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Most films that deal with border issues focus on immigrants and immigration along the California or Texas state lines. But the new film "Sin Nombre" (opening April 3 at Landmark's Hillcrest Cinemas) shows us how people living deeper in Mexico and Central America get to that border. The film played last month at the San Diego Latino Film Festival and just about everyone I spoke to at the fest was recommending it. I spoke with first time feature filmmaker Cary Fukunaga at the festival just before he presented the film to a full house.

In Marisha Pessl's dark, cinematic new novel Night Film, a disgraced journalist takes on a mysterious filmmaker who seems to be a hybrid of Roman Polanski and Dario Argento. It's an over-the-top summer mystery, full of twisty plotting and cinematic imagery.

A stretch of southbound Interstate 15 in the North County was closed today as part of an investigation into a backyard explosion that sent one man to a hospital and another to jail.

San Diego is seen as the "refugee capital" of the United States by some. Refugees here seek representation in upcoming redistricting.

In a new study, UC-San Diego researchers said sea level rise is returning to the North American coast after a 30-year break.

The mother of a 14-year-old boy suspected of working as an assassin for a Mexican drug cartel pleaded guilty today to a federal charge of being a deported alien found in the United States.

Across Latin America, movies and soap operas have glamorized the lives of drug lords and their gangs. A new Mexican movie, Miss Bala, takes a realistic look at the fear that grips many Mexicans today.

Man's interference with Colorado River floods that used to regularly flow to the Salton Sea may have "stopped the clock'' on a regular series of big earthquakes, setting the stage for a megaquake.

Iran has apparently rejected a nuclear deal with the United States, Russia and France that it initially agreed to. Iran is saying it wants another arrangement, but Iran's leaders insist they are not reneging on the deal. The U.S. and Europe aren't so sure.

George Lakoff is a professor of cognitive linguistics from UC Berkeley who studies how metaphor is central to human thinking and politics. He has argued that liberals have had difficulties winning el