San Francisco
By Crosscurrents Producer on Dec 6 2011 - 3:06pm
The music you're hearing is by the Wild Rumpus New Music Collective. The eleven members of this ensemble will be playing world premieres of works composed especially for them on Saturday (12.10). Performance time is 8pm at San Francisco’s ODC Theater, in the Mission. NOTE: The music is more...
By Judy Silber on Dec 5 2011 - 12:06pm
The performance style of Jonathan Richman is as simple and naïve now as it was in the 1970s, when his band, The Modern Lovers, was influencing what would become the punk and garage band sounds. He and frequent collaborator Tommy Larkin will be at The Great American Music Hall in San Francisco on...
By Carolina Hidalgo on Dec 1 2011 - 3:32pm
In San Francisco, you don’t have to go to a stuffy night club or a formal classroom to learn how to swing dance. If you want to learn the Lindy Hop, you can learn in the great outdoors.
KALW’s Carolina Hidalgo, who is originally from Chile, found the group called Lindy in the Park, dancing in full...
By Holly McDede on Dec 1 2011 - 9:20am
In the battle between Bordertown Skatepark vs. Caltrans, Caltrans has won. Skateboarders who helped build Bordertown beneath a 580 freeway overpass in Emeryville showed up to video tape the demolition. In August, skateboarders also lost The Spot Skatepark to Caltrans. But, there could be another...
By Allison Budner on Nov 30 2011 - 5:34pm
The Tenderloin is not exactly known as a tender place to live. It’s the densest neighborhood in San Francisco – home to roughly 30,000 people. That’s about 750 people per square block, and many are low-income immigrants and families living in tall apartment buildings, homeless shelters, or single...
By Allison Budner on Nov 30 2011 - 5:30pm
The tiny Tenderloin National Forest is much loved – and some would argue, even needed – as a respite from the dense concrete jungle of the Tenderloin neighborhood. So if access to parks, greenery, and open spaces make such a profound difference for people living in cities, then who decides where,...
By Shuka Kalantari on Nov 28 2011 - 4:24pm
Many Middle Eastern refugees are Iraqis who have fled war-related violence. But in the past decade, the largest number of refugees have actually come from Iran.
More than 15,000 Iranians have moved to California just since 2006. Though their country isn’t currently at war, many Iranians suffer...
By Judy Silber on Nov 28 2011 - 2:13pm
Todays music is by the Change Band, along with the Glide Ensemble. The band will be backing several guests at this year's Love Groove, the annual holiday jam concert benefiting San Francisco's Glide Memorial Church. It takes place Thursday at The Warfield Theater in San Francisco, starting at 7pm....
By Chris Connelly on Nov 24 2011 - 6:10pm
When it comes to making it big at anything, you’ve got to do some hard work. Behind every rock star, there are thousands of hours of practice, touring and rocking out. Of course, to rock out, you don’t actually need to know how to play an instrument – at least not at the San Francisco Regional Air...
By Hana Baba on Nov 24 2011 - 5:10pm
Marilyn Pittman is one of San Francisco's first openly gay comics, rising to fame during the AIDS crisis, and known for bringing hilarity through her blunt, "tell it like it is" comedy.
But in 1997, tragedy struck, when her father murdered her mother, and then committed suicide. After that, Pittman...
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