photo: Julie Caine The View from KALW San Francisco, as seen from Burton High School, home to KALW’s studios.

Hear the new season of Radiolab Tuesday at 10pm

Stories from Latin America & around the Bay Area (see p. 5) (see p. 7)

July/August/September 2012 KALW: By and for the community . . . COMMUNITY BROADCAST PARTNERS AIA, San Francisco • Association for Continuing Education • Berkeley Symphony Orchestra • Burton High School • Center for Architecture and Design • Global Exchange • INFORUM at The Commonwealth Club • Jewish Community Center of San Francisco • LitQuake • Mills College • New America Media • Oakland Asian Cultural Center • Other Minds • outLoud • Radio Ambulante • San Francisco Conservatory of Music • SF Performances • StoryCorps • Youth Radio FOUNDATION SUPPORTERS The Cow Hollow Foundation • Craigslist Fund • The Friedman Family Foundation • Ira & Leonore Gershwin Trusts • Rosenberg Foundation • The Walter and Elise Haas Fund • The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation KALW VOLUNTEER PRODUCERS Rose Arrieta, Wendy Baker, Sarag Bernard, Zoe Brezsny, Susie Britton, Sarah Cahill, Bob Campbell, Jayme Catsouphes, Leila Day, Lisa Denenmark, Julia Dewitt, Fatima Duran, Matt Fidler, Chuck Finney, Bryan Flaig, Irene Florez, Richard Friedman, Emily Gadek, Ninna Gaensler-Debs, Mwende Hahesy, Carolina Hidalgo, Eric Jansen, Monica Jensen, Nathanael Johnson, Angela Johnston, Jordan Katz, Carol Kocivar, Artjoms Konohovs, Ashleyanne Krigbaum, Tajha Lanier, David Latulippe, JoAnn Mar, Martin MacClain, Holly McDede, Lauren Meltzer, Charlie Mintz, Sandy Miranda, Emmanuel Nado, Mark Naftalin, Marty Nemko, Nina Nicole, Edwin Okong’o, Kevin Oliver, Joseph Pace, Marilyn Pittman, Lisa Ratner, Mary Rees, Dana Rodriguez, David Ross, Steven Short, Judy Silber, Isaac Silk, Antoinette Siu, Dore Stein, Devon Strolovitch, Katie Styer, Niels Swinkels, Peter Thompson, Victoria Thorp, Kevin Vance, Chloe Veltman, David Waldorf, Mariel Waloff, Melanie Young KALW VOLUNTEERS Daniel Aarons, Susan Aberg, Frank Adam, Bud Alderson, Jody Ames, Jean Amos, Leon Bayer, Laura Bernabei, Bruce Bernstein, Marc Branco, Robbie Brandwynne, Diane Brett, Andrew Broderick, Joshua Brody, Ronald Chase, Valeri Clarke, Linda Clever, Peter Conheim, Carolyn Deacy, James Coy Driscoll, Doug Dyment, Jim & Joy Esser, Steve Fankuchen, Peter Fortune, Janet Lee Frankel, Nina Frankel, Dave Gomberg, Ashley Gould, Jo Gray, Terence Groepner, Paula Groves, Stefan Gruenwedel, Ted Guggenheim, Dan Gunning, Roger Hall, Ian Hardcastle, Jeffrey Hayden, Donna Heatherington, Christine Holdrup, Kent Howard, Judge Eugene Hyman, Lynn Jefferson, Jenny Jens, Kathleen Kaplan, Brenda Kett, Lou Kipilman, I. W. Klein, Sarah Kulberg, Joseph Lepera, Fred Lipshultz, Toni Lozica, Diana Lum, Jennifer Mahoney, Jack Major, Horace Marks, Tom Mason, Colleen McAvoy, Michael McGinley, Yasmine Mehmet, Fred & Cheryl Merrick, Antonio Nierras, Tim Olson, Alice O’Sullivan, Art Persyko, Catherine Raye- Wong, Peter Robinson, Ronald Rohde, Rick Rose, Marti Roush, Maureen Russell, Bryan Schwartz, Marc Seidenfeld, Mo Shooer, Kevin Stamm, John Sullivan, Bian Tan, Ann Temple, Yuyu Thein, Sal Timpano, Coban Tun, David Vartanoff, Sheila Walsh, Charlie Wegerle, Harry Weller, Patrick Wheeler, Marianne Wiener, Steve Wilcott, Greg Wynn OUR LICENSEE, THE SAN FRANCISCO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT Superintendent: Carlos Garcia • Board of Commissioners: Sandra Lee Fewer, Kim-Shree Maufus, Hydra Mendoza, Emily Murase, Rachel Norton, Jill Wynns, Norman Yee • Director, Office of Public Outreach and Communications: Gentle Blythe KALW Personnel Matt Martin, General Manager Martina Castro, Managing Nancy Mullane, Reporter William Helgeson, News Editor Rose Aguilar, Host Operations Manager Audrey Dilling, Producer Malihe Razazan, Producer David Latulippe, Administration Chris Hoff, News Engineer Ali Budner, Producer Phil Hartman, Engineering Erica Mu, News Tech Support Annette Bistrup, Membership Seth Samuel, News Engineer Part-time announcers Emily Algire, Membership Hana Baba, Host/Reporter Eric Jansen Joe Burke, Announcer Casey Miner, Reporter/Editor Debi Kennedy Alan Farley, Senior Announcer Julie Caine, Reporter David Latulippe JoAnn Mar, Announcer Jennifer Chien, Reporter Bob Sommer Holly Kernan, News Director Nicole Jones, Reporter Kevin Vance Ben Trefny, Executive News Editor Kyung-Jin Lee, Reporter Eric Wayne ABOUT KALW KALW is a pioneer educational station licensed to the San Francisco Unified School District, broadcasting since September 1, 1941 — the oldest FM signal west of the Mississippi. Mailing address: KALW Radio Offices: (415) 841-4121 500 Mansell Street Fax: (415) 841-4125 San Francisco, CA 94134 Studio Line: (415) 841-4134 For general comments, membership inquiries, and non-profit Public Service Announcement requests, use the following email address: [email protected] © Contents KALW

KALW program guide edited by Matt Martin and David Latulippe, 869-M designed by Georgette Petropoulos, Howard Quinn Company 2 Manager’s Notes KALW is a creative community enter- ship drives. Not to prise. Its vitality comes from the people who mention phe- decide to actively participate in Local Public nomenal people Radio. like Brenda Kett, First and foremost, that means our Michael McGinley, listener-supporters. And because of the gen- Doug Dyment, erosity of more than 11,000 active members, Jack Major, Horace the station is building a financial reserve and Marks . . . able to look to the future. The problem But another important measure of com- is, once I start this munity participation in KALW can be found list, it’s very hard in the fine print on the page opposite this to stop. There are one: The growing list of names identified as just so many people who give of themselves “Volunteers” and Volunteer Producers”. to this station, and who define its character with their generosity, warmth and humor. As a listener, you probably recognize the contributions made by volunteer hosts like And it’s when we do something special, Marilyn Pittman, Kevin Vance, Marty Nemko, like hosting Tavis Smiley & Cornel West at Edwin Okong’o and Dana Rodriguez, whose The Paramount, that the expanding base voices and knowledge make KALW a lot of KALW volunteers comes into relief. We more interesting to listen to. And if you tune could never have committed to such a huge in to Crosscurrents and hear all those names undertaking without knowing we’d have doz- in “the team” at the end of each broadcast, ens of volunteers to join the effort – greeting you may have some sense of how crucial people in the lobby, helping coordinate with volunteers are to KALW News. our partners, and organizing our meet and greet with local civic and community leaders. But unless you spend your days around the station, you may not understand the However you choose to participate in extent to which its day-to-day operations KALW – and it may simply be reading this depend on people who give their time and guide and learning more about the station’s energy to KALW. diverse programming – thank you. And if you’d like to be more actively involved in People like Toni Lozica and Tom Mason, Local Public Radio, please feel free to get in (see p. 6) who’ve been showing up to work at touch. the station every week for decades, and who Sincerely, package and mail nearly every thank you gift. Or Marti Roush, who quietly ensures that people who support this station are properly thanked. Or Donna Heatherington, who’s made it her personal mission to build posi- Matt Martin tive relationships with local businesses that General Manager donate food and drink during our member- [email protected]

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3 Smiley & West at the Paramount

Nearly 2,000 people from around the Bay Area came to the Paramount Theatre in Oakland on April 28th to hear Tavis Smiley & Cornel West talk about their book The Rich & the Rest of Us and the impact of rising poverty and inequal- ity on our democracy. KALW’s Rose Aguilar introduced Tavis & Dr. West, and led a lively audience Q&A session. Before and after the discussion, audience members had an opportunity to interact with KALW’s community partners: Alameda County Food Bank, ACCE (Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment), Causa Justa/Just Cause, Center for Urban Schools and Part- nerships at Mills College, EARN (Earned Assets Resource Network), East Bay Community Foundation, EBASE (East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy), East Oakland Community Project, Ella Baker Center, Family Independence Initiative, PICO California (People Improving Communities through Organizing), San Francisco Food Bank, United Way Bay Area, The Unity Council, Urban Habitat, Women’s Economic Agenda Project, and Youth Radio. Thanks to those organizations for mak- ing the night successful and valuable, and to KALW volunteer Rob Guettler, who captured some of the special moments of the evening on camera.

KALW’s Malihe Razazan, Rose Aguilar, and Holly Kernan

A DVD of the event is available for a contribution to KALW at kalw.org, or via our Membership Department at 500 Mansell Street, San Francisco, CA 94134. An audience member learns about EBASE.

4 ThisLatin American Life: Radio Ambulante^ On the Move

Radio Ambulante is a new can delight in the details, the Spanish-language radio pro- humor, the particularities of gram showcasing compelling speech, of dialects. Some- human stories from around thing is always lost in transla- Latin America and the United tion; a Radio Ambulante story States. It’s the first program looks at Latin America from of its kind in Spanish – and it’s the inside. based at KALW. A lot of attention has been Daniel Alarcón started Ra- paid in Latin America to the dio Ambulante with Carolina new generation of nonfiction Guerrero, Annie Correal, and writers, authors like Julio KALW’s Martina Castro. He’s Villanueva Chang, Diego the author of the novel Lost Daniel Alarcón Osorno, Cristóbal Peña, Ga- City Radio, and the follow- briela Wiener, Leila Guerriero, ing is adapted from an interview he did with Cristian Alarcón, among others. We want to Nancy Smith of the on-line literary magazine have these immensely gifted journalists—men The Rumpus. and women who’ve already revitalized the long-form narrative—we want them to tell Why did you decide to start their stories in sound. Radio Ambulante? Because Radio Ambulante covers In late 2007, I was asked by the BBC to stories from all over Latin America and host a documentary about Andean migra- tion to Lima. Naturally, I was intrigued. I the , I wonder if you see come from a radio family, had just published any regional differences in the kinds of a novel about radio, and the opportunity stories you produce? seemed frankly too good to be true. They We begin from the premise that the Unit- sent a great producer from London who took ed States, with 55 million Spanish speakers, care of the recording, and left me to do the is a Latin American country. And to be quite interviews and the narration. honest, those cultural differences you’re talk- It was amazing. We spent ten days ing about are part of what I find so exciting recording, and I loved every minute of it. But about this project. I want to hear the diverse then the audio was mixed down and edited in accents of Spanish as it is spoken across the London, and when the final piece was aired, Americas. I want to hear those stories that I felt a lot of the most interesting voices had challenge and complicate accepted notions been left out. We’d done interviews in both of what Latin America is. We’re working on Spanish and English, and the English speak- pieces about the Jewish community in Gua- ers got more time. This makes sense—of temala, about Mexico City’s best gay soccer course the BBC couldn’t have 45 minutes of team, about a Colombian shaman caught voiceovers on the air—it’s just how do you up in a scandal because he couldn’t make it tell the story of Latin American migration stop raining. The stories we’re looking for are without Spanish speakers? That experience both very specific and completely universal. left me thinking about the need for a Span- Of course there will be cultural differences ish language space to tell Latin American between a story from say, Cuba and a story stories. from Bolivia, but that’s fine. In fact, it’s won- derful. One of your goals is to “tell stories that can only be told in Spanish.” What does Hear Radio Ambulante this mean for you? stories and subscribe I’m referring to stories that are by and to the podcast at for Latin Americans, where a certain amount radioambulante.org. of cultural fluency is expected, where we

5 Bay Area Pioneers (Monday, July 2 at 7pm & Tuesday, July 3 at 9pm) In an era where the most talked about people tend to be the young movers and shakers of the moment, it is easy to forget the pioneers who set the stage for the innovators of today. Host Lauren Meltzer takes listeners back in time to listen to the stories of three Bay Area pioneers whose initiatives and actions influenced the cultural, technological, and envi- ronmental landscape of the Bay Area: • Julius Blank – one of the founders of Silicon Valley • Sylvia McLaughlin – instrumental in keeping San Francisco Bay from being developed into waterfront property • Frank Jackson (pictured with Lauren Meltzer) – pioneer and legend of the Fillmore jazz era

Play the Match Game for KALW! Company matching gifts are an easy way to double or even triple your donation to KALW. Last year, our matching gift income increased by 57%! We are so grateful to the many listen- ers who asked their employer to match their own direct donation. Ask your HR department if your workplace has a matching gift program in place…it’s an easy way to help make great radio! The following companies and foundations made employee matching gifts to KALW during the past year: • Abbott Laboratories • Adobe Systems • AMD • Ameriprise Financial • American Express • AMGEN • Apple • Applied Materials • Bank of America • Becton Dickinson • BITE Communications • Black Rock • Charles Schwab Foundation • ChevronTexaco • Chubb & Son, Inc. • Clorox Company • College Access Foundation of CA • Craigslist • Dodge & Cox • ExxonMobil • GAP • Genentech • GOOGLE • Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation • Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation • Hewlett Packard Company • IBM • Intuit • John Wiley & Sons • Johnson & Johnson • Jones Lang LaSalle • Juniper Networks • Kaiser Permanente • KLA Tencor • KT Foundation • Lam Research Corporation • Levi Strauss Foundation • LexisNexis • McKesson Corporation • Microsoft • Moody’s Foundation • Morrison & Foerster Foundation • Motorola Mobility Foundation • MRW & Associates • Oracle Corporation • Pacific Foundation Services • Parnassus Investments • Salesforce.com • SAP • Symantec • Tellabs • TE Connectivity • TYCO Electronics • VISA • Wells Fargo • William & Flora Hewlett Foundation • Yahoo!

Volunteer Profile – The Dynamic Duo of Tom & Toni When did you start volunteering for KALW? Tom Mason: “I found KALW on the dial by chance in 1988 and have been listening ever since. The first pledge drive I volunteered for was in the aftermath of the Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989, where we had phones set up in the McConnell High School gym! I’ve been helping out on the phones and in other ways ever since.” Toni Lozica: “I started listening to KALW at Tom’s suggestion. When I retired several years ago, I decided to help out as a volunteer as well. In addition to helping doing data entry during the pledge drives, I mail out the thank-you gifts and help out with the monthly mailings of renewal letters.” What’s your favorite program on KALW? Tom: “I start each weekday with Joe Burke and Morning Edition at 5am. Toni: “Fresh Air, Whad’ya Know, and Binah are my favorites!” What keeps you coming back? “The volunteers are a great group of friendly and dedi- cated people. Their enthusiastic support of the station’s progressive agenda makes it a pleasure to be around them. We both want to support this true community asset.”

6 In April, KALW’s community storytelling project Hear Here did its first pop-up record- ing session at the Golden Gate Branch of the Oakland Public Library. Underneath the stomping feet of children’s story hour going on upstairs, local residents shared their sto- ries with Hear Here producers on the theme of Work. Since then, Hear Here has popped up in the San Francisco library system at the Main and Ortega branches – and has moved on to the theme of Eat. Xiao Juan Shu told her story of recon- necting with her mother’s love through the pleasure of simple Chinese cooking. Ramona Nunez and to try and experiment with doing it the way our ancestors do it really forms a con- nection.” Tune into Crosscurrents on KALW at 5pm during the week of July 23rd to hear stories Hear Here has collected so far. That’s also when you can learn details on the launch party for the project’s new mobile recording booth! It’s part public art installation and part recording space and is coming to a San Francisco or Oakland park near you!

Xiao Juan Shu

Oakland native Ramona Nunez shared her desire to pursue her passion for Afro- Haitian dance and her dream of becoming a doctor: “I mean, why can’t I do both?” Baker Ryan Marcus Lee explained how to make the perfect loaf of bread – and why it matters to him: “There’s this kind of connec- tion that’s formed with our ancestors in the process… In this day and age when bread production has become so commercialized Ryan Marcus Lee

Here are a few of the places where Hear Here will be popping up – e-mail [email protected] to sign up to tell your story. • Tuesday, July 17, Oakland Public Library, 81st Ave. Branch (12:30–4:30pm) • Thursday, July 26, San Francisco Public Library, Visitacion Valley Branch (2–6pm) • Wednesday, August 15, San Francisco Public Library, Western Addition (1–4pm) • Saturday, August 25, Oakland Public Library, 81st Ave. Branch (12–4pm) • Saturday, September 22nd, Oakland Public Library, Cesar Chavez Branch (1:30–4:30pm) • Saturday, October 20, Oakland Public Library, Cesar Chavez Branch (1:30–5:30pm)

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Public Radio Remix Midnight– BBC World Service Overnight — For detailed listings, visit: bbc.co.uk/worldservice Midnight– 5 am PRX The Forum BBC 5 am Humankind 6 am TUC Radio NPR’s Morning Edition from National Public Radio (starts at 5 am) 6 am KALW host: Joe Burke NPR’s Weekend Edition New Dimensions 7 am Includes BBC World News live from London on the hour, a Daily Almanac at 5:49 & 8:49, 7 am SF school lunch menus at 6:49, and Jim Hightower commentary at 7:49. with Scott Simon On Fridays at 7:34: 99% Invisible, with Roman Mars. 8 am 8 am To The Best Of Our Knowledge Fresh Air with Car Talk 9 am with Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac at 9:01 am 9 am

Your Call with host Rose Aguilar. Philosophy Talk  10 am Join the conversation at 415-841-4134 or 866-798-TALK Rebroadcast Mon-Thurs at 11pm, Friday at 5pm West Coast Live 10 am with Work with BBC’s World Have Your Say Sedge Thomson  11 am Marty Nemko  11 am

Harry Shearer’s The State We’re In Philosophy Talk Binah  The Tavis Smiley Show noon Le Show (Radio Netherlands) (Rebroadcast) (Rebroadcast) noon Michael Feldman’s Whad’Ya Know? Open Air 1 pm This American Life Alternative Radio Big Picture Science Snap Judgment with Alan Farley  Smiley & West 1 pm

Thistle & Shamrock Sound Opinions BBC’s Newshour 2 pm with Fiona Ritchie 2 pm

3 pm Snap Judgment NPR’s All Things Considered Folk Music & Beyond 3 pm KALW Host: Alan Farley with JoAnn Mar, Bob Campbell, & 4 pm Bullseye BBC News update at 4:01, and Roman Mars’ 99% Invisible on Fridays at 4:45. Sandy Miranda  4 pm  Crosscurrents from KALW News  Your Call A Patchwork Quilt pm Selected Shorts Media Roundtable pm 5 BBC Business Daily (Rebroadcast) with 5 Kevin Vance  New Letters on the Air S.F. School Board meetings CBC’s Day 6 Fresh Air Fresh Air with Terry Gross 6 pm (8/14, 8/28, 9/11, 9/25) with Brent Bambury 6 pm Book Talk  Bluegrass Signal INFORUM from the Your Legal Rights OUT in the Bay  Left, Right & Center with Minds Over Matter City Visions  7 pm Commonwealth Club with Chuck Finney  This Way Out CounterSpin Peter Thompson  7 pm

CBC’s As It Happens with Carol Off and Jeff Douglas My Word! Then & Now 8 pm Includes the Marketplace Tech Report at 8:30 My Music 8 pm with Spoleto Chamber Music KALW Multi-purpose Sarah Cahill  Africa Mix Fascinatin’ Rhythm 9 pm My Favorite Things Room Fog City Blues Tangents 9 pm with with with Record Shelf Emmanuel Nado & VoiceBox Radiolab Devon Strolovitch  Dore Stein  10 pm with Jim Svejda Edwin Okong'o  with Chloe Veltman  10 pm Music From The Hearts of Space Your Call  Music From 11 pm (Rebroadcast of 10am show) Other Minds  11 pm

 KALW podcast available  Available on KALW Local Music Player 8 =new program or time 9 programming A to Z AFRICA MIX Musical gems from Africa BINAH The best of arts & ideas, authors and the African diaspora that will stimulate & personalities, produced in collaboration your senses. Alternating hosts Emmanuel with the Jewish Community Center of San Nado and Edwin Okong’o offer vintage Francisco. 7/5 Robert Reich; 7/12 Edmund and contemporary sounds from Abidjan to de Waal – Art, War & Family; 7/19 Inside Zimbabwe, the Caribbean, Latin America Scientology with Janet Reitman; 7/26 Taj and beyond! Interviews with local artists, Mahal in conversation with Ben Fong- touring African entertainers and in studio Torres; 8/2 Shalom Auslander; 8/9 The live performances are also part of the Madoff Scandal with Diana Henriques; mix. www.kalwafricamix.blogspot.com 8/16 Nicole Krauss; 8/23 Changing Lives (Thursday 9pm-11pm)  Through Design with IDEO’s Fred Dust; 8/30 U.S. Poet Laureate Philip Levine; ALL THINGS CONSIDERED NPR’s sig- 9/6 The Bedtime Struggle with Adam nature afternoon news program features the Mansbach; 9/13 David Simon – The Wire & biggest stories of the day, thoughtful com- Treme; 9/20 What Can’t Money Buy with mentaries, insightful features on both the Michael Sandel; 9/27 The Science of Food quirky and the mainstream in arts and life, & Cooking with Harold McGee music and entertainment. Includes BBC news (Thursday at Noon.)  headlines at 4:01pm and Roman Mars’ 99% Invisible on Fridays at 4:45. BIG PICTURE SCIENCE From amoe- (Weekdays from 3-5pm.) bas to zebras, the science of what makes ALTERNATIVE RADIO Progressive life possible. Produced at the SETI scholars and thinkers share their Institute in Mountain View, California. views, produced by David Barsamian. (Tuesday at 1pm) www.alternativeradio.org (Monday at 1pm) BLUEGRASS SIGNAL Host Peter AS IT HAPPENS The international news Thompson presents traditional and con- magazine from the Canadian Broadcasting temporary bluegrass music in themati- Corporation that probes the major stories cally-based programs that also include of the day, mixing interviews with cover- the area’s most complete calendar of age in an informative and often irreverent events. In July & August, Peter will offer style. Hosted by Carol Off and Jeff Douglas. live recordings of a variety of bluegrass www.cbc.ca/asithappens (Mon-Thurs at 8pm) and old time musicians: 7/7 The Stanley BBC NEWS Current news from London and Brothers, Roscoe Holcomb, Cousin BBC programming. (Mon-Sat Midnight-5am, Emmy, and the New Lost City Ramblers Weekdays at 2pm, Mon-Thurs at 5:30pm.) (Germany ’66); 7/14 Doc & Merle Watson (NY ‘70);7/21 Mac Martin & the Dixie BERKELEY SYMPHONY KALW con- Travelers (Pittsburgh ‘71) and J.D. Crowe tinues its exclusive broadcast partnership & the New South (Japan ‘75); 7/28 Old with the Berkeley Symphony for a broad- & In the Way (San Francisco ‘73) and cast of their 4/26/12 concert in Zellerbach Good Ol’ Persons (Holland and Canada, Hall, entitled “A Hungarian Excursion”. ‘85-91); 8/4 Musical previews of next Guest Conductor Edwin Outwater, with weekend’s annual Good Old Fashioned soprano soloist Jessica Rivera and the Bluegrass Festival; 8/11 New releases San Francisco Girls Chorus present and reissues; 8/18 Johnson Mountain the World Premiere of Gabriela Lena Boys (Redwood Estates ‘87) and Hot Rize Frank’s Holy Sisters. Also on the program: (Kansas ‘86); 8/25 A variety of contem- Kodály’s Dances of Galánta and Bartók’s porary bands that performed live in the Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta. Musicians Against Childhood Cancer Alan Farley hosts, with intermission inter- concerts (‘06-11); 9/1 Songs about mes- view features. sages and messengers; 9/8 Musical pre- (Sunday, September 16 at 4pm.) views of next weekend’s annual Berkeley Old Time Music Convention; 9/15 & 22 Special music for KALW Fall Membership Drive; 9/29 New releases and reissues. (Saturday 6:30-8pm) 

10 Available on KALW’s Local Music Player  KALW podcast available at www.kalw.org BLUES POWER HOUR: Now available FOLK MUSIC AND BEYOND Hosts on the Local Music Player at kalw.org. Keep JoAnn Mar, Bob Campbell, and Sandy up with Mark through the Blues Power Hour Miranda present the best in live and program page on kalw.org, and at recorded contemporary folk, traditional, bluespower.com. and original music from America, England, Ireland, Scotland, and other parts of the BOOK TALK Alan Farley talks with world. Upcoming highlights: 7/7 Sandy authors of our time. Recent guests have Miranda talks with Hawaiian author included novelists Lesley Tenorio, Mac Wayne Moniz; 7/14 Woody Guthrie’s Barnett and John Irving, mystery writers 100th: a two-hour special on the life and Cara Black and Anne Perry, and science times of Woody Guthrie hosted by Nick journalist Jonah Lehrer. Spitzer; 7/21 New and Recent Releases; (Sunday at 6:30pm)  7/28 Californians – Varied offerings from around the state, including Ayla Nereo, BULLSEYE Host Jesse Thorn mixes it up Irish traditional music from Three Mile with personalities from the world of enter- Stone, Molly’s Revenge; and Balkan and tainment & the arts. www.maximumfun.org Asia Minor styles from Agapi Mou, Eliyahu (Sunday at 4pm) and the Qadim Ensemble; Mexican and Chicano forms from Los Cenzontles and CITY VISIONS Hosts Lauren Meltzer and Quetzal; and more; 8/4 David Francey Joseph Pace explore Bay Area issues. Live In Concert, recorded in Berkeley To participate, call (415) 841-4134 or with guitarist Mark Westerberg; 8/11 email [email protected] Sandy’s Gumbo; 8/18 Odds, Ends, & www.cityvisionsradio.com. Leftovers; 8/25 Polyglots – Singers and (Monday at 7pm)  musicians at home in more than one lan- guage and musical style, including Moira COUNTERSPIN An examination of the Smiley and VOCO, Marta Topferova, and week’s news and that which masquerades Susan McKeown; 9/1 Songs for Labor as news. www.fair.org (Friday at 7:30pm) Day; 9/8 & 15 Special Music for our Fall Membership Drive; 9/22 Ballads and CROSSCURRENTS The evening Narratives; 9/29 From The Archives: newsmagazine from KALW News Encore broadcasts of interviews with featuring in-depth reporting that Judy Collins and the late Liam Clancy. provides context, culture, and www.kalwfolk.org (Saturday 3-5pm) connections to communities around the Bay Area. www.kalwnews.org THE FORUM: A WORLD OF IDEAS (Monday-Thursday at 5pm)  BBC correspondent Bridget Kendall hosts a weekly discussion where intel- DAY 6 From the CBC in Toronto, host Brent lectuals, authors, scientists and power Bambury offers a different perspective on brokers from around the world meet and the biggest stories of the week, and some challenge one another about big ideas. you might have missed: technology, poli- www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/ tics, arts, pop culture, and big ideas. Day 6 (Now Saturday at 5am) will give you something to think about, talk about, and maybe even to laugh about. FRESH AIR Terry Gross hosts this weekday www.cbc.ca/day6. Friday at 6pm.) magazine of contemporary arts and issues. www.freshair.com (Weekdays at 9am & 6pm) FASCINATIN’ RHYTHM Songs from the Great American Songbook, hosted HUMANKIND Voices of hope and human- by Michael Lasser. www.wxxi.org/rhythm ity, produced by David Freudberg. From (Friday at 10pm) following an urban naturalist in Oregon to learning how to age gracefully, Humankind FOG CITY BLUES Host Devon offers sound portraits of people making Strolovitch brings you blues from the Bay a difference in their communities and the Area and beyond www.fogcityblues.com world. (New on KALW! Sunday at 6am.) (Wednesday 9-11pm) 

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I LOVE TO RHYME Alan Farley con- MUSIC FROM OTHER MINDS New tinues his exploration of the lyrics of and unusual music produced by Other Ira Gershwin with Gershwin biographer Minds in San Francisco. Program details Philip Furia. For these broadcasts, they at otherminds.org/mfom sample “The Firebrand of Florence,” (Friday at 11pm)  which Ira Gershwin created with Kurt Weill, plus a look at the songs in the film, MUSIC FROM THE HEARTS OF “The Shocking Miss Pilgrim.” (Thursday, SPACE Slow music for fast times hosted by 8/31 & 9/7 at 10pm)  Stephen Hill, bringing you the timeless world of space, ambient and contemplative music. INFORUM From the Commonwealth www.hos.com (Sunday 10pm-Midnight) Club, programs recorded exclusively for KALW that provide a forum for young MY FAVORITE THINGS Host Alan Farley people to access the best informed, most returns for the month of September with involved, and brightest minds — be they a roster of guests who share their favorite politicians, business gurus, thought lead- music: 9/3 Playwright and actor Michael ers, trendsetters or culture-jammers. Gene Sullivan, 9/10 Amos Yang, Assistant (Tuesday at 7pm) Principal Cellist, SF Symphony; 9/17 Rob Melrose, Artistic Director, Cutting Ball Theatre; 9/24 Rene Mandel, Executive JIM HIGHTOWER A two minute shot Director, Berkeley Symphony across the bow aimed at corporate and (Monday at 9pm in September)  political corruption, heard exclusively in San Francisco on KALW. (Weekdays at 7:49am) MY WORD! & MY MUSIC From the LEFT, RIGHT & CENTER A weekly con- BBC archives, panelists explore the English frontation over politics, policy and popular language as it is written, spoken, and sung. culture hosted by Matthew Miller panelists Between “Word” and “Music” KALW’s Alan from various political perspectives, including Farley presents a weekly Noël Coward musi- Robert Scheer on the left. www.kcrw.com cal Entr’acte. (Friday at 8pm) (Friday at 7pm)

LE SHOW A weekly, hour-long romp NEW DIMENSIONS A weekly dialogue through the worlds of media, politics, sports that gives reasons for embracing hopeful- and show business, leavened with an eclectic ness regarding contemporary problems, with mix of mysterious music, hosted by Harry perspectives relative to physical, mental, and Shearer. www.harryshearer.com spiritual well being of humanity and the plan- (Sunday at Noon) et. www.newdimensions.org (Sunday at 7am)

MINDS OVER MATTER Dana NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR Angela Rodriguez, The San Francisco Chronicle’s Elam hosts this series of conversations with Leah Garchik, and author Gerry Nachman great established and emerging writers of challenge each other and KALW’s audi- poetry, fiction, drama and creative non-fic- ence on the Bay Area’s favorite quiz show. tion. www.newletters.org (Sunday at 6pm) Call-in phone: (415) 841-4134. (Sunday at 7pm)  OPEN AIR Host Alan Farley presents the performing artists and writers who MORNING EDITION NPR’s signature create our contemporary culture and arts. morning show, with news updates from the Recent guests have included humorist Will BBC at the top of each hour. Local host Joe Durst, conductors Stephane Deneve, Jane Burke offers today’s school lunch menu at Glover, and David Robertson, baritones 6:49, and a daily almanac at 5:49 and 8:49. Brian Mulligan and Nathan Gunn, com- Plus daily commentaries from Jim Hightower poser Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, and violinist at 7:49, and KALW News’ Morning Reports Hilary Hahn. (Thursday at 1pm) Tues.–Fri. at 8:51.www.npr.org (Weekdays 5-9am)

12 Available on KALW’s Local Music Player  KALW podcast available at www.kalw.org OUT IN THE BAY Gay radio for San English composer York Bowen. Remainder Francisco and beyond, hosted by Eric of schedule unavailable at press time. Jansen and Marilyn Pittman. www. www.kusc.org (Monday at 11pm) outinthebay.com (Thursday at 7pm)  SAN FRANCISCO SCHOOL BOARD A PATCHWORK QUILT Kevin Vance MEETINGS Live gavel-to-gavel broad- presents a program of Celtic and other cast of the San Francisco Unified School traditional music, American roots, singers District board meetings from 555 Franklin and songwriters, interpreters, and instru- Street in San Francisco. While the Board mentalists. [email protected] is in closed session, educator Carol (Saturday 5-6:30pm)  Kocivar presents an interview feature, “Looking at Education.” www.sfusd.edu (Tuesdays, 8/14, 8/28, 9/11, 9/26 at 6pm) PHILOSOPHY TALK Stanford phi- losophers John Perry and Ken Taylor SELECTED SHORTS Celebrity read- interview guest experts and respond ers from stage and screen, recorded at to questions from listeners. Philosophy Symphony Space in NYC. 7/1 Ardour – Talk questions everything...except your Jonathan Keats (Lili Taylor), Little Pot – Ilya intelligence. Upcoming highlights: 7/1 & 3 Kaminsky (Sonia Manzano), Blue Bearded Identities Lost & Found in a Global Age; Lover – Joyce Carol Oates (Betsy Lippitt), 7/8 & 10 Hypocrisy; 7/15 & 17 The Movie Relic – Robert Olen Butler (Ron Nakahara), Show; 7/22 & 24 Gut Feelings; 7/29 & 31 The Porcelain Man – Richard Kennedy Humanism; 8/5 & 7 Self-Deception; 8/12 (Estelle Parsons); 7/8 Neighbors – Julia & 14 Neuroscience and the Law; 8/19 & 21 Alvarez (Joanna Gleason), Flight Patterns The Moral Costs of Climate Change; 8/26 – Sherman Alexie (B.D. Wong); 8/15 Safari & 28 The Nature of Wilderness; 9/2 & 4 – Jennifer Egan (Hope Davis); 7/22 Liliana Philosophy For The Young: Corrupting – Maile Meloy (James Naughton), Going to or Empowering?; 9/9 & 11 Loyalty; 9/16 & the Dogs – Richard Ford (Isaiah Sheffer); 18 Why Be Moral?; 9/23 & 25 Economics: 7/29 Porte Cochere – Peter Taylor (Leonard Cult or Science?; 9/30 & 10/2 Regulating Nimoy), Enough – Alice McDermott (Fionnula Bodies. www.philosophytalk.org Flanagan); 8/5 Ever After – Kim Addonizio, (Sunday at 10am, rebroadcast Tuesday (Christine Ebersole) Boys – Rick Moody (B.D. at Noon)  Wong), The Fortunes of Madame Organza – Natalie Babbitt (Janel Maloney); 8/12 The RADIOLAB The curious minds of Jad Shape of the Sword – Jorge Luis Borges Abumrad and Robert Krulwich continue their (Charles Keating), On the Honeymoon – sonic explorations, where sound illuminates Javier Marias (Ivan Hernandez), William ideas, and the boundaries blur between sci- Burns – Roberto Bolano (Michael Stuhlbarg); ence, philosophy, and human experience. 8/19 Free Fruit for Young Widows – Nathan 7/3 Talking to Machines; 7/10 Games; 7/17 Englander (Michael Cerveris), (She Owns) Loops; 7/24 Patient Zero; 7/31 The Bad Show; Every Thing – Anne Enright, (Mary-Louise 8/7 Where Am I?; 8/14 Race; 8/21 Parasites; Parker) The Writers’ Model – Molly Giles 8/28 Morality; 9/4 Limits; 9/11 Zoos; 9/18 (Blair Brown), 8/26 I Am Not a Jew – John Emergence; 9/25 Falling. (Tuesdays at 9pm) Biguenet (Denis O’Hare), Everything in this RECORD SHELF Jim Svejda reviews Country Must – Colum McCann (Amy Ryan), compact discs and explores classical music. Flying – Stephen Dixon (Thomas Gibson); 9/2 Upcoming highlights: 7/2 Historic recordings The Deal – (Mike Birbiglia), by John Ireland; 7/9 & 16 ‘The Heavy Metal Seeing the World – Louis Robinson, (Thomas Violinist’ Rachel Barton Pine; 7/23 A Buyer’s Gibson); 9/9 Claire of the Sea Light (Anika Guide to the American Concerto; 7/30 Noni Rose) and New York Day Woman & 8/6 Recordings of the tragically short- (Laurine Towler) – Edwidge Danticat; 9/16 lived French violinist, Ginette Neveu; 8/13 (pre-empted for Berkeley Symphony broad- Awadagin Pratt; 8/20 A comparative survey cast), 9/23 A Prayer – Paul Simms (Chip of the recordings of Benjamin Britten’s Zien), Lamentations of the Father – Ian Sinfonia da Requiem; 8/27 Brazilian soprano Frazier (Isaiah Sheffer), The Storm – Jules Bidu Sayao; 9/3 Historic recordings by the Verne (Tony Roberts), Robbed – Ellen Currie (Christina Pickles) (Sunday at 5pm)

shaded boxes indicate locally-produced programming 13 programming A to Z SMILEY & WEST An energetic radio THEN AND NOW Host Sarah Cahill fusion of thought provoking, intelligent and presents two hours of new and classical stimulating dialogue on every subject from music, with local composer interviews news and politics to entertainment and cul- and previews of upcoming concerts. ture, with Tavis Smiley and Dr. Cornel West. www.sarahcahill.com (Sunday 8-10pm) (Friday at 1pm) THE THISTLE & SHAMROCK SNAP JUDGMENT Host Glynn Host Fiona Ritchie with well-established Washington explores decisions that and newly emerging artists that explore define lives, taking listeners on an addic- Celtic roots in Europe and North America. tive narrative that walks a mile in some- www.thistleradio.com (Saturday at 2pm) one else’s shoes — a rhythmic blend of drama, humor, music, and personality. THIS AMERICAN LIFE A different theme Produced in Oakland, distributed nation- each week with contributions from a variety wide by NPR and PRX. of writers and performers, hosted by Ira (Sunday at 3pm, Wednesday at 1pm) Glass. www.thislife.org (Sunday at 1pm and Wednesday at noon)

SOUND OPINIONS Smart and spirited THIS WAY OUT LGBT stories and news discussions about a wide range of popular from around the corner and around the music, from cutting-edge underground world, produced by Greg Gordon in Los rock and hip-hop, to classic rock, R&B, Angeles. www.qrd.org (Thursday at 7:30pm) electronica, and worldbeat. Hosted by music critics Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot TO THE BEST OF OUR KNOWLEDGE from the studios of WBEZ in Chicago. An audio magazine that offers a fresh per- www.soundopinions.org (Sunday at 2pm) spective on the cultural topics that shape today’s headlines. www.ttbook.org SPOLETO CHAMBER MUSIC (Sunday 8-10am) FESTIVAL Host Miles Hoffman with con- certs from the Spoleto Festival USA. Artistic TUC RADIO (Time of Useful director and first violinist in the St. Lawrence Consciousness) Probing reports on the String Quartet Geoff Nuttall provides lively impact of big corporations on society. commentary from the stage of the historic www.tucradio.org (Sunday at 6:30am) Dock Street Theatre in Charleston, South Carolina. (Monday at 9pm.) VOICEBOX The best of the vocal music scene from the Bay Area and beyond, THE STATE WE’RE IN Radio Netherlands hosted by Chloe Veltman. The art of host Jonathan Groubert presents sto- singing is explored with musicians who ries from all over the world, with a love vocal music and provide focused, special focus on human rights issues. contextual reflection about their passion. www.radionetherlands.nl Upcoming hightlights: 7/6 Young Voices: (Monday at Noon) Bob Geary, shares the music of youth choirs participating in this year’s Golden TANGENTS An unusually diverse, Gate International Children’s and Youth genre-bending program hosted by Dore Choral Festival; 7/13 Woodie’s Way: Peter Stein that explores the bridges con- Glazer, professor of Performance Studies necting various styles of music, from at the UC Berkeley, shares his thoughts world and roots to creative jazz hybrids. on the seminal American folk artist; www.tangents.com 7/20 Bay Area Vocal Music Showcase, (Saturday 8pm-Midnight)  with Therese Davis; 7/27 Harmonic Landscapes: Chloe, Erika and Rachel THE TAVIS SMILEY SHOW Tietjen of the T Sisters, with vocalist A weekly high-energy discussion of Melody Walker, talk about how voices political, cultural, and global issues of par- can create lush harmonic vistas; 8/3 ticular relevance to African Americans. Beyond Cultural Borders: an exploration www.tavistalks.org (Friday at Noon)

14 Available on KALW’s Local Music Player  KALW podcast available at www.kalw.org of the triumphs and challenges of sing- WORLD HAVE YOUR SAY An interac- ing the repertoire of other cultures; tive program on key issues in the news 8/10 Helene Whitson, director of the with a worldwide audience, hosted by Ros Bay Area Choral Music Archive, shares Atkins. To participate in the live webcast some of the global choral music scene’s at bbc.com at 10am, call 011 44 20 70 83 72 most difficult-to-come-by recordings; 72 or email [email protected]. 8/17 Singing and The Brain; 8/24 Vocal www.worldhaveyoursay.com Music from the Library of Congress; 8/31 (Weekdays at 11am, taped delayed) & 9/7 (pre-empted for “I Love to Rhyme: The Lyrics of Ira Gershwin”); 9/14 Tim WRITER’S ALMANAC Garrison Harrington and Paul Wright of the vocal Keillor’s daily digest of all things literary. and guitar/cello duo Paul Heights talk www.writersalmanac.com about the street music scene in Boston; (Weekdays at 9:01am) 9/21 Voices from Ethiopia; 9/28 Holy Singing Holograms!: Cliff Nass, a tech- YOUR CALL Politics and culture, nology and communications professor at dialogue and debate, hosted by Rose Stanford University discusses the latest Aguilar. To participate, call (415) 841-4134. developments in voice synthesis technol- www.yourcallradio.org (Weekdays at 10am. ogy. www.voicebox-media.org Rebroadcast Monday-Thursday at 11pm, (Friday at 10pm) Friday at 5pm) 

WEEKEND EDITION Scott Simon and YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS San Mateo NPR wrap up the week’s events – plus arts Deputy District Attorney Chuck Finney and newsmakers interviews. www.npr.org talks with listeners about legal and con- (Saturday 6-9am) sumer problems. Call in your questions to WEST COAST LIVE! San Francisco’s Chuck and his team of guest attorneys: “live radio program to the world” hosted (415) 841-4134. (Wednesday at 7pm)  by Sedge Thomson with pianist Mike Greensill. Two hours of conversation, performance, and play, broadcast live from locations around the Bay Area. Tickets online at www.wcl.org (Saturday 10am-Noon)  Your Voice

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