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KPBS has been awarded $50,000 for its border podcast “Port of Entry” from California Humanities’ California Documentary Project. Through April 2025, “Port of Entry” will be using the grant funds to produce approximately 20 episodes per fiscal year on a variety of border-related issues, including a season that features stories of indigenous people native to the borderlands.

The study assigned subjects to one of two rooms: 68 degrees or a sweat-inducing 86 degrees. They played a computer game that can bring out the worst in human nature. What are the real-world lessons?

David Brandt, who died last week, was an Ohio farmer known for his pioneering work in no-till farming. But social media users knew him better as the overall-clad farmer from the "honest work" meme.

Sofreh is a new cookbook from celebrated chef and author Nasim Alikhani. "If we as immigrants become stuck in the past, we deprive ourselves of the opportunities our new space has provided," she says.

Oolong Gallery is pleased to present the first solo show since the gallery’s inception last June in San Diego: "Nuevo Amanecer" by Colombian-American artist Carolyn Castaño, an icon of Latinx painting in Southern California. The exhibition is mainly comprised of her new ruana mixed media paintings amongst other new pieces to be presented at Oolong. Her representative gallery Walter Maciel recently featured her work in LA for a fourth solo exhibition there to a resounding success. Opening reception: New Year's Eve, Dec 31 2022 4-8 p.m. featuring cumbia music and cocktails. The exhibition runs through Feb. 11 2023 with a special artist talk scheduled Jan. 14 at the gallery. Gallery hours are Wednesday through Sunday, 11 a.m. - 6 p.m. Read more: L.A. painter Carolyn Castaño turns the humble poncho into a portal to lush worlds (by Carolina A. Miranda | LA Times Columnist Sept 21, 2022) Related links: Oolong Gallery on Instagram

Oceanside is the largest recipient of county grants intended to start homeless shelters, but millions of dollars are going unused. Fully electric buses are the centerpiece of a new school transportation center in the East County. And a new building opens at UC San Diego Friday. It will house all kinds of engineers that are designing never seen before products.

The arson trial for USS Bonhomme Richard continued Thursday with prosecutors attempting to place the suspect at the scene of the fire. The Miramar Air Show is back this year after a two year hiatus due to the pandemic. And last year, Carlsbad Police used a bean bag gun along with pepper balls on two suspects and it led to big changes.

Taylor Sheesh, the Philippines' top Taylor Swift impersonator, has set out on her own tour across the country in a bid to get the global superstar's attention.

As autoworkers' real wages fall, top executives at the Big Three carmakers continue to earn tens of millions of dollars each year — hundreds of times more than the median employee.

U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff has built up a substantial fundraising advantage over his chief rivals in California's 2024 U.S. Senate contest.