Entertainment
By Kevin Robinson on Sep 22 2011 - 5:22pm
This weekend, movie-lovers will get a chance to travel East on the cinematic globe at the debut of the Hong Kong Cinema Festival, hosted by the San Francisco Film Society. Hong Kong is known as one of the filmmaking hubs for the Chinese-speaking world, and the festival will highlight both seasoned...
By Crosscurrents Producer on Sep 22 2011 - 5:00pm
A conversation with mayoral candiate Bevan Dufty; comedian Will Durst has had it up to here with pledges; a bit of color in the darkest of times; genre-crossing at the Hong Kong Cinema Festival; how to be a rock star without learning an instrument; and local singer-songwriter Curt Yagi.
By Martina Castro on Sep 22 2011 - 4:24pm
Welcome to Buried Treasure! This is the Crosscurrents staff blog, showcasing our daily favorites: headlines, radio stories, internet errata, and anything else we come across and think is cool. This next one comes from KALW News Managing Editor, Martina Castro. Enjoy!
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By Jen Chien on Sep 21 2011 - 4:58pm
Most of us love a good fairytale. And then there’s the tale of Dyhemia Young, a teenager from San Francisco’s Bayview district.
Young was invited to the coveted wild card invitation to the Susan Polgar Girls’ Invitational, a prestigious chess tournament held at Texas Tech University in Lubbock. But...
By Kevin Robinson on Sep 21 2011 - 4:49pm
The Bay Area is home to over 50 annual film festivals, but there’s only one that describes itself as all of the following: “bottom-up, DIY, misfit, badass, outsider, outlaw, rebel, underdog, minority, local, urban, green, un-polished, revolutionary, unpretentious, and non-traditional.”
It’s the...
By Martina Castro on Sep 21 2011 - 4:25pm
Imagine for a moment that you could go back in time and talk to your younger self, say at about age nine. What would have been your biggest dreams? Favorite color? Best friends? What would you hope to never forget as a grown up?
These are just a few of the questions that KALW’s Martina Castro posed...
By Rebecca Wolfson on Sep 20 2011 - 7:14pm
Whether it’s ice cream, chocolate, pickles, or pizza, most of us know the feeling of a food craving. But some people think it’s more than that – they think we can be addicted … to food.
“Addiction” is a strong word. It implies a certain loss of control, and a change in brain chemistry. That’s...
By Ben Trefny on Sep 20 2011 - 5:40pm
Terry Baum is a playwright, actress, director, teacher, filmmaker – and political activist. In 2004, Baum ran for U.S. Congress on the Green Party ticket and received the highest percentage of the vote of any small-party write-in candidate for Congress in history (at 2.9%). And now Baum, a...
By Crosscurrents Producer on Sep 20 2011 - 1:17pm
For the past week, KALW News has invited guests like NPR reporter Mandalit del Barco and SF Chronicle columnist Jon Carroll to the mic. Today, sketch comedian Rob Baedeker co-hosts a special hour-long episode of Crosscurrents with our very own Ben Trefny.
Baedeker is a writer, editor, teacher, and...
By Crosscurrents Producer on Sep 20 2011 - 8:21am
If you’ve walked down Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley, you’ve probably seen the vacant, rat-infested lot that sits between Amoeba and Rasputin Music. It’s been there for a quarter-century, and its history offers a lesson in the dynamics of city governments, as well as the effects of urban blight:...
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