Crosscurrents: December 24, 2014
Beyond the pale of Parkinson’s Disease; A young man's music transforms personal loss and also public spaces. Plus, "Socks."
Dec 25, 2014•26 min
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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.
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Episodes
Crosscurrents: December 23, 2014
"Trafficked" - Youth Radio's special investigation of child sex trafficking in Oakland.
Dec 24, 2014•26 min
Crosscurrents: December 22, 2014
The Intersection: Four Stories from One Bayview Corner.
Dec 22, 2014•27 min
Crosscurrents: December 18, 2014
Black folks in nature, the history of African Americans in the West, this week's Audiograph game answer, and local musicians The Hipwaders.
Dec 19, 2014•26 min
Crosscurrents: December 17, 2014
Remembering those homeless in San Francisco who have died, a photographic book on SF's homeless, John Steinbeck's recently discovered short story, and local musicians The Jugtown Pirates.
Dec 18, 2014•27 min
Crosscurrents: December 16, 2014
Why are there anti-Muslim ads on our public buses?; Bay Area Africans feel, and fight, Ebola stigma; and Kitka brings the music of Eastern Europe to the Bay.
Dec 17, 2014•27 min
Crosscurrents: December 15, 2014
The San Quentin Prison Report: One Night Gone Wrong; preserving culture with music; Care to join me in a Mint?; and San Francisco group Foxtails Brigade.
Dec 16, 2014•26 min
Crosscurrents: December 11, 2014
This week's Audiograph game answer, the Greenhouse Project in SF's Portola district, and local musician Joe Goldmark.
Dec 12, 2014•26 min
Crosscurrents: December 10, 2014
The latest on CCSF's fight to keep its accreditation, video game art, a museum in Oakland commemorating classic video games, the social advantages to gaming, and local musician Georges Lammam.
Dec 11, 2014•37 min
Crosscurrents: December 9, 2014
A conversation with Oakland Unified School District's new Superintendent Antwan Wilson; how one Oakland school is getting kids to class; and local pianist Debbie Poryes.
Dec 09, 2014•27 min
Crosscurrents: December 8, 2014
Robotic seals comfort dementia patients but raise ethical concerns; a conversation with Jerry Kaplan on new robotic technologies; Robots for humanity: how technology is changing the life of one Bay Area man; and The San Francisco Girls Chorus.
Dec 09, 2014•34 min
Crosscurrents: December 4, 2014
The art of tombstone engraving, making a play about the crack epidemic, this week's Audiograph game answer, and local musicians The SF Bach Choir.
Dec 05, 2014•25 min
Crosscurrents: December 3, 2014
Corporal punishment, Oakland Interfaith Choir, a rapping principal in San Francisco, tearing down the old Bay Bridge, and local musicians Scary Little Friends.
Dec 04, 2014•27 min
Crosscurrents: December 2, 2014
Mission High and Bi-Rite Market partner in a neighborhood divided; browsing Sky Maul; Imagining the giant hippos, monstrous sharks, and sea beasts of an underwater Silicon Valley; and local band Be Calm Honcho.
Dec 03, 2014•27 min
Crosscurrents: December 1, 2014
PrEP: Could a once-a-day pill end the HIV epidemic in San Francisco?; Unearthing Secrets of the Organ Trade; StoryCorps: Navigating patients to spiritual health at Highland Hospital; and local singer Beth Marlin.
Dec 02, 2014•27 min
Crosscurrents: November 25, 2014
Guns! A Visit to the Richmond Rod and Gun Club; Jay Allison's reluctant relationship with guns; and how one Bay Area city is causing national controversy with local gun control.
Nov 26, 2014•26 min
Crosscurrents: November 24, 2014
Women in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math): Terri Winston and Women’s Audio Mission; Black Girls Code trains young women of color for careers in tech; and the Heart Wrenchers Auto Club takes women beyond the driver’s seat.
Nov 25, 2014•26 min
Crosscurrents: November 19, 2014
Shopping with the seafarers, foraging for fish in our own backyard, and local musicians Pacific Mambo Orchestra.
Nov 20, 2014•24 min
Crosscurrents: November 17, 2014
Calle 24 - The official Latino Cultural District of San Francisco; "Latino?" "Hispanic?" - the historic struggle to name Latin Americans in the U.S.A.; "Committed to Turning His Life Around"; and the California Honeydrops.
Nov 18, 2014•27 min
Crosscurrents: November 13, 2014
Creative writing inside of San Quentin Prison, this week's Audiograph game answer, San Francisco's International Hip Hop Dance Fest, and local musicians New Monsoon.
Nov 14, 2014•26 min
Crosscurrents: November 12, 2014
"Fear and Eating in Fukushima"; a conversation with Evren Odcikin & Deborah Eliezer about about the new play Faulted; StoryCorps: A bit of color in the darkest of times; and the Ives Quartet.
Nov 13, 2014•35 min
Crosscurrents: November 11, 2014
The last bastion of freak culture - Artists' Television Access at 30; Oddball Film and Video creates an unusual night at the movies; Women’s pinball league gives positive tilt to Bay Area scene; and San Francisco band Ice Cream.
Nov 12, 2014•24 min
Crosscurrents: November 10, 2014
Are San Francisco tech companies giving back enough to the mid-Market area? Plus, a program that maps how evictions are changing the geography of the city, and the story of one family who got evicted.
Nov 11, 2014•27 min
Crosscurrents: November 6, 2014
The Spiritual Edge: How trash, a cynic, Vietnamese immigrants and the Buddha cleaned up a neighborhood; StoryCorps: Learning from the dying at the Zen Hospice Project; this week's Audiograph answer revealed!; and local band Hibbity Dibbity.
Nov 07, 2014•26 min
Crosscurrents: November 5, 2014
A show on sexual assault and consent: UC Berkeley tries to integrate the new "Yes Means Yes" law, Alameda County DA Nancy O'Malley on why rape kits should be analyzed more quickly, a personal commentary on sexual assault, and local musicians Quiles & Cloud.
Nov 06, 2014•27 min
Crosscurrents: November 3, 2014
Two Bay Area cities are the latest battlegrounds in the soda wars; a push to increase minimum wage; and The Book Report: Kevin Smokler
Nov 04, 2014•25 min
Crosscurrents: October 30, 2014
Playing baseball at San Quentin State Prison, an ex-convict who helps formerly incarcerated people, this week's Audiograph game answer, and local musicians Shannon and the Clams.
Oct 30, 2014•26 min
Crosscurrents: October 29, 2014
In San Francisco, cars are the problem or the solution; a conversation with novelist Daniel Alarcón; an episode of Radio Ambulante: "La Balada de Daniel D. Portado"; and the Extra Action Marching Band.
Oct 29, 2014•36 min
Crosscurrents: October 28, 2014
Is the Bay Area in a housing bubble or a housing crisis?; housing on the ballot: a Q&A with reporter Liz Pfeffer; artist Martha Villa makes up her city; and composer Robert Ashley.
Oct 28, 2014•27 min
Crosscurrents: October 27, 2014
California's water bond on the ballot, a ride-along with a rural fire chief, Oakland mayoral candidates Jean Quan and Courtney Ruby, and local musician Susan Muscarella.
Oct 28, 2014•24 min
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