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California Secretary of State Shirley Weber authored legislation creating the first-in-the-nation task force to study and recommend reparations. She’s now made it clear who should be eligible. Meanwhile, the two Tijuana journalists murdered this month had sought help from Baja California’s journalist protection program. The help never came. Plus, Digital Gym Cinema makes its comeback as a satellite screen for the Sundance Film Festival.

This weekend in the arts: solo piano works by visionary women composers; the San Diego Symphony performs Rachmaninoff, Berlioz and Still; a Hill Street Country Club virtual art and poetry conversation, photojournalism at OMA and Sundance Satellite.

Preview weekend includes shorts, features, filmmakers and female metal band members from Lebanon.

The pandemic has created enormous challenges for 9-1-1 operators. Hundreds of these first responders are in San Diego this week to learn about new technology, and to find solutions to the issues the industry is facing during the pandemic. Meanwhile, veterans became eligible for a new kind of benefit last year - called “presumptive” benefits , these are post-service medical conditions that arose because of military service. But the agency is facing a huge backlog of claims. Plus, how a comic ...

There is no end in sight to the Republic Services labor strike and a public health emergency has been declared in Chula Vista as trash cans overflow. And – a few weeks ago we had a story about the use of surveillance tools in border cities like Chula Vista. Now, in part 2 of this KPBS investigation, we report that privacy and technology experts are concerned about the use of Chinese made surveillance drones by the Chula Vista police department. Plus, KPBS Cinema Junkie Host Beth Accomando’s ...

See fabrics where "nature and tradition are woven with technology."

Meet The Glamorous Victim, The Lady Sleuth. The Redeeming Angel and more as Cinema Junkie explores the diversity of women in film noir.

Meet the Glamorous Victim, the Lady Sleuth and more as Cinema Junkie concludes a discussion of the diverse women of film noir

Attendees share their experiences at the scaled back pop culture convention.

Looking beyond just the usual suspects of the femme fatale for Noir-vember