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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It can be hard to donate your old things to a thrift store, but the idea is that your stuff will get a second life. Once it is donated, it will mak...
- Added: May 20, 2014
- Length: 05:08
It’s not just you. The morning commute is getting longer and longer. As the local economy picks up steam more and more people are getting in their ...
- Added: May 20, 2014
- Length: 06:35
’m on the Valley Transportation Authority’s Line 22 bus somewhere between East San Jose and Palo Alto. It’s 2:30 AM, and it’s raining. I start a co...
- Added: May 20, 2014
- Length: 04:43
- Purchases: 2
In Sudan, where my family is from, there is an ancient beauty ritual that married women perform called dukhan. It’s like a sauna, but with smoke.
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- Added: May 20, 2014
- Length: 14:52
The Bay Area’s cultural diversity is translated in so many different ways; you can hear it in how many languages are spoken here. For parents want...
- Added: May 20, 2014
- Length: 07:01
Movies, television, video games and music are central to pop culture, and none of that would be possible without the work of audio engineers. Audi...
- Added: May 20, 2014
- Length: 07:34
Thao Nguyen grew up in Northern Virginia, and started playing music at age 12. Since then she has released three critically acclaimed albums, and s...
- Added: Mar 12, 2014
- Length: 08:13
Last June, the U.S. Congress made a landmark decision to pass immigration reform. The new law eliminates the Diversity Immigrant Lottery Visa, also...
- Added: May 20, 2014
- Length: 07:07
It used to be that the terms “nerdy” and “cool” were at opposite ends of a spectrum. Collecting comics was for losers, listening to punk rock was f...
- Added: May 20, 2014
- Length: 08:42
In San Francisco’s Outer Sunset neighborhood, there’s a small building that’s a big part of some young people’s lives. Sunset Youth Services provid...
- Added: May 18, 2014
- Length: 04:26
Just north of Jack London Square, inside Oakland’s oldest building, you’ll find one of the East Bay’s most celebrated soul food eateries. Even more...
- Added: May 20, 2014
- Length: 04:07
The Bay Area is home to one of the world’s most famous animated film production companies: Pixar. They’ve taken us into the worlds of rebellious to...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 18, 2014
- Length: 08:05
- Purchases: 1
The sharing economy in San Francisco is humming. Companies like Airbnb have figured out how to make a lot of money by using existing housing stock ...
- Added: May 18, 2014
- Length: 08:40
This year marks the 125th birthday of a San Francisco historic Landmark. Not City Hall, not the Golden Gate. The Bayview Opera House — San Francisc...
- Added: May 18, 2014
- Length: 07:35
Picture a scientist in a white lab coat holding a test tube up to the light. Or a brilliant computer geek hunched over a keyboard. These are stereo...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: May 18, 2014
- Length: 07:34
- Purchases: 1
Del Seymour makes sure to take everybody on his walking tours of the Tenderloin to the corner of Turk and Taylor...
- Added: May 18, 2014
- Length: 12:11
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
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...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 18, 2014
- Length: 08:52
- Purchases: 1
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
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
