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NEW TEEN CENTER
THE OLD BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB IN CATHEDRAL CITY WILL SOON BE A NEW TEEN CENTER, AND IT'S LOCATED ADJACENT TO THE CURRENT BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB IN TOWN.   SCOTT ROBINSON, THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE CLUB, SAYS CULINARY PROGRAMS WILL BE OFFERED, ALONG WITH VIDEO PRODUCTION COURSES AT THE NEW TEEN...

WHERE'S THE RITZ
    THE LONG AND WINDING ROAD TO THE OLD RITZ CARLTON RESORT IN RANCHO MIRAGE, IS NOT JUST THE ONE YOU DRIVE YOUR CAR ON TO GET TO THE HOTEL ON TOP OF FRANK SINATRA DRIVE.   IT'S BEEN A LONG AND WINDING LEGAL ROAD FOR THE CITY WHICH IS TRYING TO WORK WITH THE DEVELOPER TO GET THE...

WEEKEND WEATHER
COACHELLA VALLEY WEATHER FRIDAY MAY 18TH THROUGH MONDAY MAY 21ST.     FRIDAY....MOSTLY SUNNY, LIGHT WINDS.  HIGH OF 93.   FRIDAY NIGHT.....CLEAR. LOW 67.   SATURDAY....MOSTLY SUNNY.   HIGH 101.   SATURDAY NIGHT....CLEAR.   LOW OF 70   ...

VOTER REGISTRATION
NEXT MONDAY, MAY 21ST IS YOUR FINAL DAY TO REGISTER TO VOTE IN THE JUNE 5TH PRIMARY.   VOTER REGISTRATION FORMS ARE AVAILABLE AT THE REGISTRAR OF VOTERS OFFICE IN RIVERSIDE, AND AT SOME LIBRARIES AND POST OFFICES, AND CITY CLERKS OFFICES.   TODAY IS FURLOUGH FRIDAY IN THIS AREA.  ...

I-W PAY
    IN ADDITION TO 6 STATEWIDE PROPOSITIONS ON THE NOVEMBER BALLOT, VOTERS IN INDIAN WELLS WILL HAVE ANOTHER ISSUE TO WEIGH IN ON.   SHOULD CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS GET RETIREMENT BENEFITS?    THE CITY COUNCIL HAS DECIDED TO TOSS ITS FATE TO THE VOTERS, APPROVING A MEASURE...

27 BUSTED
27 PEOPLE HAVE BEEN ARRESTED BY THE COACHELLA VALLEY VIOLENT CRIME TASK FORCE.   60 OFFICERS TOOK TO THE STREETS OF THE DESERT THURSDAY MORNING AND AFTERNOON, SERVING WARRANTS ON PAROLEES, PROBATION VIOLATORS, AND GANG MEMBERS.   THE MAJORITY OF ARRESTS WERE MADE IN DESERT HOT SPRINGS,...

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National News

Camp David and Thurmont: A mountain shared, a world apart
The bright green earth sinks under each step. A cold stream murmurs through carpets of moss. Birdsong lilts down from the hickory oak canopy. Ahead, past sweet-smelling logs in the throes of decay, a sign hangs on a wire to signal the boundary between America the beautiful and America the off-limits. Read full article >>

‘A nation of Osteens and Obamas’
If a foreign visitor --a modern-day Alexis De Tocqueville, let’s say -- wanted to understand the state of religion in America today, a good place to start would have been Nationals Park in Washington D.C. three weeks ago, where the megachurch pastor Joel Osteen preached to a sold-out house. Osteen’s bipartisan reach and global influence makes him one of the most plausible contemporary heirs to Billy Graham. But unlike Graham, his message tends to be doctrine-free and relentlessly upbeat, rarely mentioning sin and regularly suggesting that God wants nothing more than to shower worldly blessings on believers. Read full article >>

In North Carolina after Amendment One, ‘Let the wild rumpus start’
“And he sailed off through night and day and in and out of weeks Read full article >>

Does Mona Eltahawy’s approach hurt women?
Mona Eltahawy’s Foreign Policy cover story “Why Do They Hate Us” triggered an avalanche of passionate responses. But few have addressed how her arguments impact indigenous Arab women’s rights activists or the article’s primary audience-- how American policy makers-- can best support the cause of gender justice in the Middle East. Read full article >>

Andrew Sullivan on ‘coming out’ to God
Andrew Sullivan made a splash this week with his Newsweek cover story calling President Obama “the first gay president,” writing that: “Barack Obama had to come out of a different closet [than gays]. He had to discover his black identity and then reconcile it with his white family, just as gays discover their homosexual identity and then have to reconcile it with their heterosexual family. The America he grew up in had no space for a boy like him: black yet enveloped by loving whiteness, estranged from a father he longed for (another common gay experience), hurtling between being a Barry and a Barack, needing an American racial identity as he grew older but chafing also against it and over-embracing it at times. Read full article >>

Best commencement speeches never given
Ever heard about the commencement address that Kurt Vonnegut gave at MIT in which he started out by saying, “Ladies and gentlemen of the class of ‘97: Wear sunscreen”? Actually, he never gave that speech. Read full article >>

Georgetown U., GWU draw commencement controversies
As Kathleen Sebelius addressed Georgetown University graduates Friday morning, the secretary of health and human services felt the wrath of antiabortion activists when someone shouted “murderer!” in an otherwise quiet ballroom. Read full article >>

At Georgetown, Sebelius urges ‘conversation and compromise’
Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius told some Georgetown University graduates Friday that a “process of conversation and compromise” is required when religious issues intersect with policy decisions. Read full article >>

Bristol Bay mining would harm Alaska salmon habitat, EPA analysis says
Large-scale mining operations in Alaska’s Bristol Bay will harm habitat for wild salmon, the Environmental Protection Agency concluded in a draft assessment Friday, but agency officials said they had not decided whether they would move to block a proposal for a major gold and copper mine there. Read full article >>

Paralyzed woman moves robotic arm with her thoughts
A paralyzed Massachusetts woman picked up a bottle of coffee and sipped from it by moving a robotic arm with her thoughts, researchers reported Wednesday — the latest advance in the race to restore movement to people who have lost control of their muscles. Read full article >>

ABCs of The High School Challenge
1. How does The High School Challenge work? We take the total number of Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate and Advanced International Certificate of Education tests given at a school each year and divide by the number of seniors who graduated in May or June. I call this formula the Challenge Index. With a few exceptions, public schools that achieved a ratio of at least 1.000, meaning they had as many tests in 2011 as they had graduates, were put on the national list at washingtonpost.com/highschoolchallenge. We rank the schools in order of ratio, with the highest (19.522) achieved by the BASIS school in Tucscon. Read full article >>

How standardized tests are affecting public schools
Florida’s standardized testing program is being misused and has “severely impacted student learning,” according to a new white paper that says that school districts in the state are required to give as many as 62 tests a year to students. Read full article >>

SpaceX launch set for Saturday
The Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to take off at 4:55 a.m. on Saturday, May 19, on a mision to dock at the International Space Station. The launch has been rescheduled multiple times as scientists at SpaceX and NASA have worked on modifications since the April 30 test launch. Read full article >>

The Facebook IPO to Hollywood’s impending demise: The week that was in innovation
It’s time — yet again — for the weekly wrap-up of stories on Ideas@Innovations and elsewhere on the Web. It was an interesting week, covering everything from the Facebook IPO (read the latest from the Post’s Hayley Tsukayama), Hollywood's impending doom, JPMorgan’s missing billions, a misplaced bias against humanities students in Silicon Valley, the Instagram Industry and the merging of moguls in Silicon Valley and Hollywood. Read full article >>

The biggest challenge ahead for Facebook after the IPO
“A million dollars isn’t cool. You know what’s cool? A billion dollars.” So goes the famous line from “The Social Network,” when Napster founder Sean Parker (played by Justin Timberlake) begins to educate a young Mark Zuckerberg about Facebook’s potential. And by that measure, at least, Zuckerberg is about to be very, very cool. The Facebook CEO’s stake in the company is expected to be worth some $20.2 billion on paper, according to estimates by the Wall Street Journal, if the stock’s IPO value ends up at the high end of the expected range. That’s not just Internet start-up rich. That’s George Soros rich. Read full article >>

The Rolodex that redefined power
You’ve probably never heard of Pattie Sellers. But Warren Buffett has. And so have Sheryl Sandberg, Oprah Winfrey and Indra Nooyi. It’s an enviable list, really. They’re among the many who’ve joined Sellers at the Most Powerful Women summit. This year, from a slightly raised stage, she looks out once more across table upon table of some of the world’s most prominent female executives, artists and philanthropists. It’s the opening dinner of Fortune magazine’s annual summit on a surprisingly chilly October evening on the Southern California coastline. The 400-plus guests sit under a big, white tent on a cliff perched over the gray, choppy Pacific. Inside, the Ritz-Carlton has pulled off something that looks a lot like prom: purple sequined tablecloths and settings of pink roses illuminated by purple and pink floodlights. Read full article >>

Google’s Eric Schmidt expounds on his Senate testimony
A week after Google Chairman Eric Schmidt testified before the Senate Judiciary antitrust committee, he was back in California at the company’s headquarters in Mountain View. There on September 29, Schmidt — who until this April had served as the company’s longtime CEO — sat down with Washington Post On Leadership editor Lillian Cunningham and reflected on his first time testifying before Congress, what Washington understands and doesn’t understand about regulating technology, and where the connections and disconnects are between the Hill and the Valley. Read full article >>

Cyber Monday sales change game for UPS drivers
Quick, hide this from the children if they’re under the age of 7. It is Cyber Friday and — ho-ho-ho — Santa is making his rounds. You may know all about Cyber Monday, which comes right after Thanksgiving weekend, when online hawkers try to sell a lot of stuff by offering free shipping. Cyber Friday comes four days later. That’s when a billion and one packages begin getting delivered. Read full article >>

National Guard deployment on U.S.-Mexico border has unclear results
HIDALGO, TEX. — President Obama’s decision last year to send 1,200 National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border may have been smart politics, but a growing number of skeptics say the deployment is an expensive and inefficient mission that has made little difference in homeland security. Read full article >>

Assessing the art of the Occupy movement
The Occupy movement is largely an impromptu one, and its camps in McPherson Square and nationwide are dotted with handmade signs, bearing information both political and practical. But this is the age of computer design, when slick images are easily produced and generally accepted. As the online gallery at occuprint.org reveals, the Occupy movement has more than a few skilled graphic designers in its informal ranks. Read full article >>

John Wall back to basketball after learning more about business
In the 18 months since the Washington Wizards drafted him No. 1 overall, John Wall has received an education in the business of basketball that surpasses anything he learned in the online courses he is taking this fall toward his business management degree at Kentucky. Read full article >>

At the bottom of the world, a controversial search for cosmic leftovers
The geologist who conceived it called it the poor man’s space program. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) fumed that it was a waste of taxpayer dollars. Meteorite hunter Ralph Harvey simply calls it work. For the 35th year, the United States is mounting its annual campaign to gather space rocks from the wind-hammered icefields of Antarctica. Read full article >>

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Sports News

Lakers rebound to edge OKC, cut lead to 2-1
Kobe Bryant didn't miss on 18 free throws and scored 14 of his 36 points in the fourth quarter, and the Los Angeles Lakers rallied late for a 99-96 victory over Oklahoma City in Game 3 on Friday night.

Verlander loses no-hit bid in 9th, blanks Pirates
Justin Verlander came within two outs of his third career no-hitter, allowing only Josh Harrison's ninth-inning single in the Detroit Tigers' 6-0 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Friday night.

Yanks' Pettitte beats Reds for 1st win since 2010
Yankees 4, Reds 0

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Entertainment News

'Community' hires new showrunners
Creator Dan Harmon becomes consulting producer; new duo are alums of ''Aliens in America,'' ''Just Shoot Me''

'Supernatural': What just happened?
SPOILER ALERT! If you've seen the season 7 finale, get Sandra Gonzalez's take on it, then share yours

TV upfronts: Best/worst decisions
Most/least deserved cancellations? Surprising snubs? Wise/puzzling scheduling moves? Our picks!

12 board games as movie/TV pitches
''Battleship'' made the leap, so why not ''Hungry Hungry Hippos,'' ''Jenga,'' or ''Candy Land''? We've got posters!

27 most shocking TV deaths
''Grey's Anatomy'' joins list of series to bump off a character we didn't expect to lose (SPOILER ALERT!)

'Magic Mike' guys: EW portraits
Channing Tatum, Matt Bomer, Joe Manganiello, and Matthew McConaughey man up for EW photo shoot

24 sexiest TV scenes: Your picks!
Things have been getting steamy on ''Scandal''; its leads join our photo album of hot TV hook-ups

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Movie Reviews

Movie Review: Battleship's Got Game on the Big Screen
Review in a Hurry: With a roster of hotties—Taylor Kitsch, Alexander Skarsgård, and Rihanna—versus ginormous space crafts, Battleship is an alien invasion flick with too earnest...

Movie Review: What to Expect When You're Expecting Doesn't Deliver Laughs
Review in a Hurry: Inspired by Heidi Murkoff's mega-selling manual, uneven What to Expect profiles five couples whose lives are upended by pregnancy. What to expect when you're watching:...

Movie Review: The Dictator Is Full of Silly Skits, but Doesn't Fully Translate
Review in a Hurry: After months of Sacha Baron Cohen showing up as the character he plays in The Dictator—even ash-bombing Ryan Seacrest on the red carpet—the actual movie is here. The...

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