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Erika Kinetz left her Arts and Style beat The New York Times and packed her bags for Phnom Penh in 2006. Now she's covering the biggest story at the Cambodia Daily: the trial of accused Khmer Rouge officials.

Few cities in the world are more identified with their subway systems than Paris. The second busiest metro system in the world after Moscow, it carries more than 4 million riders a day on some 16 lines to 300 stations. To ride it is a visual carnival, a living history, an urban love story about the chemin de fer, or "path of iron."

It has been a year since President Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize. Analysts cite some policy successes, but they say the president has a long way to go on a variety of peacemaking efforts, ranging from America's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, to the Middle East peace process, to reducing the threat from nuclear weapons.

The Mills Act is a state law designed to give California homeowners whose homes are designated historic a break on their property taxes if they work to maintain their property to historic preservation

The sculpture of Martin Luther King Jr. intended for a memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., is too "confrontational," according to the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts. The commission's approval is necessary for any monument or memorial in the capital. The commission says the sculpture needs to be reworked.

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal was once a rising star in the Republican ranks, but he stumbled after a lackluster rebuttal to President Obama's first address to Congress. These days, Jindal often sounds like a general, and his war is as much against the federal government as it is with the oil. His persistence is scoring points with voters.

San Diego City Councilman Scott Peters has proclaimed that the city is at the "dawn of a new era." He vowed yesterday to be more accountable to taxpayers and as president of the council under the new

As hundreds of students demonstrated outside, University of California leaders on Thursday voted to approve a 32 percent hike in undergraduate fees, arguing the increase is crucial because of the state's budget crisis.

Officers armed with beanbag guns stood by as hundreds of protesters chanted, marched and even took over a building Thursday on the UCLA campus, where University of California regents were scheduled to vote on a 32 percent student fee increase.

Culture Lust contributor - and veteran Con attendee - Aaron Watanabe offers a second dispatch from the Comic-Con trenches