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I’m David L. Coddon, and here’s your guide to all things essential in San Diego’s arts and culture this week. If you can spare 50 minutes this Christmas Eve, treat yourself to a warm and cozy musical visit with Jeff Berkley and Calman Hart. The area duo’s ” A Berkley Hart Christmas Special”just makes you feel good. It’s a streaming incarnation of the kind of annual holiday shows Berkley Hart has been performing in the county for over a decade, and if you’re too busy to watch and listen today, it’ll be available through New Year’s Day (tickets $15).

I’m David L. Coddon, and here’s your guide to all things essential in San Diego’s arts and culture this week. Society, indeed a world, cannot be understood in only 10 minutes. But it can, with all its crises and complexities, be placed in powerful perspective. In Alyce Smith Cooper’s and Shammy Dee’s “Spittin’ Truth to Power While Light Leaping for the People,” three short videos composed of storytelling, poetry and music coalesce to make an urgent intergenerational statement about where we are, where we’ve been and where we’re headed. The three-part video experience i...

I’m David L. Coddon, and here’s your guide to all things essential in San Diego’s arts and culture this week. There’s nothing “ironic” about Alanis Morissette’s new video covering John Lennon’s “Happy Xmas (War is Over”). Paying homage to Lennon’s 1971 recording with the Plastic Ono Band and to Yoko Ono as well, the three-minute video depicts Morissette in a “bed-in” with her family while at the same time celebrating the holidays in this most difficult of years. True to Lennon’s original message, Morissette’s “Happy Xmas” also envisions a brighter future. ...