Tag: Art

  • Artist Margaret Noble Explores Growing Up in 1980s City Heights

    An artist who grew up in the east San Diego neighborhood of City Heights has turned her childhood experience into an art installation. It’s called 44th and Landis and it features the sounds and images of an urban community during the 1980s, at the dawn of video games and hip hop. KPBS arts reporter Angela…

  • Preview: SD Latino Film Festival To Highlight Chicano Voices for First Time

    Each year, the festival focuses on filmmakers from a single country abroad. But a lack of Latino faces on American television and movie screens spurred festival organizers to focus their lens closer to home this time. With Latinos making up the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. population, their stories are wide-ranging and vital to understanding…

  • Tweet City Heights: KPBS Snags Former Voice of San Diego Reporter

    By Megan Burks KPBS Snags Former Voice of San Diego Reporter Adrian Florido announced yesterday he’s joining the news staff at KPBS. He’ll report for Fronteras: The Changing America Desk, which collects stories from public radio stations about immigration and life in border cities. Florido was laid off last week from voiceofsandiego.org, a Speak City…