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6 days ago · There are so many ways to listen to KALW: On 91.7 FM in the Bay Area. In your podcast feed. On your smart speaker ("Hey Siri, play KALW"). Press the pink play button or listen to latest episodes below.

Feb 28, 2025 · You can listen to the best of NPR anytime on the NPR 24 Livestream on KALW.org. Just click on "All Streams" near the top right corner of the webpage. Or, if you're on mobile, click on the All Stream icon below.

5 days ago · In 1930, Dorothy Thompson joined her husband, Sinclair Lewis, in Sweden, where he was accepting his Nobel Prize in literature. While Lewis was famous for becoming the first American to receive the honor, Thompson was a lesser-known writer. At the time, Thompson was vigorously trying to reignite her ...

6 days ago · A federal judge has dismissed Fox News Media from a lawsuit filed by former Fox Business producer Jennifer Eckhart against the network and its former star, anchor and correspondent Ed Henry. Fox fired Henry in July 2020 after an outside investigation into "willful sexual misconduct in the workplace ...

Mar 9, 2025 · Before the internet made book reviews widely accessible, where would curious minds go to find information about a new novel's subject matter or a plot? If you lived in the Los Angeles area, you could reference the Los Angeles Public Library's index of fiction book review cards. The reviews, a ...

Mar 12, 2025 · KALW is launching a new, one-hour arts program called, “The Sights + Sounds Show with Jeneé Darden.” Every Wednesday at 4pm Jeneé will deliver intimate, rich interviews with Bay Area artists, and the outside talent who are …

Mar 12, 2025 · Some of the schools that have frozen hiring include Columbia University's medical school, the University of Notre Dame, Emory University, Cornell University, Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Northwestern University and the University of California, San Diego.. Their announcements cite the uncertainty around federal funding — due to …

Mar 11, 2025 · Even if you know San Francisco like the back of your hand, it still has plenty of surprises to offer us. The Crosstown Trail offers up a lot of those opportunities for charm and whimsy. It’s a 17 mile walk from Candlestick Point to Land’s End.

Feb 21, 2025 · Kevin Vance created a program of folk music for KALW, A Patchwork Quilt, in October 1991. He grew up in Berkeley during the 1960s and '70s and spent his years learning in public schools, community colleges, bookstores, libraries, and non-commercial radio stations, as well as from the people around him.