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ABC News has launched a daily online video feature called The Quick Fix, aiming to capture a younger audience. But the project's quirky stories and edgier tone have ruffled some feathers at the network.

The California Coastal Commission recently told San Diego to upgrade its main sewage treatment facility. The city's third request for a waiver from the federal Clean Water Act was rejected late last week.

Charlie's first week at the public high school finds him getting his head dunked in the toilet, receiving a beating from the school bully, and pretty much ignored by everyone else. But Charlie (played with ferocious energy by Anton Yelchin) has a resilient spirit. He's determined to make friends and find a way to be popular at school. But the route to popularity that he chooses is an unconventional one.

The male focus has not been obliterated -- Nicholas Meyer has crafted the script and Ben Kingsley as Kepesh is still center stage - but it comes at us less as a first person narrative. In a sense, we are seeing Kepesh's male point of view filtered through the female perspective. So the object of Kepesh's desire, young Consuela (Penelope Cruz), is less objectified. The result is a more balanced tale of love, lust, desire and the specter of mortality.

The Writers Guild of America voted to end its 14-week strike yesterday, which has cost the economy millions of dollars. St. Petersburg Times TV/Media critic Eric Deggans explains the latest details.

Found only in China, the giant panda is threatened by extinction, and researchers in southwestern China have devoted themselves to saving the species. The May 12 earthquake in Sichuan province has exacerbated the challenges facing the already fragile population.

Chargers training camp is officially underway, and the team is hoping to be a Super Bowl contender again this year. On the other hand, the Padres have one of the worst records in baseball, and are looking for silver-linings to an already gloomy season. We speak to Lee "Hacksaw" Hamilton about the top sports stories in San Diego.

On the bright side, the event was over quite painlessly in less than thirty minutes. On the bad side, the improvised quips were painful but writers for awards shows don't generally offer anything much better. Awards show may honor writers in best screenplay but they certainly don't showcase writers excelling at their craft. So while I hope the writers' strike ends soon and with the writers getting the fair treatment they are demanding, it's not because I want to see a three-hour, badly written Oscar telecast.

Filmmaker Todd Field scored an indie hit with

Beowulf is based on the Old English Epic poem (yes the one that many of us struggled through in junior high or high school) supposedly written around 700AD.