Cheech Museum News Today

On Feb. 6, San Diego State University welcomed a discussion panel at Montezuma Hall, featuring the De la Torre brothers, two famous Latino glass artists.  The Chicano Art Panel — facilitated by SDSU’s Dr. Bill Nerricio — featured brothers Einar and Jamex De La Torre. The panel discussed the artwork featured at the Cheech Museum...

Columnist David Allen takes Metrolink, subway and buses to visit the art museum. He stops along the way for Korean food.

Columnist David Allen takes Metrolink, subway and buses to visit the art museum. He stops along the way for Korean food.

For the first time in 31 years, the downtown holiday spectacle starts before Thanksgiving.

Columnist David Allen takes Metrolink, subway and buses to visit the art museum. He stops along the way for Korean food.

It’s been 90 years since the first “living pictures” – tableaux vivants – were presented as a novelty during the 1933 Festival of Arts in Laguna Beach. Since then, the Pageant of the Masters has come a long way to become the now world-famous theatrical celebration of art featuring stage illusions, live music, and narration.

Age, fires, disease and lack of shade cover have decimated the non-native palm species, but their regal popularity lives on in hearts, minds and paintings

This weekend in the arts: "C You Saturday" at ICA San Diego North; San Diego Latino Film Festival's closing weekend; "The XIX (The Nineteenth)" at The Old Globe; the de la Torre Brothers at ICA San Diego Central; "Becoming, Always" from San Diego Dance Theater; La Jolla Symphony and Chorus' "'Music of the Spheres'; and an extended run for "The Outsiders."

A for-profit company working to preserve affordable rentals in South L.A. and build housing for homeless people faces criticism from tenant advocates.