Crosscurrents

If you’ve ever picked up the phone to call 9-1-1, you or someone else probably needed help. Badly. And you probably assumed that after dialing those three numbers, help would come screeching around the corner, lights and sirens blaring.

Restorative justice in San Quentin: the victim-offender relationship; a victim's point of view on having her husband murdered; sights and sounds of the Bayview; and local musician Tom Rigley.

Black Power TV, Dimensions Dance provides 40 years of African American dance, this week's Audiograph game answer, and local musicians The Brothers Comatose.

How the Affordable Care Act is working in California so far, a success story in San Francisco's Bayview district, theater in Oakland to stop violence, African-American cowboys, and local musicians Thee Oh Sees.

An Original Production by KALW: "Mark Twain in the West."

How the prodigal son became a preacher; veteran Bay Area journalist Tim Redmond on today’s media landscape; and StoryCorps: Staying in touch with someone in solitary confinement; and local pianist Virginia Tichenor.

Green jobs for Oakland youth, the San Francisco Giants ballpark organist, this week's Audiograph answer, and local musicians The New Century Chamber Orchestra.

Immigration Stories: Cynthia Garcia; Neighborhood Postcard: Ingleside; Cleaning in the Rain; Neighborhood Postcard: The Sunset; A Kickstarter for your electricity bill; and local singer Maya Dorn.

Biohacking project is a glowing controversy; an exhibit examines the social evolution of mental health; chess on Market; and local band the Mobius Trio.

Another report from San Quentin: Troy's Tears; the Church of St. John Coltrane, and local musicians Soul Power.

Electricity choices, what that could look like; What happens when a singer becomes a yoga teacher?; and a project that's promoting healthy food in SF's Bayview neighborhood. To subscribe to the Crosscurrents podcast in iTunes, clickhere. To use another podcasting tool, clickhere.

A Crosscurrents radio show about the radio. With special guest Ira Glass! Radio Havana in the Mission District, the first bilingual station in the U.S.: KBBF, and Morse Code.

Dog show! Breeders, handlers, owners, haters in San Francisco...they're all here. We visit the Golden Gate Kennel Club Dog Show at the Cow Palace, the SPCA and ACC animal shelters, the booming dog economy. We hear from a psychologist on the dog-human relationship, and from a person who can't stand canines and the whole dog culture.

A special hour-long edition of Crosscurrents featuring co-host Nancy Mullane, author of Life After Murder. An inmate invests and teaches finance behind bars; after 15 years of false starts, Oakland puts hope into a new community policing plan; a psychiatrist recalls the chaos of CA Prison Facilities; and Audiograph's Sound of the Week revealed!

A special getting to know the people in your neighborhood edition of Crosscurrents, featuring special guest co-host, columnist Gary Kamiya: Trees take root in the Tenderloin; Keeping memories of Chinatown alive – and kicking! Lit Slam brings poetry slam to the page; and Hear Here: Meet DaJuan Simpson.

An olive branch for SF's street food scene; behind the scenes of the 2012 Napa grape harvest; Immigration stories: Mahade Wanjihar and Leslie Spillane; and local band Dirty Cello.

Making sense of immigration bureaucracy, comedians in Golden Gate Park, California's official state song, LAST week's audio graph answer, and local musician Monica Pasqual.

Billionaires’ sailboat race may leave San Francisco in debt; sailors with disabilities race on the Bay; young rockers tap their creativity at Rock Band Land; and this week's Audiograph answer revealed! To subscribe to the Crosscurrents podcast in iTunes, clickhere. To use another podcasting tool, clickhere.

Finding jobs for young people in San Francisco; Bayview-Hunters Point elders try to turn young lives around; Fighting the dropout rate for African-American youth; and local sisters the T Sisters.

Why the eastern span of the Bay Bridge costs so much, the San Francisco Symphony Community Chorus, growing up dyslexic, and the local musical project "Highway 61 Revisited."

A special Crosscurrents: Julia Scott's documentary BON VOYAGE, the story of a same-sex couple from San Francisco who try to meet death in style.

A close look at Yemeni-American women in the Bay Area, Morris dancing, this week's Audiograph answer, and local musicians Pride and Joy.

The 50th anniversary of the March on Washington. We talk with the biographer of Martin Luther King, Jr.: Clayborne Carson. Plus local musicians The Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir.

The recent spate in Oakland violence spurs community members and the police captain to brainstorm safety tips, The Record Plant recording studio in Sausalito, the Tejano Conjunto musical festival in Sacramento, and local musicians Rin Tin Tiger.

Homeless hackers head to Noisebridge for shelter; San Francisco: Surviving the Future; The Video Room Survives a Mass Extinction; and local songwriter Jim Bruno.