Entertainment
By Holly McDede on Sep 12 2011 - 10:06am
Monday, September 12
Author reading // San Franciscans, you are going to read one book this month, and that book will be Packing for Mars by Mary Roach. Indeed, my friends, the city-wide book club One City One Book has chosen. You could rename the book club One Life, One Book and that would...
By Crosscurrents Producer on Sep 8 2011 - 8:09am
Today's local music pick is the San Francisco Opera. This Sunday, their free "Opera in the Park" program is San Francisco's official civic observance of the tenth anniversary of the terrorist attacks in New York, on September 11, 2001. Music by composers ranging from Mozart to John Williams will...
Under age and behind bars: how a Senate bill might give California’s juvenile felons a second chance
By Nancy Mullane on Sep 1 2011 - 5:55pm
Last week in Sacramento, lawmakers narrowly rejected SB9, a bill that would have impacted hundreds of prison inmates who were sentenced as juveniles to serve life sentences without the possibility of parole. After some slight adjustments, it’s up for reconsideration, as early as next week. KALW’s...
By Steven Short on Aug 30 2011 - 4:35pm
Libya, London, Egypt – the map of unrest and revolution around the world right now is vast. In Sudan, it led to the country separating in two. Now Jeff Stone, a county supervisor from Riverside, wants something similar to happen, right here in California.
NEWSCASTER: Stone wants to form a new state...
By Crosscurrents Producer on Aug 30 2011 - 10:37am
The state Senate has voted against dissolving the Southern California city of Vernon. Assembly speaker John Perez initially proposed the bill because Vernon is home to a mere 100 residents, but boasts 1,000 businesses, making it a historic hotbed of corruption. He’s disappointed that the bill did...
By Dara Kerr on Aug 29 2011 - 3:42pm
Cutting your gas bill, your carbon footprint, or your waistline: these are some of the reasons to bike more. And in San Francisco, biking has increased by more than 50 percent over the past three years, according to the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency.
But how about...
By Crosscurrents Producer on Aug 25 2011 - 12:00pm
Just three years ago, Oakland resident Beth Newell didn’t know how to ride a bike, but she’s recently become a bicycling star. When her car died behind a Safeway dumpster, she grabbed a rusty, abandoned Schwinn and raced off to work. Now, Newell has competed in state and national championships and...
By Chris Connelly on Aug 24 2011 - 5:00pm
A note for our listeners: the following story has been rewritten for print
In 1971, President Richard Nixon declared drug users public enemy number one. Young, white, middle-class kids were openly using recreational drugs, and long-held stigmas about drug use were shrinking, especially in the Bay...
By Hana Baba on Aug 23 2011 - 5:36pm
Most artists work with a design in mind – architects have their blueprints, actors have their screenplays – a plan for how their project will proceed. But for improv comics, art is making people laugh without a script or even a clue of how you’ll go about doing it before you hit the stage.
You...
By Nishat Kurwa on Aug 23 2011 - 4:49pm
In new film “Gun Hill Road,” actor Esai Morales plays Enrique, a man from the Bronx who just came home after three years in prison. The film follows Enrique as he begins to discover how his family has changed over the past three years – including his wife’s fidelity.
Enrique also finds that his...
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