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There's fierce competition for your vote in the San Diego city attorney's race. Four people are challenging incumbent Mike Aguirre, and they all agree on one thing: They really don't like Mike Aguirre

After U.S. military officers in Afghanistan accidentally burned Qurans while disposing of other Islamic texts, two American military officers were killed and protests broke out throughout the country. The violent responses have raised concerns about the U.S. strategy.

It's time to look back over the year in popular music. According to our guest, Chris Cantore, the best music in 2009 was dominated by indie rock bands like Grizzly Bear, the Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs, and Phoenix. Cantore will tell us about his favorite album releases of the year.

For years now, radio drama has been totally eclipsed by film and television. However, every now and then, the art form pops up to remind us of the ways in which radio can spark the imagination. The MFA playwriting students from the acclaimed theater department at UCSD have written four very contemporary radio dramas and we will hear them and talk with the scribes.

A Danish 'Twin Peaks'... Well Sort of...

San Diego CityBeat editors Kinsee Morlan and Troy Johnson share their picks of the best entertainment options in San Diego this weekend.

Nobody captured modernism better than architectural photographer Julius Shulman and he photographed buildings and homes right here in San Diego. This Friday, "Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman" opens at Landmark's Ken Cinema and immediately following the 7:30pm screening, you can see a slide show of his San Diego work, courtesy of Modern San Diego.

Scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey say the flow rate from the blown-out well is at least twice as much and possibly five times as much as estimates cited by BP. The oil giant says engineers won't know until at least Thursday afternoon whether the latest attempt to plug the leak is succeeding.

"Satan's Playground," a new book by SDSU Professor Emeritus Paul Vanderwood, chronicles the rise and fall of the gambling industry that developed in and around Tijuana, particularly the Agua Caliente Resort and Casino, as prohibitions against alcohol, horse racing, gambling, and prostitution swept the United States.

Imagine back more than 100,000 years for a moment, when dinosaurs roamed Southern California. That's just where local scientists were taken in Carlsbad when they gazed at pre-historic fossils of a Mas