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UC San Diego's new outdoor amphitheater opens this week with a string of performances, including Death Cab for Cutie, a "Blacktronika" festival, contemporary percussion, Día de los Muertos, drag, giant puppets and "Purple Rain." -
As the new concert season gets underway, composers and orchestra administrators say they are feeling a shift in whose music gets heard. -
In its 33rd year, Mariachi USA continues to center a genre that's rooted in folk traditions and has become a symbol of Mexican culture. -
On Being Funny In A Foreign Language, the new album by his band The 1975, Matty Healy makes romantic music for cynical outsiders who insist they're ready to give love a try. -
The leaves are changing colors, miniature candies are lining the walls of drug stores and tías y tíos are warning about the demonic roots of Halloween. Finally, Espooky season has arrived. -
This weekend in the arts: composer Lei Liang's Arctic ocean sounds; Pacific Lyric Association performs "Carmen"; experimental noise art at "Checked Out"; Mainly Mozart All-Star Orchestra Festival; Lani Emanuel at Oceanside Museum of Art; and the California Ballet's "Awakening." -
Images Andy Warhol created of Prince are at the heart of a case the Supreme Court will examine on Wednesday. Warhol used a black-and-white portrait taken by Lynn Goldsmith as a reference point. -
All members of Hacía la Victoria ("Onward to Victory") sustained eye injuries during clashes with police in anti-government protests in 2019. Their lyrics focus on police brutality and their own pain. -
Rather than extol Lynn in ways she rejected, we should appreciate the agency with which she so impressively crafted her identity in country music. -
This weekend in the arts: "Our Ancestors' Dream" at The Front; "Little Shop of Horrors"; the La Jolla Art and Wine Festival; 25 years of Oceanside Museum of Art; and the San Diego Symphony performs Beethoven's 5th and more.
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