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Doctor Sleep is Stephen King's sequel to his 1977 smash hit The Shining, about a haunted hotel. Sleep follows Danny Torrance, the troubled son of Shining protagonist Jack, as he gets drawn into a new battle against evil. Reviewer Alan Cheuse says King "is still scaring the hell out of me."

A pro-government rally filled the streets of Damascus Friday with high school bands and families on what was dubbed National Unity Day. But across Syria, anti-government protests continued.

Residents have many reasons to celebrate Chicano Park.

Frank Deford puts aside his gripes this week to pay tribute to the poem by Ernest Lawrence Thayer, first published in the San Francisco Examiner 125 years ago June 3.

Culture Lust contributor Dave Walters was an the ardent fan of the recently deceased Captain Beefheart, an influential musician whose music was an acquired taste. Walters saw Beefheart perform in a magical show at SDSU in 1978. He offers this primer on the music of this one-of-a-kind artist who died last month.

Memorial Day ceremonies in San Diego County are scheduled to continue today with a service at the Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery, an event at the Alpine Community Center and a ceremony at Mt. Soledad Veterans Memorial featuring a tribute to two former Navy SEALs killed in the attack on a U.S. consulate compound Benghazi.

A beer festival in Tijuana, a musical based on a popular blog, and a band from Columbia have our attention this weekend.

Nearly six months after a gunfight between rival gangs left nine people dead in and around a restaurant in Texas, CNN has obtained a video of part of the shootout.

Dentists rejoice. San Diego has joined the fluoridation band wagon. The city water department says it’ll turn on the pumps tomorrow and start adding fluoride to local tap water.

Untested cancer drugs are often hyped by journalists, doctors and biotech firms, a survey finds. Dressing up unproven medications with shiny words can inspire false optimism among patients.