Meet Your Neighbors
By Carolina Hidalgo on Dec 1 2011 - 3:32pm
In San Francisco, you don’t have to go to a stuffy night club or a formal classroom to learn how to swing dance. If you want to learn the Lindy Hop, you can learn in the great outdoors.
KALW’s Carolina Hidalgo, who is originally from Chile, found the group called Lindy in the Park, dancing in full...
By Nathanael Johnson on Sep 7 2011 - 3:55pm
KALW’s Nathanael Johnson lives in San Francisco, near Mission and 30th Street. It’s at the intersection of several different neighborhoods with lots of people from different backgrounds. But just because people are living next to each other doesn’t necessarily mean they get to know one another. As...
By Martina Castro on Jun 21 2011 - 3:38pm
San Francisco musician Meklit Hadero has quite an impressive resume: she was born in Ethiopia, and lived all over the map until she landed in San Francisco almost six years ago. She is a commissioned composer by the local Brava Theater, and was a resident artist with the de Young museum.
She's also...
By Ben Trefny on May 17 2011 - 3:16pm
This year, with the San Francisco 49ers and Oakland Raiders out of the football mix, KALW has decided to cover a different competition. Call it “The Super Bowl ... of burritos.”
First, a little backstory. KALW’s Ben Trefny interviewed one of San Francisco’s must respected burrito reviewers in 2009...
By Allison Budner on Apr 25 2011 - 4:45pm
San Francisco may not be known for its fashion, but it’s certainly a fashionable city – the item of the day might be a bulky scarf or skinny jeans, but in the first half of the 20th century and earlier, San Franciscans were really into hats.
Streets were often a sea of hats: rounded bowlers and...
By Audrey Dilling on Mar 23 2011 - 4:55pm
San Francisco is home to people of all colors, shapes and sizes – and every one has a story. They can be told in words ... and they can also be told in pictures. That’s where Julie Michelle comes in. Michelle is a photographer who has snapped the images of almost 200 everyday San Franciscans and...
By Max Jacobs on Mar 8 2011 - 1:57pm
Five California cities have made Forbes Magazine’s top ten list of most miserable cities: Vallejo, Sacramento, Modesto, Merced and Stockton. Well, that might be Forbes editors’ opinions, but they don’t necessarily know those towns so well. So KALW News found some people who do.
Cal State Sacramento...
By Hana Baba on Feb 24 2011 - 12:00pm
As U.S. journalists and photographers venture into war-torn countries like Afghanistan, scores of people from there try to get out. The largest Afghani community in the U.S. is right here in the East Bay: Fremont’s “Little Kabul."
KALW's Hana Baba visited the neighborhood and met some members of...
By Max Jacobs on Feb 3 2011 - 3:00pm
Take a listen to these songs. What do you think they have in common? For anyone who's ever been to a karaoke bar, you should've recognized those as the quintessential karaoke sing-alongs. And while karaoke isn't exclusive, it certainly isn't for everyone. Karaoke outings tend to involve alcohol,...
By Brenda Payton on Jan 3 2011 - 3:49pm
Stepping into Cuts and Bends Hair Center on Foothill Boulevard in East Oakland is like stepping into an African American museum, with vintage posters of boxing matches, classic jazz album covers, African sculptures, posters of Malcolm X, Louis Armstrong, Martin Luther King, Jr. and paintings...
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