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The high-profile art fair Art San Diego takes place this weekend, but there's also gems to be found on San Diego stages. We'll get some weekend recommendations from our guests.

Minnesota has a Democratic governor, two Democratic senators, and Democrats control both houses of its Legislature. So it may have come as no surprise when President Obama went there earlier this week to rally support for his proposals to reduce gun violence.

This week marks the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council, or Vatican II, which opened the Catholic Church's window onto the modern world. Among other things, it gave a larger role to lay people and updated the liturgy. But the changes provoked a backlash, the effects of which are being felt even today.

John Paul II will be beatified in Rome on Sunday, bringing him one step away from sainthood. But some Catholics question whether the late pope is being elevated a bit too fast. They say special care is needed — especially because he presided during the clerical sex abuse scandal.

Pope Benedict XVI said Monday he lacks the strength to fulfill his duties and on Feb. 28 will become the first pontiff in 600 years to resign.

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The film opens in the not too distant past of Harlem, 1983. Hector Negron (Laz Alonso) is watching a John Wayne World War II movie on TV. As Negron watches we sense he's wondering where all the Hollywood films are about the role African Americans played in the war. "We fought for this country too," he says. But then at work the next day this aging postal worker just a few months shy of retirement pulls out a World War II German Lugar and shoots a male customer to death. Negron has a squeaky clean past as well as a Purple Heart and since he refuses to say anything, the cops are clueless as to his motivation for the crime. Adding a layer of complication is the fact that the cops find a 450-year-old artifact worth millions of dollars in Negron's closet. A neophyte reporter (Joseph Gordon-Levitt in a completely superfluous role) tries to pry the story out of Negron and this prompts a flashback.

Elizabeth Blair finds that presidential impersonations came and went and then came back again, but it's not always easy to find just the right angle on a sitting president — or a challenger.

Sunday, July 25, 2010 at 12 p.m. on KPBS TV

If anyplace is affected by a government shutdown, it should be San Diego County, with its 50,000 government workers and about 100,000 military personnel and their families as well as hundreds who work for defense contractors.