KALW

Crosscurrents

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Crosscurrents is KALW Public Radio's award-winning news magazine, broadcasting in the Bay Area Mondays through Thursdays on 91.7 FM. We make joyful, informative stories that engage people across the economic, social, and cultural divides in our community.

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KALW

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Society

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www.kalw.org

Latest episode

Jul 9, 2026

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Episodes

Crosscurrents: June 18, 2015 19.06.2015

A girls club in San Francisco's Bayview district, the Frameline Film Festival, this week's Audiograph game answer, and local musicians The Bernal Hill Players.

Crosscurrents: June 17, 2015 18.06.2015

After Warriors' championship win, a celebration in the streets; Where kids take flight in Bayview; Old Skool Cafe addresses new school problems; StoryCorps: Keeping family traditions alive; and local band American Nomad.

Crosscurrents: June 16, 2015 17.06.2015

A neighborhood history tour aims to strengthen Bayview-Hunters Point; The Upshot: Fire on the 57 Bus in Oakland; and Bay Area Beats: Antique Naked Soul.

Crosscurrents: June 15, 2015 16.06.2015

Punk Show! San Francisco punk from the beginning of the movement. Maximum Rock 'n' Roll, Penelope Houston, SF band Flesh World, and local musicians Fang.

Audiograph Special 12.06.2015

Welcome to Audiograph – the Bay Area’s sonic signature. Each week, we play you a sound recorded somewhere in the Bay Area, ask you to tell us what it is, and where we recorded it. We reveal the story behind our mystery sounds every Thursday on Crosscurrents.

Crosscurrents: June 10, 2015 11.06.2015

Support systems in the aftermath of police shootings, SF rapper DaVinci, Belva Davis, and local musicians Underwoman and the Believers.

Crosscurrents: June 9, 2015 09.06.2015

Cohabitation Show!

Crosscurrents: June 8, 2015 08.06.2015

It's The Beasts and Disasters Show!

Crosscurrents: June 4, 2015 04.06.2015

The Spiritual Edge: At a ranch in Cazadero, it's sheep, spirituality, and science; A rancher fights for her farm; and this week's Audiograph answer revealed!

Crosscurrents: June 3, 2015 03.06.2015

Teaching teens how to deal with tough community problems, misguided loyalty from the San Quentin Prison Report, what it's like to be released from a life sentence in prison, and local musician Janam.

Crosscurrents: June 2, 2015 02.06.2015

What's the fastest way to commute in the Bay Area? Bike, car, or public transportation? Plus teenage suicide down the peninsula, and local musician Kally Price.

6/1: NUMMI, five years later 02.06.2015

When the NUMMI auto plant in Fremont closed five years ago, thousands of people lost their jobs. Some workers had decades of experience — but it wasn’t easy to get work. A new car company moved in, but it was … different.

Crosscurrents: May 27, 2015 27.05.2015

Did Robert Louis Stevenson have the world's weirdest honeymoon?; "Scurrilous and scandalous": subversive humor at the SF Public Library; and two Book Reports: Maggie Tokuda-Hall and Cara Black.

Crosscurrents: May 26, 2015 26.05.2015

A show all about Northern California's delta: its agriculture, economy, and the people who live there.

Crosscurrents: May 21, 2015 22.05.2015

A special edition of Crosscurrents with guest-host Matt Martin!

Crosscurrents: May 20, 2015 21.05.2015

Being on lockdown in San Quentin, "passing" in terms of how one speaks, and reading braille.

Crosscurrents: May 19, 2015 20.05.2015

Comedy Show! Comedians with Disabilities, a comedian inside San Quentin, standups, you name it we go it!

Crosscurrents: May 14, 2015 15.05.2015

Sports show!!! The Spanish-language broadcasters of the San Francisco Giants, the Giants ballpark organist, and the Ice Guy.

Crosscurrents: May 13, 2015 14.05.2015

A Spiritual Edge membership campaign show!

Crosscurrents: May 12, 2015 13.05.2015

A special How To Do Things edition of Crosscurrents featuring guest host D'Arcy Drollinger! -- Witching to find water; How to be transgender in prison; A visit with the string whisperer; and the Art of grocery bagging.

Crosscurrents: May 11, 2015 11.05.2015

Andrew Leonard talks about his new article for San Francisco Magazine, "Long Live The Empress"; keeping memories of Chinatown alive and kicking; Local author Peter Orner's Book Report, and local band Corner Laughers.

Crosscurrents: May 7, 2015 08.05.2015

Mother's Day! An Iranian-American playwright and her movie-star mom, a Story Corps with a woman and her biological and foster mother, a flamenco dancer passes on the dancing gene to her daughter, the KALW Newsroom talks about what their moms taught them, and local musicians The Brothers Comatose.

Crosscurrents: May 6, 2015 07.05.2015

An arts enter that's helping people with disabilities express themselves, getting on the job training as a young person with a disability, and a man with down syndrome talks about opening his own restaurant.

Crosscurrents: May 5, 2015 06.05.2015

Everything you always wanted to know about menopause but were afraid to ask.

Crosscurrents: May 4, 2015 05.05.2015

Local reactions to the death of Freddie Gray; The San Quentin Prison Report: Expanding minds behind bars; a conversation with documentarians Annelise Wunderlich and Richard O'Connell about their new film, The Corridor; and local big band The Electric Squeezebox Orchestra.

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