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First, we tell you the factors that led to the city entering into 2026 with a budget deficit. Then, a KPBS analysis found a big change and shift between Imperial County’s last two elections. Also, San Diego is one of three cities bidding to host the 2029 Invictus Games. Lastly, we speak to KPBS reporter John Carroll for this week’s Pod Behind the Package.

Open Studio: Farshid Bazmandegan Saturday, January 10, 2026 | 5 p.m. — 7 p.m. Location: CH Visual Art Studio (In the Administration building across from the Museum) The California Center for the Arts Museum invites the public to a culminating open studio with Farshid Bazmandegan, marking the conclusion of his 2025—26 artist residency. This open studio offers visitors an opportunity to engage with Bazmandegan’s research, materials, and work in progress, providing insight into an evolving practice shaped by memory and displacement. During the residency, Bazmandegan has been developing a new body of work rooted in a childhood memory of a painting of a black horse that once hung in his family home in Iran. Through sculpture and digital media, he explores fantasy as a method for navigating exile and imagining return. The works on view during the open studio represent an active phase of inquiry rather than a finished presentation. Bazmandegan will continue to develop this project over the coming year, with the completed body of work to be presented as part of the 2025–26 In Studio Artist Residency exhibition, opening June 5, 2026. Farshid Bazmandegan on Instagram

Philip Petrie and Jim Richerson have been in dialogue about art and museum installations for over 30 years but this is the first time these two artists have exhibited together. Both are interested in ambiguities of meaning and form and how these ambiguities can yield new meanings. Richerson, a sculptor, has created a whole series of works around the word “if” which play with scale and materials (including mirrors) to express the possibilities implied in that word. The pieces are concrete and formally precise but suggest a slippage in terms of identity and, with that, humor. Petrie’s black and white drawings are part of a series he calls “Epic Fail” which reference our troubled times. He tackles political, religious, and personal elements which are translated into dream images that are dark, surrealistic, and abstracted. Showing together both artists hope to point out similarities and differences between the works which deepen the viewers’ experience and reference the particular hinge moment that we live in. Gallery Hours: Thursdays 2-5 p.m. and Saturdays 2-5 p.m. and by appointment Opening Reception: Sat. Jan. 17 2-5 p.m. Closing Reception: Sat. Feb. 28 2-5 p.m.

Un grupo de árabes estadounidenses presentó una demanda contra una nueva ley de California diseñada para proteger a los estudiantes judíos de la discriminación, argumentando que es inconstitucionalmente vaga y viola sus derechos de libertad de expresión.

The huge al-Hol camp in northeastern Syria for years has posed an intractable problem — a destitute and increasingly dangerous detention site where ISIS ideology lives on.

Born in the Philippines and raised in California, JR De Guzman began performing comedy while working as a music teacher, which he quickly learned just meant teaching Taylor Swift songs to teenagers. He has entertained all over the world, having performed for Stand-Up Tokyo and ROR Comedy in Japan, the Jokers Ball in Indonesia, the Badaboom Comedy Series in Amsterdam, and countless other international shows. JR was the winner Stand-up NBC in 2016 & named as a prestigious "New Face" at Just for Laughs 2017. His quarter hour special on The Comedy Lineup is available on Netflix, and he was named one of Variety’s Ten Comics to watch 2022. Catch him on tour in a city near you! JR De Guzman on Facebook / Instagram

Want to learn something new in the new year? Check out these deep-dive books from 2025 — nonfiction that will lead you to fresh discoveries about big tech, true crime and the ground beneath our feet.

In a post on social media, Trump said a 10% tariff will take effect on Feb. 1, and will climb to 25% on June 1 if a deal is not in place for the United States to purchase Greenland.

Open and free to the public, That’s Cool! Sample Shoppe at Malibu Farm will include brand experiences, interactive stations, giveaways, sampling and fun food experiences, all in a fun family friendly environment with fun for all ages. San Diego Food + Wine Official Industry Party at Malibu Farm Date: Saturday, Nov. 8, 2025 from 3 p.m. – 6 p.m. Location: Malibu Farm Details: DJ, hosted bar, giveaways and brand activations. Main Attractions & Activations: · Interactive Brand Experiences · Coffee Bar · Flower Market · Customization Stations · Product Sampling and Giveaways · Merch, Apparel and Hat Shop · San Diego Food + Wine Festival Ticket Giveaways WHO: Live Music by The Drakes, DJ set by kafka.psd and more FEATURED PARTNERS: ● Salt Point Canned Cocktails ● Spritz Del Conte ● Off Hours Bourbon ● Montucky Cold Snacks ● Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. SUPPORTING PARTNERS: ● Wild Hive Hot Honey ● Cowboy Pools ● YUMI ● LANDN SEE ● Vacation Sunscreen ● Magic Mind ● Rising Willow ● De La Calle Tepache - Modern Mexican Soda ● Boatsetter In partnership with the San Diego Food + Wine Festival.

Get ready for infectious grooves and soulful tunes as Wreckless Strangers and The Great North Special bring their signature sounds to Winstons in Ocean Beach on Saturday, January 24. San Francisco Bay Area’s Wreckless Strangers, a collective of friends and musicians carrying the torch for the city’s storied rock ’n’ roll tradition, will deliver their brand of “Ameri-Cali Soul” while celebrating the release of their forthcoming album, "Dirty Souls." Hailing from Southern California, The Great North Special is a seven-piece Americana jam band blending country-blues, psych-rock, and funk-soul into a sound all their own.