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By Judith Grether

One of the most moving experiences of my life came in 2004 when I had the opportunity, as a volunteer with Voting Rights for All!, to inform a man long-off parole that as a California resident and U.S. citizen who was not currently in prison or on parole, he could vote. In [...]

By Randy Bayne

Just hours after Barack Obama gave his historic acceptance speech of the Democratic Party nomination for the Presidency, John McCain is set to announce his pick for a vice presidential running mate. The news just came in: McCain has picked Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. She was on no one’s list of [...]

Proposal Includes Added Health Cuts, Temporary Taxes and Cap To Force Cuts in Future
By Anthony Wright
Executive Director of Health Access California
The California Senate is expected to vote on a proposed budget today, Friday, August 29th, at or around 10:00am. The proposal will be a modified version of the budget that Governor Schwarzenegger put forward last [...]

Easy-cook rice, which is sometimes called parboiled or converted rice, is steamed before it is milled. The whole grain is steamed under pressure, which hardens it so that it will not break down during cooking. Easy-cook rice cannot be over-cooked and the grains will always remain separate. But, in general, this rice is considered inferior [...]

There are many different types of rice grown all over the world and each of them requires a slightly different method of cooking. If you use more than one type of rice in the kitchen, you may have to experiment to find the exact proportion of rice, water and cooking time that works for each [...]

Living in a Paul Thierry-designed house that came with the original planting plan hasn’t slowed Naomi Barry down in her quest to modernize her Madison Park garden Backyard Landscaping. Designer Scott Mantz, working in stages over the past six years, has transformed a grassy plot into a sophisticated city garden with European flair.
“Scott gave us [...]

He sees dead people… and they annoy him.

Ghost Town is one of those rare romantic type comedies that doesn’t fall prey to the over use of clichés or sappy sweetness.  It remains smart, funny and sometimes bitingly sarcastic.
 
The premise of Ghost Town falls somewhere between the elements of the recent ‘Over My Dead Body’ [...]

Tom Cruise

Fresh off of his highly praised and succesful turn as sleazy movie producer Les Grossman in the hit comedy of the summer TROPIC THUNDER, megastar Tom Cruise is now in talks with Warner Brothers Studios to star in their upcoming feature film SLEEPER.
SLEEPER, which is being produced by Warner Bros in conjuction with Stars [...]

For the fall season, ABC greenlighted only a handful of new shows: the drama Life on Mars [based on the British, series of the same name]; comedies Scrubs [moving from NBC] and The Goode Family; and two alternative [reality] shows, the Untitlted Ashton Kutcher/Tyra Banks and Opportunity Knocks.

Now the network unveils five new shows: dramas [...]

Years ago she became famous by dancing with Al Pacino, now she’s burning up the TV screen in USA’s hit spy series Burn Notice. I met her last month during a visit to the hot, Miami Set. Earlier we ran interviews with several folks from the show and with it quickly coming to a [...]