10/31: Public art 'portals' / San Quentin Radio / Is The Chapel haunted?
• A public art 'portal' connects Bay Area residents to citizens across the world
Nov 01, 2018•25 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
10/30: Oakland Measure Z / What happens when you call 311 / Ghost town!
• Oakland Measure Z could raise minimum wage, bring harassment protections to hotel workers
Oct 31, 2018•27 min
10/29: Costa Hawkins / Bay Area Beats / Ghost stories!
• After a slew of attack ads, support for Prop 10 plummeted
Oct 30, 2018•25 min
10/25: California District 15 / Bay Area Beats / Why would I mispronounce my own name?
• Jovanka Beckles and Buffy Wicks compete to represent California's 15th Assembly District
Oct 26, 2018•27 min
10/24: Twenty-pound swamp rodents / San Quentin Radio
• Yes, rodents of unusual size really do exist
Oct 25, 2018•27 min
10/23: SoMa memories / Photographer Janet Delaney / StoryCorps
• South of Market to SoMa: A photographic memory of a changing San Francisco neighborhood
Oct 24, 2018•26 min
10/22: Prop C / Superintendent of instruction / Comedian Marga Gomez
• San Francisco’s Prop C puts spending on homelessness in the spotlight
Oct 23, 2018•27 min
10/18: BART board races / Health care for black men / Bay Area Beats
• In this election, even BART board races are really about housing
Oct 19, 2018•28 min
10/17: Oakland mayoral Candidate Peter Liu / Fauxnique and Marc Kate / San Quentin Radio
• Oakland mayoral candidate Peter Liu on politics, tourism, and jobs
Oct 18, 2018•26 min
10/16: Oakland mayoral candidate Saied Karamooz / Olympian John Carlos / Sideshows
• Oakland mayoral candidate Saied Karamooz on development, jobs, and housing
Oct 17, 2018•27 min
10/15: Cannabis taxes / Oakland mayoral candidate Ken Houston / Bay Area Beats
• If you live in the Bay Area, it's likely you'll be voting on a cannabis tax this November
Oct 16, 2018•26 min
10/11: Wine country fire update / Oakland mayoral candidate Nancy Sidebotham
• One year since the fires, a community rebuilds
Oct 12, 2018•24 min
10/10: Oakland mayoral candidate Pamela Price / Hip-hop with MADlines / San Quentin Radio
• Oakland mayoral candidate Pamela Price on police reform, SCOTUS, and revitalizing downtown
Oct 11, 2018•27 min
10/9: Oakland mayoral candidate Marchon Tatmon / Del the Funky Homosapien
• Oakland mayoral candidate Marchon Tatmon on housing, crime, and police reform
Oct 10, 2018•27 min
70 Million: Undocumented immigrants are tethered to ICE, and private companies, by ankle monitors
In a special presentation from KALW News, it’s a story from the new podcast 70 Million, an open-source podcast looking at jail and criminal justice reform in communities across the country. When Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, tries to deport a person without legal status, often it puts them in so-called “detention centers.” ICE say this incarceration is necessary, in order to get undocumented folks to show up for their court dates.
Oct 09, 2018•26 min
10/4: Martins Beach / Oakland mayoral candidate Cat Brooks / Uncuffed
• In fight over Martins Beach, locals just want respect for their prized coastline
Oct 05, 2018•26 min
10/3: Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf / San Quentin Radio / Uncuffed
• Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf talks housing, arts, and the environment
Oct 04, 2018•27 min
10/2: Palestinian murals / Oakland mayoral candidate Cedric Troupe / Prison stories
• San Francisco muralist connects Bay Area residents to Palestinian life
Oct 03, 2018•26 min
10/1: Open-source internet / Oakland mayoral candidate Jesse Smith / A love affair with anger
• People’s Open Net is internet for the people, by the people
Oct 02, 2018•24 min
9/27: Transgender healthcare / West Oakland resilience
• What do doctors know about transgender healthcare? Not enough.
Sep 28, 2018•27 min
9/26: Black Cultural Zone / Alcatraz reunions / The Black Woman is God
• Preserving Oakland’s black community with a Black Cultural Zone
Sep 27, 2018•25 min
9/25: Gas tax / Filmmaker Nijlah Mu'min / Powell Street Blues
• Gas tax repeal could also limit future tax increases
Sep 26, 2018•27 min
70 Million: One state is disrupting the pipeline from foster care to jail
In a special presentation from KALW News, it’s a story about radical reforms in foster care, from the new podcast 70 Million.
Sep 25, 2018•27 min
SPECIAL LIVE EPISODE: Glynn Washington and Anna Sale
Snap Judgment's Glynn Washington and Death, Sex, and Money's Anna Sale joined Hana Baba in studios in a public radio smackdown for our membership drive.
Sep 21, 2018•1 hr 3 min
SPECIAL LIVE EPISODE: Bay Area chefs
Rising stars in the Bay’s culinary scene, Preeti Mistry and Reem Assil joined Hana Baba in studios in a local celebrity smackdown for our membership drive.
Sep 20, 2018•1 hr 3 min
SPECIAL LIVE EPISODE: Greg Sherrell and Heklina
Greg Sherrell and Heklina joined Hana Baba in studios in a local celebrity smackdown for our membership drive.
Sep 19, 2018•57 min
SPECIAL LIVE EPISODE: East Bay Yesterday & The Finch Files
Liam O'Donoghue and Peter Finch joined Hana Baba in studios in an East Bay v. San Francisco smackdown for our membership drive.
Sep 18, 2018•58 min
9/13: Oakland scooters / "Biking while black" / Wonway Posibul
• Inside Oakland’s plan to make electric scooters affordable for all
Sep 14, 2018•25 min
9/12: Stories from San Quentin and Solano State Prisons
• Free-spirited bluegrass musician remembers days riding the rails before his incarceration
Sep 13, 2018•26 min
9/11: Medical cannabis in schools / CBD
• Santa Rosa family fights for daughter’s right to to go to kindergarten with her cannabis meds
Sep 12, 2018•30 min
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