KALW

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Description

KALW's mission is to provide listeners with independent, credible news and information from a variety of local, national and international sources. KALW also produces local programs that connect listeners to their communities, highlighting the music, arts and literature of the San Francisco Bay Area. Additionally, the station supports the educational mission of the San Francisco Unified School District by both informing the public about the San Francisco schools and creating opportunities for student-learning in radio.

Pieces

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If you want know the price of gas around the United States, there’s a map online that breaks it down for you. The states with the cheapest gas are ...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2012
  • Length: 12:26
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Two Bay Area bands, Rupa and the April Fishes and Shake Your Peace, prepare to kick off a 10-day, 200-mile bike tour.

  • Added: Apr 22, 2012
  • Length: 07:44
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If you’ve lived in San Francisco long enough, you might have noticed that there are fewer yellow school buses crisscrossing the city. State budget ...

  • Added: Apr 05, 2012
  • Length: 05:25
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The San Francisco goth club Death Guild opened it's doors in 1992. The club started as a showcase for alternative music, including Goth, Industrial...

  • Added: Apr 05, 2012
  • Length: 06:50
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The Santa Cruz Police Departments is the first in the country to experiment with predictive policing, a mathematical approach to detecting and prev...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WAMC, and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Apr 05, 2012
  • Length: 05:44
  • Purchases: 3
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When you look at the numbers, many long held truths about crime crumble. Like this one: who do you think is more likely to become a life-long crimi...

  • Added: Apr 05, 2012
  • Length: 25:08
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The basic definition of the number pi is that it’s doesn’t have an exact value – it’s an infinite calculation. But it is possible to know the exact...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 05, 2012
  • Length: 04:41
  • Purchases: 1
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The Teen Health Van is a one-stop mobile shop that travels to every nook and cranny of the Bay Area’s underserved neighborhoods.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 22, 2012
  • Length: 05:07
  • Purchases: 1
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Tu B’shevat is the New Year for Trees. It takes place on the 15th day of the Hebrew month of Shevat, which is January or February, depending on the...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Mar 22, 2012
  • Length: 07:11
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Artistic director Rene Yung (right) gives instructions to the proxy storytellers during a rehearsal of the theater and oral history project “Chinese Whispers." Photo courtesy of Chinese Whispers
In the mid-1800s, the Gold Rush brought enthusiastic settlers westward, from across the United States. At the same time, another migration was flow...

Bought by KUOW and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Mar 22, 2012
  • Length: 06:16
  • Purchases: 2
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If you think love letters are quaint and lack passion, Janet Gallin of the Love Letter Squad has news for you.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Mar 22, 2012
  • Length: 04:38
  • Purchases: 2
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For anyone who’s been there, the news that Downtown Berkeley is one of the Bay Area’s poorest neighborhoods probably comes as a surprise.

  • Added: Mar 22, 2012
  • Length: 06:58
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Every day we make decisions based on our environmental values. A wooden stirrer or a compostable plastic one to mix your to-go coffee? Organic vege...

Bought by WAMC


  • Added: Mar 19, 2012
  • Length: 06:47
  • Purchases: 1
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With gold continuing to sell at historically high prices, the hunt for the shiny mineral is alive and well. Mostly. In 2009, California outlawed a ...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Mar 19, 2012
  • Length: 08:41
  • Purchases: 1
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Driving to Alameda Point in the East Bay may leave a first timer a little lost. It’s out towards the waterfront, past the Victorian neighborhoods o...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Mar 19, 2012
  • Length: 07:33
  • Purchases: 1
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Shows like CSI have taught us that a lot can be gleaned from clues left at a crime scene, and painstakingly pieced together by investigators. What ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Mar 19, 2012
  • Length: 06:11
  • Purchases: 2
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Before there ever was a Golden Gate Bridge or a Bay Bridge, people who wanted to cross the Bay did it by boat. At their peak, ferries carried over ...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2012
  • Length: 06:41
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West Oakland is a neighborhood in transition – more people are moving in, and developers have it in their sights as the next up-and-coming place to...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2012
  • Length: 06:20
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Maurice Caldwell is just one of hundreds of former inmates whose convictions have been overturned after spending years in prison. Now, Caldwell is ...

Bought by KFAI and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Mar 19, 2012
  • Length: 10:46
  • Purchases: 2
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Just about everyone knows that the largest park in San Francisco is Golden Gate Park. But can you name the second largest one? (The Presidio doesn’...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2012
  • Length: 05:58