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What’s love got to do with the law? Then again, what’s the law got to do with falling in love? From coast to coast, Life of the Law occasionally ta...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 11, 2014
- Length: 17:26
- Purchases: 1
Protests against the tech industry’s impact on housing have grown in number and variety. They’ve been personal, with individual tech executives bei...
- Added: May 21, 2014
- Length: 05:23
It can be hard to donate your old things to a thrift store, but the idea is that your stuff will get a second life. Once it is donated, it will mak...
- Added: May 20, 2014
- Length: 05:08
In San Francisco’s Outer Sunset neighborhood, there’s a small building that’s a big part of some young people’s lives. Sunset Youth Services provid...
- Added: May 18, 2014
- Length: 04:26
The sharing economy in San Francisco is humming. Companies like Airbnb have figured out how to make a lot of money by using existing housing stock ...
- Added: May 18, 2014
- Length: 08:40
When a landlord and a tenant are involved in a dispute, an eviction from the property is the last resort. And when evictions do occur in San Franci...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 18, 2014
- Length: 08:52
- Purchases: 1
San Francisco currently has the third lowest unemployment rate of all California's counties. But while that’s good news, it doesn't mean that much ...
- Added: May 17, 2014
- Length: 06:47
Dejon Lewis was 11 years old when child protective services arrived to take him and his twin sister away from their mother, whom he says is a drug ...
- Added: May 17, 2014
- Length: 08:47
A couple on an evening stroll down Valencia Street comes to a stop outside Lost Weekend Video. They’re peering in through the big front window...
- Added: May 17, 2014
- Length: 06:33
In his backyard in San Francisco’s Outer Richmond neighborhood, Arne Jin An Wong coats a pink and white striped, eight-foot-long surfboard. This bo...
Bought by WXDU
- Added: May 17, 2014
- Length: 06:58
- Purchases: 1
Rent control has been a way for cities to regulate their housing prices and evictions since World War One, in the wake of a big housing shortage in...
- Added: May 17, 2014
- Length: 05:13
A Chilean-born author, Isabel is best known for her novels and memoirs. But now, after deciding not to retire from writing books after all, she's ...
Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: Apr 14, 2014
- Length: 09:59
- Purchases: 2
Living a balanced life requires an early morning for KALW's executive news editor Ben Trefny. It takes getting up before 6am to prepare lunch, and ...
- Added: Mar 12, 2014
- Length: 06:03
- Purchases: 2
Jeremy Mykaels is in his early 60s, and he has AIDS. As a young gay man, he moved to the Castro, where he has lived for almost 40 years. He's been ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 12, 2014
- Length: 07:41
- Purchases: 1
People 50 years or older now make up the majority of HIV and AIDS cases in San Francisco. Since HIV emerged in the 1980's, treatments have improved...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Mar 12, 2014
- Length: 08:14
- Purchases: 1
When you fill out a job application, you expect to answer some basic questions. Things like your employment and education history, and relevant ski...
- Added: Mar 12, 2014
- Length: 07:14
In a quiet spot, just west of the bustle of the California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park, sits a garden dedicated to English literature’s...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Mar 12, 2014
- Length: 05:29
- Purchases: 1
Thao Nguyen grew up in Northern Virginia, and started playing music at age 12. Since then she has released three critically acclaimed albums, and s...
- Added: Mar 12, 2014
- Length: 08:13
Marla Knight is packing up her home of 48 years. She’s been evicted from her North Beach apartment because the owners are converting it to tenancie...
Bought by PRX Remix and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Dec 29, 2013
- Length: 04:41
- Purchases: 2
Roland Feller is responsible for the well-being of many of the city's stringed instruments. When you imagine him working on a violin, picture him s...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 29, 2013
- Length: 07:33
- Purchases: 1
Charles Hodgkins and I are walking with several other burrito-eaters through the Mission District. He’s clearly the boss, though. It’s not just the...
- Added: Dec 29, 2013
- Length: 05:03
When you call 911, who answers the phone? How do they decide who to send to the scene, and how fast will they get there? We bring you a 2-part spec...
- Added: Dec 26, 2013
- Length: 58:59
If you walk upstairs from the kitchen at Mother Brown’s drop-in center in the evening, you’ll find dozens of people sleeping in chairs. During the ...
- Added: Nov 06, 2013
- Length: 06:46
Your watch is your personal trainer. Your headband is making an action documentary of your life. Your bracelet congratulates you on your daily wate...
Bought by Kansas Public Radio, PRX Remix, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Nov 06, 2013
- Length: 09:53
- Purchases: 3
Private shuttles have been using Muni stops in San Francisco for a while. But they’ve mostly been smaller buses, for hospitals and universities. In...
- Added: Nov 06, 2013
- Length: 05:44
