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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The name Andy Lopez probably didn’t ring a bell before October 22, 2013. On that afternoon, the 13-year-old Lopez was just a kid playing with a BB ...
- Added: Dec 29, 2013
- Length: 07:35
Charles Hodgkins and I are walking with several other burrito-eaters through the Mission District. He’s clearly the boss, though. It’s not just the...
- Added: Dec 29, 2013
- Length: 05:03
The weekend is a time for relaxing or maybe going to dinner and a show with friends. One typical scenario is you meet up with them, get dinner. Now...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and XRAY.fm
- Added: Dec 29, 2013
- Length: 07:04
- Purchases: 2
A few hours north of San Francisco is the town of Boonville, nestled in the quaint Anderson Valley of Mendocino County. Like Silicon Valley, this p...
- Added: Dec 29, 2013
- Length: 13:24
California has the largest concentration of homeless veterans in the nation, and in San Francisco, it’s likely that more than 700 homeless vets wil...
- Added: Dec 29, 2013
- Length: 07:22
Think of a ghost town, and San Francisco Bay is not likely to come to mind. Yet the remnants of such a place are currently sinking into the marshes...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 06, 2013
- Length: 07:44
- Purchases: 1
You may have already seen some of these driverless cars zipping around Bay Area roads. Automotive scientists predict similar cars will be available...
Bought by XRAY.fm
- Added: Nov 06, 2013
- Length: 07:12
- Purchases: 1
If you walk down Mission Street this weekend you’ll see family members holding pictures of loved ones in one hand and candles in another. You may s...
- Added: Nov 06, 2013
- Length: 13:35
If you walk upstairs from the kitchen at Mother Brown’s drop-in center in the evening, you’ll find dozens of people sleeping in chairs. During the ...
- Added: Nov 06, 2013
- Length: 06:46
Oakland Police Captain Ricardo Orozco says he’s living his dream of being a cop.
“Ever since I was a small boy, the show that I always liked to wa...
- Added: Nov 06, 2013
- Length: 16:20
Your watch is your personal trainer. Your headband is making an action documentary of your life. Your bracelet congratulates you on your daily wate...
Bought by Kansas Public Radio, PRX Remix, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Nov 06, 2013
- Length: 09:53
- Purchases: 3
Private shuttles have been using Muni stops in San Francisco for a while. But they’ve mostly been smaller buses, for hospitals and universities. In...
- Added: Nov 06, 2013
- Length: 05:44
Real talk: I’m not the biggest fan of San Francisco public transportation. So when I first heard of the alternative transportation network of priva...
- Added: Nov 06, 2013
- Length: 05:59
California has been in an ongoing struggle trying to figure out how to deal with overcrowding in prisons. The problems extend to the Division of Ju...
- Added: Nov 06, 2013
- Length: 07:19
On Sunday morning, while the Fillmore District is brunching or sleeping in, I’m sweating to attend something I’ve never run for in my life: church....
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 20, 2013
- Length: 13:25
- Purchases: 1
“Our Hallowed Ground - The Love Balm Project”is a series of performances based on testimonies of Bay Area mothers and grandmothers who have lost ch...
- Added: Oct 09, 2013
- Length: 07:07
Twelve dancers -- men and women all dressed in black rehearsal clothes -- move with fierce and graceful undulations through the space. They dance t...
Bought by WABE
- Added: Oct 09, 2013
- Length: 09:04
- Purchases: 1
Yesterday, the state unveiled its new insurance options, called Covered California. These market places, known as exchanges, are a new way for peop...
- Added: Oct 09, 2013
- Length: 06:15
Soup kitchens in San Francisco’s Tenderloin District feed thousands of homeless and low-income people every day. These free meal sites serve as a v...
- Added: Oct 09, 2013
- Length: 17:19
![Caption: A wall upstairs at [freespace], Credit: Jen Chien](https://s3.amazonaws.com/production.mediajoint.prx.org/public/piece_images/251940/frees_square.JPG)
The seed idea for [freespace] came from a 48-hour hackathon called the National Day of Civic Hacking. A hackathon is when people get together for a...
- Added: Oct 09, 2013
- Length: 08:36
