Crosscurrents: December 8, 2009
Chevron and the air quality in Richmond; Project Censored and the news that doesn't make the news; and a lunar StoryCorps.
Crosscurrents: December 7 2009
Non-profits are faced with hard times and the San Francisco Mime Troupe celebrate their 50th anniversary.
Crosscurrents: December 3, 2009
Shrinking Stipends of Emancipated Foster Youth, an inside Look at the California Superior Court System, Body Music, and local band The Super Cutes.
Crosscurrents: December 2, 2009
Ten years of granting ex-cons a "clean slate" in San Francisco, San Francisco public defender Jeff Adachi tells us how the program is going, and a Berkeley resident connects with her roots in El Salvador
Crosscurrents: November 30, 2009
Non profits helping other non profits cope with the downturn, MacArthur Genius Maneesh Agrawalla, and local music label Thrillhousebrings punk rock to the masses
Crosscurrents: November 19, 2009
Bank failure in Bay Area, stimulus dollars spent on BART, contrary views on H1N1 vaccines, and delicious dungeness crabs for the holidays
Crosscurrents: November 18, 2009
Protests at U.C. Berkeley, H1N1 vaccinations, the coup in Honduras, and Con Funk Shun.
Crosscurrents: november 17, 2009
A US soldier and single mother forced to give up her baby, SF District Attorney Kamala Harris, Story Corps songbook
Crosscurrents: November 16, 2009
Is the stimulus creating local jobs?, a look at Richmond, Save Together micro-philanthropy, and Youth Movement Records
Crosscurrents: November 12, 2009
The lack of small business loans, America's first Arabic-immersion school, and the American Indian Film Festival.
Crosscurrents: November 11, 2009
Remembering the Port Chicago tragedy
Crosscurrents: November 10 2009
Overtreatment, Zimring on Juvenile Life Without Parole and Story Corps.
Crosscurrents: November 9, 2009
The fight to control rogue seagulls, cleaning up an ocean of plastic, the forgotten history of Carville-by-the-Sea, and Nectarine Pie.
Crosscurrents November 5, 2009
Unions protest on health issues, racial tensions in Antioch, Richmond's parks transformed, kids go rasta, and Mist and Mast.
Crosscurrents: Wednesday, November 4, 2009
All about California's prisons
Crosscurrents: November 3, 2009
Schwarzenegger's Home Town, Sonic Sculpture, 3rd I Film Festival
Crosscurrents: November 2, 2009
Art as economic stimulus in vacant San Francisco storefronts, a listener wonders why people can't find jobs, roasting marshmallows on MUNI, and remembering the dead on Dia de Los Muertos.
Crosscurrents: October 29, 2009
Both sides of the controversial Proposition D, the grand opening of a computer center in East Oakland, discussing immigrant rights in San Francisco, and creating altars for Day of the Dead.
Crosscurrents: October 28, 2009
Bay Bridge design criticism, honoring the dead, gravestones, and Poor Sweet Creatures
Crosscurrents: October 27, 2009
The difficulty of getting unemployment benefits, building your own greywater system, living on the Farallon Islands, and The Dodos.
Crosscurrents: October 26, 2009
Cuts in Higher Education, Bringing back Majority Rule to California Democracy, and the Source of Contra Costa
Crosscurrents: October 22, 2009
Homeless students, Theresa Sparks, master drummer Mary Ellen Donald, Smashup Derby
Crosscurrents: October 21, 2009
Domestic violence shelters, Hyatt protests, food inspectors, Soul Food Farm, Abundant Life Ministries, and The Streicher Trio.
Crosscurrents: October 20, 2009
The rotting wine industry and saving snow leopards in Sonoma, an economic business profile of the first Sake Store in America, and a StoryCorps conversation with a "lactation engineer".
Crosscurrents: October 19, 2009
Cuts at Dependency Court, Undocumented Immigrants on the Economic Edge, Tortoise vs. Hare, Urban Astronomy, Black Rock Opera
Crosscurrents: October 15, 2009
In-Home Support Services cuts, recession-themed menus, coffee rant, Thomas Robert Simpson on Stateless, San Francisco Recovery Theater, and The Coup.
Crosscurrents: October 14, 2009
Young adults bend the rules to access health care, an adopted girl reflects on why her birth mother gave her up, Snicket on Sendak, and 60-second fiction.
Crosscurrents: October 13, 2009
State Agency overwhelmed with Loan Modification Scams, the first Islamic College is founded in the United States, and a homegrown independent filmmaker tells us about his film showing at Oakland's International Film Festival
Crosscurrents: October 12, 2009
Obama's Nobel, fire goats, James Reber: fundraiser, Bay Area punk, and The Yellow Dress
Crosscurrents: October 8, 2009
An art performance highlights health care for the undocumented, a Torah scribe sets out to write 304,805 letters in public, and 60-second fiction about a Chinese-American family meal.