July/August/September 2012

The View from KALWSan Francisco, as seen from Burton High School, home to KALW’s studios.

Hear the new season of RadiolabTuesday at 10pm

Stories from Latin America & around the

Bay Area

photo: Julie Caine

(see p. 5) (see p. 7)

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KALW program guide edited by Matt Martin and David Latulippe, designed by Georgette Petropoulos, Howard Quinn Company

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KALW: By and for the community . . . COMMUNITY BROADCAST PARTNERSAIA, 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 RadioFOUNDATION SUPPORTERSThe 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 FoundationKALW VOLUNTEER PRODUCERSRose 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 YoungKALW VOLUNTEERSDaniel 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 WynnOUR LICENSEE, THE SAN FRANCISCO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICTSuperintendent: 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

ABOUT KALWKALW 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) 841-4121500 Mansell Street Fax: (415) 841-4125San 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: kalw@kalw.org © Contents KALW

KALW PERSONNELMatt Martin, General ManagerWilliam Helgeson,

Operations ManagerDavid Latulippe, AdministrationPhil Hartman, Engineering Annette Bistrup, MembershipEmily Algire, MembershipJoe Burke, AnnouncerAlan Farley, Senior AnnouncerJoAnn Mar, AnnouncerHolly Kernan, News DirectorBen Trefny, Executive News Editor

Martina Castro, Managing News Editor

Audrey Dilling, ProducerChris Hoff, News EngineerErica Mu, News Tech SupportSeth Samuel, News EngineerHana Baba, Host/ReporterCasey Miner, Reporter/EditorJulie Caine, ReporterJennifer Chien, ReporterNicole Jones, ReporterKyung-Jin Lee, Reporter

Nancy Mullane, ReporterRose Aguilar, HostMalihe Razazan, ProducerAli Budner, Producer

Part-time announcersEric JansenDebi KennedyDavid LatulippeBob SommerKevin VanceEric Wayne

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Manager’s NotesKALW is a creative community enter-

prise. Its vitality comes from the people who decide to actively participate in Local Public Radio.

First and foremost, that means our listener-supporters. And because of the gen-erosity of more than 11,000 active members, the station is building a financial reserve and able to look to the future.

But another important measure of com-munity participation in KALW can be found in the fine print on the page opposite this one: The growing list of names identified as “Volunteers” and Volunteer Producers”.

As a listener, you probably recognize the contributions made by volunteer hosts like Marilyn Pittman, Kevin Vance, Marty Nemko, Edwin Okong’o and Dana Rodriguez, whose voices and knowledge make KALW a lot more interesting to listen to. And if you tune in to Crosscurrents and hear all those names in “the team” at the end of each broadcast, you may have some sense of how crucial volunteers are to KALW News.

But unless you spend your days around the station, you may not understand the extent to which its day-to-day operations depend on people who give their time and energy to KALW.

People like Toni Lozica and Tom Mason, (see p. 6) who’ve been showing up to work at the station every week for decades, and who 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-tive relationships with local businesses that donate food and drink during our member-

ship drives. Not to mention phe-nomenal people like Brenda Kett, Michael McGinley, Doug Dyment, Jack Major, Horace Marks . . .

The problem is, once I start this list, it’s very hard to stop. There are just so many people who give of themselves to this station, and who define its character with their generosity, warmth and humor.

And it’s when we do something special, like hosting Tavis Smiley & Cornel West at The Paramount, that the expanding base of KALW volunteers comes into relief. We could never have committed to such a huge undertaking without knowing we’d have doz-ens of volunteers to join the effort – greeting people in the lobby, helping coordinate with our partners, and organizing our meet and greet with local civic and community leaders.

However you choose to participate in KALW – and it may simply be reading this guide and learning more about the station’s diverse programming – thank you. And if you’d like to be more actively involved in Local Public Radio, please feel free to get in touch.

Sincerely,

Matt MartinGeneral Manager

matt@kalw.org

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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.

Smiley & West at the Paramount

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

An audience member learns about EBASE.

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.

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Radio Ambulante On the Move

Daniel Alarcón

Hear Radio Ambulante stories and subscribe

to the podcast at radioambulante.org.

Latin

^This American Life:

Radio Ambulante is a new Spanish-language radio pro-gram showcasing compelling human stories from around Latin America and the United States. It’s the first program of its kind in Spanish – and it’s based at KALW.

Daniel Alarcón started Ra-dio Ambulante with Carolina Guerrero, Annie Correal, and KALW’s Martina Castro. He’s the author of the novel Lost City Radio, and the follow-ing is adapted from an interview he did with Nancy Smith of the on-line literary magazine The Rumpus.

Why did you decide to start Radio Ambulante?

In late 2007, I was asked by the BBC to host a documentary about Andean migra-tion to Lima. Naturally, I was intrigued. I come from a radio family, had just published a novel about radio, and the opportunity seemed frankly too good to be true. They sent a great producer from London who took care of the recording, and left me to do the interviews and the narration.

It was amazing. We spent ten days recording, and I loved every minute of it. But then the audio was mixed down and edited in London, and when the final piece was aired, I felt a lot of the most interesting voices had been left out. We’d done interviews in both Spanish and English, and the English speak-ers got more time. This makes sense—of course the BBC couldn’t have 45 minutes of voiceovers on the air—it’s just how do you tell the story of Latin American migration without Spanish speakers? That experience left me thinking about the need for a Span-ish language space to tell Latin American stories.

One of your goals is to “tell stories that can only be told in Spanish.” What does this mean for you?

I’m referring to stories that are by and for Latin Americans, where a certain amount of cultural fluency is expected, where we

can delight in the details, the humor, the particularities of speech, of dialects. Some-thing is always lost in transla-tion; a Radio Ambulante story looks at Latin America from the inside.

A lot of attention has been paid in Latin America to the new generation of nonfiction writers, authors like Julio Villanueva Chang, Diego Osorno, Cristóbal Peña, Ga-

briela Wiener, Leila Guerriero, Cristian Alarcón, among others. We want to have these immensely gifted journalists—men and women who’ve already revitalized the long-form narrative—we want them to tell their stories in sound.

Because Radio Ambulante covers stories from all over Latin America and the United States, I wonder if you see any regional differences in the kinds of stories you produce?

We begin from the premise that the Unit-ed States, with 55 million Spanish speakers, is a Latin American country. And to be quite honest, those cultural differences you’re talk-ing about are part of what I find so exciting about this project. I want to hear the diverse accents of Spanish as it is spoken across the Americas. I want to hear those stories that challenge and complicate accepted notions of what Latin America is. We’re working on pieces about the Jewish community in Gua-temala, about Mexico City’s best gay soccer team, about a Colombian shaman caught up in a scandal because he couldn’t make it stop raining. The stories we’re looking for are both very specific and completely universal. Of course there will be cultural differences between a story from say, Cuba and a story from Bolivia, but that’s fine. In fact, it’s won-derful.

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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.”

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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.

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

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!

Here are a few of the places where Hear Here will be popping up – e-mail hearhereradio@gmail.com 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)

Xiao Juan Shu

Ramona Nunez

Ryan Marcus Lee

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SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY

Midnight– 5 am

Public Radio Remix PRX BBC World Service Overnight — For detailed listings, visit: bbc.co.uk/worldservice Midnight– 

5 amThe Forum BBC

6 am HumankindNPR’s Morning Edition from National Public Radio (starts at 5 am)

KALW host: Joe Burke

Includes BBC World News live from London on the hour, a Daily Almanac at 5:49 & 8:49, SF school lunch menus at 6:49, and Jim Hightower commentary at 7:49.

On Fridays at 7:34: 99% Invisible, with Roman Mars.

NPR’s Weekend Edition

with Scott Simon

6 amTUC Radio

7 am New Dimensions 7 am

8 amTo The Best

Of Our Knowledge

8 am

9 am Fresh Air with Terry Gross with Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac at 9:01 am Car Talk 9 am

10 am Philosophy Talk Your Call with host Rose Aguilar. Join the conversation at 415-841-4134 or 866-798-TALK Rebroadcast Mon-Thurs at 11pm, Friday at 5pm West Coast Live

with Sedge Thomson

10 am

11 am Work with Marty Nemko BBC’s World Have Your Say 11 am

noon Harry Shearer’s Le Show

The State We’re In (Radio Netherlands)

Philosophy Talk (Rebroadcast)

This American Life (Rebroadcast) Binah The Tavis Smiley Show

Michael Feldman’s Whad’Ya Know?

noon

1 pm This American Life Alternative Radio Big Picture Science Snap Judgment Open Air with Alan Farley Smiley & West 1 pm

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

3 pm Snap Judgment NPR’s All Things ConsideredKALW Host: Alan Farley

BBC News update at 4:01, and Roman Mars’ 99% Invisible on Fridays at 4:45.

Folk Music & Beyond

with JoAnn Mar, Bob Campbell, &

Sandy Miranda

3 pm

4 pm Bullseye 4 pm

5 pm Selected ShortsCrosscurrents from KALW News Your Call

Media Roundtable (Rebroadcast)

A Patchwork Quilt

with Kevin Vance

5 pmBBC Business Daily

6 pm New Letters on the AirFresh Air S.F. School Board meetings

(8/14, 8/28, 9/11, 9/25) Fresh Air with Terry Gross CBC’s Day 6 with Brent Bambury 6 pmBook Talk Bluegrass Signal

with Peter Thompson 7 pm Minds Over Matter City Visions INFORUM from the

Commonwealth ClubYour Legal Rights

with Chuck Finney OUT in the Bay Left, Right & Center 7 pmThis Way Out CounterSpin

8 pm Then & Now

with Sarah Cahill

CBC’s As It Happens with Carol Off and Jeff Douglas Includes the Marketplace Tech Report at 8:30

My Word!

Tangents

with Dore Stein

8 pmMy Music

9 pm Spoleto Chamber Music My Favorite Things

KALW Multi-purpose Room Fog City Blues

with Devon Strolovitch

Africa Mix

with Emmanuel Nado & Edwin Okong'o

Fascinatin’ Rhythm 9 pm

10 pmMusic From The Hearts of Space

Record Shelf with Jim Svejda Radiolab

VoiceBox

with Chloe Veltman 10 pm

11 pm Your Call (Rebroadcast of 10am show)

Music From Other Minds 11 pm

=new program or time

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programming A to Z

Available on KALW’s Local Music Player KALW podcast available at www.kalw.org

AFRICA MIX Musical gems from Africa and the African diaspora that will stimulate your senses. Alternating hosts Emmanuel Nado and Edwin Okong’o offer vintage and contemporary sounds from Abidjan to Zimbabwe, the Caribbean, Latin America and beyond! Interviews with local artists, touring African entertainers and in studio live performances are also part of the mix. www.kalwafricamix.blogspot.com (Thursday 9pm-11pm)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED NPR’s sig-nature afternoon news program features the biggest stories of the day, thoughtful com-mentaries, insightful features on both the quirky and the mainstream in arts and life, music and entertainment. Includes BBC news headlines at 4:01pm and Roman Mars’ 99% Invisible on Fridays at 4:45. (Weekdays from 3-5pm.)

ALTERNATIVE RADIO Progressive scholars and thinkers share their views, produced by David Barsamian. www.alternativeradio.org (Monday at 1pm)

AS IT HAPPENS The international news magazine from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation that probes the major stories of the day, mixing interviews with cover-age in an informative and often irreverent style. Hosted by Carol Off and Jeff Douglas. www.cbc.ca/asithappens (Mon-Thurs at 8pm)

BBC NEWS Current news from London and BBC programming. (Mon-Sat Midnight-5am, Weekdays at 2pm, Mon-Thurs at 5:30pm.)

BERKELEY SYMPHONY KALW con-tinues its exclusive broadcast partnership with the Berkeley Symphony for a broad-cast of their 4/26/12 concert in Zellerbach Hall, entitled “A Hungarian Excursion”. Guest Conductor Edwin Outwater, with soprano soloist Jessica Rivera and the San Francisco Girls Chorus present the World Premiere of Gabriela Lena Frank’s Holy Sisters. Also on the program: Kodály’s Dances of Galánta and Bartók’s Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta. Alan Farley hosts, with intermission inter-view features. (Sunday, September 16 at 4pm.)

BINAH The best of arts & ideas, authors & personalities, produced in collaboration with the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco. 7/5 Robert Reich; 7/12 Edmund de Waal – Art, War & Family; 7/19 Inside Scientology with Janet Reitman; 7/26 Taj Mahal in conversation with Ben Fong-Torres; 8/2 Shalom Auslander; 8/9 The Madoff Scandal with Diana Henriques; 8/16 Nicole Krauss; 8/23 Changing Lives Through Design with IDEO’s Fred Dust; 8/30 U.S. Poet Laureate Philip Levine; 9/6 The Bedtime Struggle with Adam Mansbach; 9/13 David Simon – The Wire & Treme; 9/20 What Can’t Money Buy with Michael Sandel; 9/27 The Science of Food & Cooking with Harold McGee (Thursday at Noon.)

BIG PICTURE SCIENCE From amoe-bas to zebras, the science of what makes life possible. Produced at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California. (Tuesday at 1pm)

BLUEGRASS SIGNAL Host Peter Thompson presents traditional and con-temporary bluegrass music in themati-cally-based programs that also include the area’s most complete calendar of events. In July & August, Peter will offer live recordings of a variety of bluegrass and old time musicians: 7/7 The Stanley Brothers, Roscoe Holcomb, Cousin Emmy, and the New Lost City Ramblers (Germany ’66); 7/14 Doc & Merle Watson (NY ‘70);7/21 Mac Martin & the Dixie Travelers (Pittsburgh ‘71) and J.D. Crowe & the New South (Japan ‘75); 7/28 Old & In the Way (San Francisco ‘73) and Good Ol’ Persons (Holland and Canada, ‘85-91); 8/4 Musical previews of next weekend’s annual Good Old Fashioned Bluegrass Festival; 8/11 New releases and reissues; 8/18 Johnson Mountain Boys (Redwood Estates ‘87) and Hot Rize (Kansas ‘86); 8/25 A variety of contem-porary bands that performed live in the Musicians Against Childhood Cancer concerts (‘06-11); 9/1 Songs about mes-sages and messengers; 9/8 Musical pre-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)

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BLUES POWER HOUR: Now available on the Local Music Player at kalw.org. Keep up with Mark through the Blues Power Hour program page on kalw.org, and at bluespower.com.

BOOK TALK Alan Farley talks with authors of our time. Recent guests have included novelists Lesley Tenorio, Mac Barnett and John Irving, mystery writers Cara Black and Anne Perry, and science journalist Jonah Lehrer. (Sunday at 6:30pm)

BULLSEYE Host Jesse Thorn mixes it up with personalities from the world of enter-tainment & the arts. www.maximumfun.org (Sunday at 4pm)

CITY VISIONS Hosts Lauren Meltzer and Joseph Pace explore Bay Area issues. To participate, call (415) 841-4134 or email feedback@cityvisionsradio.com www.cityvisionsradio.com. (Monday at 7pm)

COUNTERSPIN An examination of the week’s news and that which masquerades as news. www.fair.org (Friday at 7:30pm)

CROSSCURRENTS The evening newsmagazine from KALW News featuring in-depth reporting that provides context, culture, and connections to communities around the Bay Area. www.kalwnews.org (Monday-Thursday at 5pm)

DAY 6 From the CBC in Toronto, host Brent Bambury offers a different perspective on the biggest stories of the week, and some you might have missed: technology, poli-tics, arts, pop culture, and big ideas. Day 6 will give you something to think about, talk about, and maybe even to laugh about. www.cbc.ca/day6. Friday at 6pm.)

FASCINATIN’ RHYTHM Songs from the Great American Songbook, hosted by Michael Lasser. www.wxxi.org/rhythm (Friday at 10pm)

FOG CITY BLUES Host Devon Strolovitch brings you blues from the Bay Area and beyond www.fogcityblues.com (Wednesday 9-11pm)

FOLK MUSIC AND BEYOND Hosts JoAnn Mar, Bob Campbell, and Sandy Miranda present the best in live and recorded contemporary folk, traditional, and original music from America, England, Ireland, Scotland, and other parts of the world. Upcoming highlights: 7/7 Sandy Miranda talks with Hawaiian author Wayne Moniz; 7/14 Woody Guthrie’s 100th: a two-hour special on the life and times of Woody Guthrie hosted by Nick Spitzer; 7/21 New and Recent Releases; 7/28 Californians – Varied offerings from around the state, including Ayla Nereo, Irish traditional music from Three Mile Stone, Molly’s Revenge; and Balkan and Asia Minor styles from Agapi Mou, Eliyahu and the Qadim Ensemble; Mexican and Chicano forms from Los Cenzontles and Quetzal; and more; 8/4 David Francey Live In Concert, recorded in Berkeley with guitarist Mark Westerberg; 8/11 Sandy’s Gumbo; 8/18 Odds, Ends, & Leftovers; 8/25 Polyglots – Singers and musicians at home in more than one lan-guage and musical style, including Moira Smiley and VOCO, Marta Topferova, and Susan McKeown; 9/1 Songs for Labor Day; 9/8 & 15 Special Music for our Fall Membership Drive; 9/22 Ballads and Narratives; 9/29 From The Archives: Encore broadcasts of interviews with Judy Collins and the late Liam Clancy. www.kalwfolk.org (Saturday 3-5pm)

THE FORUM: A WORLD OF IDEAS BBC correspondent Bridget Kendall hosts a weekly discussion where intel-lectuals, authors, scientists and power brokers from around the world meet and challenge one another about big ideas. www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/ (Now Saturday at 5am)

FRESH AIR Terry Gross hosts this weekday magazine of contemporary arts and issues. www.freshair.com (Weekdays at 9am & 6pm)

HUMANKIND Voices of hope and human-ity, produced by David Freudberg. From following an urban naturalist in Oregon to learning how to age gracefully, Humankind offers sound portraits of people making a difference in their communities and the world. (New on KALW! Sunday at 6am.)

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programming A to Z

Available on KALW’s Local Music Player KALW podcast available at www.kalw.org

I LOVE TO RHYME Alan Farley con-tinues his exploration of the lyrics of Ira Gershwin with Gershwin biographer Philip Furia. For these broadcasts, they sample “The Firebrand of Florence,” which Ira Gershwin created with Kurt Weill, plus a look at the songs in the film, “The Shocking Miss Pilgrim.” (Thursday, 8/31 & 9/7 at 10pm)

INFORUM From the Commonwealth Club, programs recorded exclusively for KALW that provide a forum for young people to access the best informed, most involved, and brightest minds — be they politicians, business gurus, thought lead-ers, trendsetters or culture-jammers. (Tuesday at 7pm)

JIM HIGHTOWER A two minute shot across the bow aimed at corporate and political corruption, heard exclusively in San Francisco on KALW. (Weekdays at 7:49am)

LEFT, RIGHT & CENTER A weekly con-frontation over politics, policy and popular culture hosted by Matthew Miller panelists from various political perspectives, including Robert Scheer on the left. www.kcrw.com (Friday at 7pm)

LE SHOW A weekly, hour-long romp through the worlds of media, politics, sports and show business, leavened with an eclectic mix of mysterious music, hosted by Harry Shearer. www.harryshearer.com (Sunday at Noon)

MINDS OVER MATTER Dana Rodriguez, The San Francisco Chronicle’s Leah Garchik, and author Gerry Nachman challenge each other and KALW’s audi-ence on the Bay Area’s favorite quiz show. Call-in phone: (415) 841-4134. (Sunday at 7pm)

MORNING EDITION NPR’s signature morning show, with news updates from the BBC at the top of each hour. Local host Joe Burke offers today’s school lunch menu at 6:49, and a daily almanac at 5:49 and 8:49. Plus daily commentaries from Jim Hightower at 7:49, and KALW News’ Morning Reports Tues.–Fri. at 8:51.www.npr.org (Weekdays 5-9am)

MUSIC FROM OTHER MINDS New and unusual music produced by Other Minds in San Francisco. Program details at otherminds.org/mfom (Friday at 11pm)

MUSIC FROM THE HEARTS OF SPACE Slow music for fast times hosted by Stephen Hill, bringing you the timeless world of space, ambient and contemplative music. www.hos.com (Sunday 10pm-Midnight)

MY FAVORITE THINGS Host Alan Farley returns for the month of September with a roster of guests who share their favorite music: 9/3 Playwright and actor Michael Gene Sullivan, 9/10 Amos Yang, Assistant Principal Cellist, SF Symphony; 9/17 Rob Melrose, Artistic Director, Cutting Ball Theatre; 9/24 Rene Mandel, Executive Director, Berkeley Symphony (Monday at 9pm in September)

MY WORD! & MY MUSIC From the BBC archives, panelists explore the English language as it is written, spoken, and sung. Between “Word” and “Music” KALW’s Alan Farley presents a weekly Noël Coward musi-cal Entr’acte. (Friday at 8pm)

NEW DIMENSIONS A weekly dialogue that gives reasons for embracing hopeful-ness regarding contemporary problems, with perspectives relative to physical, mental, and spiritual well being of humanity and the plan-et. www.newdimensions.org (Sunday at 7am)

NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR Angela Elam hosts this series of conversations with great established and emerging writers of poetry, fiction, drama and creative non-fic-tion. www.newletters.org (Sunday at 6pm)

OPEN AIR Host Alan Farley presents the performing artists and writers who create our contemporary culture and arts. Recent guests have included humorist Will Durst, conductors Stephane Deneve, Jane Glover, and David Robertson, baritones Brian Mulligan and Nathan Gunn, com-poser Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, and violinist Hilary Hahn. (Thursday at 1pm)

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OUT IN THE BAY Gay radio for San Francisco and beyond, hosted by Eric Jansen and Marilyn Pittman. www.outinthebay.com (Thursday at 7pm)

A PATCHWORK QUILT Kevin Vance presents a program of Celtic and other traditional music, American roots, singers and songwriters, interpreters, and instru-mentalists. kevin_vance@yahoo.com (Saturday 5-6:30pm)

PHILOSOPHY TALK Stanford phi-losophers John Perry and Ken Taylor interview guest experts and respond to questions from listeners. Philosophy Talk questions everything...except your intelligence. Upcoming highlights: 7/1 & 3 Identities Lost & Found in a Global Age; 7/8 & 10 Hypocrisy; 7/15 & 17 The Movie Show; 7/22 & 24 Gut Feelings; 7/29 & 31 Humanism; 8/5 & 7 Self-Deception; 8/12 & 14 Neuroscience and the Law; 8/19 & 21 The Moral Costs of Climate Change; 8/26 & 28 The Nature of Wilderness; 9/2 & 4 Philosophy For The Young: Corrupting or Empowering?; 9/9 & 11 Loyalty; 9/16 & 18 Why Be Moral?; 9/23 & 25 Economics: Cult or Science?; 9/30 & 10/2 Regulating Bodies. www.philosophytalk.org (Sunday at 10am, rebroadcast Tuesday at Noon)

RADIOLAB The curious minds of Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich continue their sonic explorations, where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between sci-ence, philosophy, and human experience. 7/3 Talking to Machines; 7/10 Games; 7/17 Loops; 7/24 Patient Zero; 7/31 The Bad Show; 8/7 Where Am I?; 8/14 Race; 8/21 Parasites; 8/28 Morality; 9/4 Limits; 9/11 Zoos; 9/18 Emergence; 9/25 Falling. (Tuesdays at 9pm)

RECORD SHELF Jim Svejda reviews compact discs and explores classical music. Upcoming highlights: 7/2 Historic recordings by John Ireland; 7/9 & 16 ‘The Heavy Metal Violinist’ Rachel Barton Pine; 7/23 A Buyer’s Guide to the American Concerto; 7/30 & 8/6 Recordings of the tragically short-lived French violinist, Ginette Neveu; 8/13 Awadagin Pratt; 8/20 A comparative survey of the recordings of Benjamin Britten’s Sinfonia da Requiem; 8/27 Brazilian soprano Bidu Sayao; 9/3 Historic recordings by the

English composer York Bowen. Remainder of schedule unavailable at press time. www.kusc.org (Monday at 11pm)

SAN FRANCISCO SCHOOL BOARD MEETINGS Live gavel-to-gavel broad-cast of the San Francisco Unified School District board meetings from 555 Franklin Street in San Francisco. While the Board is in closed session, educator Carol Kocivar presents an interview feature, “Looking at Education.” www.sfusd.edu (Tuesdays, 8/14, 8/28, 9/11, 9/26 at 6pm)

SELECTED SHORTS Celebrity read-ers from stage and screen, recorded at Symphony Space in NYC. 7/1 Ardour – Jonathan Keats (Lili Taylor), Little Pot – Ilya Kaminsky (Sonia Manzano), Blue Bearded Lover – Joyce Carol Oates (Betsy Lippitt), Relic – Robert Olen Butler (Ron Nakahara), The Porcelain Man – Richard Kennedy (Estelle Parsons); 7/8 Neighbors – Julia Alvarez (Joanna Gleason), Flight Patterns – Sherman Alexie (B.D. Wong); 8/15 Safari – Jennifer Egan (Hope Davis); 7/22 Liliana – Maile Meloy (James Naughton), Going to the Dogs – Richard Ford (Isaiah Sheffer); 7/29 Porte Cochere – Peter Taylor (Leonard Nimoy), Enough – Alice McDermott (Fionnula Flanagan); 8/5 Ever After – Kim Addonizio, (Christine Ebersole) Boys – Rick Moody (B.D. Wong), The Fortunes of Madame Organza – Natalie Babbitt (Janel Maloney); 8/12 The Shape of the Sword – Jorge Luis Borges (Charles Keating), On the Honeymoon – Javier Marias (Ivan Hernandez), William Burns – Roberto Bolano (Michael Stuhlbarg); 8/19 Free Fruit for Young Widows – Nathan Englander (Michael Cerveris), (She Owns) Every Thing – Anne Enright, (Mary-Louise Parker) The Writers’ Model – Molly Giles (Blair Brown), 8/26 I Am Not a Jew – John Biguenet (Denis O’Hare), Everything in this Country Must – Colum McCann (Amy Ryan), Flying – Stephen Dixon (Thomas Gibson); 9/2 The Deal – Mike Birbiglia (Mike Birbiglia), Seeing the World – Louis Robinson, (Thomas Gibson); 9/9 Claire of the Sea Light (Anika Noni Rose) and New York Day Woman (Laurine Towler) – Edwidge Danticat; 9/16 (pre-empted for Berkeley Symphony broad-cast), 9/23 A Prayer – Paul Simms (Chip Zien), Lamentations of the Father – Ian Frazier (Isaiah Sheffer), The Storm – Jules Verne (Tony Roberts), Robbed – Ellen Currie (Christina Pickles) (Sunday at 5pm)

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SMILEY & WEST An energetic radio fusion of thought provoking, intelligent and stimulating dialogue on every subject from news and politics to entertainment and cul-ture, with Tavis Smiley and Dr. Cornel West. (Friday at 1pm)

SNAP JUDGMENT Host Glynn Washington explores decisions that define lives, taking listeners on an addic-tive narrative that walks a mile in some-one else’s shoes — a rhythmic blend of drama, humor, music, and personality. Produced in Oakland, distributed nation-wide by NPR and PRX. (Sunday at 3pm, Wednesday at 1pm)

SOUND OPINIONS Smart and spirited discussions about a wide range of popular music, from cutting-edge underground rock and hip-hop, to classic rock, R&B, electronica, and worldbeat. Hosted by music critics Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot from the studios of WBEZ in Chicago. www.soundopinions.org (Sunday at 2pm)

SPOLETO CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL Host Miles Hoffman with con-certs from the Spoleto Festival USA. Artistic director and first violinist in the St. Lawrence String Quartet Geoff Nuttall provides lively commentary from the stage of the historic Dock Street Theatre in Charleston, South Carolina. (Monday at 9pm.)

THE STATE WE’RE IN Radio Netherlands host Jonathan Groubert presents sto-ries from all over the world, with a special focus on human rights issues. www.radionetherlands.nl (Monday at Noon)

TANGENTS An unusually diverse, genre-bending program hosted by Dore Stein that explores the bridges con-necting various styles of music, from world and roots to creative jazz hybrids. www.tangents.com (Saturday 8pm-Midnight)

THE TAVIS SMILEY SHOWA weekly high-energy discussion of political, cultural, and global issues of par-ticular relevance to African Americans. www.tavistalks.org (Friday at Noon)

THEN AND NOW Host Sarah Cahill presents two hours of new and classical music, with local composer interviews and previews of upcoming concerts. www.sarahcahill.com (Sunday 8-10pm)

THE THISTLE & SHAMROCKHost Fiona Ritchie with well-established and newly emerging artists that explore Celtic roots in Europe and North America. www.thistleradio.com (Saturday at 2pm)

THIS AMERICAN LIFE A different theme each week with contributions from a variety of writers and performers, hosted by Ira Glass. www.thislife.org (Sunday at 1pm and Wednesday at noon)

THIS WAY OUT LGBT stories and news from around the corner and around the world, produced by Greg Gordon in Los Angeles. www.qrd.org (Thursday at 7:30pm)

TO THE BEST OF OUR KNOWLEDGE An audio magazine that offers a fresh per-spective on the cultural topics that shape today’s headlines. www.ttbook.org (Sunday 8-10am)

TUC RADIO (Time of Useful Consciousness) Probing reports on the impact of big corporations on society. www.tucradio.org (Sunday at 6:30am)

VOICEBOX The best of the vocal music scene from the Bay Area and beyond, hosted by Chloe Veltman. The art of singing is explored with musicians who love vocal music and provide focused, contextual reflection about their passion. Upcoming hightlights: 7/6 Young Voices: Bob Geary, shares the music of youth choirs participating in this year’s Golden Gate International Children’s and Youth Choral Festival; 7/13 Woodie’s Way: Peter Glazer, professor of Performance Studies at the UC Berkeley, shares his thoughts on the seminal American folk artist; 7/20 Bay Area Vocal Music Showcase, with Therese Davis; 7/27 Harmonic Landscapes: Chloe, Erika and Rachel Tietjen of the T Sisters, with vocalist Melody Walker, talk about how voices can create lush harmonic vistas; 8/3 Beyond Cultural Borders: an exploration

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of the triumphs and challenges of sing-ing the repertoire of other cultures; 8/10 Helene Whitson, director of the Bay Area Choral Music Archive, shares some of the global choral music scene’s most difficult-to-come-by recordings; 8/17 Singing and The Brain; 8/24 Vocal Music from the Library of Congress; 8/31 & 9/7 (pre-empted for “I Love to Rhyme: The Lyrics of Ira Gershwin”); 9/14 Tim Harrington and Paul Wright of the vocal and guitar/cello duo Paul Heights talk about the street music scene in Boston; 9/21 Voices from Ethiopia; 9/28 Holy Singing Holograms!: Cliff Nass, a tech-nology and communications professor at Stanford University discusses the latest developments in voice synthesis technol-ogy. www.voicebox-media.org (Friday at 10pm)

WEEKEND EDITION Scott Simon and NPR wrap up the week’s events – plus arts and newsmakers interviews. www.npr.org (Saturday 6-9am)

WEST COAST LIVE! San Francisco’s “live radio program to the world” hosted 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)

WHAD’YA KNOW? A two-hour comedy/quiz show hosted by Michael Feldman, “the sage of Wisconsin.” www.notmuch.org (Saturday Noon-2pm)

WORK WITH MARTY NEMKO Career coach Marty Nemko talks with listen-ers about work issues, from fi nding the perfect job to networking, and regularly offers “3 minute workovers.” Guests have included F. Lee Bailey, Studs Terkel, Noam Chomsky, Alan Dershowitz, Cokie Roberts, Jack Welch, Suze Orman, Willie Brown, and Robert Reich. And his wife, Barbara Nemko, comes in periodically to give him a hard time. www.martynemko.com (Sunday at 11am)

WORLD HAVE YOUR SAY An interac-tive program on key issues in the news with a worldwide audience, hosted by Ros Atkins. To participate in the live webcast at bbc.com at 10am, call 011 44 20 70 83 72 72 or email worldhaveyoursay@bbc.com. www.worldhaveyoursay.com (Weekdays at 11am, taped delayed)

WRITER’S ALMANAC Garrison Keillor’s daily digest of all things literary. www.writersalmanac.com (Weekdays at 9:01am)

YOUR CALL Politics and culture, dialogue and debate, hosted by Rose Aguilar. To participate, call (415) 841-4134. www.yourcallradio.org (Weekdays at 10am. Rebroadcast Monday-Thursday at 11pm, Friday at 5pm)

YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS San Mateo Deputy District Attorney Chuck Finney talks with listeners about legal and con-sumer problems. Call in your questions to Chuck and his team of guest attorneys: (415) 841-4134. (Wednesday at 7pm)

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