The Handlery Hotel hosts a national poetry showcase Friday, complete with an open mic and a Kennedy Center-tested headliner.

The milestone lineup runs Oct. 13-18 with red-carpet tributes, studio premieres, and a Solana Beach afterparty for a good cause.

Las Cafeteras' Hector Flores and Denise Carlos lead a live-music retelling of Ritchie Valens' short life at La Jolla's Epstein Family Amphitheater.

The Pasadena-born fair debuts in San Diego this weekend with indigo-dyeing, seashell crafts, and a youth vendor market.

Summer Wyman's Surf and Turf Art Club now shares a Del Mar campus with tennis courts and a coding lab, drawing on lessons from the great masters.

The Museum of Photographic Arts at SDMA is the only West Coast stop for this Cecil Beaton retrospective, running through early 2027.

Four new musicals get their first public readings at La Jolla’s Epstein Family Amphitheater as 200-plus theater-makers gather to shape the next Hamilton.

Free admission, fry bread, and a 5K fun run headline three days of dancing and drumming at the Barona Indian Reservation.

OnStage Playhouse premieres Salomón Maya's Mensa this week, even as its Third Avenue lease runs out in 2027.

David I. Reynoso built more than 75 hyper-engineered circus costumes for the Tony-nominated tour, and now it lands in his own hometown.

The East Village landmark will keep its brick facade and grain silo, but Mission Brewing's taproom closes for good on August 31.

Genesis Opera Theatre brings Mozart's classic comedy to San Marcos's 200-seat Bornemann Theatre, with proceeds supporting TERI Inc.'s programs for adults with disabilities.

Raúl Prieto Ramírez and Maria Teresa Sierra, married with a 3-year-old daughter, still argue over music at rehearsals.