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Lisa Deaderick

Lisa Deaderick is a columnist for The San Diego Union-Tribune, where she writes about social justice issues as well as influential San Diegans. Each week, she speaks with community activists, academics, volunteers and other knowledgeable individuals about everything from the benefits of music in education and the creative work of notable artists, to understanding the importance of representation and inclusivity. A Chula Vista native, she graduated from Bethune-Cookman University in Florida and Columbia University in New York, and has worked at the Union-Tribune since 2008.

The City of San Diego is offering low-cost swim classes as part of Adult Learn to Swim Month of April. The classes teaches the basics of swimming and water safety. For more information, visit sandiego.gov/pools/programs/swim-program.

San Diego encourages adult swimming and water safety with outreach programming

April 21, 2024 at 1:01 p.m.

As it gets warmer outside, more people are getting in the water, and that means agencies and organizations are offering reminders, resources, and programs to keep people safe and avoid...

San Diego, CA - April 11: Maria Dolores Aguila poses for a photo at San Diego Central Library on Thursday, April 11, 2024 in San Diego, CA. (Meg McLaughlin / The San Diego Union-Tribune)

A love of reading, fixation with San Diego Chicano history, leads to debut children’s book

April 20, 2024 at 1:01 p.m.

Growing up in National City meant that children’s book author María Dolores Águila was never far from Barrio Logan and its famous Chicano Park. Whenever her family headed north on...

"3 Sisters, 2022" by contemporary fine art photographer Cara Romero, is featured in her solo exhibition at the Museum of Photographic Arts at the San Diego Museum of Art, "The Artist Speaks: Cara Romero," on display April 27 to Oct. 20.

Her large-scale photos speak thousands of words about Indigenous communities, identities

April 14, 2024 at 1:01 p.m.

Contemporary fine art photographer Cara Romero is thoughtful and deliberate in her work and particularly in her selection of photographs for her solo exhibition this month at the Museum of...

Shirin Towfiq poses with her art pieces “Looking For A Sign” and “Thinking About Migration” at the Mingei International Museum at Balboa Park on Thursday, March 28, 2024. The exhibition will be on display from March 30 through August 11.

Tales of magic carpets connect to migrant journeys in Iranian-American artist’s exhibit at Mingei

April 13, 2024 at 1:01 p.m.

Her family had to leave their home country during the Iranian Revolution of 1979, and a story about the sudden migration of artist Shirin Towfiq’s grandfather inspired part of her...

San Diego, CA - April 03:

On Wednesday, April 3, 2024 in 8-San Diego, CA, Jacqueline Johnson is a local veterinarian and the author of the children's book, "Elinor McGrath, Pet Doctor: The Story of America's First Female Veterinarian.” (Nelvin C. Cepeda / The San Diego Union-Tribune)

San Diego veterinarian and author pens children’s book about America’s first female animal doctor

April 7, 2024 at 5:12 p.m.

Animals and books—it’s probably safe to say Jacqueline Johnson loves them equally. As a kid, she begged her parents for a cat for two years before they finally gave in,...

Ana Hernández, the new executive director of Centro Cultural de la Raza, poses at the organization’s building at Balboa Park on Thursday, March 28, 2024.

Ana Hernandez, la nueva directora ejecutiva del Centro Cultural de la Raza, se ha dejado llevar por la belleza de San Diego

April 7, 2024 at 4:58 p.m.

Ana Hernández es la nueva directora ejecutiva del Centro Cultural de la Raza, pero dedicarse a trabajar en la construcción de la comunidad, preservar la cultura y abogar por la...

JABALIA, GAZA - MARCH 17: A Palestinian man carries his bicycle after receiving flour from the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) building as the first humanitarian aid convoy in months has entered Gaza amid Israeli attacks in Jabalia, Gaza on March 17, 2024. (Photo by Dawoud Abo Alkas/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Psychologists to discuss trauma, mental health and human rights of Palestinians at USD

April 7, 2024 at 1:01 p.m.

Psychologists, researchers, and mental health professionals have been working with civilian populations in Palestine for years, documenting the effects of their experiences with dispossession and violence. The latest violence between...

San Diego veterinarian and author pens children’s book about America’s first female animal doctor

April 5, 2024 at 5:31 p.m.

Animals and books—it’s probably safe to say Jacqueline Johnson loves them equally. As a kid, she begged her parents for a cat for two years before they finally gave in,...

Economic Crisis - Businesswoman - stock illustration Businesswoman under the box. (sorbetto / Getty Images)

‘They pay us less, but everything costs us more.’ California’s women and girls need economic equity

March 31, 2024 at 1:01 p.m.

The data around the economic inequality faced by women and girls in California kept popping up year after year — and that was the problem.“I knew that the wage gap...

New director of Centro Cultural de la Raza taken in by beauty of San Diego

March 30, 2024 at 3:41 p.m.

Ana Hernandez is the new executive director of the Centro Cultural de la Raza, but pursuing work that focuses on building community, preserving culture, and advocating for justice is something...

San Diego, California - March 21: Michael Summers is a contemporary pop surrealist painter and muralist based in Oceanside who's been commissioned by The Flower Fields in Carlsbad to spend two weeks working on a mural in their master gardeners' demonstration garden. The piece features elephants set against the natural display. Michale Summers pose for photo in Carlsbad on Thursday, March 21, 2024 in San Diego, California. (Alejandro Tamayo / The San Diego Union-Tribune)

Bursts of color saturate Carlsbad flower fields in new mural by Oceanside artist

March 23, 2024 at 1:01 p.m.

Those big, beautiful elephants kept plodding a path through Michael Summers’ mind, and he finally found the right home for them — his new mural at The Flower Fields in...

Filmmaker Daniel Gonçalves, left, and his fiancee, Dani Nascimento, in a still from his documentary, "Acsexybility," being screened at the San Diego Latino Film Festival on March 22. The film features interviews with disabled people discussing their sexualities (Gonçalves has a physical disability that affects his motor skills), helping to deconstruct the stereotype that people with disabilities are asexual.

A celebration of sexuality among people with disabilities in film at San Diego Latino Film Festival

March 22, 2024 at 8:16 p.m.

Brazilian documentary filmmaker Daniel Gonçalves and his editing partner looked for other films exploring the topic of sexuality and disability, but they couldn’t find any, so they made their own.“Acsexybility”...

Elizabeth Salaam and one her mixed media pieces entitled "Mothership, 2024"

Defiance, resistance in one artist’s celebration of Black women in new Mesa College exhibition

March 17, 2024 at 1:00 p.m.

There was a moment when writer and artist Elizabeth Salaam first moved to New York City and felt a glaring difference in her presence in a place. She was lost,...

VISTA, CA - MARCH 14, 2024: Artist Krista Timberlake stands next to her painting, titled "Metal on Metal", at her home in Vista on Wednesday, March 14, 2024. (Hayne Palmour IV / For The San Diego Union-Tribune)

Living things as machines? Vista artist shares love of science and art in ‘Organic Metal’ exhibition

March 17, 2024 at 12:31 p.m.

Artist Krista Timberlake was initially on her way to becoming a medical doctor when a college calculus course shifted her toward a more creative path.“While my high school studies were...

Candice "DJ Kuttin Kandi" Custodio-Tan, Cover of the book, "Closer to Liberation: Pin[a/x]y Activism in Theory and Practice and Amanda Solomon Amorao.

Filipinx feminism and activism, revisited and expanded in ‘Closer to Liberation’

March 10, 2024 at 1:01 p.m.

The first time these friends read a piece in which a Filipina American scholar was outlining a framework of feminism and sisterhood from their cultural point of view and experience...

Chula Vista, CA - March 06: Carla Navarro, actress and writer, poses for a photo at OnStage Playhouse on Wednesday, March 6, 2024 in Chula Vista, CA. (Meg McLaughlin / The San Diego Union-Tribune)

Chula Vista playwright wants to celebrate, not reduce, the women in her stories

March 9, 2024 at 2:01 p.m.

Carla Navarro prefers to tuck herself between the folds and layers of personal relationships when she’s writing the characters in her plays.“I am fascinated with the dynamics of relationships more...

Veronica Wehby-Upchurch a sign and son Ladner Upchurch as hundreds gather for a protest rally for in vitro fertilization legislation Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024, in Montgomery, Ala. The Alabama Supreme Court ruled, Friday, Feb. 16, 2024, that frozen embryos can be considered children under state law, a ruling critics said could have sweeping implications for fertility treatments. (Mickey Welsh/The Montgomery r via AP)

Alabama court ruling on IVF reminder of what reproductive rights advocates have long warned

March 3, 2024 at 2:01 p.m.

The level of confusion and concern triggered by the Alabama state supreme court’s ruling last month that embryos created through in vitro fertilization are considered children is just the latest...

San Diego, CA - February 29:

Josue Baltezar is a local Mexican-American artist who was the lead muralist for the six- murals on the Plaza del Sol apartment complex in City Heights. The six s were designed to represent the ethnicity in City Heights. Somalia, Ethiopian, Kumeyaay, Latino and Vietnamese, and the sixth is a representation of San Diego’s regional diversity. (Nelvin C. Cepeda / The San Diego Union-Tribune)

Chula Vista artist creates new City Heights mural as a way to ‘show up’ for immigrant communities

March 2, 2024 at 2:00 p.m.

Next to a chicken-and-waffles spot and a convenience story on Fairmount Avenue, between University and Polk avenues in City Heights, the wall of an apartment complex has a story to...

Author Sabrina Strings and her book "Fearing the Black Body."

Author and scholar to discuss racist roots of ‘obesity epidemic’ at San Diego library

February 29, 2024 at 10:04 p.m.

In her 2019 book, “Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia,” Sabrina Strings contends with our collective fixation on thinness, tracing its development to race — specifically...

San Diego, California - February 21: JJ Jones is co-executive director of Maximum Effort Foundation and the Honu Sumo club, which is hosting its second annual SoCal Sumo Open on Feb. 24 at the Black Box Theatre in City Heights. Jones poses for photo at HONU BJJ martial arts school in City Heights on Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024 in San Diego, California. (Alejandro Tamayo / The San Diego Union-Tribune)

A focus on the Japanese sport of sumo, building community, sharing history at second SoCal Sumo Open

February 24, 2024 at 2:01 p.m.

JJ Jones never made it to the sumo wrestling tournament in 2007, but the flyer for the tournament stayed on his wall and served as inspiration for him to pursue...

Author and educator Jorge Gonzalez will discuss "Afro-Mexicanos: Mexico Officially Recognizes its Black Citizens" on Feb. 26 at the Central Library in downtown San Diego. One area of his research has focused on queen pageants as constructions of identity and beauty of Afro-Oaxacan communities, as pictured here in 2007.

A vibrant Afro-Mexican community has always been in Mexico, their country is finally catching up

February 18, 2024 at 2:01 p.m.

It could be called a revelatory moment, learning about the presence, history, and culture of Black people in Mexico. For Jorge Gonzalez, a college course on the ethno-history of Oaxaca...

San Diego CA - February 15: Brooklyn Burroughs, 17, is a student at the San Diego School of Creative and Performing Arts, and one of the featured artists in the "Black Perspectives: A Celebration of Community, Family & Heritage" art exhibition at The Brooks Theater Gallery in Oceanside through March 26, shown here at her school on Thursday, February 15, 2024 in San Diego, CA. (K.C. Alfred / The San Diego Union-Tribune)

San Diego SA student’s work part of ‘Black Perspective’ exhibit in Oceanside

February 17, 2024 at 2:01 p.m.

Her grandmother saw a post on Instagram calling for artist submissions for an exhibition, so she encouraged Brooklyn Burroughs to send in some of her work. She wasn’t exactly...

Aman stops to look over the damage to the nearby apartments on National Avenue when Chollas Creek overflowed the banks back on January 22, 2024.

Heavy rains offer revelations and reminders about environment, inequality

February 11, 2024 at 6:32 p.m.

There are both revelations and reminders coming from the recent, heavy rainstorms in the region — that the effects of a warming climate mean an increase in these kinds of...

San Diego, CA - February 08:

Kori Gillis at his home in Point Loma on Thursday, February 8, 2024, in San Diego, CA. Gillis is performing with his band, Kogee Soul Reprise, in a tribute to the music of Stevie Wonder at The Brooks Theatre in Oceanside. He talks about his career as a musician, including serving as lead vocalist when he was in the Navy, for the branch's military bands, as well as being able to perform openly as a member of the LGBTQ community. (Nelvin C. Cepeda / The San Diego Union-Tribune)

Local singer sharing the music of Stevie Wonder, learning ‘to be proud of yourself first’ in personal journey

February 10, 2024 at 2:00 p.m.

Stevie Wonder and his music are a treasure to many, and Kori Gillis credits Wonder’s music with feeding his own artistry. Growing up in a musical family in the Chicago...

Steve Holen (standing) pictured here with hafted hammer, breaking an elephant femur in Tanzania, Africa in 2006. He will discuss discuss “The Search for the Earliest Americans: An Old Archaeological Controversy” Feb. 6 at the Borrego Springs Library, including the use of experimental archaeology that has included the breaking of an elephant femur to research the breaking of mammoth bones in the early Americas.

Western science beginning to catch up to what Indigenous history has always known

February 4, 2024 at 2:01 p.m.

A very, very old mammoth tusk found near a road-widening project, for State Route 54 near National City in the early 1990s, set off considerable controversy among scientists. When a...

ALPINE, CA - FEBRUARY 01, 2024: Krystal Casey, an author, motivational speaker, and sexual health speaker, holds her latest book "Womanhood" at the Alpine Library in Alpine on Thursday, February 01, 2024.

Local author, speaker rejects shame and silence for authenticity, empowerment

February 3, 2024 at 2:01 p.m.

Life is too short and Krystal Casey had dreams, one of which included writing a book—now she has two. A single mother of five children 13 and younger, that list...

A still image from "Summer Qamp," directed by Jennifer Markowitz, a feature documentary following LGBTQ-plus youth at an overnight camp in Canada as they explore their identities and develop friendships with each other. The film opens the Human Rights Watch Film Festival during its San Diego stop on Feb. 2 at the Museum of Photographic Arts at the San Diego Museum of Art in Balboa Park. The festival features a total of six films being screened through Feb. 10.

A promise of ’85 minutes of safety’ for LGBTQ folks at Human Rights Watch Film Festival

January 28, 2024 at 2:00 p.m.

There was something noticeable in the first 10 minutes of the feature documentary “Summer Qamp,” which follows LGBTQ-plus youth at Camp fYrefly in rural Canada, a leadership retreat for queer...

San Diego, California - January 24: Sam Lopez is the curator of the Stay Strange Short Film Festival, the first by the local "noise music collective," being held at the College-Rolando Library on Jan. 27 and featuring "bizarre animation, offbeat documentaries, and way out home videos." Lopez pose for photo in Mission Valley on Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024 in San Diego, California. (Alejandro Tamayo / The San Diego Union-Tribune)

The one requirement for a new short film festival? Submissions must be ‘strange’

January 27, 2024 at 2:01 p.m.

When it comes to art, especially of the more unusual variety, Sam Lopez just can’t bring himself to say, “no.” With his Stay Strange music collective, he doesn’t have to.As...

"Ebb and Flow: Giant Kelp Forests through Art, Science and the Archives" is an exhibition at UC San Diego exploring the environment through the contemporary artwork (from left) of Julia C R Gray, Marie McKenzie, Oriana Poindexter, and Dwight Hwang. Poindexter, a photographer and marine scientist, is also curator of this exhibition.

Get wrapped up in the ‘ebb and flow’ of art centering the wonders of kelp at UC San Diego exhibit

January 21, 2024 at 2:01 p.m.

There’s something about freediving into the giant kelp forests off the local coastline that elicits a sense of magic and wonder in artist and marine scientist Oriana Poindexter. What started...

Vista, CA - January 18: Late afternoon portrait of activist Sue Alderson in her backyard in Vista. She is the chair of the North County San Diego Womxns March, a nonprofit organization that works to provide civic education and engagement that s women's issues. (Charlie Neuman / For The San Diego Union-Tribune)

Reproductive rights are ‘Bigger than Roe,’ Oceanside rally part of national push this weekend

January 20, 2024 at 2:01 p.m.

It’s probably fair to describe Sue Alderson as a good listener and ionate advocate for others. As a school counselor and educator, she’s spent years listening to her students and...

FILE - In this Aug. 28, 1963 file photo, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, addresses marchers during his "I Have a Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. The annual celebration of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday in his hometown in Atlanta is calling for renewed dedication to nonviolence following a turbulent year. The slain civil rights leader's daughter, the Rev. Bernice King, said in an online church service Monday, Jan. 18, 2021, that physical violence and hateful speech are “out of control” in the aftermath of a divisive election followed by a deadly siege on the U.S. Capitol in Washington by ers of President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/File)

‘Have a conversation with Martin Luther King Jr.’ by exploring his work, and words, in their entirety

January 14, 2024 at 2:01 p.m.

Any celebration of the life and work of Martin Luther King Jr. — of his leadership in the Civil Rights Movement, his ion for racial justice, equity, and nonviolence —...

SOLANA BEACH, CA - JANUARY 09, 2024: Author Dustin Dunbar holds the book he wrote "You're Doing Great! And Other Lies Alcohol Told Me", while on the beach in Solana Beach on Tuesday, January 09, 2024.

Alcohol told him lies, but wellness coach and author found the truth when he quit drinking

January 13, 2024 at 7:37 p.m.

There were a lot of images and messaging about masculinity that Dustin Dunbar saw when he was growing up in the Midwest in the 1980s, eventually communicating that drinking alcohol...

Alcohol told him lies, but wellness coach and author found the truth when he quit drinking

January 13, 2024 at 2:00 p.m.

There were a lot of images and messaging about masculinity that Dustin Dunbar saw when he was growing up in the Midwest in the 1980s, eventually communicating that drinking alcohol...

"Worth Its Weight, 2023" is an image featuring artist Kerianne Quick's contemporary jewelry made of vegetable tanned leather, copper, and cotton. The pieces, on display in "La Frontera," an exhibition at the Mingei Museum from Jan. 27 to Aug. 4, are inspired by her volunteer work in 2019 with the nonprofit Border Angels, leaving gallons of water in the desert for migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.

Contemporary jewelry tells stories about the border in Mingei exhibition

January 7, 2024 at 2:01 p.m.

There is plenty to say about the U.S.-Mexico border, and the featured artists in the Mingei Museum’s exhibition, “La Frontera,” use the craft of creating contemporary jewelry to explore...

San Diego, California - January 02: Marilyn Woods is the author of "After Goya: A Mature-ish Fairy Tale," poses for a portrait in her home on Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2024 in San Diego, California. Woods wrote the book during the pandemic. (Ana Ramirez / The San Diego Union-Tribune)

San Diego author Marilyn Woods loves being out of her comfort zone with second book, ‘After Goya’

January 6, 2024 at 2:01 p.m.

There was a point during the pandemic shutdown when author Marilyn Woods noticed feeling emotionally transported back to a time when she was young and excited about boys.“For six or...

San Diego, CA - December 14: James Crawford is a Ph.D. student in education studies at UC San Diego, with experience in restorative practices, consulting, and centering the voices and academic achievement of diverse students. He's currently the graduate researcher for the UCSD Black Studies Project, and has been named Mentor of the Year by The Blue Heart Foundation, a San Diego nonprofit providing a path to higher education, emotional health and development for young Black men. Crawford poses for photo in La Jolla on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023 in San Diego, CA. (Alejandro Tamayo / The San Diego Union-Tribune)

Nonprofit ‘Mentor of the Year’ uses example of an early mentor, his aunt, in his work

December 28, 2023 at 2:31 p.m.

James Crawford was recently named Mentor of the Year by The Blue Heart Foundation, a local nonprofit focused on mentorship and outreach programs for underserved boys between the ages of...

FILE - The U.S. Supreme Court is seen, with a carving of Justice in the foreground, April 19, 2023, in Washington. A Black Ohio woman who miscarried in her bathroom has been charged with abuse of a corpse and awaits grand jury action. Her case has sparked a national firestorm over the plight of pregnant women, especially women of color, following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

If we care about kids, punishing pregnant people for miscarriages, loss doesn’t work

December 24, 2023 at 2:01 p.m.

The case of a young, Black Ohio woman who experienced a miscarriage at 22 weeks into her pregnancy, and is now being charged with felony abuse of a corpse, is...

Nonprofit ‘Mentor of the Year’ uses example of an early mentor, his aunt, in his work

December 23, 2023 at 2:01 p.m.

James Crawford was recently named Mentor of the Year by The Blue Heart Foundation, a local nonprofit focused on mentorship and outreach programs for underserved boys between the ages of...

David Karp (second from left) is a sociologist and professor at the University of San Diego, and director of the university's Center for Restorative Justice, a topic he's been researching since the late 1990s.

It takes more than just punishment to repair harm; USD prof on restorative justice work

December 18, 2023 at 3:43 p.m.

David Karp re a high school kid who walked into a martial arts studio, rifled through the jackets of the students, and stole someone’s wallet. He was arrested and put...

Lemon Grove, - December 14: Brittany Wheeler, co-founder and executive director of Greater Than Tech, poses for a portrait at her residence on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023 in Lemon Grove, . (Meg McLaughlin / The San Diego Union-Tribune)

When it comes to women in STEM, local nonprofit wants to make industry ‘unicorns’ extinct

December 16, 2023 at 2:01 p.m.

that scene in the movie, “Apollo 13” where the team of scientists had to come up with a life-saving solution to save the team of astronauts and their spacecraft?...

Matthew Desmond, Princeton University sociologist, founder of The Eviction Lab, and author of "Poverty, by America," will discuss his work researching poverty and affordable housing at UC San Diego's Helen Edison Lecture Series on Dec. 14.

We are contributing to poverty, but we can make choices that help end it, says Princeton sociologist

December 10, 2023 at 2:01 p.m.

Matthew Desmond needed answers. The question of how the United States, the world’s wealthiest country, could simultaneously abide so much poverty (at a rate of between 11 and 12 percent...

San Diego, CA - December 06: Alma Rodriguez is the founder of Queen Bee's Art & Cultural Center, which is celebrating its 15th anniversary this month (Dec. 12), after the pandemic nearly forced the center to close its doors. Rodriguez poses for photo in North Park on Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023 in San Diego, CA. (Alejandro Tamayo / The San Diego Union-Tribune)

Hive of keeps local arts center open, celebrating 15 years in North Park

December 9, 2023 at 2:00 p.m.

It was a dream that became a reality for Alma Rodriguez — one that was nearly snuffed out by the COVID-19 pandemic, but she persevered with the of the...

Juan A. Reynoso, whose Ipai-Kumeyaay name is "nemuuly" (neh-mool), is a two-spirit storyteller, advocate, and educator who helps run the nonprofit, The Queer Sol Collective, and also teaches bilingual education to deaf and hard of hearing students

Two-Spirit Kumeyaay storyteller and educator talks about bridging communities, finding gratitude in survival

November 20, 2023 at 10:57 p.m.

Even as a kid, it was always important to Juan A. Reynoso (whose Ipai-Kumeyaay name is “nemuuly”) to provide as much context and background as possible in order for him...

Barbara Reuer is the founder and outgoing CEO of Resounding Joy, a music therapy nonprofit she started in 2004 to provide services to various groups of people who otherwise could not access music therapy programming, including seniors, low-income communities, veterans, and children

Celebrating a legacy of healing through music, nonprofit CEO reflects on retirement

November 18, 2023 at 4:02 p.m.

Barbara Reuer had just started college in 1970, in her home state of South Dakota, and was having trouble deciding on a major. She’d finally chosen to major in music...

Celebrating a legacy of healing through music, nonprofit CEO reflects on retirement

November 20, 2023 at 11:11 p.m.

Barbara Reuer had just started college in 1970, in her home state of South Dakota, and was having trouble deciding on a major. She’d finally chosen to major in music...

San Diego, CA - November 08: On the right Janaira Quigley 44, is the executive director of Ocean Connectors on a kayak at the Paradise Point Resort & Spa marina. She leads an eco kayak tour in Mission Bay on Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2023 in San Diego, CA. (Alejandro Tamayo / The San Diego Union-Tribune)

Subete a la ola de la conservacion de los oceanos con una organizacion local que conecta a los ninos con su entorno

November 14, 2023 at 3:15 p.m.

De niña, Janaira Quigley tenía una misión personal: plantar árboles por todas partes. Hippie de corazón, siempre le interesó la ciencia, y su familia tenía sus propios árboles frutales en...

A still image of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speaking at San Diego State's Greek Bowl in 1964, taken from video archives at KFMB.<br/>

Getting comfortable with an uncomfortable history, SDSU professor discusses racism in San Diego

November 12, 2023 at 2:01 p.m.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. makes a final visit to San Diego in 1964 that Seth Mallios finds particularly fascinating in his work as an archaeologist, anthropologist, and historian. King...

Ride the wave of ocean conservation with local nonprofit connecting kids to their environment

November 13, 2023 at 5:26 p.m.

As a kid, Janaira Quigley had a personal mission: grow trees everywhere she went. A hippie at heart, she was always interested in science, and her family had their own...

Ky Phan, chef and co-owner of Crab Hut Restaurants and Kingfisher Cocktail Bar & Eatery, talks about how personal stories and family history can be told through the food being featured in the culinary storytelling event, "Chew the Scene" on Nov. 10, part of the San Diego Asian Film Festival.

Gumbo, but with an Asian influence. Food tells the stories at San Diego Asian Film Festival’s culinary gala

November 5, 2023 at 6:13 p.m.

When Ky Phan and her older sister, Kim, were little girls in southern Vietnam, they would pretend they had their own food stall, and Ky was always the chef. The...

SAN DIEGO, CA - NOVEMBER 02, 2023: Fiona Chatwin, Executive and Artistic Director of Villa Musica, at Villa Musica's main campus in San Diego on Thursday, November 02, 2023. (Hayne Palmour IV / For The San Diego Union-Tribune)

‘No auditions, no elitism’ at music nonprofit, with lessons in music and in life

November 13, 2023 at 10:45 p.m.

Fiona Chatwin was 6 years old, sitting next to her younger brother as they pounded on the upright Wertheim piano her parents had bought them from a classified ad in...

Jun!yi Min is a performance artist and one of the organizers of "Queering the Table: An Asian Tapestry of Language, Connection, and Queer Presence" at the Mingei Museum on Oct. 30. Here, she's pictured in a post-performance portrait for "_ntangle (reperformance: church)," where she changes from black, gender-neutral clothes, to floral, femme clothes in a tight, plastic cocoon bag. This image was taken during the exhibition "Working Title" at St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral in January 2023.

San Diego artists focus on LGBTQ Asian experience in ‘family table’ event at Mingei Museum

October 29, 2023 at 1:01 p.m.

Thinking about coming together for a family meal brings up images of food, conversation, and gathering. That same space can also carry an understanding of social hierarchies and walking a...

San Diego, CA - October 26: Jaime Pineda, emeritus professor of cognitive science and neuroscience at UC San Diego, poses for a portrait at his home on Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023 in San Diego, CA. (Meg McLaughlin / The San Diego Union-Tribune)

From anxiety to creativity, UC San Diego professor discusses book on power of the mind

November 12, 2023 at 11:29 p.m.

It was Jaime Pineda’s first psychology class as a college freshman, in an auditorium of about 500 students, where he felt like his professor was speaking directly to him alone....

From anxiety to creativity, UC San Diego professor discusses book on power of the mind

October 28, 2023 at 4:09 a.m.

It was Jaime Pineda’s first psychology class as a college freshman, in an auditorium of about 500 students, where he felt like his professor was speaking directly to him alone....

A scene from Blindspot Collective's world premiere play "Kagitingan."

New play by Point Loma professor honors stories of Filipino World War II veterans

October 22, 2023 at 1:01 p.m.

Her grandfather’s tombstone in the Philippines had letters on it that Jimiliz Valiente-Neighbours didn’t initially understand. It turns out that “USAFFE” stood for the United States Army Forces in the...

San Diego, CA - October 18: Sharon Katz, a musician and lead of Sharon Katz & The Peace Train, poses for a photo in her garden on Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023 in San Diego, CA. (Ana Ramirez / The San Diego Union-Tribune)

From sneaking out to defy South African apartheid, to celebrating latest album ing social issues

October 21, 2023 at 3:18 p.m.

Sharon Katz taught herself to play the guitar when she was 11 and went on to use music as a tool for good — first in her native South Africa,...

In this still image from the documentary film "Aitamaako’tamisskapi Natosi: Before the Sun," Logan Red Crow is seen competing in the Indian Relay, a competitive race involving bareback horse riding. The film is being screened Oct. 21 at the San Diego International Film Festival.

A young Siksika woman races in the competitive Indian Relay, in documentary at San Diego Film Festival

October 15, 2023 at 2:03 p.m.

From the time she was able to toddle around her family’s ranch in the Siksika Nation of Alberta, Canada, Logan Red Crow has always wanted to ride horses. In the...

Grace Gray Adams stands in the San Diego Mesa College Art Gallery which is featuring her “Glimmers of Grace” exhibition on Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023 in San Diego, CA.

Lifting up women, finding ‘grace’ spanning decades of work in art exhibition at Mesa College

October 14, 2023 at 5:45 p.m.

Artist Grace Gray-Adams returned to San Diego Mesa College this month in a display of her artwork on the campus where she was among the school’s first students when it...

Lifting up women, finding ‘grace’ spanning decades of work in art exhibition at Mesa College

October 14, 2023 at 1:01 p.m.

Artist Grace Gray-Adams returned to San Diego Mesa College this month in a display of her artwork on the campus where she was among the school’s first students when it...

Palestinian artist/conservationist/writer Vivien Sansour is depicted in this drawing over the 1947 United Nations partition map of Palestine, by artist John Halaka from his "Landscapes of Resistance" series, currently part of his "Listening to the Unheard/Drawing the Unseen: Meditations on Presence and Absence in Native Lands" exhibition at the Oceanside Museum of Art through February 2024.

Look and listen: San Diego artist and professor honors stories of displaced peoples

October 8, 2023 at 1:01 p.m.

Visual artist John Halaka came into a greater awareness of civil and human rights as a college student in the 1970s, and that desire to learn about and amplify the...

San Diego, California - October 05: Leslie Reynolds the executive director of Groundwork San Diego-Chollas Creek poses for photos in Chollas View on Thursday, Oct. 5, 2023 in San Diego, California. (Alejandro Tamayo / The San Diego Union-Tribune)

Formerly redlined neighborhoods work to cool temps and restore nature in Chollas Creek watershed

October 7, 2023 at 1:01 p.m.

Leslie Reynolds has a love for the beauty of nature and preserving the environment that stretches back to the days when she and her sister rode their horses through the...

San Diego, CA - July 15:

At Pride Parade in San Diego, participants carry the large Pride flag down Sixth Avenue towards Balboa Park on Saturday, July 15, 2023 in San Diego, CA. (Nelvin C. Cepeda / The San Diego Union-Tribune)

ing LGBTQ kids in schools is win-win for all students, experts say

October 1, 2023 at 1:01 p.m.

Recent legislation signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom last week includes a number of bills that bolster for LGBTQ youth in schools. Advocates and researchers say that continued protections are...

San Diego, California - September 28: Jonathan Burgos is the founder and executive director of First Gen Scholars. He poses for photos at the Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation on Thursday, Sept. 28, 2023 in San Diego, California. (Alejandro Tamayo / The San Diego Union-Tribune)

First in their families to go to college, among the many shaping their community

September 30, 2023 at 1:01 p.m.

Jonathan Burgos knows what it’s like to navigate young adult life as a first-generation college student — figuring out the process, needing help to learn and acquire new skills, feeling...

San Diego, California - September 21: Shahan Derkarabetian Ph.D., new curator of entomology at the San Diego Natural History Museum. He holds up a viles with a Opiliones also known as daddy longlegs in Balboa Park on Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023 in San Diego, California. (Alejandro Tamayo / The San Diego Union-Tribune)

New entomology curator wants to protect spaces and species in work at San Diego Natural History Museum

September 26, 2023 at 2:45 p.m.

For Shahan Derkarabetian, a fascination with insects won out over any initial fear. There was his informal study of the bugs in his childhood neighborhood, to earning degrees in biology...

New entomology curator wants to protect spaces and species in work at San Diego Natural History Museum

September 23, 2023 at 9:26 p.m.

For Shahan Derkarabetian, a fascination with insects won out over any initial fear. There was his informal study of the bugs in his childhood neighborhood, to earning degrees in biology...

"Forgotten San Diego," by local authors David Marshall and Eileen Magno, tells the story of lesser known pieces of San Diego history through a collection of vintage postcards.

Elvis Presley, dairy farms, precursor to waterskiing found in ‘Forgotten San Diego’

September 22, 2023 at 10:59 p.m.

The pictures, the visuals, can do a lot of heavy lifting in telling the history of a place — that was the case for the authors of a new book...

San Diego native Rudy Guevarra Jr. is professor at Arizona State University and will discuss his latest book, "Aloha Compadre: Latinxs in Hawaii," at Miramar College on Sept. 22.

From early vaqueros to 21st century: San Diego author explores history of ‘Latinxs in Hawaii’

September 20, 2023 at 5:56 p.m.

It was during the research for his dissertation and first book that Rudy Guevarra Jr. noticed something — he was hearing more and more people speaking Spanish while traveling in...

San Diego, CA - September 13: Judy Reeves, writer and writing instructor, and a long-time fixture in the San Diego literary arts community, poses for a photo outside her home on Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023 in San Diego, CA. (Meg McLaughlin / The San Diego Union-Tribune)

Judy Reeves listens to her heart, travels to Europe, learns to trust herself

September 16, 2023 at 1:01 p.m.

Anyone in San Diego who considers themselves a writer is probably familiar with Judy Reeves — if not by name, then through her work. She’s co-founded two literary organizations (The...

San Diego, California - September 07: Vickie Lawrence is the founder of Dancing Around the Oak Tree Art Studio. She poses for photos in East Village on Thursday, Sept. 7, 2023 in San Diego, California. (Alejandro Tamayo / The San Diego Union-Tribune)

Art teacher focuses on serving San Diego’s disabled community with classes, studio space

September 9, 2023 at 1:01 p.m.

In middle school, local artist and instructor Vickie Lawrence took some of her first art classes and quickly fell in love with visual arts. It was the of one...

Oceanside, CA - September 06:

On Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2023, at Oceanside Pier in Oceanside, CA, Fellipe Kizu Lima from Brazil took in a few waves on practice day before Thursday's official start of the competition. Kizu will be competing in the Adaptive Surfing Professionals World Championship Tour 2023 in Oceanside this week. (Nelvin C. Cepeda / The San Diego Union-Tribune)

There’s ‘freedom’ in the water for adaptive surfers at championship in Oceanside

September 8, 2023 at 8:45 p.m.

For Charles Webb, the point of creating the U.S. Open Adaptive Surfing Championship was to build a professional platform that would honor his community of disabled athletes, giving them an...

Residents gather for a prayer near the scene of a mass shooting at a Dollar General store, Saturday, Aug. 26, 2023, in Jacksonville, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

Florida shooting reminder of enduring role of White supremacy in American history, culture

September 3, 2023 at 1:01 p.m.

With the racist shooting in Jacksonville, Fla., last weekend, killing three Black people before the White gunman turned his weapon on himself, comes the familiar refrains about the kind of...

San Diego, California - August 31: Melody Pezeshkian is host of an online radio show, "Borders of Sound" on Particle FM, a San Diego-based internet radio station. Her show features music from regions across the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and focuses on countries with rich cultural heritage, whose people have been displaced or whose culture has been oppressed, showcasing their music. She poses for a photograph in Carmel Valley on Thursday, Aug. 31, 2023 in San Diego, California. (Alejandro Tamayo / The San Diego Union-Tribune)

Drop the beat: Online radio show sharing global music, preserving culture from displaced communities

September 2, 2023 at 6:46 p.m.

Tune in to Melody Pezeshkian’s online radio show, “Borders of Sound,” and you might hear a style of Afghan music known to accompany its national dance, Attan. The music speeds...

Drop the beat: Online radio show sharing global music, preserving culture from displaced communities

September 2, 2023 at 1:01 p.m.

Tune in to Melody Pezeshkian’s online radio show, “Borders of Sound,” and you might hear a style of Afghan music known to accompany its national dance, Attan. The music speeds...

This photo of a man entering the blue mosque of Mazar-e-Sharif in Afghanistan, is among the images on display at the "Omer Khan: Photography Exhibit" at the El Cajon Library through Aug. 30. Khan, a photojournalist from Afghanistan, has been in the U.S. with his family since leaving his home country in 2021 when the Taliban resumed power.

Afghan photographer shares ‘positive side’ of home country in library exhibition

August 31, 2023 at 9:39 p.m.

There are familiar images: a man selling balloons, kids flying a kite, the ion captured in the throes of playing the national pastime, people walking past a religious place of...

San Diego, California - August 23: Reina Chiong is president of the board of SAMAHAN Filipino American Performing Arts & Education Center poses for photo in Imperial Beach on Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023 in San Diego, California. (Alejandro Tamayo / The San Diego Union-Tribune)

Annual cultural arts festival centers pride in Filipino traditions

August 26, 2023 at 1:01 p.m.

Reina Chiong would say that she was born into it — specifically the culture and community of Samahan Filipino American Performing Arts and Education Center. The organization, founded in 1974,...

This illustration by artist Jerilyn Guerrero, is her take on a popular drink in Guam. She is among 10 artists currently featured in the first San Diego showcase for The Guam Artist Collective at Thumbprint Gallery in La Jolla. The art show, on display through Aug. 26, features the work of from, or otherwise connected, to the island and representing the talent and culture of their home.

Artists from Guam share culture, build ‘home away from home’ in art show in La Jolla

August 20, 2023 at 1:01 p.m.

Looking back on his childhood as a military kid, Kenneth Paulino Jr. realizes that watching the adults around him ask others about their last names or their village was a...

San Diego, CA - August 17: Rachael VanWormer poses for a photo at Heritage County Park on Thursday, Aug. 17, 2023 in San Diego, CA. VanWormer is the education coordinator of Write Out Loud, an organization providing education and programming to promote literacy and a love of literature. (Meg McLaughlin / The San Diego Union-Tribune)

19th century American stories and literature come to life at annual TwainFest

August 20, 2023 at 8:46 a.m.

The theater bug first nibbled at Rachael VanWormer when she played Mary in her daycare center’s Nativity scene, holding a very heavy, plaster baby Jesus. When she was in fourth...

Former Navy SEAL Remi Adeleke with his new book, “Chamelon,” at his home in Chula Vista on Monday, Aug. 7, 2023.

San Diego author and former Navy SEAL releases new action book, featured at Festival of Books

August 14, 2023 at 12:40 p.m.

The 1996 summer hit movie “The Rock” about a rogue group of military threatening an attack on San Francisco, had a bigger impact on the life of Remi Adeleke...

The Earl B. Gilliam Bar Association, a nonprofit connecting San Diego's Black community to access to legal representation and information, is hosting its annual Neighborhood Law School series for six weeks, beginning Aug. 15 at Phillips Temple CME Church in San Diego.

San Diego legal orgs partner to share resources, information with underserved community

August 13, 2023 at 1:01 p.m.

The gaps in access to resources and information for Black people and communities of color are ongoing, as are the efforts to close those gaps. For more than 30 years,...

San Diego author and former Navy SEAL releases new action book, featured at Festival of Books

August 12, 2023 at 1:01 p.m.

The 1996 summer hit movie “The Rock” about a rogue group of military threatening an attack on San Francisco, had a bigger impact on the life of Remi Adeleke...

Poet and author Ron Dowell shares his work, exploring resistance, systemic discrimination and oppression at the "Writers Read" event at the Fallbrook Library on Aug. 11.

Writer shares story of resistance at Fallbrook Library event

August 6, 2023 at 1:01 p.m.

Ron Dowell grew up in Watts and Compton, earned degrees in ing, business, and criminal justice, and went on to work for Los Angeles County for 40 years. As he...

San Diego, California - August 03: Paul Espinosa is an award-winning filmmaker and educator with a focus on sharing stories about Mexicans in the United States and the U.S.-Mexico border region. He holds a movie poster at his office in University Heights on Thursday, Aug. 3, 2023 in San Diego, California. (Alejandro Tamayo / The San Diego Union-Tribune)

San Diego filmmaker shares story of Ramon ‘Chunky’ Sanchez in documentary

August 6, 2023 at 12:05 a.m.

Paul Espinosa found a way to connect his background studying anthropology with media — storytelling in film. He started making documentaries in the 1980s at the local PBS station, focusing...

An image from The San Diego Food System Alliance and the "San Diego County Food Vision 2030," a collaborative plan to change the regional food system through goals and objectives that include fighting climate change, increasing wages and improving working conditions for food system workers, land preservation, and increasing access to nutritious cultural foods.

Food security and racial equity go hand in hand, advocates say

July 30, 2023 at 1:01 p.m.

Between them, Anahid Brakke, of the San Diego Hunger Coalition, and Rachel Oporto, of the San Diego Food System Alliance, have personally experienced the ways in which the food systems...

SAN DIEGO, CA - JULY 26, 2023: Grant Brittain, considered a legendary skateboarding photographer and former photo editor of Transworld Skateboarding magazine, sits in front of a painting, originally a photograph, of himself skateboarding in 1974, a portrait he took of skateboarder Mark Gonzales, and his photography book titled "Push", that's filled with images he made documenting skateboarding throughout the 1980's, while in Encinitas home on Wednesday, July 26, 2023. (Hayne Palmour IV / For The San Diego Union-Tribune)

Famed skateboarding photographer shares iconic images in Encinitas

July 29, 2023 at 5:32 p.m.

Sure, J. Grant Brittain could kick and push his way around on a skateboard, too, but he fell in love with the click of the camera that allowed him to...

Famed skateboarding photographer shares iconic images in Encinitas

July 29, 2023 at 1:01 p.m.

Sure, J. Grant Brittain could kick and push his way around on a skateboard, too, but he fell in love with the click of the camera that allowed him to...

Author, professor, and public intellectual Michael Eric Dyson will discuss "A Force for Change" on July 24 at UC San Diego, where he is the featured lecturer in the university's EDI (equity, diversity, inclusion) lecture series.<br/>

Michael Eric Dyson to speak at UC San Diego about maintaining hope for social change

July 23, 2023 at 1:01 p.m.

It was Michael Eric Dyson’s fifth-grade teacher who first planted and watered the seed of understanding his shared worthiness and value as a Black person in America. Despite it not...

Felix Diaz, who founded Drummers Without Borders with his two sons, poses at William Penn Elementary School on Wednesday, July 19, 2023. The program, which started in 2004, introduced elementary students with special needs to music.

Make some noise, and rhythm, with local org using drums to teach and share music

July 22, 2023 at 9:45 p.m.

Felix Diaz believes in the power of sharing music, and the first people to share that gift with him were his parents. From the time he was 4 years old,...

Mario Ceballos, of the POC Fungi Community, holding a Western Jack-o-lantern mushroom (omphalotus olivascens) found on a community mushroom walk in Tecolote Canyon. The POC Fungi Community facilitates mycology-related events and education centered around medicinal and edible fungi, and helping communities of color reconnect to their ancestry and identity through food.<br/><br/><br/>

Un grupo local revela el poder de los hongos para las comunidades de color

July 17, 2023 at 11:41 p.m.

Tuvieron que denunciarlos porque estaba volviendo a ocurrir. Mario Ceballos y los demás de POC Fungi Community se enteraron de que un par de grupos de Nueva York y...

Local group sheds light on power of fungi for communities of color

July 18, 2023 at 6:02 a.m.

They had to call them out because it was happening again. Mario Ceballos and the other of the POC Fungi Community learned about a couple of groups in New...

San Diego authors Lola Adeyemo (left) and Leonora Simonovis discuss their latest books, "Thriving in Intersectionality: Immigrants, Belonging, and Corporate America" and "Study of the Raft" exploring the immigrant experience, at Central Library on July 10.<br/>

No two immigrant stories are the same. San Diego authors share journeys from Nigeria and Venezuela.

July 9, 2023 at 7:28 p.m.

Their journeys to the United States, their experiences since arriving here, and their relationships to their home countries are very different, which is part of the point. Lola Adeyemo and...

San Diego, CA - June 29: General Atomics staff engineer Debra Roy poses for photos at The Elementary Institute of Science (where she is the board president) on Thursday, June 29, 2023 in San Diego, CA. (Eduardo Contreras / The San Diego Union-Tribune)

Powered by science, local nonprofit focused on educational equity and social justice

July 8, 2023 at 1:01 p.m.

Debra Roy has learned a lot in her life from the people who nurtured and encouraged her interests and curiosities. It helped her along the path to earn degrees in...

Martin Leyva is program coordinator of Project Rebound at California State University, San Marcos, a program for formerly incarcerated students on 15 campuses within the CSU system. As a formerly incarcerated student, himself, Leyva also helped start a similar program at Santa Barbara City College in 2008.

Where prison feeds into fear, education gives former inmates freedom

July 2, 2023 at 1:00 p.m.

What began with a lot of fear, blossomed into something beautiful for Martin Leyva and a lot of students like him. After getting out of prison for the last time...

San Diego, CA - June 29: Marcus Belgrove poses for a portrait at Fault Line Park San Diego, CA on Thursday, June 29, 2023. Belgrove is the founder and president of the You Saved Me Foundation, an organization that helps anyone in need by offering a variety of services, such as clothing, food, housing resources, financial literacy and more. (Adriana Heldiz / The San Diego Union-Tribune)

A mother’s legacy of community service, realized in the nonprofit her son founded in her honor

July 3, 2023 at 5:07 p.m.

When Marcus Belgrove lost his mother, Francine Hart, in 2016, he was looking for a way to channel his grief into something positive, founding the You Saved Me Foundation as...

Barbie-Q (left) and Raquelita, the drag personas of Francisco Soto and Xaime Aceves Equihua, are featured in the short film, "Las Reinas de los Cuentos (The Queens of the Stories)," being screened at the Central Library on June 26. The pair participates in drag queen story time events at libraries in San Diego County, using the art form as activism for children's literacy, self-acceptance, and building community.

San Diego drag queens use art form as activism for acceptance, inclusion, and children’s literacy

June 27, 2023 at 1:26 a.m.

For Xaime Aceves Equihua and Francisco Soto, each of their introductions to drag in college started as a way to explore the art form and use it to interrogate the...

Solana Beach, CA - June 21: CHildren's book author Samantha Childs poses for photos with her book "Henri and the Magnificent Snort" at her home on Wednesday, June 21, 2023 in Solana Beach, CA. (Eduardo Contreras / The San Diego Union-Tribune)

A French bulldog, his cute little snort, and a lesson about bullying in new children’s book

June 24, 2023 at 6:18 p.m.

There was a French bulldog named Henri who taught Samantha Childs a lot about love. For years, she had longed for a pet of this breed, so when her parents...

A French bulldog, his cute little snort, and a lesson about bullying in new children’s book

June 24, 2023 at 1:01 p.m.

There was a French bulldog named Henri who taught Samantha Childs a lot about love. For years, she had longed for a pet of this breed, so when her parents...

FILE - Families evacuated from Kabul, Afghanistan, walk through the terminal to board a bus after they arrived at Washington Dulles International Airport, in Chantilly, Va., Sept. 1, 2021. The U.S. airlifted 124,000 people out of Kabul over about six weeks as the American-backed Afghan military and government fell to the Taliban. Since then, around 8,000 people have managed to depart on flights arranged by the State Department or private groups and individuals. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe, File)

Afghan teens adjust to fleeing home country, a new life in the U.S., and graduating from high school

June 18, 2023 at 1:01 p.m.

With the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan in 2021, thousands of Afghans scrambled for a way out of the country as it fell back under Taliban rule. There were...

San Diego, CA - June 15: Seated with some of her art work, executive director and artist Jennifer de Poyen poses for photos at Space 4 Art on Thursday, June 15, 2023 in San Diego, CA. (Eduardo Contreras / The San Diego Union-Tribune)

Local nonprofit making more space for art, even when gentrification tries to take it away

June 18, 2023 at 1:05 a.m.

Twelve years ago, a friend persuaded Jennifer de Poyen to attend an art event at a local nonprofit that would lead to a critical shift in her own life.“I was...

Lizzo performs a medley at the 65th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 5, 2023, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Online abuse of Lizzo illustrates connections of body shaming, race and gender

June 11, 2023 at 1:00 p.m.

People have a lot to say about other folks’ bodies. Arguable, too much to say, especially when it comes to people who are fat. So when it comes to someone...

San Diego, CA - June 08: Trystan Merrick, co-founder of the Queer Mvmnt Fest, poses for photos at the Mengei International Museum on Thursday, June 8, 2023 in San Diego, CA. (Eduardo Contreras / The San Diego Union-Tribune)

Artists get a chance to ‘finally be themselves’ at annual Queer Mvmnt Fest

June 11, 2023 at 3:03 p.m.

Although Trystan Merrick came to dance later in life (at age 18, which is considered “late” in the dance world), they’d found a freedom in the art form.“From a young...

Francisco Morales, who also goes by Francisco Eme, is the director of The Front Arte & Cultura gallery in San Ysidro, run by the nonprofit Casa Familiar. He is performing with Drummers Without Borders on June 10 as part of the Center for World Music's "Music on the Move" series.

Musicos narraran la vida fronteriza a traves de la musica en un espectaculo en San Ysidro

June 5, 2023 at 6:19 p.m.

Una de las formas en que el artista y músico Francisco Morales utiliza el arte es como catalizador de conversaciones. Como director de la galería The Front Arte & Cultura,...

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