Crosscurrents
Summary: 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.
Podcasts:
• A public art 'portal' connects Bay Area residents to citizens across the world • Rebuilding family relationships from inside prison walls • From mortuary to music venue: Is The Chapel haunted?
• Oakland Measure Z could raise minimum wage, bring harassment protections to hotel workers • What happens when you call 311 on a homeless encampment? • From gold rush to ghost town: A trip to Port Costa
• Oakland Measure Z could raise minimum wage, bring harassment protections to hotel workers • What happens when you call 311 on a homeless encampment? • From gold rush to ghost town: A trip to Port Costa
• After a slew of attack ads, support for Prop 10 plummeted • Bay Area Beats: Olivia Lee of There’s Talk • A visit to the haunted USS Hornet in Alameda
• After a slew of attack ads, support for Prop 10 plummeted • Bay Area Beats: Olivia Lee of There’s Talk • A visit to the haunted USS Hornet in Alameda
• Jovanka Beckles and Buffy Wicks compete to represent California's 15th Assembly District • Bay Area Beats: Kumu Hulu Patrick Makuakāne • If society keeps pronouncing your name wrong, write a play!
• Jovanka Beckles and Buffy Wicks compete to represent California's 15th Assembly District • Bay Area Beats: Kumu Hulu Patrick Makuakāne • If society keeps pronouncing your name wrong, write a play!
• Yes, rodents of unusual size really do exist • Twenty-pound swamp rodents threaten California delta • He’s a young white man, she’s a black transgender woman. They’re cellmates.
• Yes, rodents of unusual size really do exist • Twenty-pound swamp rodents threaten California delta • He’s a young white man, she’s a black transgender woman. They’re cellmates.
• South of Market to SoMa: A photographic memory of a changing San Francisco neighborhood • Janet Delaney revisits San Francisco's public life with photos of parade and protest in the Mission • StoryCorps: A bit of color in the darkest of times
• South of Market to SoMa: A photographic memory of a changing San Francisco neighborhood • Janet Delaney revisits San Francisco's public life with photos of parade and protest in the Mission • StoryCorps: A bit of color in the darkest of times
• San Francisco’s Prop C puts spending on homelessness in the spotlight • State superintendent of instruction: The race is on, and it’s expensive • Marga Gomez on playing her father on stage
• San Francisco’s Prop C puts spending on homelessness in the spotlight • State superintendent of instruction: The race is on, and it’s expensive • Marga Gomez on playing her father on stage
• In this election, even BART board races are really about housing • More black doctors means better care for black male patients • Bay Area Beats: Gilberto Rodriguez y Los Intocables
• Oakland mayoral candidate Peter Liu on politics, tourism, and jobs • Fauxnique and Marc Kate combine horror, sound, dance, and drag • What happens when prison populations are integrated after decades of being kept apart?