Starting in 2012, you can find Crosscurrents and KALW News at www.kalw.org, along with all of the other KALW programming you've come to love. Just click on the "NEWS" tab. There you'll find audio from the day's show, daily news updates, and more.
This new site is a big step for KALW. You can expect...
Starting in 2012, you can find Crosscurrents and KALW News at www.kalw.org, along with all of the other KALW programming you've come to love. Just click on the "NEWS" tab. There you'll find audio from the day's show, daily news updates, and more.
This new site is a big step for KALW. You can expect...
The music is by The Secret Identities, composed of three East Bay performers who have teamed up to sing three-part harmony on each other’s songs.
They’ll be at the Bazaar Café in San Francisco on Saturday, January 7th along with Daryl Scariot. Music starts at 7pm....
Artery
Speedway Meadow in Golden Gate Park is set to become Hellman Meadow if the Recreation & Park Department approves the plan unanimously passed last week by the San Francisco County Board of Supervisors. The name change would honor Warren Hellman, the financial and spiritual force behind the three...
Local Music
In the audio clip above, you can listen to Misisipi Mike Wolf, a prolific San Francisco singer-songwriter, who plays in – as he says – “as many bands as it takes to rock your socks off.” If you missed his sold-out show at the Great American Music Hall back in the summer, you have a chance to hear...
Brewing beer is a complete sensory experience. I can feel the heat on the stove top as the grains and water are boiled to make the wort, the smell of hops fills the kitchen. Later, I can hear yeast feasting on the freshly brewed wort and see the release of the gaseous bubbles that result.
Making...
Local Music
What can you say about jug band music? If you’re “The Christmas Jug Band,” you can say you’re the “kings of 100 percent acoustic-folk-skiffle-swing holiday high jinks.” And, really, what more can be said after that? If you like your jug band music live, head over to the Freight and Salvage in...
The KALW news team and guests took the stage at the Polish Club SF on December 3rd for an evening of multimedia storytelling as part of the Mission Arts and Performance Project (MAPP). The theme of the night was “Beginnings and Endings.” Performers included Snap Judgment host Glynn Washington, John...
KALW Interviews
As part of last Saturday's live edition of "Crosscurrents," KALW's Ben Trefny interviewed Nikki Silva on stage at the Polish Club in San Francisco.
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BEN TREFNY: And with me today is one of the famous radio-producing sisters. It’s Nikki Silva....
California is facing a $13 billion budget shortfall over the next year and a half, and it’s safe to say that the pain will be felt across public services. In some parts of the Bay Area, incoming tax dollars won’t be enough to buy even books for libraries. That’s why, in places like Santa Clarita,...
Artery
Long before Beyonce decided to redefine “diva” for pop culture, the term was associated with high culture. Nevertheless, divas of then and now have maintained a reputation, as late comedian Anna Russell explains, “…you would need to be a glorious-voiced, independently wealthy, sexy, politically...
Witness To History
In October, President Obama declared that a major chapter in American military history was about to come to a close...
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: I can report that, as promised, the rest of our troops in Iraq will come home by the end of the year. After nearly nine years, America’s war in Iraq will be...
Local Music
This performer can be compared to great singers with names like Bob and Bruce, but he's pretty sure no one else shares his name: Bhi Bhiman (Bee Bee-men). He is a first-generation Sri Lankan-American singer/songwriter who is playing at 8pm this Sunday, December 11th at The Independent in San...
Artery
The Berkeley theater company Shotgun Players started performing 20 years ago in the basement of a Berkeley pizzeria. Now it’s got its own building, but the company has stuck with its founding principles: taking on little-known or brand new plays, and working hard to create theater for...
Artery
It was a special time for jazz in the Bay Area. For most of the ‘70s and the early ‘80s, a small club called Keystone Korner presented a dazzling array of jazz greats from around the world. The interest in the jazz genre that the Keystone generated still is felt today and recalled in a new book of...
Local Music
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...
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the public debut of a man called Ishi. Ishi was Native American, a Yana from the Deer Creek area, about 150 miles northeast of Berkeley. And for the past century he’s been known as “the last wild Indian in North America.”
In some ways, he...
Local Music
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...
Meet Your Neighbors
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...
BAY AREA BOOK WORLD BREAKING NEWS
Assuming you are old, you may remember taking out your diary and writing, “Hi Diary! How are you? Sorry to hear that. Me? Well, today I went to school. It was great. I sit behind Jim.” And you may remember thinking, “Publishers! Hello! Over here!” Now there’s a...
Misisipi Mike
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