Crosscurrents
Series produced by KALW
Context, culture and connection from around the Bay Area.
KALW's Crosscurrents is the Bay Area's public radio news magazine. Winner of three awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and voted "Best Local News Program" by SF Weekly, Crosscurrents brings you context, culture and connection from around the Bay Area.
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Inside a huge ice rink in San Jose, where the Sharks hockey team practices, thirty-two men and women are laughing, yelling, and taking turns sweepi...
- Added: Mar 12, 2014
- Length: 06:31
Betsy. Buttercup. Bambi. Those are not Disney characters but three of the eight female bison that live at the bison paddock in Golden Gate Park. Sa...
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- Added: Mar 12, 2014
- Length: 06:28
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When you fill out a job application, you expect to answer some basic questions. Things like your employment and education history, and relevant ski...
- Added: Mar 12, 2014
- Length: 07:14
It’s been almost a year since former Oakland Police Chief Howard Jordan -- then, his replacement -- abruptly resigned.
“It happened very quickly,...
- Added: Mar 12, 2014
- Length: 06:39
People 50 years or older now make up the majority of HIV and AIDS cases in San Francisco. Since HIV emerged in the 1980's, treatments have improved...
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- Added: Mar 12, 2014
- Length: 08:14
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Jeremy Mykaels is in his early 60s, and he has AIDS. As a young gay man, he moved to the Castro, where he has lived for almost 40 years. He's been ...
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- Added: Mar 12, 2014
- Length: 07:41
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I met Ben Rivers in 2011. Though only 41 years old, he had Parkinson’s disease for 10 years. At that point in time, most any kind of movement was h...
- Added: Mar 12, 2014
- Length: 12:44
Living a balanced life requires an early morning for KALW's executive news editor Ben Trefny. It takes getting up before 6am to prepare lunch, and ...
- Added: Mar 12, 2014
- Length: 06:03
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If you read your history books, you might think that America’s involvement in the war against Japan began with the attack on Pearl Harbor on Decemb...
- Added: Mar 12, 2014
- Length: 08:12
Rent control has been a way for cities to regulate their housing prices and evictions since World War One, in the wake of a big housing shortage in...
- Added: May 17, 2014
- Length: 05:13
In his backyard in San Francisco’s Outer Richmond neighborhood, Arne Jin An Wong coats a pink and white striped, eight-foot-long surfboard. This bo...
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- Added: May 17, 2014
- Length: 06:58
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It’s a Tuesday evening in Oakland’s City Hall. A group of people ranging in age from their 20s to 50s are sitting, many in front of their laptops. ...
- Added: May 17, 2014
- Length: 04:54
A couple on an evening stroll down Valencia Street comes to a stop outside Lost Weekend Video. They’re peering in through the big front window...
- Added: May 17, 2014
- Length: 06:33
Like everywhere in the Bay Area, home prices in Oakland have recently gone through the roof. The price of a house there is up almost 70 percent in ...
- Added: May 17, 2014
- Length: 07:00
Dejon Lewis was 11 years old when child protective services arrived to take him and his twin sister away from their mother, whom he says is a drug ...
- Added: May 17, 2014
- Length: 08:47
The California Clapper Rail is a bird that likes to be heard, but not seen. But today, on this windy morning at Arrowhead Marsh in Oakland, they ar...
- Added: May 17, 2014
- Length: 07:13
San Francisco currently has the third lowest unemployment rate of all California's counties. But while that’s good news, it doesn't mean that much ...
- Added: May 17, 2014
- Length: 06:47
In the Oscar-nominated film "Her," director Spike Jonze imagines a world where computers are so human-like they have their own feelings. Whether th...
- Added: May 17, 2014
- Length: 08:00
When a landlord and a tenant are involved in a dispute, an eviction from the property is the last resort. And when evictions do occur in San Franci...
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- Added: May 18, 2014
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On a breezy summer day at San Quentin State Prison, inmate Paul Stauffer reads his writing to a live audience...
- Added: May 18, 2014
- Length: 06:12
