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, 2015•27 min
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 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, 2015•27 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, 2015•25 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, 2015•25 min
Crosscurrents: June 9, 2015
Cohabitation Show!
Jun 09, 2015•27 min
Crosscurrents: June 8, 2015
It's The Beasts and Disasters Show!
Jun 08, 2015•26 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, 2015•26 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, 2015•27 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, 2015•25 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, 2015•34 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, 2015•27 min
Crosscurrents: May 26, 2015
A show all about Northern California's delta: its agriculture, economy, and the people who live there.
May 26, 2015•34 min
Crosscurrents: May 21, 2015
A special edition of Crosscurrents with guest-host Matt Martin!
May 22, 2015•57 min
Crosscurrents: May 20, 2015
Being on lockdown in San Quentin, "passing" in terms of how one speaks, and reading braille.
May 21, 2015•57 min
Crosscurrents: May 19, 2015
Comedy Show! Comedians with Disabilities, a comedian inside San Quentin, standups, you name it we go it!
May 20, 2015•57 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, 2015•57 min
Crosscurrents: May 13, 2015
A Spiritual Edge membership campaign show!
May 14, 2015•57 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, 2015•57 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, 2015•25 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, 2015•26 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, 2015•27 min
Crosscurrents: May 5, 2015
Everything you always wanted to know about menopause but were afraid to ask.
May 06, 2015•27 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, 2015•24 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, 2015•26 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, 2015•24 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, 2015•27 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, 2015•27 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, 2015•26 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, 2015•27 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, 2015•25 min
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