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Crosscurrents
Crosscurrents is KALW Public Radio's award-winning news magazine, broadcasting in the Bay Area Mondays through Thursdays on 91.7 FM. We make joyful, informative stories that engage people across the economic, social, and cultural divides in our community.
Episodes
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1/25 - Super Bowl Security
How Bay Area agencies are dealing with security at Super Bowl 50.Local author Aspen Baker encourages stigma-free conversations about abortion. Tenderloin icon…
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1/21: Best in Show
The viability of virtual reality.An East Bay violinist transitions from classical to jazz.This week's Audiograph mystery sound revealed.
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1/20: Housing Lottery
We drop in on a lottery that determines who gets affordable housing in San Francisco. What are other options for people on the housing hunt?The story of a…
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1/19 - Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf
Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf discusses how the city is changing. Youth Radio on the ingredients that make Oakland so special. Listening to San Francisco’s own…
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1/14: Islamophobia on the rise
Local Muslim women feel the spike in Islamophobia. Achieving the impossible with contortionist Phoenix Paz. This week's Audiograph mystery sound revealed.
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1/13: Zoo Chef
How Oakland could lead the nation in gun control. Meet the specialized chefs serving the entire animal kingdom. An Oakland woman transitioned from circus shows…
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1/12: Water, water
Visit a creek that divides two cities worries neighbors this El Nino season.
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1/6: Backyard Butcher
What it really takes to make your chicken dinner. Novella Carpenter talks about raising animals in her Oakland backyard. A local author discusses a book she…
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1/5: Constructing identities
How much can you tell about someone from the way they sound?What does a person lose and gain when they switch between racial identities?And what if you don’t…
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12/16: Alternative fashion
How fashion has made its way into prosthetic legs. Dressing dapper as a butch woman. Why hundreds of people line up at the San Francisco Opera Costume Shop.
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12/15: Marijuana, the ultimate cash crop
Visit the Emerald Triangle to see how much the marijuana industry has grown.Go behind the scenes of a thriving Mendocino farm, to see how the cash crop has…
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12/14: NUMMI, five years later
When the NUMMI auto plant in Fremont closed five years ago, thousands of people lost their jobs. Some workers had decades of experience — but it wasn’t easy to…
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12/8: Toxic Algae
How the delayed crab season is affecting local fisherman. What sharks are doing differently this year. A young girl's journey through 13th century Britain.
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12/7 - Hole in the Ground
A controversial plant that makes one of the most important ingredients in new construction - cement.An interview with a unique explorer who formed a society to…
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12/3: Making Connections
An art project connects San Francisco residents with refugees from across the world. Comedian Kate Willet is okay with you not liking her jokes. This week's…
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12/2: Playing Games
The fickle fortunes of professional video gamers in the Bay Area.How gaming can become an addiction — and how one local doctor proposes to treat it.A…
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12/1: Racial profiling online
How a social networking site is battling racial profiling in Oakland.What happens when love and traffic join forces.Solutions to workers' complaints about…
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11/19: Notes From A Post Office
A senior Mission District resident faces eviction. A muralist working to change the perception of graffiti. This week's audiograph mystery sound revealed…
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11/18: Facing Change
Proposed curriculum cuts have sparked outrage at a Bay Area college.A lifelong Mission dweller is evicted from his home. Setting climate change to music.
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11/17: Musicians in City
How one woman dealt with being priced out of San Francisco’s Mission District.How a punk rock store in the Mission keeps on kicking.An interview with Josh…
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11/16: Home is where the heart is
A displaced Mission resident who refuses to let go of her old neighborhood.This proposal could bring thousands of affordable housing units to San Francisco…
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11/11: Returning Home from War
Six Stanford students and alumni who fought in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars talk about coming home.
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11/10: Women on Wheels
What bike advocates in the Bay Area are doing to get more women on two wheels.
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11/9: Surveillance in Oakland
The controversy surrounding Oakland’s spy center, and why one tool called the Stingray is on privacy advocates radar.Why the 40-year-old American Indian Film…
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11/5: Cannabis on the ballot
A cannabis legalization ballot measure in the works.Author of Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature.This week's Audiograph mystery sound revealed.
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11/4: 3D Nipple Tattoos
Learn about the art of 3-D nipple tattoos for breast cancer survivors.Why some say the pink ribbon campaign betrays women.Meet the world's first women's…
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11/3 - Behind the scenes with a Bay Area home stager
KALW listeners respond to a plan to clear eucalyptus trees in the East Bay hills.The Specialist sneaks behind the scenes with a professional home stager.A…
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9/23 - Mental health and spirituality
Mental health parity; Afro-Cuban dance; Choreographer Amara Tabor-Smith
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9/21 - REVEAL: Rape on the Night Shift
A KALW News presentation of REVEAL: Rape on the Night Shift.
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9/16 - Power to the People!
The contested sainthood of Junípero Serra; If the Warriors build it, will the fans, the victories, and the passion come too?; Navigating San Francisco’s…
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9/16 - Death, Sex & Money
A special hour-long edition of Crosscurrents featuring Death, Sex & Money's Anna Sale!
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9/14 - Bay Area Beats with Jinho Ferreira
A special edition of Crosscurrents featuring Oakland's Jinho Ferreira!
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9/9 - Another Round
The real history behind Mary Ellen Pleasant, San Francisco's Voodoo Queen; a conversation with Another Round's Heben Nigatu and Tracy Clayton; and The Top 5…
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9/8 - Whales
The hidden afterlife of a sperm whale skeleton; What the health of whales and porpoises can tell us about the health of our bay and ocean; The Audiophiles: The…
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9/3 - Forgiveness
A San Quentin Prison report about forgiveness, Rupa and the April Fishes, this week's Audiograph game answer, and local musicians La Peña Community Chorus.
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9/2 - Native Californians
Bringing different tribes together onto one urban reservation, a sacred Native American site in Emeryville, fighting to keep Native American heritage alive…
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9/1 - Black Church as Therapist
The church as therapy for African Americans, the sushi mosque, and local musician Tia Carroll.
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8/31: Black mental health
The stigma for African Americans in seeking out mental health care.
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8/27 - Musical Healing
Using music to stay off the streets in Richmond, another story from a San Francisco 18 year-old, a Book Report from Adam Johnson, this week's Audiograph game…
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8/26 - Giving Care
Caregivers who lack medical training, another story from an 18 year-old, a Bay Area Beats with Dom Jones, the Rose Garden in San Francisco, and local musician…
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8/25 - Waste
The waste of Keurig single-serving coffee pods, illegal dumping in Oakland, and more stories from 18-year-olds.
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8/24 - Public and Private Art
Poster art on the streets, the Academy of Art in San Francisco profits by violating housing laws, a new series about high school students called "18 in the…
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8/20 - A Visit to The Tonga Room
Unregulated caregivers, The Cadillac Hotel in San Francisco, this week's Audiograph game answer, and local musicians The Goat Family.
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8/19 - Public Education
The state of California's public university system, re-examining how we evaluate public schools, and local musicians The San Francisco Lyric Chorus.
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Crosscurrents: August 18, 2015
Cashing in on police body cameras, the gods of tango, an artist who sings for women caught in the criminal justice system, and local musicians La Mixta Criolla.
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Crosscurrents: August 17, 2015
Robotic seals comfort dementia patients but raise ethical concerns; a conversation with Jerry Kaplan on new robotic technologies; Robots for humanity: how…
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8/13 - Rising Seas, Rising Rents
Rising sea levels, rising rents and what foreigners go through to find housing inthe Bay Area, this week's Audiograph game answer, and local musicians The…
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Crosscurrents: August 12, 2015
Affordable by design: the fight to save one of Silicon Valley’s last mobile home parks; Leslye Corsiglia on Sillicon Valley's lack of affordable housing…
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Crosscurrents: August 11, 2015
A Visit to San Quentin Museum; the price that kids pay when their parents are in prison; and talking about teenagers and comics with author Ariel Schrag.
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Crosscurrents: August 10, 2015
Birthing and parenting: doulas, a home visitation program that helps first-time moms, and the severe issues that pregnant women of color face. Plus local…
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Crosscurrents: August 3, 2015
The quest to be Oakland’s next Youth Poet Laureate; Mortified: An interview with Scott Lifton; introducing Spice-C; and local band We Became Owls.
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Crosscurrents: July 30, 2015
Learning survival skills in the classroom, searching for extraterrestrial life, and this week's Audiograph game answer.
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Crosscurrents: July 29, 2015
Bridging the generational gap in Japantown; a conversation with Janice Nimura, author of "Daughters of the Samurai"; The Hamlin School - a place of tradition…
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Crosscurrents: July 28, 2015
How an architect designs meaningful space; Jaxon Vanderbeken on the eastern span of the Bay Bridge; the unlikely squatters of the old eastern span of the Bay…
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Crosscurrents: July 27, 2015
Living in shipping containers, a co-housing compound in Temescal, tiny homes, and local musician Kenny Washington.
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Crosscurrents: July 23, 2015
The truth about pit bulls; What are Velella Velella?; an Audiograph classic: City Grazing's Goats and Goat Whisperers; and local band Panic is Perfect.
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Crosscurrents: July 22, 2015
A history (and population decline) of Black San Francisco: the 3.9 Collective, Black artists in the city, The Last Black Man in San Francisco, and local…