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Delivering news, arts & culture and events for San Diego County as your @NPR and @PBS station. Follow @thefinestsd for the latest arts & culture news!
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Happy #SesameStreetDay!
For over five decades, you’ve taught us how to be kind, curious and inclusive. We're so incredibly grateful for the lessons and magic you've shared that has shaped us all.
Here’s to celebrating a place where everybody belongs ❤️
Tell us in the comments what your favorite @sesamestreet memory is!
10 Nov 2026
Taylor Guitars is one of the world’s best-known acoustic guitar makers, with roots in San Diego and a history of changing how guitars are designed and made. But founder Bob Taylor’s work has taken him far beyond the factory floor. A trip to Cameroon to investigate an ebony sawmill exposed a problem with wood used in his guitars and sent Bob on a decades-long journey involving forests, sustainability and some surprising research.
On a recent episode of The Finest podcast, @juliadixonevans and @anthony_wallace visits @taylorguitars in El Cajon and talk with Bob about the company’s evolution, his approach to guitar making and what happened when he started asking where the wood in his guitars actually came from.
Hear more wherever you get your podcasts.
📸 Mike Damron
10 Nov 2026
"We're in a loneliness epidemic. People are feeling more alone than ever, even though we're more connected than we've ever been ... And I think we're starting to feel the impact of the disconnect."
Are people ditching their phones to make room for IRL connections?
Web Producer Leslie Gonzalez sought to find out as phoneless events gain popularity. What are people really looking for when they put their screens away? So, she went to a Future Is Color (@future_is_color) Listening Room at @mcasandiego to find out.
What she found is that San Diegans aren't necessarily ditching their phones, but rethinking how they make meaningful connections with others, whether through music or holding space to talk about meaningful conversations about identity, culture and community.
Read more at the link in our bio.
📝📸 @leslie_gonzalez_writer
10 Nov 2026
Voice of San Diego CEO Scott Lewis stopped by KPBS last week to break down what we know so far about some of the local races we're watching from last week's election.
Read more at kpbs.org/publicmatters
📸 @jacobaere + Emmy Burrus
09 Nov 2026
#ICYMI on KPBS:
▶️ Haitian boy, 8, detained during scheduled immigration appointment
▶️ Warm, dry weather in store for San Diego County this week
▶️ Court rules against California's first carbon capture project, a key piece of state climate plans
▶️ On wild Cumberland Island, a land swap proposal stirs controversy
▶️ Democrats won big on issues like immigration. But ICE still has the money
All this and more on kpbs.org
09 Nov 2026
Join KPBS and our partners for an in-person event on Tuesday, Nov. 10 at The Grand Ritz Theater in Escondido with Stephen Graham Jones, author of our 2026 One Book, One San Diego adult selection, “The Buffalo Hunter Hunter.”
This historical horror novel is a perfect pick for spooky season, and once you’ve finished it, you’ll want to talk all about it. Who better to discuss it with than the author himself? Enjoy a moderated discussion with Jones, followed by an audience Q&A and book signing.
RSVP at the link in our bio.
01 Jan 1970
Tech giants Meta, Google, and TikTok are suing to block a landmark California law meant to protect kids’ mental health on social media platforms.
The law, one of a slate of bills signed by Gov. Newsom this year to protect kids online, would block social media companies from offering “addictive” features to teens under 16.
Set to go into effect in January, the law defines addictive features as design choices like infinite scroll, autoplay, and recommendations. Those features are blamed in part for a teen mental health crisis, which the law seeks to curb.
The three suits, filed in multiple federal courts in California this week, argue that the law would infringe on the companies’ First Amendment rights. The Meta suit, for example, says that the law undermines the “fundamental principle” of free speech by making the state “the editor, curator, and controller of online speech.”
Google, which owns YouTube, similarly argues in its lawsuit that the law would “frustrate YouTube’s efforts to provide under-16 users with safe, responsible, and enriching experiences on the platform.”
The companies want the courts to block the law before it takes effect.
Read more at kpbs.org
📝 @calmatters
09 Nov 2026
Lincoln High School was bulldozed in 2003. Replaced with a brand new, $129 million campus — at the time the most expensive campus in the San Diego Unified School District.
They lost a lot of athletes during the four-year closure. Coaches had to rebuild legendary Lincoln teams from sparse rosters.
The school hired David Dunn to coach football, former Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver and Morse High School alumnus.
Despite the new campus, he faced budget challenges.
“We're talking $400 to $500 per helmet, $300 for a good pair of shoulder pads, and uniforms, and we can't keep up with some of the other things out there. We’re losing a bunch of kids to the private schools,” Dunn said.
The San Diego Unified School District allocated $98,200 this year for all of Lincoln’s athletics programs, not including coaching stipends, according to spokesperson James Canning. Dunn estimated his team received about $12,000 of that, including travel.
He has to fundraise the rest in an area with some of the lowest household incomes in the county.
The players had so many valid reasons to skip practice, but they didn’t take them.
Wide receiver and cornerback Dareyen Bridges said something that echoed Lincoln alumni across the decades.
“As much as we went through, we was just playing on a chip on our shoulder because we know nobody else was doing this. So we had to go out there and win. Win every game,” he said.
It paid off. Despite all these challenges, the team went all the way to the state championship, and won.
Dunn still wonders if the team fully understands what they accomplished.
“To have none of the stuff available to you — you don’t really know how much this really meant,” he said.
Read more at kpbs.org
📝 📸 @katiehyson23
09 Nov 2026
This Sunday marks the second annual Slow Fashion Day celebration in San Diego.
It's part of a larger, global movement looking to reduce the heavy environmental impacts from the fashion industry and bring greater attention to the clothes we buy and wear — and how they’re made.
On KPBS' Midday Edition, we heard from three local designers (@sewloka @thehomegrownprojectsd @weiyumakesclothes) about their own foray into upcycling garments and how style and sustainability come together at Slow Fashion Day.
Hear more wherever you get your podcasts.
📝 Julianna Domingo
📸 Ryan Rayos
08 Nov 2026
Chances are, at one time or another, most of Lincoln and Morse High Schools' athletes passed through Berry’s Athletic Supply.
Today, @berrysathleticsupply is off Lemon Grove and Lester Avenues. The gear on the shelves has evolved over the last 74 years they’ve been in business — safer helmets, lighter baseball bats — but in the back office, you can still find co-owner John Enright.
He’s been helping Lincoln and Morse athletes, quietly, for many decades.
“Dorothy would say she needed something for a football player or softball player. We would give it to them if they couldn't afford it,” he said. “Just wanted to help.”
By Dorothy, he means Dorothy “Dot” Robinson. She oversaw Lincoln athletics from the ‘80s through the early ‘aughts as the district’s first African American female athletic director. The old gymnasium now bears her name.
She ensured the budget stretched evenly across genders and the school’s many sports, despite inadequate facilities and equipment — like a football helmet a player brought her with a screw coming through it.
When asked what this community’s secret athletic sauce is, she didn’t hesitate.
“Love for the kids, number one. You have to care about kids at a school in order for kids to succeed or even attempt to succeed,” she said.
Read more at kpbs.org
📝 📸 @katiehyson23
08 Nov 2026
Jackie Thompson graduated Lincoln High School in 1972, and ran for the U.S. at the Olympics that same year.
She remembers walking into the stadium in a white pleated skirt and red blazer, overwhelmed by the beauty of all the different countries marching in and the release of white doves flooding the air. She felt the responsibility of representing southeastern San Diego.
“We always wanted to be a credit to our community and shine,” she said.
Lincoln’s track is now dedicated to her. Hers is far from the only name emblazoned on the school.
Most U.S. high schools never produce a professional athlete, but Lincoln and Morse High School, just five miles down the road, have produced numbers that stun: at least 68 NFL, MLB and NBA players between them, more in other pro leagues, and at least three Olympians. They won Super Bowls and MVP awards, Heisman trophies and gold medals. They cross decades, generations, coaches and teams.
Read more of their stories at kpbs.org
📝 📸 @katiehyson23
07 Nov 2026
Join us for a FREE showcase screening of KPBS' newest shows!
We're partnering with Digital Gym Cinema and SD Film Week to bring you an incredible lineup of local films and original series to the big screen, celebrating the vibrant culture, history, and voices of our region.
Date: Sunday, Nov. 8
Time: 2 PM
Location: Digital Gym Cinema (@digitalgymsd)
Here's a look at the featured local programs:
🎾 Love All
Follows nine Filipino American siblings and their grandmother on a journey of family, identity, and breaking tennis barriers from public courts to the US Open. (@lovealldocumentary)
🎺 Young Lions
Explores San Diego's trumpet virtuoso Gilbert Castellanos (@castellanosjazz) mission to pass down jazz music to the next generation through his Young Lions Jazz Conservatory (@younglionsjazzconservatory).
💃 La Mùsica Nuestra
Follows two brothers from Michoacán migrating to the U.S. with their original music, showing how regional Mexican melodies cross borders and connect communities.
🎨 Insights into Art with Alessandra Moctezuma (@almagratia)
Takes viewers inside artists' studios across the San Diego–Baja region.
🇲🇽 Crossing La Lìnea
Traces centuries of encounter, conflict, and kinship on the US-Mexico border, from Kumeyaay lands to today's double wall.
🍴 Home Restaurant: A Recipe for Opportunity
California home cooks fight to legalize selling meals from their own kitchens, transforming home restaurants into a new path for opportunity.
🧵 The Art of Sewing
Chicana textile artist Claudia Rodriguez-Biezunski (@sewloka) turns discarded materials into one-of-a-kind wearable art from her Barrio Logan studio.
RSVP now at the link in our bio.
07 Nov 2026
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