Crosscurrents

The music you're hearing is by Robin Yukiko of San Francisco. She credits her voice training and piano style to her father, who drilled her on music mechanics every day on their trip home from school.

She'll be playing on  Thursday, February 16 at the Hotel Utah in San Francisco, beginning about 8pm. 

Rebuilding community, one family at a time in Bayview Hunters Point; What should be done with youth prisons?: An interview with James Bell; and local singer Dana Carmel.

Juvenile crime in California has been steadily declining for several decades, reaching an all-time low in 2010.

By: Beth Accommando

Once again George Lucas cannot leave well enough alone and we shall be assaulted by a 3D version of “The Phantom Menace” in theaters this weekend. But movie geek Jamie Benning has been toiling away on a series of fan-made documentaries that remind us why we fell in love with Lucas’ films in the first place.

Yes. I am a “Star Wars” geek. And I have a love/hate relationship with George Lucas. Take Jar Jar Binks… Please. (Apologies to Rodney Dangerfield and his wife.)

San Francisco’s Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood has higher rates of poverty, unemployment, and violence than any other part of the city. But its relative geographical isolation – it’s cut off by the 101 and 280 freeways – can make those issues all but invisible to residents of other neighborhoods.