SHOW: Freedom Needs a Soundtrack Ep.4 — The First Concert
Today, we’re gonna go back 30 years to a moment when major artists came together for nonviolence, freedom, and Tibet: The Tibetan Freedom Co...
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20 of 2,956 episodesBOUNCE: A New Generation of Opportunity in Girls Flag Football
Girls flag football is growing, and opening doors for players that didn’t exist just a few years ago. Today, we explore why coaches, athlete...
SHOW: Uncuffed's 'More Than A Game'
Today, a new episode of Uncuffed that’s all sports, play, and the pleasure of competition. We’ve got stories from the track and the chess bo...
Fixing What’s Broken to Give it New Life
Today, we meet the people who fix broken but beloved belongings. And, we get an update on the federal corruption trial of recalled former Oa...
Sex, bribes, and phone tape: An update on Oakland's corruption scandal
This October, the trial of former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao, her boyfriend, Andre Jones, and prominent local businessmen David and Andy Duong...
The Stoop: Bury Me Whole
August is National Minority Donor Awareness month. It's a month for raising awareness of organ donation and transplantation in communities o...
Fixit Clinics turn consumers into fixers
Here’s a question for you- if you have something around your house that needs fixing- an appliance, a device… What do you do? Fix it or ditc...
New Arrivals: Mike Huguenor chronicles iconic indy label Asian Man Records
New Arrivals is KALW's pocket sized book tour of Bay Area Authors. Mike Huguenor lives in San Jose. His book, " Elvis is Dead, I’m Still Ali...
SHOW: The Lasting Fallout from Local Immigration Court Closures
The closure of San Francisco’s immigration courts has had big ramifications. Today, we get an update on how immigrants are navigating an inc...
Move to Concord immigration court proving chaotic for judges, asylum seekers
On May first, the Trump administration closed its main immigration court in San Francisco's Financial District. That follows months of clash...
Sights + Sounds: BART Prom Royalty
Recently BART held their first ever… prom! More than twelve hundred people attended (and danced at!) the sold-out Under the sea/’80s-themed...
BOUNCE: A Heyday for Girls Baseball
It’s a brand new season of BOUNCE! Today, KALW's Anna Casalme is taking us out to the ball game, where every kid on the field is a girl. Plu...
SHOW: Staying Safe From Scams in the Age of AI
AI scams are getting incredibly sophisticated. But protecting yourself doesn’t have to be. And, we honor the Oakland storytelling icon, Dian...
AI accelerates organized cybercrimes
Online scams have proliferated and are even trickier to detect now… thanks to the use of new AI tools. These scams have become so widespread...
Remembering Oakland storytelling icon, Diane Ferlatte
Earlier this month, we lost a Bay Area storytelling icon — Oakland’s Diane Ferlatte. She was an award winning, grammy nominated teller of Af...
SHOW: How Fatherhood Shapes Men's Brains, and Lives
The way we raise our children is once again changing. Today, the latest science and understanding behind fatherhood. Then, we tag along on t...
Litquake - Dad Brain: The New Science of Fatherhood and How It Shapes Men's Lives
Lately, there has been a lot of talk about why it is so difficult to raise families in this country. And the question of starting families i...
A musician’s thousand mile journey to help the monarch butterfly
Right now the butterflies are north of us and inland for the summer, but in a month, they’ll begin heading west to make it back to the Calif...
Bounce Season 3 Trailer
Last year, our podcast Bounce followed the first season of San Francisco’s newest WNBA team, the Valkyries. They did not disappoint, and gav...
SHOW: The Regenerative Cycle of Bay Area Art and Culture
A legendary venue in Oakland reopens after two decades of closure. Then we go into KALW's live event venue to hear from the artists that tra...