Last week the California Supreme Court rejected a request by a GOP-supported coalition (known as FAIR - Fairness & Accountability in Redistricting) to invalidate California's newly drawn state senate maps.
Sam Benjamin's often humorous memoir chronicles a search for honesty, beauty, the naked and the raw in sexual cinema, but finds something else entirely.
KCET visited this year's Dia De Los Muertos festival at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery to take in the sights, smells and to talk to some of the participants about their ceremonial altars.
The animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) said it will sue SeaWorld for allegedly holding orca whales as slaves "in violation of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution."
Those who made contributions in support of Proposition 8, a successful ballot measure which defines marriage as only between a man and a woman, unsuccessfully asked a federal court to exempt them from state campaign disclosure laws.