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Some attendees and vendors said the pop culture convention benefitted from the absence of studios and celebrities.

Local artist Evan Apodaca is accusing the San Diego International Airport of censorship. The airport often features San Diego art, but it has removed Apodaca’s \“Monumental Interventions\” from its walls. The piece criticizes the military presence in the region. Speaking of art, protesters created street artwork in front of Sempra headquarters to protest fossil fuels. And some Comic-Con attendees weren’t disappointed with the lack of Hollywood at the convention. Many production companies scaled back their presence due to the writers’ and actors’ strikes.

The dorm’s next-door dining hall, Everybody’s Kitchen, is temporarily closed because of a clogged kitchen drain.

Submarine work is on the upswing, and eastern Connecticut — home of Electric Boat in Groton — is steadying for the boom.

The U.S. Navy needs a new fleet of ballistic missile submarines, a $112 billion acquisition its leaders have called “foundational to our survival.”  In the coming decades, those ships will take shape, one by one, inside an enormous new facility at the General Dynamics Electric Boat campus on the Thames River in Groton, with the help of thousands of newly minted welders, ship-fitters and mechanics mobilized from eastern Connecticut and beyond.