OAKLAND, CA-ANGELA V. WATSON of OAKLAND, CA from LAUREL SPRINGS SCHOOL GIFTED EDUCAITON ACADEMY (formerly a student at OAKLAND SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS SCHOOL OF DANCE chaired by Reginald Ray Savage and currently training with SAN FRANCISCO BALLET SCHOOL under the direction of Patrick Armand SAN FRANCISCO BALLET SCHOOL Director and Helgi Tomasson Artistic Director of SAN FRANCISCO BALLET COMPANY and SAN FRANCISCO BALLET SCHOOL, one of the world's best ballet companies, has received a 2021 NATIONAL YOUNGARTS FOUNDATION (YoungArts) award in Ballet.

Love has everything to do with it, Tina Turner! And Ali McGraw, Not Sorry, but contrary to "Love Means You Never Have to Say You're Sorry...Not Sorry, but Love Has to Say 'Sorry!" True as that is as ! Corinthians 13 clarifies, congratulations to Ryan O'Neal and Ali McGraw. "Love Story" would make for a good flick over the Valentine's Day Weekend. Have your Kleenex handy, though! The 50th Anniversary of "Love Story!" How time jettisons away...we go!

As the 100th Anniversary of the San Francisco Public Defender's Office, is celebrated, SF Public Defender Staff will kick off their centennial with an only-in-San-Francisco book release & panel discussion of Jeff Adachi's new book published posthumously.

The Board of the Mission Neighborhood Centers, Inc. has announced its new Chief Executive Officer, Richard M. Ybarra. The appointment is effective March 1. Ybarra succeeds Santiago (Sam) Ruiz who recently retired after 40 years as CEO.

San Francisco Mayor London Breed gives a statement of condolences upon news of the death of former Reagan-era Secretary of State George Shultz at age 100..

Passion for family fuels the San Francisco Black Film Festival legacy as a new generation joins the worldwide African Diaspora affirming festival founded by late Arts Impresario, Ave Montague.