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The California Report Magazine

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Every week, The California Report Magazine takes you on a road trip for the ears: to visit the places and meet the people who make California unique. The in-depth storytelling podcast from the California Report.

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Immigrant Parents and the California Dream 26.05.2018 29:46

Parents Deported, Big Sister in Charge; When UC is not the Golden Ticket; Tell Us Your California Dream Story; L.A.'s 'No ICE' Man Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Grappling with the Idea of Home 19.05.2018 30:46

Addicted to Heroin and Living in a Motel with a Baby on the Way, Persistent Poison, Calling it Quits on the Golden State, Birthplace of Flamin' Hot Cheetos Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Difficult Choices Around Motherhood 12.05.2018 30:44

Faith in Her Child Despite What the Doctors Said, When Mom Doesn’t Approve of Your Job…As a Dominatrix, Moving Towards Motherhood in the Shadow of Big Oil, A Song for Grandma Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The California Report Magazine: Sexual Harassment… in High School 05.05.2018 30:05

Fighting Harassment At High School, Seniors Share Advice on 'Lives Well Lived,' Potstickers and Pie at Sacramento's Oldest Chinese Restaurant, Does Rent Control Work? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The California Report Magazine Taken Over by High Schoolers … For a Week 28.04.2018 30:38

They explore issues like homelessness, redefining masculinity, and finding identity through art. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Stories of Californians Reinventing Themselves 21.04.2018 30:37

Konocti: A Last Resort For People Hit With Disaster, A Second Chance After Two Decades of Anxiety, Finding Self-Esteem…Through Pole Dancing, Poet Re-Examines his Farmworker Past, The Town That Changed Its Name to Happy Camp Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Little-Known Tales of California’s Past 13.04.2018 30:36

Oakland’s Time-Travelling Map, The Secret World of Inez Burns, Japanese-American 1950s Car Clubs, A Firefighter on Witnessing Too Much Tragedy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Life and Death Off Point Reyes, Wetlands Get Help From Rice Farmers 06.04.2018 30:37

A Cemetery of Life Saving Secrets on Point Reyes, How California’s Rice Fields Are Welcoming Back the Birds, Couples Counselors Get Real About Their Own Marriages, The Sodden Story Behind Whiskeytown, CA. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Counted: An Oakland Story 30.03.2018 30:41

Throughout 2017, a team of Snap Judgment producers - together with Oakland activists and parents - learned about Oakland’s homicide victims, their families and communities. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

‘We’re All Getting Older’ 23.03.2018 30:41

College hopefuls leaving California, a taste of home for South Asian seniors, when a job becomes a friendship, A Place Called 'Peanut' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The California Report Magazine: Chasing the Original California Dream 17.03.2018 31:14

Modern-day Gold Miner Still Finds Plenty, A Visit to Paradise (CA), How CA Went from Anti-Immigrant to ‘Sanctuary State,’ Birdsong Clues to Climate Change Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

My World Was Burning: The Northern California Fires and What Went Wrong 10.03.2018 31:14

A special half-hour investigation based on 911 tape + interviews with first responders and survivors of the Oct. 2016 Northern CA wildfires. A collaboration with Reveal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Stories About Belonging 03.03.2018 31:15

Taxi Drivers Losing Their Identity, Queer Skateboarders Confront Macho Culture, A Teen Loner Turns into a Celebrated Mapmaker of California's Wilderness Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Synchronized Ice Skaters and A Visit to Timbuctoo 24.02.2018 31:14

On This Ice Skating Team There Are No Olympians and No One Under 25 Robyn Fernsworth wakes up before the sun rises every Saturday morning so she can ice skate for two hours. But she's not training for the next Winter Olympics, she's practicing with the IceSymmetrics, a masters synchronized skating team based in Oakland. The IceSymmetrics are a group of moms, lawyers, teachers, some professional sk...

Changing Identities, and Taking Back Power 17.02.2018 31:14

When Italians in California were "enemy aliens," Black Panther: the Movie vs the Movement, The Body is Not an Apology, Life as a Stay-At-Home Dad Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Daytime Boogie Nights for the Senior Set, and Dispatch From a Salvadoran Deportee 10.02.2018 31:14

No One Under 60 Allowed at This LA Dance Party, Singing Gondoliers, Facing Violence and Isolation as a CA Deportee in El Salvador, Lasting Health Effects of Sexual Harassment, Chinese History in Fiddletown Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Being in DACA Limbo and Seeking Help for Post-Partum Depression 03.02.2018 31:15

Being in DACA Limbo, A Musician on Love and Loss, Conserving Water With GMO Beer, Seeking Help for Post-Partum Depression, A Town Named For Coal Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Fight for Medical Cannabis in Public Schools and Worshipping the Art of Smell 27.01.2018 31:15

Kids and Medical Cannabis, Grammy Nods for Young Composer, Moringa Mania, A Song Springs From Tragedy, Berkeley Perfume Museum Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fighting Rape on the Night Shift and Johnny Cash’s Friend in Folsom 20.01.2018 31:14

A Janitor Fights Back, Songwriter In a Cage, White Awake, Brothers Vie For Superbowl Spot Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Legend of the Lyft Rapper and the Curse of the Gold Rush Town 13.01.2018 31:15

A Ride with a Rapper, The Curse of Bodie, From Ashes to Ashes, #MeToo Sparks A Former Abuser to Speak Up, A Town Called You Bet Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Coming Together, One Conversation at a Time 06.01.2018 31:14

As we head into 2018, we feature stories from our 'Start the Conversation' series, about people bridging divides despite their differences. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Three Refugees, Three Journeys to California 30.12.2017 31:14

Refugee Café, Viet Nguyen on why Refugees are Threatening. Holocaust Survivor’s Roommate? The Granddaughter of Nazis, Syrian Family Puts Down Roots in Oakland Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Camels, Tamales, and Rainbow Girls 23.12.2017 31:15

Elaborate Christmas Display by a Non-Christian, Giving Back with a Tamalada, Turning Up the Politics by Turning off the Amps Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

San Francisco’s Changing Skyline and the Central Valley’s Frozen Burrito Empire 16.12.2017 31:14

Public Art You Can’t Avoid Seeing, They Went from Immigrants to 'Burrito Royalty,' #USToo: Assault in the Jehovah’s Witness Church, Tiny Bookstore With Big Appetite for Old Cookbooks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The California Report Magazine: Stories from the Classroom 09.12.2017 31:14

Controversial Discipline Practices, School for Autistic Kids Post-Wildfire, A Teacher’s #MeToo Story, Sphinx Buried in Sand Dunes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices