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By Crosscurrents Producer on Feb 16 2009 - 5:00am
Alameda beefs up services for the needy, unsafe amateur boxing remains uninvestigated, Scott Sigler podcasts bestsellers to Sci Fi/Horror fans.
I am pleased to report that Governor Schwarzenegger and California officials were asked to make a tough choice about the death penalty last week by California Crime Victims for Alternatives to the Death Penalty. I was joined by Aqeela Sherrills, CCV’s Southern California Outreach Coordinator, and...
If you can remember the back to the beginnings of this Great recession, you'll recall that it had its origins in a housing bubble. In the subsequent crash, property values have fallen and demand for new construction has tapered off. Which means there are a lot of contractors sitting around...
Artist and composer Tyson Ayers builds new instruments out of cast-off pieces of old ones. But his instruments aren't your usual guitars and drums. They're installation-sized, instruments that many people can play at once. His newest invention is called the Sound Cave. KALW's Molly Samuel...
One of our regular features involves airing dispatches from the Economic Edge - where our listeners and street team members call in with observations about their community. Our Economic Edge project is an example of what's called "citizen journalism." And more and more news outlets are looking to...
If you're at the Victoria Theater on Saturday, be ready to dodge some flying knitting needles. One film showing at the Frameline Film Festival this weekend is "Raging Grannies: The Action League." It's a documentary about San Francisco activists who use songs and street theater to shine the...
The Bay Area is home to many famous authors, from Michael Chabon to Dave Eggers to Isabella Allende. It's also where Lemony Snicket invented his children's books, "A Series of Unfortunate Event" featuring the hard-luck Baudelaire family. While immensely popular those books don't appeal to kids...
Making it as a writer has always been hard, but with independent bookstores closing all around and the rise of free digital media in the last few years, it has become even harder. If you're not an Oprah pick, or on the shelves at Wal-Mart, you're probably not making much of a living as a novelist...
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