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17-Year-Old Fremont City Council Candidate Ishan Shah
17-year-old Ishan Shah is running for City Council in Fremont, California. The teen, who says he watched the news growing up, rather than cartoons, would be the city's youngest city council member...
View ArticleFederal Money for California Schools
There's a lot of federal money available for schools, but a California law stands in the way of state eligibility. Zoe Corneli reports on the tussle over the details. A public informational hearing of...
View ArticleP.O.W.E.R. Lunch with the Former Homeless
According to mayor Gavin Newsom’s annual homeless count, roughly 6,500 people are living without reliable shelter this year in San Francisco. Homeless advocates say the figure is actually double that....
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Rakas
With a quarter of the population foreign-born and nearly half speaking a language other than English, the Californian sound of today sings in two tongues and sways to many different beats. From...
View ArticleSound Cave
Artist and composer Tyson Ayers builds new instruments out of cast-off pieces of old ones. But his instruments aren’t your usual guitars and drums. They’re installation-sized, instruments that many...
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The African Presence in Mexico
An exhibit at the Oakland Museum of California sheds light on the long-ignored history of African-heritage Mexicans. In fact it wasn't until 1992 that the Mexican government officially recognized the...
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Literary Death Match
Book readings have a slightly stuffy reputation: quiet, restrained, civilized. They aren't generally rowdy events. And rarely, if ever, are they death-defying. But one San Francisco group is working to...
View ArticleBay Bridge Retrofit
Ben Van Houten and Christian Cunningham write the blog The Bay Bridged and come on Crosscurrents to talk about their favorite music. Here they discuss Dame Satan.Arts and Cultureread more
View ArticleThe Bay Area's Water Future
San Francisco voters agreed in 2002 to pay for a 4 and a half billion dollar upgrade to the system of pipes and reservoirs that supplies most of the Bay Area’s water every day. Some of the first...
View ArticlePlays in Prison
San Francisco’s Juvenile Hall is a county detention facility with a capacity of more than 100 inmates. Its maximum-security unit can accommodate 20, and it’s usually full. The kids there face felony...
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