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Shailaja Paik faced prejudice because of her family's Dalit caste and her gender. As a historian she's written ground-breaking books on India's Dalits and is now a MacArthur 'genius grant' awardee.

This year, filmmaker Sterlin Harjo, poet Jericho Brown and disability rights activist Alice Wong are among the recipients of the so-called "genius grants." Each fellow receives $800,000.

The Iranian airstrikes come in the wake of stepped-up Israeli military operations in Lebanon against Hezbollah, a group backed by Iran for decades. Israel says it shot down most of the Iranian missiles.

A bus carrying young students and their teachers on a school trip caught fire in suburban Bangkok, leaving more than 20 feared dead, officials and rescuers said.

Iran is preparing to “imminently” launch a ballistic missile attack on Israel, according to a senior U.S. administration official.

All tickets for the series have been sold, the Padres announced early Monday evening, while a limited number of suites remain available.

In honor of Southwest Asian and North African and Arab American Heritage Month, we will show the film "Caramel" (2008), directed by Nadine Labaki (run time 96 minutes). Nominated for a Cannes Film Festival Caméra d'Or (best first feature film nomination), "Caramel" is a romantic comedy that focuses on the daily lives of five Lebanese women living in Beirut.

The Studio Door Gallery in Hillcrest and guest curator Kevin Winger bring you our April art exhibition. Artistic Alchemy: Abstract Innovations, a group show featuring the non-representational works of eight San Diego-based artists, Ansley Pye, Jamie Kaminscky, Jason Gould, Kevin Winger, Beate Bermann-Enn, Jill Joy, Wayne Hulgin, and Jeffrey Taylor. These talented painters and multimedia creators' innovative and chromatic works will be displayed from April 3rd through April 27th. The opening reception will be hosted on Friday, April 12th, from 6-9 p.m. and is open to the public. The exhibit will be open to all during regular business hours, Tuesday through Saturday. 11 a.m.-6 p.m., starting April 3rd.

Faced with a lack of job offers, Antonio, a passionate but often unemployed actor, takes a job as a teacher for a drama class in a penitentiary. Doubtful at first, he finds talent among the unlikely company of inmates, igniting his passion for theater. Antonio manages to convince the prison warden to cross the prison walls and to stage “Waiting for Godot”, the celebrated comedy by Samuel Beckett, in a real theater… Italian with English subtitles.

In Nevada, 1 in 5 potential voters are Latino. That is a voting bloc with a lot of political power in a state where elections are won by a few percentage points. And campaigns are paying attention.