The California Report Magazine

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

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...

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

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, 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Helping the Homeless, By Living With them, A Reporter and A Politician Share Loss, Giant Tree Stump Takes the Opera Stage, Bumpass Hell Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Unusual Romance Leads to Unlikely Family, Food and Family from 826 Valencia, Bringing Seniors Some Love, the OId-School Way, Gospel Quartet of Brothers Find Praise Outside the Church Walls Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Human Library, 'California Typewriter,' an Ode to Analogue, Placido Domingo’s 50-Year Run in L.A., Winery Faces Life After Fire, A Visit to Volcano, Calif. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

From Aptos, California to ZZYZX (Population 1), it's a weekly California road trip for your ears, and your imagination. Cattle ranching moms. Homeless college students. Young mariachis. They’re all Californians, and we’ve got their stories. Subscribe now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Meet Flipper’s Ted Falconi, Vietnam Vet and Punk Rock Legend Flipper may not be the best-known band from Oakland, but after more than 40 years, it’s definitely one of punk’s most influential. It has inspired scores of musicians like Kurt Cobain and Moby. A large part of its signature sound comes from guitarist Ted Falconi, a Vietnam vet who brought the noises of war home with him. KQED’s Kevin Jon...

Sound Guru Bernie Krause’s Beloved ‘Wild Sanctuary’ Destroyed by Fire Last month's fires in Northern California destroyed thousands of homes and businesses. But we also lost some key cultural landmarks. One of those places was an inspiration to artists, scientists and sound recordists around the world. Yet mostly unknown to its neighbors in Sonoma County's Valley of the Moon. It was home and studi...

The Water Belongs to Everyone, and This Blind Kayaker Will Prove It We start our show with a man on a mythological mission. His name is Ahmet Ustunel. He lives in San Francisco, and he has a dream. He wants to return to his homeland of Turkey and take a big journey on a tiny kayak across the Bosphorus Strait, one of the busiest shipping channels in the world. Think enormous freighters. And his lit...

Voices From the Fires The wildfires that roared through Wine Country will rank among the deadliest and most destructive in California history. But many Californians are already jumping in, doing what they can now to support the recovery. We hear from both survivors and volunteers, who are looking ahead to a new future, post-fire. An Oakland Hills Fire Survivor's Advice to a North Bay Fire Victim J...

Voices from Fire-Ravaged Northern California In Northern California, the week began with a sudden onslaught of flames whipped up by the wind. Multiple wildfires erupted across wine country. Homes, businesses and entire towns have been burned to the ground. Now, even as firefighters continue to work, many residents are returning to see what is left. For Santa Rosa’s KZST Radio Station, the News is...

A Week After a Massacre, Life Goes on in Vegas More than half the victims of this week’s mass shooting in Las Vegas were from California. Many Southern Californians, especially, have a deep connection to Las Vegas, but in the heart of the Las Vegas Strip, there's not a lot of obvious acknowledgment of what happened, with casinos and hotel marquees still ablaze with intensity. What's changed? And w...

On this special edition of The California Report Magazine, we go back in time to look at the Vietnam War and how it shaped the lives of some Californians. This week we’re in San Diego, home to the Marine Corps base at Camp Pendleton. The Teen and Marine Who United to Resist the Vietnam War and Racism in the Military Not all the battles were fought in Vietnam -- enlisted men were also fighting a wa...

Bridging the Political Divide, One Dinner at a Time Many of us are taught not to talk politics at the dinner table -- especially if your guests fall on different sides of the political spectrum. But as Bianca Taylor tells us, a new movement called ‘Make America Dinner Again’ breaks this rule, in a big way. It's the latest installment in our series "Start the Conversation.” 2 Years After Destructiv...