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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.

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Episodes

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.

Jun 17, 201527 min

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.

Jun 16, 201527 min

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 where we recorded it. We reveal the story behind our mystery sounds every Thursday on Crosscurrents.

Jun 12, 201525 min

Crosscurrents: June 10, 2015

Support systems in the aftermath of police shootings, SF rapper DaVinci, Belva Davis, and local musicians Underwoman and the Believers.

Jun 11, 201525 min

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!

Jun 04, 201526 min

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 sentence in prison, and local musician Janam.

Jun 03, 201527 min

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.

Jun 02, 201525 min

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 get work. A new car company moved in, but it was … different.

Jun 02, 201534 min

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: Maggie Tokuda-Hall and Cara Black.

May 27, 201527 min

Crosscurrents: May 26, 2015

A show all about Northern California's delta: its agriculture, economy, and the people who live there.

May 26, 201534 min

Crosscurrents: May 20, 2015

Being on lockdown in San Quentin, "passing" in terms of how one speaks, and reading braille.

May 21, 201557 min

Crosscurrents: May 19, 2015

Comedy Show! Comedians with Disabilities, a comedian inside San Quentin, standups, you name it we go it!

May 20, 201557 min

Crosscurrents: May 14, 2015

Sports show!!! The Spanish-language broadcasters of the San Francisco Giants, the Giants ballpark organist, and the Ice Guy.

May 15, 201557 min

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 with the string whisperer; and the Art of grocery bagging.

May 13, 201557 min

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 Peter Orner's Book Report, and local band Corner Laughers.

May 11, 201525 min

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 on the dancing gene to her daughter, the KALW Newsroom talks about what their moms taught them, and local musicians The Brothers Comatose.

May 08, 201526 min

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 syndrome talks about opening his own restaurant.

May 07, 201527 min

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 Wunderlich and Richard O'Connell about their new film, The Corridor; and local big band The Electric Squeezebox Orchestra.

May 05, 201524 min

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 revealed; and local band Waterstrider.

May 01, 201526 min

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 Up!

Apr 30, 201524 min

Crosscurrents: April 28, 2015

Vaping, the medical uses of psychedelic drugs, a Bay Area Beats with Phillip Greenlief, and local musicians Felsen.

Apr 28, 201527 min

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 musician Alison Faith Levy.

Apr 28, 201527 min

Crosscurrents: April 23, 2015

The Armenian Genocide, and The San Francisco Treat--Rice-A-Roni--is actually from Armenia! Plus local musicians Bang Data.

Apr 24, 201526 min

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.

Apr 23, 201527 min

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 Garcia; and local singer David Luning.

Apr 21, 201525 min
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