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The California Report Magazine KQED
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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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‘I’m Gonna Miss It’: Saying Goodbye to San Francisco's Beloved Cabaret, AsiaSF
Famous for showcasing transgender performers for more than a quarter century, AsiaSF, the beloved San Francisco restaurant and club, closed its doors this week. Reporter Wilma Consul went to one of the final shows at AsiaSF, and tells us how the groundbreaking venue became a place where people from all over the world could find joy and authenticity.
And, California has had a state flower and state animal for awhile now, but this year we finally got an official state mushroom. KQED's Danielle Venton takes us foraging to try to find the Golden Chanterelle.
Finally, we head to Fresno County, where a group of farmworkers living in a mobile home park did something that might seem impossible in a time of rising housing costs: They bought the park from their corporate landlords. The California Report’s Madi Bolanos tells us how they did it.
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A Peek Behind the Scenes at the California Report Magazine
We're in your feeds a little early this week, but for good reason: We're giving you a little peek behind the scenes! You'll be meeting some of the people who make The California Report Magazine, and we'll take you through the process of how a story gets made. If you like what you hear, please consider visiting donate.kqed.org/podcast and supporting the work we do at KQED. Thanks.
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Parents (and Teachers) Just Don't Understand
It's Youth Takeover week here at KQED, a time when we hand the mics over to local high school students. This year, we hear from teens at Fremont High School in in East Oakland. They talk about the challenges they face right now and tell us why they feel so misunderstood.
And we visit the San Fernando Valley, where high school seniors have taken over one of the most anticipated rights of passage: prom. LAist's Mariana Dale discovered a program at Sylmar Charter High School where students don’t just choose the theme and set up decorations: they actually grow and arrange the flowers for the big event.
Plus, why doesn't California have more school buses? How kids get to and from school is a big part of the school experience for many kids. But if you’ve been looking closely you may have noticed there aren’t as many school buses as there are in other states. Katrina Schwartz, who’s a producer with KQED’s Bay Curious podcast, set out to figure out why.
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After Parole, ICE Deported This Refugee Back to a Country He Never Knew
After escaping genocide in Cambodia, Phoeun You’s family settled in Long Beach. But after being bullied as a teen, You joined a gang. He ended up shooting and killing a teenager. You served 25 years in California prisons and tried to turn his life around while he was behind bars. He thought he'd gotten that chance when he was granted parole, but upon release, he was deported to a country he had never really known. Producer Mateo Schimpf brings us his story.
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Why Italians in California Were Treated as 'Enemy Aliens' During WWII
Within months of the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, as more than 100,000 Japanese Americans were being sent to incarceration camps, other ethnic groups also became the target of new wartime security measures. Italian citizens living near California’s coastline and military sites — some 10,000 of them — were forced to leave their homes and find somewhere else to live. It was just one of many government measures meant to protect the West Coast from an enemy invasion that never came. Reporter Pauline Bartolone brings us this story from the Bay Curious podcast.
Plus, we look at the labor behind reality television. From blind dates to tiny homes, the genre has exploded in recent years But some workers say the success of the industry hasn't translated into stability for people behind the scenes. Guest host Bianca Taylor talks to KCRW's Megan Jamerson, who's talked to some reality TV workers who say they’re being overworked and underpaid.
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Making a Home in Fire Country
As journalists, we don’t often tell our own stories. We separate ourselves from the issues we cover. But sometimes, the story hits close to home. This week, we’re featuring a story from Erin Baldassari, KQED’s Senior Editor for Housing Affordability. Growing up in California's Sierra Nevada foothills, wildfire has always been part of her consciousness. Her earliest memory is fleeing a fire as it bore down on her childhood home. As she and her family consider moving back, she wanted to learn how people there are adapting to the rising risk of wildfires due to climate change.
Erin’s story comes to us from the KQED podcast, Sold Out: Rethinking Housing in America.
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Customer Reviews
Loved the Mixed! Series
Wonderful and beautiful job done on the Mixed race series. I loved every episode and am so glad how y’all approached this topic :)
Love learning about CA but reporters intentionally willfully ignorant
I love learning about California since I live here, but it’s very frustrating to listen to these reporters with purported “in depth” reporting purposely neglect certain aspects of episodes. I just listened to a show on how the native peoples land was stolen and they’re slowly buying it back. The very next episode played on how black Americans settled Allensworth. In neither episode did they mention that even these black Americans were on stolen land. Why purposely ignore this fact? One needs to bring it up. If you’re stating that these African-Americans were wrongfully treated/removed, you need to bring up that the land was all original native land. This is the same issue with Bakers beach. Everyone ignores the fact that before the Baker family owned it, it was native peoples land. it’s like NPR doesn’t want to touch the subject, and it needs to be addressed. I want to know how people reconcile this fact. Like ask the people they are interviewing what do they think about being on stolen land? Every time NPR reports on land, they should state historically what tribe was on that land. There’s other issues like when talking about the homeless, they always neglect to ask where these homeless people originally arose from. Some people come out to California for a dream and yes they have housing when they get here, but they lose their housing. Ask them where they graduated high school and how long ago was it. They may have only been here a few months, and only come with money that’s in their pocket & easily become homeless because they weren’t prepared. Or about Japanese internment camps left empty housing and the African migration south took that opportunity to move in those homes & take those jobs that were left open by the removal of the Japanese. No one talked about or asked anyone what they thought about that aspect. It’s like the reporters want to remain willfully ignorant or maybe they just lack the critical thinking skills needed to figure out these questions need to be asked. These stories are not “in depth” like the show summary states.
Mixed race episode was spot on
I’m a new listener and thoroughly enjoyed the discussion with Kip Fulbeck on mixed race identity. Being mixed race myself, I identified with the discussion of the hosts and guests. I look forward to the next episodes teased and hope one of them includes a spotlight on UCSB’s class mentioned in this episode. I took the class in the 90s and it was phenomenal. Great podcast and I enjoyed the content and pace from the hosts in this 11/5/21 episode.