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When his prejudiced grandmother catches him playing with an African-American boy at school, a young Chinese immigrant faces a dilemma: how can he s...
- Added: May 14, 2015
- Length: 04:42
As they learn more about the realities of climate change and sea level rise, some coastal communities are taking action. This week on Sea Change Ra...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: May 12, 2015
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
In one of America's most expensive cities, there's a fringe political party whose name sums up their concerns: The Rent is Too Damn High. That city...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 04, 2015
- Length: 06:27
- Purchases: 1
There are at least 7,000 homeless people in San Francisco each night, and only enough shelter space to house a small fraction of them. This is one ...
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- Added: May 04, 2015
- Length: 06:37
- Purchases: 1
Alyssa Arian has worked in San Francisco restaurants for a decade and, like most servers, she got into it for the tips.
“Some nights you leave wit...
- Added: May 04, 2015
- Length: 09:06
The Hetch Hetchy Regional Water system, operated by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (PUC), carries water to 2.6 million customers in ...
- Added: Apr 21, 2015
- Length: 04:57
Dave Boyle talks cinema DNA, millinery metaphors, and moving out of his sister’s basement.
- Added: Apr 08, 2015
- Length: 18:56
What's it take to succeed in a competitive restaurant market? In a $683 billion industry, less than 5% of restaurant owners are women. Tanya Hollan...
- Added: Mar 27, 2015
- Length: 53:59
- Purchases: 2
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Chinese immigrants held on San Francisco's Angel Island in the early 20th century carved poetry deep into the walls that confined them. Judy Yung w...
- Added: Mar 25, 2015
- Length: 09:21
- Purchases: 3
Hundreds of students at Schools of the Sacred Heart in San Francisco are taking part in a nationwide Tech Timeout, challenging students to unplug f...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 24, 2015
- Length: 05:22
- Purchases: 1
One in four homeless people are veterans. There are approximately 800 homeless veterans on San Francisco’s streets.Experts in the field believe the...
- Added: Mar 23, 2015
- Length: 09:07
Lee Gallagher inhales the Bay area of California, making it part of who he is musically.
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Mar 14, 2015
- Length: 58:00
- Purchases: 1
At a full-service restaurant you know the drill. You eat your food, you get your bill, and then you calculate the tip. But not at Sous Beurre Kitch...
- Added: Mar 11, 2015
- Length: 09:06
Every year, over the course of a weekend, San Francisco’s Civic Center is transformed into a giant playground.
- Added: Mar 11, 2015
- Length: 06:59
The mystery over what the falcon really is, whether it even existed,and why it has any value has remained so compelling, in fact, that over the yea...
- Added: Mar 11, 2015
- Length: 09:15
Juliet Pries, the owner of the Ice Cream Bar in Cole Valley, talks about the massive red tape she had to deal with to open her business.
- Added: Mar 11, 2015
- Length: 04:06
When most people are on their way to sleep, San Francisco’s Homeless Outreach Team, or SF HOT, is just beginning its graveyard shift.
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- Added: Feb 04, 2015
- Length: 07:34
- Purchases: 1
In San Francisco’s Richmond District, where Geary Boulevard meets Park Presidio, there stands a bright, white, defunct Christian Science church. Th...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 04, 2015
- Length: 06:37
- Purchases: 2
Starting a small business in the Bay Area can be quite a chore. To be successful, you have to twist yourself into unusual shapes.
- Added: Feb 03, 2015
- Length: 08:43
In 2002, Juan Carlos Cancino, was riding his bike around town and found an entire city block of dilapidated greenhouses, near a hill in the Portola...
- Added: Jan 13, 2015
- Length: 08:44
If Vincent Van Gogh lived in the Bay Area now rather than the Netherlands in the 19th century, maybe he would have been a popular video game design...
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- Added: Jan 13, 2015
- Length: 08:50
- Purchases: 1
Some of all Parts, is a San Francisco rap group made up of old high school buddies Carlos Teasdale, Daniel Velarde, and Joe Truss. Truss is Assista...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 12, 2015
- Length: 03:23
- Purchases: 1
San Francisco’s Mission District. It’s a neighborhood where Mark Zuckerberg now owns a home, and a place where an affluent, whiter population is di...
- Added: Jan 12, 2015
- Length: 06:23
In November, San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors approved legislation allocating $300,000 to help San Franciscans who want PrEP to get access to i...
- Added: Jan 12, 2015
- Length: 05:21
About 25 members of the dance company Mind Over Matter, mostly women, are finishing their warm up. Dressed in comfy street clothes, they stretch wh...
- Added: Jan 07, 2015
- Length: 03:29
