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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Have you noticed how the way a space feels really depends on how it sounds? Take the California Academy of Sciences for example. With all the hundr...
- Added: Nov 28, 2014
- Length: 09:46
Sky-high rents, Google buses and gentrification are all buzzwords around the Bay Area. But that is not the case in the city of Richmond. With unemp...
- Added: Nov 28, 2014
- Length: 05:59
Every two years, San Francisco’s Soundwave Festival asks artists and musicians to focus their talents -- and their ears -- on one sonic idea. This ...
- Added: Nov 28, 2014
- Length: 05:18
A majority of Americans say their biggest financial concern is that they won’t be able to save enough money to retire. This finding, by a recent Ga...
- Added: Nov 03, 2014
- Length: 04:20
Do you hold your cell phone against your ear? Your user manual probably warns against it.
Bret Bocook knew how to use a cell phone. So he didn’t b...
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Nov 03, 2014
- Length: 06:07
- Purchases: 1
Mosaic artist Daud Abdullah up-cycles pieces of trashed pottery, tile, mirror, and glass to make public art on garbage cans in Oakland and Richmond.
Bought by WXDU
- Added: Nov 03, 2014
- Length: 05:59
- Purchases: 1
Behind a wall in a park in San Francisco, there’s a large and thriving vegetable garden. That might not seem like such a big deal. But the park is ...
- Added: Nov 03, 2014
- Length: 03:22
I’m walking across an old baseball diamond at Tassafaronga Park in Oakland with four very qualified agriculture experts. We’re approaching a new ve...
Bought by KISU
- Added: Nov 03, 2014
- Length: 05:20
- Purchases: 1
It all started a couple of years ago, when a happy-go-lucky guy I swim with named Joe Omran showed up at Aquatic Park one day in a foul mood. Thirt...
- Added: Nov 03, 2014
- Length: 14:18
Arthur Streeter is taking me to meet an inmate who’s going to be released from jail today.
“So we’re going to pick him up and get something to eat...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 27, 2014
- Length: 12:49
- Purchases: 1
In the garage of a house in San Francisco’s Excelsior district, rehearsal is underway. In the space where a car would normally go is a stage set: a...
- Added: Oct 27, 2014
- Length: 07:15
California seems to be getting it from both sides. The state is in a serious drought at the same time coastal areas are studying ways to avoid bein...
- Added: Oct 27, 2014
- Length: 06:46
After years of struggle, the Oakland Police Department is finally getting some positive news. Crime rates are down in all major categories, includi...
- Added: Oct 27, 2014
- Length: 07:24
So what? I’m a little obsessed with pigeons. I’m not sure when it started exactly, but at some point I realized I couldn’t keep my eyes off of them...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 27, 2014
- Length: 08:03
- Purchases: 3
California entrepreneurs saw potential in the gusty winds that blew out at the Altamont Pass, between the Central Valley and Bay Area. By the mid-’...
- Added: Oct 27, 2014
- Length: 07:09
At about 1:30am, after a night out with friends, Kyle Nichols-Schmolze is waiting for the AC Transit 800 bus near Market and Van Ness in San Franci...
- Added: Oct 27, 2014
- Length: 08:49
A vibrant mural announces Happy Lot Farm and Garden to visitors and anyone passing by. A greenhouse stands in the middle of the lot, and an improvi...
- Added: Oct 27, 2014
- Length: 06:45
Oliver Jacobson started playing violin when he was six years old. At 18, he enrolled at Berklee College of Music, one of the top music schools in t...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 27, 2014
- Length: 09:29
- Purchases: 1
Nearly one in ten children in California have a parent in the criminal justice system, but it’s hard to find numbers for individual cities. Experts...
- Added: Oct 27, 2014
- Length: 05:37
“The goal is Zero Waste by 2020, and we think that is an achievable goal.”
Those words from former San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom back in 2009 p...
- Added: Oct 27, 2014
- Length: 06:04
