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Real talk: I’m not the biggest fan of San Francisco public transportation. So when I first heard of the alternative transportation network of priva...
- Added: Nov 06, 2013
- Length: 05:59
Like many people who see a pretty rose in bloom, Annette Smith likes to take in the sight and scent of it. But when she bends her head to inhale th...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Oct 23, 2013
- Length: 08:09
- Purchases: 1
At first glance, Raquel Miller has more than a few things in common with a Hollywood heiress. She wears her hair in long, soft curls or braids and ...
- Added: Oct 09, 2013
- Length: 08:56
Soup kitchens in San Francisco’s Tenderloin District feed thousands of homeless and low-income people every day. These free meal sites serve as a v...
- Added: Oct 09, 2013
- Length: 17:19
If you happen to walk by the Radio Habana Social Club on Valencia Street on a Sunday afternoon, you might hear Rumba, the music of Cuba. Radio Haba...
- Added: Oct 09, 2013
- Length: 07:00
When people get into trouble with the law, they normally don’t have a chance to have a conversation with their victims. To explain what happened. H...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Oct 09, 2013
- Length: 07:59
- Purchases: 1
A lot of things make San Francisco a unique city -- and one is the sheer number of dogs. There are more dogs than there are children. Something li...
- Added: Oct 09, 2013
- Length: 07:55
These days, more and more researchers link our health to our daily surroundings. Take for example, neighborhoods that sit next to freeways exposed ...
- Added: Oct 09, 2013
- Length: 07:02
San Francisco’s waterfront is booming. It’s become a major destination for tourists and locals, celebrated two World Series wins, and is currently ...
- Added: Oct 09, 2013
- Length: 07:08
An underground supper club pairs beers with dinner, served in a Mission District apartment kitchen in San Francisco.
- Added: Oct 08, 2013
- Length: 03:00
If you walked along the San Francisco waterfront recently, you may have noticed giant catamarans -- specialized, 72-foot long sailboats that whizz ...
- Added: Sep 16, 2013
- Length: 05:44
Just under 22 years ago, a fire caught in the Oakland hills. That fire killed 25 people and destroyed more than 3,000 homes, and it was so destruct...
- Added: Sep 16, 2013
- Length: 08:37
The Jane Warner Plaza, on the corner of Castro and Market streets in San Francisco, is better known, locally, as the Buff Stop. That’s because of t...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 02, 2013
- Length: 08:56
- Purchases: 1
Rebecca Solnit, a writer and native of the Bay Area, provides a brief history of San Francisco’s transformation from a working class port city to a...
- Added: Aug 11, 2013
- Length: 25:58
Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin were the first same-sex couple to wed in San Francisco City Hall in 2004 and again - legally - in 2008, mere months bef...
- Added: Jun 26, 2013
- Length: 29:24
Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin were the first same-sex couple to wed in San Francisco City Hall in 2004 and again -- legally -- in 2008, mere months b...
- Added: Jun 26, 2013
- Length: 29:05
- Purchases: 3
On Saturday mornings, any number of jazz musicians can be found tucked away in tunnel in Golden Gate Park, improvising melodies and wooing passers-...
- Added: Jun 20, 2013
- Length: 05:58
Given the high demand for living space in San Francisco, it may be hard to believe that any apartment is sitting around empty. But there's at least...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jun 20, 2013
- Length: 07:02
- Purchases: 1
On Sunday morning, while the Fillmore District is brunching or sleeping in, I’m sweating to attend something I’ve never run for in my life: church....
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 20, 2013
- Length: 13:25
- Purchases: 1
Individuals can take heroic steps to stop human trafficking, like the cab driver in Saigon who rescued 11- and 12-year-olds enslaved in garment fac...
Bought by KUER, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KUOW, and WRPI
- Added: May 20, 2013
- Length: 08:20
- Purchases: 5
When city budgets are cut, public transportation is often on the chopping block; routes and lines serving those who need the service most, can be t...
- Added: Mar 20, 2013
- Length: 29:00
Listening to the national dialogue on energy policy can be a little discouraging. Not only does it feel like progress is not happening fast enough,...
- Added: Mar 20, 2013
- Length: 29:59
We look back at the 2003 invasion of Iraq, 10 years later. For Iraqis, for the US military, and for the anti-war movement: how have things changed,...
Bought by WXDU
- Added: Mar 06, 2013
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
At overcrowded and underfunded public schools across the country high suspension rates are exacerbating existing achievement gaps. Often, chaos in ...
Bought by WRIR
- Added: Nov 23, 2012
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Bicyclists take to the streets en mass in a fight over the ‘right to the city’.
Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KTSW 89.9, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, WXDU and more
- Added: Oct 24, 2012
- Length: 53:31
- Purchases: 13
