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We have brunch ideas for your Mother's Day as well as beer and beach ideas for your Saturday. And we can't forget an event where you can drive a Mars rover! We'll get weekend recommendations from two culture scouts in the know.

The 21-st annual Women's Resource Fair is aimed at giving low-income, abused, homeless or recovering women the information they need to move ahead in life. Free services and resources are being offered by more than 70 organizations all day Saturday at San Diego's Golden Hall.

What's been learned from the recent earthquakes in Chile and Haiti? And, what do local residents need to do to prepare for the possibility of a large earthquake in our region? We speak to a local geology professor, and a representative from the San Diego County Office of Emergency Services.

The Virginia State Police said that they are likely to close the two crime scenes at Virginia Tech, having collected all the evidence they can. They have done hundreds of interviews and gathered mounds of other evidence. But Seung-hui Cho's multimedia manifesto didn't provide the insights they had hoped for.

A batch of new schools is under construction this week in the San Diego Unified School District. Officials say the campuses will help to alleviate overcrowding in the inner city. KPBS Reporter Ana Tin

How will state budget cuts affect schools in San Diego, and throughout California? We speak to the California State Superintendent of Public Instruction about the cuts that schools will face, and about the overall health of the state's education system. We also talk to O'Connell about the free summer lunch program that's being offered at local schools.

A federal judge in San Diego has ruled it is ok to keep the alleged head of Tijuana's Arellano Felix drug cartel in maximum security. The judge ruled jail conditions for the defendant and witnesses in

opens with a woman frantically gathering her things and her young son and fleeing from some real or imagined terror. We soon find out that the woman, Pilar (Laia Marull), is fleeing from an all-too-real abusive relationship with her husband Antonio (Luis Tosar). She takes refuge with her sister Ana (Candela Pena) who's about to marry a Scotsman. Ana helps her find a job at a museum and offers her emotional support. But Pilar's mother urges her daughter to return to her husband. Antonio also pleads his case, insisting he can change. He leaves her gifts at her work and points out that he's begun therapy.

Three years into their marriage, Judith Fox's husband, Dr. Edmund Ackell, was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Over the course of the next ten years, Fox watched as the man who used to perform surgery, fly planes, and run universities, forgot how to turn on the coffee maker or place a phone call. Fox is a photographer and decided to document her husband's daily struggles with Alzheimer's. She's collected those images in a book called "I Still Do: Loving and Living with Alzheimer's." Fox joins us to talk about the book and her role as wife, care-giver, and photographer.