It has been selected as one the world’s best films (regardless of category). It has been compared with the best efforts of any past literary endeavor (again, regardless of genre). It has been bent, spindled, folded, mutilated, diced, sliced, and spliced by the likes of everyone from Abbott and Costello to Andy Warhol in all of its 80-year existence, and has more than endured those and other tests of time.

To ensure all voters can vote on election day, Tuesday, Nov. 8, California law provides employees up to two hours off to vote if they do not have enough time to do so during non-work hours. “Every citizen should have the ability to exercise their right to vote,” Secretary of State Alex Padilla said in…

A Sunday, Nov. 20 late matinee showing of “The Blind Side,” part of a free film series at the Rustic called “Seeing Diversity,” drew 82 attendees, including children. Sponsored by A Community Together (ACT), the six-film series is intended to offer windows into the lives of others — often others who are separated out and…