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This morning we feature Sarah Crowell, Program Development Director and Artistic Director, for Destiny Arts Youth Performance Company and a youth company member, MC “Vee”, who is completing his final credits at Emilano Zapata Street Academy. Visit www.myspace.com/vturf and www.destinyarts.org. Destiny is 20 years old this year and they are celebrating with a concert performance, 12/13, 7 PM at McClymonds High School in West Oakland. The program is called: Love in Action. In the 8:30-9 AM segment we have cast from Thick Description's revival of their 1994 hit, "The American Play," by Suzan Lori-Parks, directed by Tony Kelly. This is part of a celebration of the theatre's 20th Anniversary season. The play is up 12/12-12/14 8 p.m. Visit www.thickhouse.org Michael Morgan, artistic director and conductor of the Oakland East Bay Symphony and Cortez Mitchell, member of the 12-male voice, voice orchestra, The Chanticleers, which has performances throughout the San Francisco Bay Area beginning tonight in Berkeley, at