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Karla Peterson

Karla Peterson was a columnist at The San Diego Union-Tribune. She is a longtime San Diegan whose beats included TV criticism, pop culture, Comic-Con and San Diego people and lifestyles. She has won awards for entertainment criticism from the American Association of Sunday and Features Editors. A graduate of San Diego State University, she ed the Union-Tribune in 1985.

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Kids Free October offers discounts and freebies for kids age 12 and younger, including visits to the Maritime Museum.

Kids Free San Diego month has returned

Art projects and animal encounters. Surfboards and keyboards. Trains, planes and automobiles? Those, too. Lions, tigers and bears? You bet.It is Kids Free San Diego time again, when the county's...
SAN DIEGO, CA - FEBRUARY 03: Rachael Orose, executive director of reading and literacy nonprofit Words Alive on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021 in San Diego, CA. (Jarrod Valliere / The San Diego Union-Tribune)

Shining light of literacy

As the executive director of Words Alive, Rachael Orose knows the power of a great story. But she didn’t expect to be living in one.When the pandemic shutdown hit San...
San Diego musician Alfred Howard and his mother, Marian, were featured on "The Kelly Clarkson Show" for the art-and-music project they are doing together. In "Alfred Howard Writes," Alfred is writing 100 songs that are accompanied by Marian's paintings.

Pen overcomes shutdown

When the COVID-19 shutdown first sent San Diegans scurrying into their homes, Marian Howard was worried about her son, musician Alfred Howard.She was worried because he had already put his...