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Culture Lust rounds up some of San Diego's best, most interesting, and most surprising art stories from the weekend so you've got plenty of material for this week's water cooler chatter.

After a little more than two years with the network, provocative Fox News personality Glenn Beck has announced he'll be leaving this year. The press release was polite, but we now know the answer to the question of whether it's possible to be too incendiary even for Fox News — yes it is.

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Shock jock Don Imus has been removed from his regular slot on cable television. The president of NBC News announced that cable's MSNBC would no longer carry the simulcast of Imus's CBS radio show. The move came after Imus recently made racist comments on-air about the Rutgers women's basketball team.

A year ago, President Obama signed the Serve America Act, which creates volunteer opportunities and triples the size of the AmeriCorps national service program. But the money is just starting to trickle out.

NPR has been sharply criticized for terminating the contract of news analyst Juan Williams for remarks he made about Muslims. Williams appeared on Fox's The O'Reilly Factor Thursday night to respond to NPR's decision. Fox has extended Williams' contract with the network for three years for $2 million.

The San Diego River Park Foundation says it expects to reach a milestone at a river clean-up event Saturday. The group estimates it's removed one million pounds of trash from the San Diego River over the past four years.

Pentagon Tells Recruiters to Accept Gay Applicants, but San Diegans Rejected

Barack Obama collected enough delegates Tuesday to claim the Democratic Party's presidential nomination. The Illinois senator is making history as the first black presumptive presidential nominee of a major party. But Hillary Clinton has yet to concede defeat and says she's open to filling the vice presidential slot on the party's ticket.