Joe Rosato Jr.

After 46 years in the same San Pablo Avenue storefront, the future of Oakland's venerable Hand to Hand Kajukenbo Self Defense Center is up in the air like a roundhouse kick.

Behind the storefront is the Don’t Eat Me Collective, an artistic force of four Asian women artists whose cutesy creations fill the shelves and walls.

Nihonmachi Little Friends, a daycare in San Francisco’s Japantown, is marking its 50th anniversary.

The Big Art Loop is an ambitious project to place public artworks all around San Francisco.

The Bay Area’s Algerian population is gearing up as the region plays host to a series of World Cup soccer matches.

San Francisco’s beloved Wave Organ, a strange creation of science and art in the city’s Marina District, is marking its 40th anniversary.

San Francisco will celebrate the installation of two spheres painted by artists as part of the burgeoning American Indian Cultural District.

Joe Rosato Jr. has the story of the descendants of the Anza colonists and the seeds that grew one of the world’s great cities.

Kari Jones and her archaeology team have spent years seeking stories big and small in the Presidio of San Francisco. Joe Rosato Jr. reports.

Even before San Francisco became San Francisco — or really anything more than endless sand dunes — people arrived seeking fortune.