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It's the holidays, so everyone can begin drinking, eating, and going to the theater. We'll talk holiday cocktails, plays, and a few new restaurants.

Lobbying dollars are flying over a legislative provision that would make it easier for FedEx Express workers to unionize. FedEx says the measure is a bailout for UPS. But UPS counters that its rival will do anything to maintain its special interest.

Guy Ritchie's new "Sherlock Holmes," starring Robert Downey, Jr., disappoints. But there are other options, like Arnaud Desplechin's 2008 movie "A Christmas Tale," currently available "On Demand" through the Sundance Channel.

In September, 4-year-old Maya Chamberlin was diagnosed with a rare blood disease known as HLH. Her chances of survival depend on finding a suitable bone marrow donor. But the Chamberlin family's search for a match is more difficult because Maya is of mixed race.

There are close to 90 documented gangs in the city of San Diego. More than half of those gangs are in the mid-city and south eastern communities. In the first part of an ongoing KPBS series called San Diego Gang Stories, we focus on how police and residents in these neighborhoods are conducting curfew sweeps to save young lives.

In Holland, Mich., where President Obama visited the site of a new electric car battery plant, an antique Allis-Chalmers steam engine is displayed as a symbol of the city's industrial heritage. Now Holland is shaking off its rust and trying to build a future in what Michigan's governor calls the "Green Belt."

Jason Statham hits the road again as the professional driver in Transporter 3 (Lionsgate)

We continue our election coverage on KPBS with a discussion about San Diego's Congressional races. Incumbents seem to have a big lead in all five local races for Congress. We'll focus on the candidates in San Diego's 50-th and 51-st districts.

The holiday season could be tough for San Diegans looking for work. Federal benefits for the long-term unemployed expired this week, and it doesn't look like Congress will extend them in the near future. What impact will the expiration of benefits have on San Diego? Is it harder to find a job in San Diego than other parts of the nation? And, how might the local job market change in 2011?

We talk to San Diego author Linda Patterson about her self-published book, 'Hate Thy Neighbor: How the Bible is Misused to Condemn Homosexuality.'