendships and includes William Bolcom’s Sonata No. 2, Maurice Ravel’s Sonata No. 2, Amy Beach’s "Romance," and John Corigliano’s Sonata. About Alicia Choi: Acclaimed for her “technical flair and gleaming tone” (The Berkshire Eagle) and for “possessing a big sound and a warm tone” (TwinCities.com), violinist Alicia Choi is an engaging and passionate performer. Her current season includes performances as Guest Concertmaster of the Kingston Symphony, concerts at the Chapelle Historique du Bon-Pasteur, the Festival de Lanaudière, and the Salle Bourgie Musée des Beaux-arts de Montréal, as well as concerts across Québec. Past performances include concerts in the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series, Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music Faculty Recitals, the New Brunswick Summer Music Festival, and the Thy Chamber Music Festival. Her solos with orchestra include performances with the Atlantic Music Festival, the Berkshire Symphony, and the Queens Symphony Orchestra under conductors Ronald Feldman, Constantine Kitsopoulos, and Julian Kuerti. Choi has previously served as an artistic director and faculty of the inaugural Harlaxton Chamber Music Festival in Grantham England, as well as performing and teaching faculty at the University of Florida ChamberFest, the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Chamber Music Workshop, and Camp Musical Père Lindsay in Saint-Côme, Québec. From 2013 to 2017, Choi was Artist-in-Residence Faculty of the University of Evansville, Associate Concertmaster of the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra, and a member of the Larchmere String Quartet. As a member of the LSQ, Alicia has toured and taught in various North American cities and institutions; performed at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena, Italy; won the Evansville Mayor’s Arts Ensemble Award; and released the first commercial recording of the Stephan Krehl String Quartet, op. 17 and Clarinet Quintet, op. 19 with clarinetist Wonkak Kim on the Naxos label. A graduate of Williams College and The Juilliard School, Alicia holds a Doctor of Music in violin performance from McGill University Schulich School of Music, where she has been an Instructor of Chamber Music since 2017. About Futaba Niekawa: Known for her verve and sensitivity, Niekawa pushes the boundaries of her artistry as a versatile pianist, chamber musician, and mentor across genres and disciplines. She has performed throughout the United States, Canada, England, Spain, Taiwan, and her native Japan. To date, she has released five recordings encompassing solo, four-hands, duo, and chamber music from classical to newly composed works. In demand as a collaborative pianist, Niekawa has performed with Atar Arad, James Campbell, Charles Castleman, and members of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chicago Symphony Orchestra, among others. She has been engaged as a collaborative pianist at the Banff Centre, New England Conservatory, Boston Ballet School, Meadowmount School of Music, the IU Summer String Academy, and the Perlman Music Program. Niekawa is currently a Lecturer in Chamber and Collaborative Music at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music. She earned her Doctorate of Musical Arts degree from the Eastman School of Music. In addition to her Sonata Seminar, her dedication to pedagogy and mentoring is shown through her appearances as a guest teacher at universities across North America, as a performer and presenter at the Regina Chamber Music Festival and Dream Big: Music Out of Bounds conference, and as an adjudicator for the National Society of Arts and Letters. Most recently, Niekawa has been a founding member of Chamberfest Brown County, a community music outreach initiative for the local area.

You are invited to the Intersections Concert Series featuring Beyond the Blues with Mamie Minch and Mara Kaye (08.10.23). Join UC San Diego for our Intersections Concert Series at Park & Market in the Guggenheim Theatre hosted by UC San Diego and New York-based violinist Yale Strom, one of the world’s leading ethnographer-artists of klezmer and Romani music and history. MAMIE MINCH Mamie Minch is a longtime staple of New York City’s blues scene. Listening to her sing and play is like unpacking a time capsule of American music that’s been stored in her 1930s National steel guitar for decades and filtered through a modern femme sensitivity. Mamie’s honest, deep singing voice and old school guitar walloping become a vessel for her toughness and pathos as she delivers timeless performances that can rile, groove, sooth, and understand. If you’ve been lucky enough to see Mamie perform in New York City or somewhere else in the wide world, then you know: there are some things a person is simply meant to do. After graduating from art school in non-traditional printmaking techniques, Mamie came to New York City where she fell in with a crowd of 78 record collectors, some of whom had contributed rare recordings to the same reissue labels she loved. It was a mind-expanding time for her and she connected with a crowd who were interested in early American music. Soon, she was playing around the city in small clubs with her first band, Delta Dreambox. She met Meg Reichardt (Les Chauds Lapins, Low Down Payment), another guitarist and singer who could sound like she’d jumped off of an Edison wax cylinder, and they founded the four-piece, all-woman harmony group the Roulette Sisters, who played together for a decade and recorded two full-length albums. In 2008, Mamie released her first solo album, "Razorburn Blues," in collaboration with bassist/engineer Andy Cotton. Through the community of musicians centered around Barbes, Mamie connected with beloved singer/guitarist Dayna Kurtz. They toured together as a duo—two altos performing show-stopping, full-bodied harmony over layers of guitar—and made a 10” record, “For the Love of Hazel.” MARA KAYE The blues flows through San Diego. It has for a long time. Sometimes it has been obvious, flowing on the surface, and other times it has tunneled underground from far, far away just to bubble up underneath our feet. But, improbable as it may sound, a continuous stream of one of the greatest branches of American music flows through our city. Sam Chatmon, member of the legendary Mississippi Sheiks and possible author of the blues standard “Sittin’ on Top of the World” spent his summers here in the 1970s playing coffeeshops and folk festivals. Players like Robin Henkel and Tomcat Courtney have gigged constantly here for decades and made themselves into blues institutions. And still younger generations of musicians like Nathan James, Ben Powell, Whitney Shay, and Sarah Rogo have taken up the mantle. So, when a new blues voice appears in San Diego, it had better stand out. Over the last year, Mara Kaye’s voice has been doing just that. I’ve been watching it happen in real time as I back her up on mandolin and fiddle. When Mara starts singing in bars and dining rooms across the city, folks with their backs turned to the stage turn around. They smile, they applaud, like nice audiences do, but a lot of them become transfixed—like they’re seeing something they can’t believe, or something they didn’t know existed but hoped it did. When she sings, there is a kind of freedom that you can hear and see. And, at some subconscious level, that’s what every audience member wants to see—someone being free. The blues is a vast tradition, with important and distinctive branches spreading out over more than a century of evolution. Some of us love the old acoustic stuff from the Mississippi Delta; some of us love the later electrified stuff from Chicago. Some of us study it and stay close to the old styles; some of us draw from the old ways to create something new. Mara’s blues are deeply rooted in the old ways but remixed in a way that still feels novel—like some last pocket of the blues that never got explored in the old days, all wrapped up in a ball of 21st-century Brooklyn-bred attitude. (Written by San Diego Troubadour, 2020) More info: The Intersections Concert is a new interdisciplinary event series, presented by UC San Diego Division of Extended Studies, taking place at the multi-tenant, mixed-use business, arts, and educational office building in downtown San Diego’s East Village. Intersections offers new, diverse takes on traditional ideas and forms in a variety of disciplines, from artistic performances to educational lectures will take place at Park & Market’s state-of-the-art Guggenheim Theatre. Hosted by UC San Diego and New York-based violinist Yale Strom, one of the world's leading ethnographer-artists of klezmer and Romani music and history.

Towns across the U.S. want to stop building homes that are vulnerable to climate-driven disasters, like wildfires, floods and droughts. It's easier said than done.

According to the latest Arts and Economic Prosperity study conducted every five years, the impact on San Diego County's economy is $1.3 billion.

Join us and other dog friendly businesses at our Santa-Paws Market! Get all your Christmas shopping done in one day! Support locally owned businesses including The Dog Society while your furry friend enjoys our amazing facility! Businesses that are attending: ‣ Fetch The Sun ‣ Puplids ‣ Cozy Canine Coffee ‣ Amparo Animal Foundation ‣ Rescued Hearts Don't miss out on this opportunity to find unique Christmas gifts while also enjoying some food and drinks from The Dog Society! We look forward to seeing you there.

Corporate DEI positions soared after the murder of George Floyd in 2020. Now, due to economic pressure and political pressure from the right, they face an uncertain future.

For years, Wyoming has had one of the highest suicide rates and one of the highest gun ownership rates in the United States. But until recently, it was taboo to draw a link between those two things.

Byrne opens up about filming the 1984 concert film Stop Making Sense and says the band's hit song "Burning Down the House" is a compilation of "non-sequiturs that have a kind of emotional impact."

In a city synonymous with the birth of Jesus, Christmas is typically a time when Bethlehem is full of visitors. But with war raging, the city's Christian leaders have canceled public celebrations.