This weekend in the arts: "The Pleasure Trials" at Moxie Theatre; Khalid Alkaaby at Sparks Gallery; the San Diego Union-Tribune Festival of Books; "The Planets" at SummerFest; Francis Blume at the Casbah; "Turning Tides" at BFree Studio and more.
Our picks for pop culture, comics, music, art, food, drink and fandom events to get a taste of Comic-Con without a badge plus a few suggestions for pop culture offerings elsewhere in the region.
San Diego Comic-Con runs from Thursday, July 21 to Sunday, July 24, and while a badge is required to get inside, there are tons of activites and events outside.
Andrea Rushing, of San Diego, is a painter and sculptor being recognized by the San Diego African American Museum of Fine Art as one of this year's 'Keepers of the Culture,' recognizing San Diegans whose artistic and cultural work uplifts the region's Black culture. He is being recognized this year alongside Alyce Smith Cooper, Nathan East and Calvin Manson