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:
• In isolated rural California, this man is a food lifeline • P ro Wrestling dreams become a reality at a San Jose training academy
Today on Crosscurrents: • California Speaks: Should offshore drilling be allowed off the coast? • S o much more than tacos: San Bernadino's Mitla Cafe • Honoring Jerry Garcia's little-known past with Jerry Day
Today on Crosscurrents: • Scanning begins at Hunter’s Point Shipyard, but is it enough? • Pacific Crest Trail hikers find refuge at the Sonora Pass Cafe • StoryCorps: Santa Rosa crisis counselors reflect on wildfire evacuation
Today on Crosscurrents: • A family divided: a Yemeni family struggles after travel ban • Travel ban waivers: in place, but hard to get • Bay Area Beats: DJ QBERT
Today on Crosscurrents: • What would it mean to abolish ICE? • Finding a personal relationship with God in jail • Poet Josiah Luís Alderete: Spanglish is a true American language
Today on Crosscurrents: • Rail projects in San Francisco cost more than almost anywhere in the world • San Francisco poet reflects on his journey to an immigration detention center • Order 9066: Objects of Incarceration
Today on Crosscurrents: • Six months in, legal weed falling short of expectations in California • One street, many faiths: Brotherhood Way • Hey Area: What is the Emergency Alert System testing? • Hey Area: Why doesn't BART go to Marin? • Hey Area: Why are San Francisco's Bush and Pine Streets one-way?
Today on Crosscurrents: • Farmers behind barbed-wire fences: Japanese Americans remember incarceration during World War II • What happens to children separated from their parents seeking asylum?
Today on Crosscurrents: • Oakland is gearing up for a major election • A new project from the Oakland Zoo gives mountain lion cubs a second chance • Bay Area Beats: Kev Choice
Today on Crosscurrents: • Oakland-raised Maya are bridging the Mam language gap in local courts . • Revisiting 'Jorgito's Journey' with Karen de Sá.
Today on Crosscurrents: The battle over rent control is headed for the November ballot. How an architect designs meaningful space. StoryCorps: Preparing dying veterans for their "last deployment."
Today on Crosscurrents: The story behind the hardest street to cross in all of Oakland An anthology by writers and artists of color celebrates diversity and addresses gentrification in San Francisco
Today on Crosscurrents: A follow-up on the proposed closure of a Redwood City elementary school that did not go as planned The science behind how the trauma you experience as a child affects you through adulthood
Coming up today on Crosscurrents: Can 'implicit bias' training really work? Good Karma Bikes: breaking the cycle of unemployment and homelessness. The Specialist: Ice Guy. Tune into 91.7 FM at 5:00 P.M.
Coming up today on Crosscurrents: Skyscrapers cast shadow of seismic doubt in San Francisco. How the California Conservation Corps Feeds Its Trailblazers. The only ghost town in the Bay Area. Tune into 91.7 FM at 5:00 P.M.
