Celebrating 27 Years of the San Diego Film Festival

Celebrating the San Diego Jewish Film Festival’s 27th Season, presented by the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, JACOBS FAMILY CAMPUS, will run February 8-19, 2017. On February 13th, as part of the 27th San Diego Jewish Film Festival, an outstanding group of twenty-three short films from around the world will be presented in a day-long program beginning at 10:00 am to 10:00 pm at the ArcLight La Jolla Cinemas in La Jolla, CA.

The next beer frontier: the moon

If a team of UC San Diego engineering students has its way, we may soon be sipping Sea of Tranquility Saison and Waxing and Waning Wheat Ale. The undergraduates at the Jacobs School of Engineering hope to answer an age-old scientific riddle: Can beer be brewed on the moon? Finalists in the Lab2Moon competition, the local scholars want to test the viability of yeast in space, equipping an Indian spacecraft with tiny canisters of unfermented beer, known as wort, and yeast.

Protesters take control of Mexican border crossing with US

Protesters took control of vehicle lanes at one of the busiest crossings on the U.S. border Sunday to oppose Mexican gasoline price hikes, waving through motorists into Mexico after Mexican authorities abandoned their posts. Motorists headed to Mexico zipped by about 50 demonstrators at the Otay Mesa port of entry connecting San Diego and Tijuana, many of them honking to show support.