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Here are some of the best things to do in San Diego County this weekend, including several arts festivals, classical music, food events, concerts and more.

This weekend in the arts: Music, dance and avant garde performance at Intervals; Glen Wilson, June Edmonds and April Banks at BFree Studio; LITVAKdance's "Terrain"; Adams Avenue Unplugged; Mission Fed ArtWalk; WOW Fest; San Diego Book Crawl and "Trino."

Two new bookstores are added to the roster of independent bookstores celebrating Independent Bookstore Day with a three-day "crawl" for local book lovers this weekend.

More than a dozen San Diego County stores are participating in annual event, which includes the three-day San Diego Book Crawl

The San Diego Book Crawl is an annual, multi-day event bringing together eleven of the region's independent bookstores, including Libélula Books and Co., a new Barrio Logan shop.

From KPBS:It's Book Crawl time again! All your favorite independent bookstores in San Diego will join forces for the weekend, beginning on Independent Bookstore Day on Saturday, Apr. 30, 2022, lasting all weekend and into Monday, May 2. The Susie Ghahremani/boygirlparty commemorative pin this year is, as usual, cute — a raccoon snuggling a stack of books — and is available while supplies last by spending a minimum of $5 at eight of the participating bookstores. A new addition this year:...

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Hooked, a bookstore/coffee shop/wine bar opening in Lansing in the spring, joins a growing number of independent bookstores in Greater Lansing.

Print When it comes to book sales, the COVID-19 pandemic has been both a blessing and a curse. Authors and publishers rejoiced at the fact that book sales were up in 2020 by 6 percent, according to NPD Bookscan, but independent booksellers and neighborhood bookshops saw their sales dip according to the American Booksellers Association. Some stores even reported sales down 40 percent compared to 2019 numbers. So while it seemed like the pandemic drove people to buy more books, most of those book...