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The long-running baseball video game features a new mode that celebrates historical Black all-stars and offers a much-requested single-player experience.

As the state prepares to end the state of emergency, those sites with less demand will close first.

The Wagner New Play Festival is an annual festival of new works by MFA playwrights, in collaboration with MFA/PhD directors, actors, designers, stage managers, and dramaturges. Don't miss "Promithes, Promithes" written by Agyeiwaa Asante MFA '24 and "Nonna Kills the President" written by Milo Cramer MFA '24, and directed by Emily Moler MFA '22. About "Promithes, Promithes": "Promithes, Promithes" is a portrait of a friendship in crisis. Ash has always been there for Jeremy but when she finds herself helping him navigate yet another personal crisis she wonders if it is finally time for these two old friends to define their relationship. A comedy about how we treat the people we claim to love. About "Nonna Kills the President": Nonna is in her 90s and spends her days pooping and puzzling and watching the news. Mona is in her 70s and spends her days cleaning up the poop and fantasizing about abandoning Nonna in the woods. Nonna doesn’t know who she is but she knows one thing. She wants to kill the president. "Nonna Kills the President" is a mother daughter comedy/thriller/daydream about an old woman’s dying wish and the caring daughter she’s leaving behind. Showtimes Preview: Thursday, May 5 at 7 p.m. Showings: Saturday, May 7 Wednesday, May 11 at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, May 12 at 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 13 at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, May 14 at 2 p.m. Location | Arthur Wagner Theatre Get tickets here! • UCSD Student tickets are $10 • UCSD Faculty and Staff tickets are $15 • General Admission tickets are $20 For more information, please visit theatre.ucsd.edu/season/wnpf22/promithes-nonna or call (858) 534-2230.

The Green Piano: How Little Me Found Music recounts the story of Flack's father finding her a beat-up, old, upright in a junkyard — a treasure that led to a life in music.

Boulder is again under a red flag warning for extreme wildfire danger as powerful winds like those that fanned a destructive blaze in December return to the drought stricken region.

Please join us for this important talk, with Q&A, by Deepti Singh, Ph.D. The western U.S. has experienced several climate-driven extreme events in recent years ranging from record-breaking heat, drought, and intense flood-inducing rainfall. Such widespread extreme events have simultaneously affected a large geographic region affecting disaster management resources, an individual’s ability to avoid impacts, and various societal sectors. Date | Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 5:30pm Location | Virtual Zoom Link Register here! This talk will discuss observed trends in such extremes, their projections, and potential societal consequences. Deepti is an assistant professor in the School of the Environment at Washington State University. Prior to joining WSU, she received her Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2015 and was a postdoctoral fellow at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University from 2015-2018. Her research aims to advance our understanding of climate hazards affecting vulnerable communities with the goal of providing actionable information for designing policies, risk-management, and adaptation planning. She studies the influence of human activities on weather and climate events occurring on local to global scales. For further information visit the website: https://ncccalliance.org/event/changing-risk-of-compound-extremes-in-a-warming-climate/

The iconic singer-songwriter performed her first public full-length show anywhere since 2000, with a little help from Brandi Carlile.

A brutal Western heat wave brought California to the verge of ordering rolling blackouts but the state’s electrical grid has managed to handle record-breaking demand.

Triumph Studios and Paradox Interactive want to prove that strategy games can still be narrative-driven. They almost succeed.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Simon Johnson, a professor at MIT's Sloan School of Management, about warning signs for the U.S. from the U.K.'s political and economical upheaval.