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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
- Crosscurrents
Crosscurrents: July 21, 2015
Americans' weak grasp of geography and schools trying to change that, documentary theater and audience participation, and local musicians The Oakland East Bay…
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Crosscurrents: July 20, 2015
Richmond Thinking Outside the Box; 3D printed prosthetics are fashion statements for amputees; Storycorps: A soldier returns from Iraq; and local band the T…
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Crosscurrents: July 16, 2015
The Mission reacts to a hate crime against an LGBT mural, Richmond residents worried about oil refinery projects, this week's Audiograph game answer, and local…
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Crosscurrents: July 14, 2015
Pink Saturday and gay activism in the Bay Area, modern protest music, and local musicians The Coup.
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Crosscurrents: July 13, 2015
Lack of diversity in children's books and Bay Area people trying to change that, a Book Report from Kevin Smokler, and local musician Ed Masuga.
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Crosscurrents: July 9, 2015
Documenting San Francisco's rapid changes with photographs, a playwright on her new play "Black Virgins are not for Hipster," and this week's Audiograph game…
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Crosscurrents: July 8, 2015
When SF needs money it holds an auction, creating sound at Pixar, making sausage, and local musicians The Seshen.
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Crosscurrents: July 7, 2015
Facebook Show! Specifically, how the tech company relates to the city (East Palo Alto) and to the people around it.
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Crosscurrents: July 6, 2015
Grocery-inspired art, eating weeds on the sidewalk, ugly fruit, plus local musicians Everyone Is Dirty.
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Crosscurrents: July 2, 2015
The Grateful Dead Show! 2015 marks the 50th anniversary since the legendary band formed.
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Crosscurrents: June 29, 2015
A special from Mills College student reporters: "Waking up from the American Dream: Stories about young immigrants in America." Plus local musicians One Armed…
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Crosscurrents: June 25, 2015
Two men and a baby: Navigating parenting and partnership in a two-dad family; Three Cheers for San Francisco’s Official Cheerleaders; and this week's…
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Crosscurrents: June 24, 2015
Everything you always wanted to know about Bay Area minimum wage, but were afraid to ask.
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Crosscurrents: June 23, 2015
The homeless in San Francisco, going back to prison in The San Quentin Prison Report, a StoryCorps on the Bay Area version of the march to Montgomery during…
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Crosscurrents: June 22, 2015
Garbage show! Enacting policy to control littering, collecting bottles as a job, what it means to be zero waste, and local musician Ila Cantor.
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Crosscurrents: June 18, 2015
A girls club in San Francisco's Bayview district, the Frameline Film Festival, this week's Audiograph game answer, and local musicians The Bernal Hill Players.
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Crosscurrents: June 17, 2015
After Warriors' championship win, a celebration in the streets; Where kids take flight in Bayview; Old Skool Cafe addresses new school problems; StoryCorps…
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Crosscurrents: June 16, 2015
A neighborhood history tour aims to strengthen Bayview-Hunters Point; The Upshot: Fire on the 57 Bus in Oakland; and Bay Area Beats: Antique Naked Soul.
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Crosscurrents: June 15, 2015
Punk Show! San Francisco punk from the beginning of the movement. Maximum Rock 'n' Roll, Penelope Houston, SF band Flesh World, and local musicians Fang.
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Audiograph Special
Welcome to Audiograph – the Bay Area’s sonic signature. Each week, we play you a sound recorded somewhere in the Bay Area, ask you to tell us what it is, and…
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Crosscurrents: June 10, 2015
Support systems in the aftermath of police shootings, SF rapper DaVinci, Belva Davis, and local musicians Underwoman and the Believers.
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Crosscurrents: June 4, 2015
The Spiritual Edge: At a ranch in Cazadero, it's sheep, spirituality, and science; A rancher fights for her farm; and this week's Audiograph answer revealed!
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Crosscurrents: June 3, 2015
Teaching teens how to deal with tough community problems, misguided loyalty from the San Quentin Prison Report, what it's like to be released from a life…
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Crosscurrents: June 2, 2015
What's the fastest way to commute in the Bay Area? Bike, car, or public transportation? Plus teenage suicide down the peninsula, and local musician Kally Price.
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6/1: 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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Crosscurrents: May 27, 2015
Did Robert Louis Stevenson have the world's weirdest honeymoon?; "Scurrilous and scandalous": subversive humor at the SF Public Library; and two Book Reports…
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Crosscurrents: May 26, 2015
A show all about Northern California's delta: its agriculture, economy, and the people who live there.
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Crosscurrents: May 21, 2015
A special edition of Crosscurrents with guest-host Matt Martin!
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Crosscurrents: May 20, 2015
Being on lockdown in San Quentin, "passing" in terms of how one speaks, and reading braille.
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Crosscurrents: May 19, 2015
Comedy Show! Comedians with Disabilities, a comedian inside San Quentin, standups, you name it we go it!
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Crosscurrents: May 14, 2015
Sports show!!! The Spanish-language broadcasters of the San Francisco Giants, the Giants ballpark organist, and the Ice Guy.
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Crosscurrents: May 12, 2015
A special How To Do Things edition of Crosscurrents featuring guest host D'Arcy Drollinger! -- Witching to find water; How to be transgender in prison; A visit…
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Crosscurrents: May 11, 2015
Andrew Leonard talks about his new article for San Francisco Magazine, "Long Live The Empress"; keeping memories of Chinatown alive and kicking; Local author…
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Crosscurrents: May 7, 2015
Mother's Day! An Iranian-American playwright and her movie-star mom, a Story Corps with a woman and her biological and foster mother, a flamenco dancer passes…
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Crosscurrents: May 6, 2015
An arts enter that's helping people with disabilities express themselves, getting on the job training as a young person with a disability, and a man with down…
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Crosscurrents: May 5, 2015
Everything you always wanted to know about menopause but were afraid to ask.
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Crosscurrents: May 4, 2015
Local reactions to the death of Freddie Gray; The San Quentin Prison Report: Expanding minds behind bars; a conversation with documentarians Annelise…
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Crosscurrents: April 30, 2015
"Reveal" takes us into the hidden dangers of daycare; "Techsploitation," an examination of labor trafficking in the US; this week's Audiograph mystery sound…
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Crosscurrents: April 29, 2015
What it really takes to make your chicken dinner; a Conversation With urban farmer Novella Carpenter; The Book Report: Natalie Baszile; and local band Talley…
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Crosscurrents: April 28, 2015
Vaping, the medical uses of psychedelic drugs, a Bay Area Beats with Phillip Greenlief, and local musicians Felsen.
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Crosscurrents: April 27, 2015
Drought show! Dry farming, the history of how California was settled and how its population distribution is exacerbating our present drought, and local…
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Crosscurrents: April 23, 2015
The Armenian Genocide, and The San Francisco Treat--Rice-A-Roni--is actually from Armenia! Plus local musicians Bang Data.
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Crosscurrents: April 22, 2015
Is Oakland’s DIY music scene in serious trouble?; Nurturing the creative seed: the artwork of Josefa Vaughan; and Meanwhile with Wendy MacNaughton.
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Crosscurrents: April 21, 2015
Why are teachers leaving Oakland?; why teacher pay needs to increase at the lowest paying districts; two My Favorite Teachers: Herb Kennedy and Miss Grace…
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Crosscurrents: April 20, 2015
The Panama-Pacific International Exhibition, palm trees in California, and local musician George Long.
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Crosscurrents: April 16, 2015
The Navigation Center: The first look inside San Francisco's radical attempt to end homelessness; "King Lear," as told by the fool; Audiograph's Sound of the…
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Crosscurrents: April 15, 2015
How to solve the Bay Area's housing development issues; what it'll take to get SF's public transportation to improve; a Bay Area Beats with Howell Devine, and…
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Crosscurrents: April 14, 2015
Fraternities and sexual assault, being black, brown and queer, rediscovering the divine after leaving the church because of one's sexual orientation, and local…
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Crosscurrents: April 13, 2015
Live from the Tenderloin, sheriff blotter prose, the tangled tale of Haight Street; and San Francisco band Rin Tin Tiger.
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Crosscurrents: April 9, 2015
Police surveillance in Oakland, today's Audiograph game answer, and local musician Judi Jaeger.
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Crosscurrents: April 8, 2015
A Mexican-Punjabi community in California, how different Middle Eastern cultures cook falafel, a Bay Area Beats on Briget Boyle, and local musicians UC Alumni…
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Crosscurrents: April 7, 2015
Life after the fire; This is Home: Journalism comes to the stage; Investigating Richmond's neglected public housing complexes; and local composer Hyo-shin Na.
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Crosscurrents: April 2, 2015
Being a Jew in America, finding love, this week's Audiograph game answer, and local musicians The Friction Quartet.
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Crosscurrents: March 31, 2015
Green Jobs 2.0, the aftermath of the nuclear fallout in Fukushima, and local musician Moe Staiano.