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Our roundup of art and culture to discover in San Diego this month: Visual art, music, theater, dance, outdoor festivals, books, film and more. Up first: "Border Craft," Matt Devine, "All the Places We Belong," Picnic at the Park, "We Are Continuous," "Places We Love" and the San Diego Bird Festival. -
The bestselling author of "The Joy Luck Club," "The Kitchen God's Wife" and "The Bonesetter's Daughter" explores her deepening love for birdwatching in "The Backyard Bird Chronicles," an illustrated memoir-meets-nature journal. -
Pulitzer winner Cristina Rivera Garza offers new perspective on gender violence through a murder mystery and poetry. -
Formerly enslaved people would placed ads in newspapers hoping to find lost children, parents, spouses and siblings. Historian Judith Giesberg tells the stories of some of those families in a new book. -
In the new children's book "Jawara's Journey," a boy learns how many generations of Africans in the diaspora have kept their traditions alive. Proceeds for the book will go to Altadena fire relief through March. -
Live Fast won France's top literary prize in 2022. Brigitte Giraud's haunting book revisits the death of her husband in a motorcycle crash 20-odd years earlier. -
This year brings memoirs from more than a dozen famous names — from Brooke Shields and Dawn Staley to Bill Belichick and Lionel Ritchie. -
"Jane Austen's Bookshelf" spotlights eight women writers, largely lost to history, who influenced the English novelist. -
This weekend in the arts: A new zine fest in Chula Vista; the power of drawing; installation art in Escondido; chamber music inspired by visual art; "3 Summers of Lincoln"; plus live music picks and more. -
A spokesperson for the Kennedy Center says the threat targeted Shen Yun, a touring dance troupe that is banned in China, because it is associated with the religious group Falun Gong.
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