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The playful term is trending on social media: Urban workers are embracing (even while joking about) easy-to-fix, healthy Western-style lunches — think sandwiches, veggies ... a lonely baked potato.

If you buy your own health insurance through state and federal marketplaces, 'tis the season to compare prices, change coverage, and take advantage of subsidies. Here's what's new.

WEDS@7 presents incandescent tongues Susan Narucki, soprano and Donald Berman, piano Soprano Susan Narucki and pianist Donald Berman continue their exploration of the songs of women composers in a concert to be presented on March 8, 2023, at the Conrad Prebys Concert Hall at the UC San Diego Department of Music. The duo's recording of songs by women composers, "This Island," featuring songs by Nadia Boulanger, Marion Bauer, Henriette Bosmans, Elizabeth Claisse and Irene Fuerison, was released by London's AVIE Records in February 2023. The upcoming program features works by two illustrious living composers, Tania Leon and Judith Weir as well as little known works by African American composer Margaret Bonds, French composer Elizabeth Claisse, and more. Although written in a wide array of compositional styles, each composer has an uncommon sensitivity to the fusion of text and music, and exceptional skill in writing for the combination of voice and piano. British composer Judith Weir's "The Voice of Desire," a song cycle written in 2003, is a series of conversations between humans and birds, in which, according to the composer, "the birds seem to have a more sophisticated viewpoint than their human hearers." With texts by John Keats, Thomas Hardy Robert Bridges and a setting of Yoruba Poetry translated by Ulli Beier, Weir's luminous, intricate writing for the piano provides a perfect framework for vocal writing of immense variety and uncommon skill. Cuban-born American Tania Leon was recently awarded the Pulitzer Prize and honored at the Kennedy Center. Her music is characterized by its rhythmic vitality, bold use of instrumental timbre and color and inventive and expressive vocal writing. The Atwood Songs, with poems by the well-known novelist Margaret Atwood, are by turns exuberant, irreverent and wistful. Margaret Bonds is best known for her settings of texts by Langston Hughes; our program will present four little known setting of Edna St. Vincent Millay. In addition, Elena Ruehr's exquisite piano solo, Erinnerung, and selections from "This Island" will complete the program. Ticketing information: Wednesday, March 8, 2023 at 7 p.m. Conrad Prebys Concert Hall Purchase Tickets: music.ucsd.edu/tickets General Admission: $15 UC San Diego Faculty, Staff, Alumni: $10 Students: Free with ID Livestream: Watch Livestream: music.ucsd.edu/live Social media: View this event on Facebook

As part of covering climate change we've heard from a number of the doers. Here are a few of those innovators and influencers' thoughts and what motivated them to make a change in their communities.

Some say prefabricated housing may be part of the solution in decreasing housing prices and increasing supply. And, San Diego’s Sanford Stem Cell Institute has rocketed stem cells into space a third time -- hoping to learn more about how human cells age. Then, John Waters returns to San Diego for his new Christmas show.

Introduced by musicologist Kristi Brown-Montesano- F. HANDEL: Sonata for two violins & piano in G minor Op 2 MO7- G. ONSLOW: String Quintet No.30 in E minor Op 74- W. MOZART: Piano Concerto No.20 in D minor K466 (Arranged for piano & string quintet). Featuring Ambroise Aubrun, violin, Hwieun Kim, violin, Jonah Sirota, viola, Allan Hon, cello, Aaron Blick, double bass, Vijay Venkatesh, piano.

Free admission From the gallery: "Crossing the Line" features the artwork of 29 artists whose work considers the notion of boundaries and borders. The exhibition brings together a range of media and individual artworks articulating a breadth of concepts weaving together narratives that touch on communication, the duality and perception of borders, identity, and migration. Whether interpreting these ideas in relation to material or process, social and cultural expectations, or socio-political factors, the work in this exhibition represents expansive approaches and perspectives. Crossing the Line is organized by the SDSU Art Galleries. The exhibition is juried by Guusje Sanders and Alexandro Segade. Crossing the Line and related events are sponsored by the School of Art and Design and the College of Professional Studies and Fine Arts. Featuring work by current faculty and alumni of the School of Art and Design: Juan Cabrera, Claudia Cano, Remi Dalton, Yvette Dibos, David Fobes, Natalie M. Godinez, Christian Garcia-Olivo, Chitra Gopalakrishnan, Meredith Habermann, Matthew Hebert, CJ Heyliger, Zac Keane, Neil Kendricks, Aleya Lanteigne, Rianne Elyse Magbuhat, Chaz Martinsen, Jennifer Moore, Caitlin Petersen, Luciano Pimienta, Kerianne Quick, Michael Rybicki, Sage Serrano, Aren Skalman, Kline Swonger, Kelly Temple, Christiana E. Updegraff, Mary Cale Wilson, Tessie Salcido Whitmore, Tyler Young On view March 7 – May 4, 2023 Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Thursday from 12:00 – 4:00 p.m. and by appointment Related events: All events are free and open to the public Opening Reception with Artists: Thursday, March 2 from 4:00 – 7:00 p.m. University Art Gallery For more information about the exhibition, events or parking, please contact the SDSU Art Galleries at artgalleries@sdsu.edu or 619-594-5171. Directions and parking: For SDSU campus interactive map, click here. Once parked, you can use the “wayfinding” tool in this map from your parking spot to the “SDSU Art Gallery” to find your route. Visitors may pay to park in Parking Structure 12 in any Student/Visitor space on levels 3–8. Parking passes can be purchased on level 8 in person. Once on campus, visitors may also purchase passes with the Pay by Phone app or calling 1-800-515-7275 (use the code 28512 for Parking Structure 12). University Art Gallery School of Art + Design Art North Building 4th-Floor Courtyard 5500 Campanile Drive San Diego, CA 92182 619-594-5171

Having this virus is bad enough at home, where you might spend hours hugging the toilet. Imagine having it out camping. Investigators wanted to find out how backpackers were getting and spreading it.

On Monday, Feb. 13, Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego hosts a media and public open house from 10 a.m. to noon to promote the launch of EPCAPE, a year-long study of clouds and aerosols that will be conducted from Scripps Pier and Mount Soledad. The project is led by the federal Department of Energy (DOE) Atmospheric Radiation Measurement facility and Scripps Oceanography scientists. The chief scientists from Scripps - Lynn Russell and Dan Lubin -, as well as Gerald (Gary) Geernaert, DOE Director, Earth and Environmental Systems Sciences Division and other DOE officials, will be in attendance. Researchers will launch an instrumented balloon at 11 a.m. that will produce data of atmospheric conditions as it rises. Members of the public are welcome to explore the pier and the science taking place. Visit: https://scripps.ucsd.edu/events/scripps-oceanography-host-public-tour-pier-site-marine-cloud-experiment Scripps Institution of Oceanography on Facebook / Instagram

Premieres Sundays, Sept. 3 - Oct. 8, 2023 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS App + Stream Seasons 1 and 2 now with KPBS Passport! Murder, mystery and secrets aplenty are in store in the all-new Season 3 of VAN DER VALK ON MASTERPIECE. For Piet Van der Valk, it’s a new day and a new dawn as he welcomes two new Sergeants to the team, the hotshot but impulsive Eddie Suleman and the technical whiz Citra Li.