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By Whitney Bauck for The Guardian.Broadcast version by Edwin J. Viera for New York News Connection reporting for the Solutions Journalism Network-Public News Service Collaboration Chef Joseph Yoon is used to people reacting negatively to his creations: he’s watched a child cry when she realized the pumpkin cake in her mouth was made with cricket powder, seen a grown adult spit out his bug-laden bite of food, and endured racist online comments aimed at him for suggesting that scorpions or mealworms are worth eating. But none of that seems to faze Yoon. ...

April is the fifth annual Arts, Culture and Creativity Month in California, and advocates for the arts are promoting diversity in the arts workforce and celebrating recent policy wins. In Los Angeles, the County Board of Supervisors just voted to join Arts for LA's Creative Jobs Collective Impact Initiative, which aims to create 10,000 living-wage jobs in the state's creative sector by the year 2030. Gustavo Herrera, CEO of Arts for LA, said the idea is to rebuild the arts economy after COVID. ...

A venue at Transfer Co. Food Hall in downtown Raleigh usually used for private parties and business lunches now is home to live music and ticketed concerts.

“A low-key foundation of hip-hop is hyper localism: How do we represent where we’re from?” Regina N. Bradley says.

The trials and tribulations of getting a local music festival off the ground.