The Jazz Heritage Center brought you the best in 2011. Help launch this great San Francisco Arts organization into a great New Year. The best is yet to come in 2012 and you can help make it happen. Read all about it.

Get a $2,000 discount for your private jet flight. See Jim Nelson's letter. It's time to fly high and now with a discount.

Tis the Season to Be Sharing...Fa La La La La La La La La! Wright Enterprises Community Spotlight shares the latest community news including an opportunity for you to share with the San Francisco Conservation Corps as it changes young lives for the better. Also Read about how the Lorraine Hansberry Theatre is sharing entertainment and an opportunity for nonprofits, businesses and individuals to raise funds for their projects. Give a look!

Media Activist, Jackie Wright of Wright Enterprises engages media representatives and community leaders in a short open letter to get their read on the sudden dismissal of key staff at KGO Radio Station and the sudden change in the stations format. With Democracy dependent on a "free press," can corporate media companies provide information needed to protect the democratic process when the focus is the bottom line? Will corporate media moguls be concerned about "fair and balanced" reporting or rather debits, credits and the balance sheet?

Get all of the latest news from Asian Week's Community Calendar. From the Asian Holiday Bash to Komichi Silver Bells, the Parol Lantern Parade and more, Read it all in the Asian Week Community Calendar.

As schedules allow, A.J. Hawk, Aloe Blacc, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Jerry Rice, Harry Belafonte, RC "Alley Oop" Owens, Roger Craig, Willie Mays, Danny Glover, Willie Brown, Vernon Davis, Frank Gore, Shabaka Henley, Bryant Young, Sinbad, George Lucas, Jimmy Jean-Louis, Eriq Ebouaney, Kevin Epps, Vida Blue, and ALL OF YOU are invited to bring an unwrapped new toy to "The Historic Sam Jordan's Bar," 4004 Third Street, San Francisco from 5 p.m.-8 p.m. on Wednesday, December 7. By your toy in Bayview Hunter's Point. From African American Shakespeare to Asian Week Foundation and beyond...Take a look at the community news.

BAYCAT Open House- 12/8/11-Come and celebrate another semester of inspiring youth-produced media, and the WORLD PREMIERE of Zoom In 22 "Paws Wings and Tails (Oh My!)"This semester's Zoom In explores the theme of animals in the city. Stop by for fun, food and entertainment! If you can't make it to the event tune-in LIVE here for our live-streaming broadcast! If you're busy tomorrow night you can still show your support for BAYCAT by helping us reach our goal of raising 1,200 Facebook fans and $12,000 by January 1, 2012!

From the Desk of Mary Ratcliff--"The intrepid little Bay View newspaper (sfbayview.com) is worth a read if you want to hear from hot spots around the world where Black people are taking on their oppressors. It's humbling - and exciting - to be trusted by Congolese and Rwandans.." Get the details of world news and local news and events. Click the Headline.

Dr. Amos Brown, President of the San Francisco NAACP suggests we read John Diaz' editorial in the San Francisco Chronicle that was printed, December 4, 2011--"The quiet exodus of African Americans from S.F.

Opening Night December 10th--Lorraine Hansberry Theatre (LHT) will continue its 31st season with the world premiere of Rejoice! A Musical Celebration, by Ron Stacker Thompson and Nolan Shaheed. A musical retelling of the biblical nativity story, the book is written by Ron Stacker Thompson, who is best known to Bay Area audiences as the founder of the Oakland Ensemble Theatre, but has gone on to write for films such as Hoodlum, Sister Act 2, The Cemetery Club, Deep Cover, A Rage in Harlem, Funny Valentines, Split Second and America's Dream. Songs for the production are by Nolan Shaheed, who has worked with such names as Marvin Gaye, Natalie Cole, Stevie Wonder, Diana Ross, Phil Collins, and Anita Baker.