PODCAST · society
Crosscurrents
by 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.
Episodes
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SHOW: Tracking the Unhoused and the WNBA Semifinals
Today, a conversation about why it’s so hard to count how many people experience homelessness in our communities. Then, what it was like at the WNBA semifinals in Las Vegas.
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Why it’s so hard to get an accurate snapshot of unhoused people
As Bay Area cities start to release the full results of their 2026 Point-in-Time homeless counts, we dig into why it’s so hard to count how many people experience homelessness in our communities.
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BOUNCE Ep. 12: The Valkyries First Finals
An insight into what it was like at the WNBA semifinals in Las Vegas.
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SHOW: SF's New Vertical Innovation Village and Economic Inequality
How a project in downtown SF is tied to some dark ideas about the city’s future. Then, how do Californians rationalize wealth inequality?
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Inside Frontier Tower, the complicated story of SF’s “vertical innovation village”
German investors bought an empty office building in downtown San Francisco. Now it's a tech hub with lofty ideas, and some controversial ties.
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How Californians have rationalized economic inequality
How Californians rationalize the wealth inequality that we see everyday.
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SHOW: How Stories Connect Us
How a teen immigrant from Sudan has adapted to life in the Bay Area. Then, we hear how stories connect us.
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SHOW: Barbershop Talks and WNBA Tunnel Fits
An Oakland-born educator tells us why he helps recreate a Barbershop on campus. Then, we dive into the history of why WNBA players have had to tone down their style.
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Barbershop Talk brings college students free cuts and real talk
An Oakland-born educator tells us why he helps recreate a Barbershop on campus.
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BOUNCE Ep. 11: The evolution of the WNBA tunnel fit
We dive into the history of why WNBA players have had to tone down their style.
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SHOW: All About Fatherhood
Today, we hear from fathers living in California prisons.
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SHOW: AI Literacy and the Return of a Superhero
We’ll hear how teens can build better AI literacy skills. Then, we’ll meet the team that brought back an 80's comic book super hero.
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Sights + Sounds: Cartoonists Stephan Pastis and Will Henry join forces for a He-Man book series
We meet the team that brought back an 80s comic book super hero for today’s middle grade readers.
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SHOW: Rogue AI and the Complexities of Being Bilingual
Why an AI agent pitched our newsroom a story and we celebrate Bilingual Child Month.
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Why an AI agent pitched our newsroom a story
Our tech reporter breaks down why an AI agent pitched our newsroom a story, and the panic over Rogue AI.
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The Stoop: Mother Tongue
We celebrate Bilingual Child Month by hearing a story of a Ghanaian American woman.
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SHOW: San Francisco Politics and Decades of Storytelling
We hear why SF Mayor Lurie may get everything he is pushing for this election season. Then, writer Isabel Allende reflects on decades of storytelling.
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Bay Area Politics: Follow the Money
We pull back the curtain on the money shaping San Francisco politics.
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Sights + Sounds: Isabel Allende shares her writing journey
Writer Isabel Allende reflects on decades of storytelling.
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SHOW: From I-580 to Route 101
We hear how Oakland students reignited an environmental equity debate, and we meet a Stanford public health doctor, turned journalist, turned stand up comedian.
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I-580 Truck Ban: Who should bear the burden of diesel pollution in the East Bay?
Caltrans is studying whether to lift a decades-old truck ban on I-580. Residents on both sides agree: shifting the pollution isn't enough.
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Dr. Seema Yasmin: from the CDC to the Comedy Club
We meet a Stanford public health doctor, turned journalist, turned stand up comedian.
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SHOW: Social Media's Impact on Teens and Urban Farming
How teens can avoid falling for social media content that’s harmful. Then, we meet an Oakland artist turned farmer.
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tbh: Social media's weight loss culture impacts teens
How teens can avoid falling for social media content that’s harmful.
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Sights + Sounds: Fantastic Negrito's Revolution Plantation Farm
We meet the Oakland artist who put down his guitar, and picked up a shovel.
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SHOW: SF Ballots, Voices, and Mariachi
Elections are approaching quickly and there is a lot to unpack. Plus, we are celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month.
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Inside your San Francisco election ballot
Get the lowdown on your San Francisco ballot for the November 3rd election.
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Mariachi Femenil Orgullo Mexicano raise their voices
We're celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month and hearing how one mariachi ensemble is reframing tradition.
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Golden State Valkyries Gabby Williams
Valkyries All-Star Gabby Williams was born in Nevada, but the Bay has become her new home and she’s not sitting courtside.
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SHOW: Flock Cameras and the Bay
Privacy concerns are growing in The Bay Area and around the nation, surrounding Flock cameras. Today, the debates and questions about how this technology is being used. Then, we get lost and find our way on San Francisco’s Crosstown trail.
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Taking the long way: San Francisco's Crosstown Trail
We get lost and find our way on San Francisco’s Crosstown trail.
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State of the Bay: Flock Camera Controversy
Privacy concerns are growing in The Bay Area and around the nation, surrounding Flock cameras. We hear the debates and questions about how this technology is being used.
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SHOW: Social Media and Teens
Cities around the world are passing or considering laws that restrict social media. We’ll hear what teenagers think and how they are choosing to get involved. Plus, we hand the mic to the Inaugural Alameda County Youth Poet Laureate.
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BOUNCE: The Golden State Storm
We hear about the new women’s tackle football team that’s touched down in Oakland. Plus, the latest from the world of women’s professional sports.
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SHOW: The Meaning of Family
On today's episode of Uncuffed, we hear how Producers at San Quentin, Solano and the California Institution for Women, find family in unexpected places.
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SHOW: The Precarious Future of Transit
Public transportation is on the minds of teenagers as potential BART cuts loom and a campaign works to address harassment on transit.
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tbh: How BART cuts could affect Bay Area teens
BART currently faces a three hundred million dollar deficit. Tbh producer Lukas Smith talked with Bay Area teens to see how potential cuts would affect them.
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How public transit agencies are addressing harassment
A campaign in the South Bay works to address rider harassment on public transportation.
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SHOW: Turning Trials Into Art
In Oakland, two musicians are inspired by the urban ecology of the Town. Then, we go to Mill Valley, where a play uses humor to discuss alcoholism.
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Maria BC and Kathryn Mohr craft soundscapes inspired by Oakland
In Oakland, the borders between the natural and human worlds offer a new way of making music.
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Sights + Sounds: 'The White Chip' play uses humor to address alcoholism and recovery
A play that uses comedy and compassion to address alcoholism is coming to the Marin Theater.
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SHOW: Feeling the Impact of Federal Limits to Student Work Visas
The Federal Government is now forcing universities to limit the rights of their international students. Today, we hear a conversation about how this affects UC Berkeley. Then, love is in the air at the A.C.T. Strand Theater in San Francisco. Plus we hear the latest from the world of women’s...
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UC Berkeley forced to shut down work program for foreign students
Bay Area college students have been back in school for less than a month now. At UC Berkeley, immigration is coming up as part of the back to school experience for many. Last month Immigration and Customs Enforcement sent a memo to the university that impacted thousands of their students here on...
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Sights + Sounds: 'Crushing' takes real, pretty and messy stories about love to the A.C.T. stage
The stage show “Crushing” is all about love- and it’s returning to San Francisco at the A.C.T. Strand Theater. In the show, 10 artists step up to the mic and share their stories of love- not just the beautiful, but also the complicated, and sometimes messy experiences. Its executive producer is...
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BOUNCE Ep.7: Connecting Through Sports
For the past few weeks, we’ve been bringing you episodes of BOUNCE, KALW’s sports podcast that’s following the rise of women’s professional sports in the Bay. The Golden State Valkyries are on their way to the WNBA playoffs, but right now, some of them are in Berlin. Taking part in the FIBA World...
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For the Love of Water
Humans have an innate attraction to water... But why? Today, we hear from Bay Area author, Bonnie Tsui, about 'Why We Swim.' Then, how free swim lessons are connecting kids with water. It's a special episode, hosted by KALW's water-loving Molly Blair Salyer, all about water and what draws us to it.
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tbh: Teens Rapping Underground
tbh is KALW’s podcast that’s made by, for, and about teenagers and it’s back! In the first episode of the newest season we’re going underground to meet the people pushing a new counterculture through rap music.
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BOUNCE: How the WNBA’s ‘glass closet’ cracked in Sacramento
The WNBA has a reputation for embracing LGBTQ+ players and fans… but that wasn’t always the case. Today, the history behind the WNBA’s “glass closet era.” But first, we hear a theory on why the Golden State Valkyries have had such a successful second season.
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SHOW: Surveillance Pricing and You
Companies are using your browsing history, and other information about you, to customize the prices you see online. Today, how companies use your data to decide what you pay… and what can be done about it. Then, we go inside the oldest suicide prevention hotline in the country.
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How companies use your data to set prices
If you've ever wondered why the same flight, hotel room, or grocery item seems to cost a different amount depending on who's buying it, you’re not imagining things. Companies are using the data we expose online, including our location, our browsing habits, even assumptions about our income, to...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
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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