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Spring is here, so what's cooking? We'll explore the wonderful options of vegetarian cuisine in our monthly food segment.

Coachella may be officially sold out, but there's still plenty of stuff to do here in town. This Culture Lust Weekend, the S.D. Fine Art Society announces the nominees for its art awards, an infamous surf legend visits D.G. Wills, and Dum Dum Girls debut at The Casbah.

Coordinated car bombings in the southern Iraqi city left at least 40 dead and more than 100 wounded. Earlier this year, British forces handed over security duties in the province to Iraqi government troops. A similar handover in neighboring Basra is set for next week, raising fears of more violence in the largely Shiite region.

Ariel Sharon is in stable but serious condition after five hours of surgery that stopped bleeding in his brain. A brain scan on the Israeli prime minister shows significant improvement, a hospital official says.

After years of polluting and contaminating the environment, the American Smelting and Refining Company's notorious copper-smelting plant in El Paso, Texas, will be cleaned up this year. Asarco will also pay $1.79 billion to settle claims for pollution at more than 80 sites throughout the country.

How is our food and agriculture system contributing to global warming? What kind of changes need to be made in our food system to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions? We discuss the importance of sustainable food systems.

When the modern, chemical-reliant system of farming — the so-called Green Revolution of the 1960s and '70s — swept across India's Punjab region, farmers abandoned traditional methods for synthetic fertilizers, pesticides and high-yield seeds. Now, an increasing number of Indian farmers are switching to organic methods.

Iraqi forces are taking a leading role in the country, and U.S. troops could be gone by 2011 if conditions continue to improve. But not all Iraqi troops believe the country's forces are ready to operate independently.

All four members of the U.S. Table Tennis team are Chinese. One of the players spends 11 months of the year practicing in China because she says pingpong in the U.S. "is really no good."

The Pentagon reports that violence in Iraq has dropped sharply since February 2007, when President Bush ordered the deployment of an additional 30,000 soldiers. Despite periods of insurgent violence, the military has said that overall, the troop increase — or "surge" — has been a success.