Crosscurrents

KALW

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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    SHOW: Preserving Musical Heritage in Times of War and Unrest

    How far would you go to get your hands on a cassette tape? Today, we meet two music archivers from Oakland. First an Afghan man’s odyssey to preserve his cultural music. Then, a young woman from Sudan is digitizing old music cassettes for a new diaspora generation.

    27 min

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    “It’s resistance" — The Afghan Cassette Archive and ephemera under threat

    The Taliban retook power in Afghanistan in 2021, after the hasty conclusion to a 20 year U.S. occupation. Since then, music has been officially banned in the country. Musicians are driven underground, instruments are destroyed, and recordings are contraband. Here in the East Bay, one Afghan-American is working hard to preserve what he can. He’s digitizing tapes he’s sourced from back home and posting them in an online database he started calling the Afghan Cassette Archive. But getting those tapes out of Afghanistan is not as simple as an online order… It's an illegal, expensive, and dangerous odyssey. Reporter Christopher Alam met up with Omid J, aka OMJVinyls, at his Oakland studio to check out his rare collection.

    11 min

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    SHOW: Reflections and Recipes

    Today, how the political fight over college access is impacting Bay Area students. Then, we bring you readings on grief, intimacy and rest from Black Women writers.

    27 min

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    Political fight over federal college access programs has big local impact

    With graduation season wrapping up, many teenagers around the Bay Area are celebrating the end of high school and are making plans to begin college. But in Washington DC, policymakers are fighting over college access. In the past year, the Trump Administration has worked quickly to dismantle the Department of Education. And one of the major programs they want to eliminate is called TRIO, a federally-funded initiative that helps low-income students and those who would be the first in their families to go to college. Thousands of those students in the Bay Area get support from TRIO programs to get into college and graduate.  KALW reporter Anna Casalme visited two programs in San Francisco to understand what this political fight means for students.

    15 min

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    Sights + Sounds: 'When We Exhale: An Anthology of Black Women Rooted in Ancestral Medicine'

    “When We Exhale” is a new anthology collection of poetry, essays, and other writings, where Black women reflect on rest, grief, intimacy, cultural memory and healing. Jenee Darden, is the host of the KALW’s Sights and Sounds show recently welcomed the authors behind the anthology to our live event space in downtown SF. It was a night of poetry, fellowship, and connection. In this excerpt from the event, we begin with Jenee’s conversation with one of the book’s co-editors, Alie Jones. Then, we hear “A recipe for Exhale Cake” by Adrienne Danyelle Oliver. And, writer Ayodele Nzinga brings us an excerpt of her piece “a breath in three movements.”

    10 min

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    SHOW: It’s Summertime in the City!

    One San Francisco band has been going strong for 144 seasons. Today, we’re hitting the high notes with the Golden Gate Park Band’s music director. Then, the Conservatory of Flowers’ corpse flower is about to bloom again. Plus, we stop by the San Francisco dragon boat festival!

    27 min

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    Sights + Sounds: Golden Gate Park Band's Summer Season 

    If you go out to San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park on any given Sunday from April to September… and you wander over to the concourse between the California Academy of Sciences and the DeYoung museum of fine arts… you’ll hear the Golden Gate Park Band playing at the Spreckels Temple of Music. And, when I say any Sunday, I mean it. Because the band is now in their 144th season. That’s since 1882! And though the concerts have been happening for nearly a century and half, the music is very eclectic. They’re a blend of all types of music from soul, to Disney songs, to Ukrainian music, and so much more.  German Gonzalez is the current music director and conductor of the Band. He recently spoke with KALW’s Jenee Darden for the Sights and Sounds Show. In this excerpt from their conversation, German talks about his music journey and what he's looking forward to performing with his band.

    10 min

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    When a San Francisco corpse flower blooms — what happens next?

    Over the weekend, San Francisco’s Conservatory of Flowers announced that their corpse flower, named 'Scarlet,' would be blooming in the next 7 to 14 days. It’s an event that usually makes the news because these flowers can take up to ten years to reach their first bloom and they can smell like… death.  But they’re also endangered. And one of the Conservatory’s neighbors, the California Academy of Sciences, has been working with a national effort to preserve this rare plant's DNA. KALW’s Wren Farrell took a look at the program in 2024 when the Academy’s corpse flower ‘Mirage’ had its own bloom.

    8 min
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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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  • Creatore
    KALW
  • Anni di attività
    2012 - 2026
  • Puntate
    2K
  • Classificazione
    Contenuti adatti a tutti
  • Sito web del podcast
    Crosscurrents

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