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Member Magazine NOVEMBER 2018 Check, Please! Bay Area Kids KQED Perks Applied Materials Silicon Valley Turkey Trot Start Thanksgiving off on the right foot at the 14th annual Applied Materials Silicon Valley Turkey Trot in downtown San Jose on Thursday, November 22, at 8:30am. Join KQED for festive fun that gives back to the community! The Turkey Trot, which offers a 5k run‐ walk, a 10k run and a kids fun run, supports Silicon Valley charities and has contributed $7.8 million to its benefiting organizations. This year supports the Healthier Kids Foundation Santa Clara County, the Housing Trust Silicon Valley, the Second Harvest Food Bank of Santa Clara, San Mateo and Santa Cruz counties and the Health Trust. svturkeytrot.com KQED Silicon Valley Conversations in Downtown San Jose Join us for the third installment of KQED Silicon Valley Conversations on Tuesday, December 4, at 7pm for a discussion on the Future of Your Commute. Tonya Mosley, KQED’s Silicon Valley bureau chief, will host a conversation at the 3Below Theaters & Lounge in San Jose about the technological changes we have already seen in our commutes and those we will see in the next five years, ten years, and beyond. As autonomous vehicles, scheduled ride shares and electric scooters become more common, we are changing the way we commute. Will autonomous vehicles be on the roads by 2020? Are the scooters here to stay? What changes can we expect to public transportation? The changes in the Bay Area are evident, but what do these technological advances look like around the state and country? Where are these technologies now and what developments should we look for next? Tickets are $25 for KQED members and $30 for nonmembers. For tickets and more information, visit kqed.org/events. Photos (top to bottom): courtesy Applied Materials Turkey Trot; courtesy KQED. Trot; Photos (top to bottom): courtesy Applied Materials Turkey On Q November 2018 KQED Public Radio Kids Rule Check, KQED Public Television Please! Bay Area The four-part special premieres Thursday, November 29 For the first time, the kids are the critics on Check, Please! which features our ten-year-old guest’s favorite foods — Bay Area. It’s the same show you know and love, but with Russian caviar and beef tartare; and Marin Joe’s, popular three kids sharing their opinions of each other’s favorite with Corte Madera locals craving Italian-American comfort restaurants under the guidance of our host, Leslie Sbrocco. food and a jiujitsu-loving kid who has been going there since Aged ten through 14 years old, these kids go on the he was a baby. record with their opinions about the good, the bad and As the season continues, kids will introduce us to the downright delicious! The four-part special premieres San Jose’s Minato Japanese Restaurant, where kids meals Thursday, November 29, at 7:30pm on KQED 9 and come with a prize; Tapsilog Bistro, which pairs authentic continues into December. Filipino flavors with a sporty atmosphere in Campbell; Get magazine online: kqed.org/OnQ In August, we asked you to submit your favorite Giorgio’s Pizzeria, where generations of families have been budding foodies, and within two days of the casting call, coming for pipin’ hot pizza pies since 1972; Zareen’s Palo we received nearly 400 applications from kids throughout Alto, a bustling spot offering contemporary Pakistani and the Bay Area. Check, Please! producers invited 100 of Indian cuisine; the rich frosty shakes at Oakland’s Park Photos (cover; inside): courtesy Grace Cheung. those applicants to visit KQED for a fun-filled casting Burger; authentic Mexican specialties at San Jose’s Tu Mero session and studio tour. We were thrilled to meet so many Mole; homey Italian fare at Antipastos in San Jose; the Veg articulate kids — clearly, the Bay Area restaurant scene Hub, a fast-casual spot offering healthy, hearty vegan dishes has inspired a new generation of passionate young diners. in Oakland; and Coco’s Ramen, a cozy Japanese restaurant Studio tapings with the final 12 kids had the production in San Francisco where you can gorge on both steaming staff and Leslie in stitches, with no-holds-barred discussions ramen and sushi. on everything from trying vegan meat substitutes for the first time to learning the proper pronunciation for Check, Please! Bay Area Kids premieres “bibimbap” to the right amount of heat in Indian cuisine. Thursday, November 29, at 7:30pm on KQED 9. The premiere episode visits Art’s Cafe, a San Francisco KQED.org kqed.org/checkplease breakfast institution that keeps one young eater craving its signature hash brown sandwiches and Korean bibimbap bowls; the Perle Wine Bar in Oakland’s Montclair Village, 3 Food Thanksgiving 101 Feeling stressed with Turkey Day coming up? KQED’s Bay Area Bites has you covered with new and steadfast Thanksgiving recipes and mouthwatering videos, plus tips on creating a stress-free holiday meal. From vegetarian to gluten free, there will be something to please everyone at your table! As we get closer to Thanksgiving, visit Bay Area Bites for recipes and cooking tips for both before and after the big day. kqed.org/bayareabites Turkey Six Ways Throw your Thanksgiving turkey on the smoker, brine it, spatchcock it or whatever you’d like. We’re offering six alternatives for preparing your turkey, along with a delicious array of side dishes to make friends and family happy. Transform Your Leftovers After a delicious feast with your loved ones, what to do with all those leftovers? Make sandwiches! Tikka masala! Enchiladas! Those are just a few of the recipes we’ve cobbled together for you. Holiday Hotline What questions do you have about making Thanksgiving cooking a little easier or more delicious? Contact us! instagram.com/kqedbayareabites facebook.com/bayareabites Photos: courtesy Wendy Goodfriend. Photos: courtesy Wendy twitter.com/bayareabites 4 On Q November 2018 KQED Public Radio Public Media Icon KQED Public Television Jo Anne Wallace Retires from KQED Longtime Vice President and General station that had first ignited my passion for meetings. I met many of the leaders of Manager Jo Anne Wallace will conclude radio, KPFA. public radio, including the founders of her 28-year tenure at KQED this month. NPR. And I was inspired to learn a huge Wallace is a legend throughout public Many listeners probably don’t know this, amount about public radio, its beginnings media and at KQED. Without her but at one time KQED Public Radio was in the late ’60s, and its mission and leadership, KQED Public Radio would devoted to classical music. How did the aspirations. sound very different from today. Wallace station transition to its current format? led the development of such long-running In 1987, KQED’s CEO decided to What was your role in helping Car Talk programs as Forum and The California experiment with transforming KQED get NPR distribution? Report, among others. Previously, she Public Radio into an all-news and Initially, I asked an NPR senior vice Get magazine online: kqed.org/OnQ worked in news at NPR, where she information station. At the time, FM was president heading up programming to participated in the development of Weekend considered by the radio industry as a music acquire Car Talk for national distribution. Edition Saturday and Sunday and helped medium, and all-news had never been He turned me down, saying NPR listeners acquire iconic programs Car Talk and Fresh tried — on commercial or noncommercial wouldn’t be interested in a program about Air for national distribution. radio. So KQED’s decision was truly car repair. I then persuaded my boss, Robert revolutionary. And it worked! Today, Siegel, head of NPR News, to take it on as a What made you pursue a career in radio? KQED is ranked No. 1 in the SF radio “public affairs” show. Robert knew, as I did, As a student at Stanford, I discovered the market and No. 1 among all public radio that Car Talk was more about relationships listener-supported radio station KPFA in stations. than car repair and that the show was Berkeley. I had never heard noncommercial enormous fun. He said yes, and the rest radio and was inspired by what I found. You were one of the first four female is history. Fast forward to 1968, when I moved to general managers working in public radio Yellow Springs, Ohio, with my former when you started your career. What was What is your proudest achievement? husband who began teaching at Antioch that like? Growing KQED’s news and public affairs KQED.org College. I started volunteering at the It was the ’70s and the women’s movement service for listeners all across the Bay Area Photo: courtesy Juan Plasencia. student-run radio station, WYSO. In 1973, was growing strong. Although I managed a community with programs like Forum the college asked me to manage the station, tiny, very experimental radio station at the and Perspectives. And founding KQED’s with a full-time paid staff of five. I returned time, I was invited to a number of NPR statewide news service, The California to the Bay Area in 1977 to manage the and Corporation for Public Broadcasting Report, in 1995. 5 Meet the Filmmakers of Behind the Lens Watch six new episodes online this fall Step behind the camera and follow Louisiana. The film, which comes to character, Lee is versatile: he’s also a music the journeys of a new generation of PBS in 2019, follows a group of defiant video director, working with local acts storytellers with Behind the Lens, an people defending their communities Meklit and Con Brio.