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The movement towards buying locally-produced fresh food is inspiring the menus of many San Diego restaurants. On this month's Food Hour, we'll hear how San Diego growers and restaurant chefs are teaming up to create great new recipes.

Critic Juan Vidal has an appreciation of the hymn — its rhythm, sonorous language, discipline and structure. "No matter where you stand on heaven and hell," he writes, "there is power in a hymn."

For your weekend: a handful of comedies on San Diego stages, two new restaurants, and St. Patrick Day celebrations that start early. We'll learn more from our trusted scouts, Erin Chambers Smith and Jim Hebert.

From a white-knuckle Wall Street chronicle to a modernized Shakespearean war story, the films on David Edelstein's best-of-the-year list tell solid stories new and old.

Airs Saturday, January 8, 2011 at 3 p.m. on KPBS TV

The State Department hopes patriotism will compel American civilians to leave their comfortable lives in the U.S. for far-flung locales and potentially dangerous work: saving states the U.S. classifies as "failing." Critics say the program will be seen as nation building.

Marketplace Money looks at the everyday decisions of San Diego's poor and the stresses they induce.

Rescuers probed the rubble for sounds or movement in a rush to find anyone buried alive more than 48 hours after an earthquake hit western China. Many survivors shiver through a second night outdoors as they waited for tents to arrive in the remote, mountainous region.

Lynn Eldredge has had six different jobs since he was laid off from a tractor manufacturer in 2000. Fourteen years later, he makes the same amount of money at his current job that he did back then.

Police in Oakland began clearing out a weeks-old encampment after issuing several warnings to Occupy demonstrators.