Claire Caraska
Production Intern/Culture Lust BloggerClaire Caraska served as a production assistant for KPBS Midday Edition and a Culture Lust blogger. As a writer and editor, she has covered music and visual arts for various print and online publications, including San Diego CityBeat, The San Diego Union-Tribune and voiceofsandiego.org. Claire received her bachelor’s degree in communication from UC San Diego, where she spent time on the air at KSDT Radio. An avid audiophile and record collector, she is also a DJ and can be heard playing 60s and 70s soul and funk at local watering holes. Photo by Derrik Chinn.
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KPBS Midday EditionAmerican singer-songwriter Don McLean has a career that spans more than 40 years and more than 300 songs. And a new documentary reveals that there is much more to the man than just "American Pie." -
KPBS Midday EditionThe controversial 1913 trial and conviction of Leo Frank, a Jewish factory worker accused of raping and murdering a thirteen-year-old girl in Atlanta, Georgia, provides the backdrop for a new production at Cygnet Theatre. -
KPBS Midday EditionIn the last two weeks alone, journalism has suffered the loss of three reporters covering some of the most dangerous conflicts around the world. A new production from Mo'olelo Performing Arts offers some dramatic context to these current events. -
KPBS Midday EditionThe great chase for the most famous of white whales now gets the opera treatment: "Moby-Dick" makes its West Coast premiere this weekend at the San Diego Opera. -
KPBS Midday EditionFrom Shakespearean comedy and contemporary dramas that explore political, religious and personal complexities to concerts featuring the best and brightest in classical music, plus acrobatic felines, here are this weekend’s highlights. -
Tijuana-based Chef Javier Plascencia was recently profiled in The New Yorker, and San Diego Magazine goes behind the scenes with the writer.
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