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Manuel Gonzales' ambitious debut novel has a great hook — a top secret organization battling aliens, zombies and evil masterminds — but dry humor and spirited dialogue get lost in a convoluted plot.

NPR's team of pop-culture commentators is live-blogging tonight's Academy Awards. Watch along.

Mayor Kevin Faulconer on Friday restored $5 million in funding for a potential November special election into the city of San Diego's budget for the upcoming fiscal year.

Congressman Darrell Issa, R-Vista, is campaigning hard for the first time since taking office. His challenger, Doug Applegate, is a retired Marine colonel who is running hard after a surprise showing in the June primary.

Farmers are shy; chefs are ferocious. But they need each other to put local food on restaurant tables. A "speed-dating" event in Washington, D.C. matches farmers with chefs, aided by free beer.

There are only 30 of the small porpoise left, due to over-fishing in the waters of the Gulf of California. Efforts to save the vaquita have pitted environmentalists against fishermen.

Firefighters discovered the body near a homeless encampment as they mopped up hot spots in the Poinsettia fire. Eight homes and two 18-unit apartment complexes were destroyed or damaged in the fire.

The collaborative spirit of Black Mountain College — once home to the likes of John Cage and Willem de Kooning — lives on in a theatrical song cycle performed by the Brooklyn Youth Chorus.

The new president has reinstated the "Mexico City" policy first instituted by Ronald Reagan in 1984. And this version is even broader than previous ones.

OCEANSIDE (CNS) - Sprinter light-rail service between Oceanside and Escondido will resume Saturday, transportation officials said today.