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Curtis Carroll discovered the stock market in prison. Through friends and family on the outside, he invests from San Quentin State Prison in Northern California, and he's also an informal financial adviser to fellow inmates and correctional officers. Everyone in prison calls him Wall Street.

Our intern Max Savage Levenson interviewed filmmaker Roman Coppola about the story behind "Molto Groovy Christmas," his recent album of new interpretations of Christmas standards.

The Queen's Beekeeper by The Kitchen Sisters

Hidden Kitchens Mexico - The Tequila Chamber of Commerce by The Kitchen Sisters

Hidden Kitchens Australia - Aunty Beryl by The Kitchen Sisters

Hidden Kitchens - Atomic Wine by The Kitchen Sisters

Hidden Kitchens - The Romance & Sex Life Of The Date by The Kitchen Sisters

Hidden Kitchens Russia - Dissident Kitchens by The Kitchen Sisters

Hidden Kitchens England - Turnspit Dogs: The Rise & Fall of the Vernepator Cur by The Kitchen Sisters

Hidden Kitchens Russia - Communal Kitchens by The Kitchen Sisters

Hidden Kitchens Sicily - The Pizza Connection by The Kitchen Sisters

In recent years, the effort to bring the Mafia under control in Sicily has spilled over into the world of food. Today a movement of small organic agricultural cooperatives has sprung up across the island to farm land once confiscated by the Mafia and bring these goods to a global market.

Eel Pie Island - Fugitive Waves by The Kitchen Sisters

1- The Rise And Fall And Rise And Fall And Rise Of Thomas Alva Edison by The Kitchen Sisters

Tennessee Williams: The Pennyland Recordings by The Kitchen Sisters

Look around your daily life.  There's a little piece of Thomas Edison almost everywhere.

Herbert, recorded on the beach in Jamaica, 1983

Lou "The Glue" Marcelli died at 3:00 this morning. He was 85. Lou was the "Commodore" of the Dolphin Club, one of the oldest swimming and rowing clubs on the West Coast, open since 1877. Lou lived at the club and cooked nightly for the old timers, the bachelors, for those without a family to go home to. His calamari was legendary. Every day he would put on his bikini trunks, bathing cap and goggle...

Leslie Cockburn is a journalist and documentary filmmaker whose work has appeared on 60 Minutes, PBS' Frontline, and in the New Yorker and Vanity Fair. She's just written her first novel, Baghdad Solitaire, a thriller about a female trauma surgeon set in Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein. Davia Nelson of The Kitchen Sisters sat down with her recently to talk about becoming a first time novelis...

Jeremy Mayer is a sculptor who disassembles typewriters and reassembles them into full-scale, anatomically correct human figures. He does not solder, weld or glue and only uses parts that come from typewriters. He lives and works in west Oakland.

Laser cutters, 3D printers, sewing machines, injection molders, welders, notchers, planers, lathes, hand tools, computers. Enter TechShop, San Francisco—three vast floors of every kind of maker’s tool imaginable.

Beck’s latest album, Song Reader, echoes a time when popular songs were played at home, around the parlor piano. Existing only as loose-leaf sheet music, Song Reader is an album for listeners to play for themselves. We take a look at various ways people are making music with Song Reader.

If you had one hour, one table and a rapt audience, what would you demo at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art? On Thursday & Friday, May 30 and 31st, The Making Of… goes live at SFMOMA. Visit http://kqed.org/makingof to submit.

A look inside the painted world of Judith Belzer as she prepares her new show, Edgelands, up now at the Morgan Lehman Gallery in NYC. This story was produced with Lauren Benichou & Ashley Richardson.

The Kitchen Sisters take us behind the scenes into rehearsal, sound check, and the making of Way To Blue, the new Nick Drake tribute record.