Ken Cinema News Today

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The biggest stories on readers’ minds this year: housing, homelessness and cost of living.

San Diego's micro-cinema has diverse offerings for this weekend and beyond.

New La Jolla Historical Society exhibit pays tribute to iconic landmark of 60s and 70s.

County Supervisor Jim Desmond wants to close the border. He says Hamas fighters could enter the country illegally, but Middle East experts say those concerns are preposterous, unhinged and irresponsible. In other news, California utility regulators are looking ahead to the winter to see if natural gas prices will spike like they did last year. Plus, we have details on arts events happening in San Diego County this weekend.

The Oceanside International Film Festival returns this week to the Brooks Theater in Oceanside for five days of film screenings and special events.

Beginning in the 1940s, the Ken Cinema brought foreign and independent films to San Diego. But the single-screen landmark has been vacant for the past two years and has just been sold.

San Diego’s most recent storm arrived late Monday night, bringing more rain and high winds to the region, with another storm forecasted to hit Thursday. Then, for decades, cases of police misconduct in San Diego have been protected by some of the strictest privacy laws in the country. But new state law could lead to greater transparency on the issue. Also, 2022 was an eventful year for immigration policy. KPBS spoke with experts frustrated with President Joe Biden’s inability to roll back so...

As of the first, California and the city of San Diego’s minimum wage increased. Then, KPBS border reporter Gustavo Solis spoke with experts frustrated with President Joe Biden’s inability to roll back some of the Trump-era immigration policies. Plus, the building that housed Ken’s Cinema has been sold.

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