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The blandly named Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility is huge, squatting over some 700 acres of Otay Mesa about twenty minutes south and east of KPBS and a stone’s throw from the colonias and maquilidoras of Tijuana. After visiting the prison, producer Pat Finn wrote this essay about her impressions.

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I'm looking to buy another prop replica sword or light saber at the Comic-Con... & I'm taking donations

After weeks of up to four World Cup matches a day, the players and fans are catching their breath before the quarterfinals begin on Friday. Mark Starr, a columnist for GlobalPost, brings us up to date on who's still standing and what the big upsets have been so far.

The brilliant cast of the Brit-com Spaced, now on DVD in the US (BBC Warner) If you only buy one DVD this year make it Spaced . Seriously, it's funny.…

San Francisco celebrates Barry Bonds Day in the wake of the slugger's Tuesday night home run, which broke the career home-run record set by Hank Aaron in 1974.

A jury in San Francisco has convicted Gregory Reyes, the former chief executive of Brocade Communications Systems, of conspiracy to defraud shareholders. The executive of the San Jose-based high-tech firm could face years in prison and millions of dollars in fines.

Robert Scott, owner of

4. Guerilla Warfare and Sneak Attacks: The Politics of Representing War in Films and Comics of the 1950s - with Rocco Versaci (Thursday, 10:30am, Room 30AB)

Hall Overton was a tall, modest, Midwestern, chain-smoking college instructor of classical music at Juilliard. But at the Jazz Loft, he was living, teaching music and playing piano with greats like Thelonious Monk.