January/February/March 2012

New For 2012:All Things Considered

Returns

Public Radio RemixDebuts

Up Late Friday Nights?Music from Other Minds

VoiceBox

• My Mix Tape• Your Call seeks new theme music• The new kalw.org

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KALW program guide edited by Matt Martin and David Latulippe, designed by Georgette Petropoulos, Howard Quinn Company

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KALW: By and for the community . . . COMMUNITY BROADCAST PARTNERSAIA, San Francisco • Association for Continuing Education • Berkeley Symphony Orchestra • Burton High School • Center for Architecture and Design • Global Exchange • INFORUM at The Commonwealth Club • Jewish Community Center of San Francisco • LitQuake • Mills College • New America Media • Oakland Asian Cultural Center • Other Minds • outLoud • Radio Ambulante • San Francisco Conservatory of Music • SF Performances • StoryCorps • Youth Radio

FOUNDATION SUPPORTERSThe Cow Hollow Foundation • Craigslist Fund • The Friedman Family Foundation • Ira & Leonore Gershwin Trusts • Laurie Cohen Fund • Rosenberg Foundation • Tulsa and Simone Fund • The Walter and Elise Haas Fund • The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

KALW VOLUNTEER PRODUCERSRose Arrieta, Jon Atkinson, Sarah Bernard, Sarah Cahill, Bob Campbell, Jayme Catsouphes, Ronald Chase, Jennifer Chien, Audrey Dilling, Emily Dulcan, Chuck Finney, Richard Friedman, Greg Gheorghiu, Carolina Hidalgo, Kent Howard, Daphne Humes, Robin Hunt, Eric Jansen, Max Jacobs, Carol Kocivar, Bea La’O, David Latulippe, Leyna Lightman, Martin MacClain, Ann Maley, Holly McDede, Lauren Meltzer, Charlie Mintz, Sandy Miranda, Maya Mirsky, Alexandra Muller, David Momphard, Emmanuel Nado, Mark Naftalin, Marty Nemko, Kevin O’Connell, Edwin Okongo, Joseph Pace, Joaquin Palomino, Brian Pelletier, Art Persyko, Marilyn Pittman, Peter Robinson, Dana Rodriguez, Melody Sage, Judith Sansone, Steven Short, Judy Silber, Jennifer Spoerri, Katy Styer, Dore Stein, Devon Strolovitch, Niels Swinkels, Peter Thompson, Andre Torrez, Kevin Vance, Chloe Veltman, Melanie Young

KALW VOLUNTEERSDaniel Aarons, Susan Aberg, Frank Adam, Bud Alderson, Jody Ames, Jean Amos, Dan Barki, Leon Bayer, Ken Begun, Bob Benjamin, Laura Bernabei, Karl Bouldin, Robbie Brandwynne, Diane Brett, Andrew Broderick, Joshua Brody, Linda Clever, Peter Conheim, Carolyn Deacy, Roger Donaldson, Doug Dyment, Jim & Joy Esser, Steve Fankuchen, Peter Fortune, Janet Frankel, Nina Frankel, Dave Gomberg, Ashley Gould, Jo Gray, Terence Groeper, Paula Groves, Stefan Gruenwedel, Ted Gugenheim, Dan Gunning, Roger Hall, Ian Hardcastle, Jeff Hayden, Donna Heatherington, Tom Herzfeld, Christine Holdrup, Kent Howard, Clara Hsu, Lynn Jefferson, Jenny Jens, Kathleen Kaplan, Brenda Kett, Lou Kipilman, I.W. Klein, Sarah Kulberg, Fred Lipshultz, Hester Lox, Toni Lozica, Diana Lum, Jennifer Mahoney, Jack Major, Stephanie Manning, Horace Marks, Tom Mason, Nancy Mutnick, John McDevitt, Michael McGinley, Fred & Cheryl Merrick, Paul Michael, Roger Miller, Linda Morine, Jake Nassif, Tim Olson, Alice O’Sullivan, Susan Parini, Amit Pendyal, Art Persyko, Ron Rohde, Rick Rose, Leslie Rosenfeld, Marti Rousch, Pam Routh, John Roybal, Sandra Russel, Maureen Russell, Mo Shooer, Kevin Stamm, John Sullivan, Brent Sverdlof, Niels Swinkels, Bian Tan, Yuyu Thein, Robert Tomkinson, Coban Tun, David Vartanoff, Sheila Walsh, Charlie Wegerle, Marianne Wiener, Harry Weller, Patrick Wheeler, Steve Wilcott, Greg Wynn

OUR LICENSEE, THE SAN FRANCISCO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICTSuperintendent: Carlos Garcia • Board of Commissioners: Sandra Lee Fewer, Kim-Shree Maufus, Hydra Mendoza, Emily Murase, Rachel Norton, Jill Wynns, Norman Yee • Director, Office of Public Outreach and Communications: Gentle Blythe

ABOUT KALWKALW is a pioneer educational station licensed to the San Francisco Unified School District, broadcasting since September 1, 1941 — the oldest non-commercial FM signal west of the Mississippi.Mailing address:

KALW Radio Offices: (415) 841-4121500 Mansell Street Fax: (415) 841-4125San Francisco, CA 94134 Studio Line: (415) 841-4134

For general comments, membership inquiries, and non-profit Public Service Announcement requests, use the following email address: kalw@kalw.org © Contents KALW

KALW PERSONNELMatt Martin, General ManagerWilliam Helgeson,

Operations ManagerDavid Latulippe, AdministrationPhil Hartman, Engineering Annette Bistrup, MembershipJoe Burke, AnnouncerAlan Farley, Senior AnnouncerJoAnn Mar, AnnouncerHolly Kernan, News DirectorBen Trefny, Managing News

EditorMartina Castro, Senior News

ProducerChris Hoff, News EngineerErica Mu, News Tech SupportSeth Samuel, News EngineerHana Baba, Host/ReporterCasey Miner, ReporterRina Palta, ReporterAli Winston, ReporterRose Aguilar, Host

Sandip Roy, HostMalihe Razazan, ProducerAli Budner, ProducerPart-time announcersEric JansenDebi KennedyDavid LatulippeBob SommerKevin VanceEric Wayne

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Manager’s NotesThank you for making

2011 a big year for KALW. People from across this community came together to celebrate the station’s legacy as the first FM west of the Mississippi — and to put this critical public resource on sound financial footing.

Now, we have the opportunity to build on that foundation and create something unique and powerful: A model for local, independent media that fosters creative communities and enriches public life. And the key is to deepen this station’s connections to the people and communities it’s serving now, while expanding its reach to bring in new perspectives and talents.

One of the great joys of 2011 for me was to have the chance to meet so many of KALW’s passionate supporters. More than a thousand listeners took part in 70th anniversary events — the “Listener Celebration” here at the station in March, the wonderful 70th Anniver-sary Concert at the Freight & Salvage hosted by Peter Thompson, JoAnn Mar and Dore Stein, and the celebration of KALW Day at the CCSF Mission cam-pus, the site where the station began broadcasting in 1941.

Events like Snap Judgment Live! at the Oakland Museum and Crosscur-rents’ radio storytelling nights as part of the Mission Arts and Performance Project (see p. 4) gave new and diverse audiences the opportunity to encounter the enthusiasm and talent that animate KALW these days.

The station’s partnership with Youth Radio is bringing the work of their jour-nalists to Crosscurrents, and our new radio training program at Burton High School means that in 2012, the perspec-

tives and talents of San Francisco students will be a regular part of the mix on 91.7.

Meanwhile, our news team is working with New America Media to bring stories from the ethnic news media into KALW’s coverage of Election 2012.

And you’ll be hearing more from our partners at Radio Ambulante, a fascinat-ing new project that aims to join the narrative radio journalism techniques of This American Life with the stories of people in Latin America.

That’s the kind of local-global con-nection that distinguishes this amazing community. If we can more fully tap into the Bay Area’s intelligence and creativ-ity, there’s no question we can make this good public radio station great.

KALW’s connection to the community begins with our listeners. That’s why, when we were considering significant program changes for 2012, we wanted to hear from you first. Given the diverse values and tastes of our listeners, there was no consensus, but what you had to say affected our ultimate decisions (see the new schedule on pp. 8-9) and will continue to inform our priorities in the future.

Stay tuned, let us know what you think, and keep demanding more from Local Public Radio. Together, we can make it happen.

Sincerely,

Matt MartinGeneral Manager

matt@kalw.org

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Crosscurrents Live at MAPP!The KALW news team and guests took the stage at

the Polish Club of San Francisco on December 3rd for an evening of multimedia storytelling as part of the Mis-sion Arts and Performance Project (MAPP). The theme of the night was “Beginnings and Endings.” Perform-ers included Snap Judgment host Glynn Washington, John Reichmuth of the comedy troupe Kasper Hauser, StoryCorps, and New York Times and Pop-Up Maga-zine contributor Jon Mooallem. KALW reporters told ghost stories, love stories and stories about the end of the world. The night also included a one-hour special live edition of the daily news magazine Crosscurrents – complete with a neighborhood newscast collected from audience members that very night! Public radio pioneer Nikki Silva of the production duo the Kitchen Sisters joined Ben Trefny, the host of the evening and KALW’s executive news editor, on stage for a discussion about her recent series “The Hidden World of Girls.” Local musician Quinn Deveaux closed out the night with a little help from another KALW favorite, singer Meklit Hadero.

KALW News Executive Editor (and event emcee) Ben Trefny.

Volunteer Doug Dyment (right) in dialogue over the KALW table at the Polish Club.

Quinn Deveaux on guitar, with producers Seth Samuel and Martina Castro looking on.

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40 years after All Things Considered made its San Fran-cisco debut on KALW, public radio’s flagship national news program is returning to Local Public Radio weekdays from 3-5pm.

Melissa Block, Robert Siegel, and Audie Cornish will bring you comprehensive coverage of Election 2012, as well as fea-tures from the Planet Money team and the work of top NPR reporters including Nina Totenberg, Ari Shapiro, Louisa Lim, Mike Shuster, Sylvia Poggioli, and Peter Overby.

KALW’s presentation of ATC will include headlines from the BBC at 4pm, local updates from the Cross-currents team, and 99% Invisible every Friday at 4:45.

Melissa Block Robert Siegel Audie Cornish

Public Radio RemixNew early Sundays morning, right after Tangents . . .

Public Radio Remix is the new sound for public radio – independent, offbeat, sur-prising, engaging, colorful and diverse. Public Radio Remix is spoken word, storytelling, podcasts, inter-views, documentary, found sound, and audio art, all mashed up into a continu-ous radio mixtape. It is not “news and information” or more of the same public affairs analysis that can be found in abundance at other times of the day. Instead, Public Radio Remix takes the best of what’s being produced at the fringes, among independent producers, youth radio, bloggers, documentarians, as well as gems from the Public Radio Exchange (PRX) archives, to create a beautiful chaos that breaks free of

the usual public radio talk format.

Curated by acclaimed producer Roman Mars, Remix offers beautiful non-narrated documentaries from The Kitchen Sisters, authentic voices from Radio Diaries, irreverent wit from How To Do Everything, youth produced news and commentary from Turnstyle, water cooler history stories from The Memory Palace,

philosophical explorations and science news from The Guardian (UK), ideas worth sharing from TED, innovative audio storytelling from the Third Coast International Audio Festival and so much more. If it’s compelling and makes a sound, you can hear it on Public Radio Remix. Sundays from midnight to 6am.

Roman Mars

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10pm VoiceBoxHost Chloe Veltman continues to grow VoiceBox,

the show that celebrates the eclectic capacities of the human voice. VoiceBox now has a free weekly pod-cast on iTunes that is reaching thousands of listeners worldwide, and in 2012, it’s debuting on KUSC in Los Angeles.

VoiceBox features a wide variety of vocal expression and topics — from English-language opera translations to women vocal composers of the Baroque era, singing ventriloquists and Hawaiian hula chants — and also guests such as baritone Thomas Hampson, the Tuvan throat (overtone) singers of Huun Huur Tu and choral conductor extraordinaire Vance George.

In the opening months of 2012, VoiceBox will feature emcee and poet Melissa Czarnik talking about the musicality of rap (January 20), an exploration of Iran’s

vocal traditions with singer Monika Jalili (Feb-ruary 10), and Stanford music professor Stephen Hinton discussing the vocal music of Kurt Weill and the singers who have sealed his reputa-tion (February 24). For full listings, see p. 14.

Melissa Czarnik

Monika JaliliKurt Weill

Your Call needs a new theme song, and we’re having a contest to find it.

$500 prize for the winning entry, and runners-up prizes as well.60-second minimum. No lyrics, please. Beats & guitars welcome.

Send links to audio files to: feedback@yourcallradio.org,or mail recordings to:

ATTN: “Your Call Theme” KALW, 500 Mansell Street, San Francisco, CA 94134

Deadline for entries is April 1st.Tell your musical friends!

Up late Friday nights? Tune to KALW for adventurous and wide-ranging music . . .

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11pm Music From Other MindsThis January marks the beginning of Music From Other Minds’ seventh year on

KALW. We started MFOM in 2005 at the suggestion of KALW’s then-General Man-ager Nicole Sawaya, as a project of Other Minds, (otherminds.org), the new music organization based in San Francisco. Since 1993, OM, under the direction of co-found-er Charles Amirkhanian, produces an internationally acclaimed annual festival in San Francisco.

Over these six years, MFOM has featured the music of more than 300 composers from around the world, presenting more than 900 works in 289 one-hour programs. (You can see a complete list at otherminds.org/mfom).

The driving principle behind MFOM is the same as when I did avant-garde music programs on KPFA in the 1970s and 80s: to dispel the notion that serious music is dead on the radio. Few, if any, so-called “classical music” stations today dare to play challenging music by living composers – our intent is to provide such a venue, and to expose interested listeners to the vibrant work of living composers around the world.

Composers today have a very rich and varied palette to work with, from traditional instruments of the orchestra to more unusual electronic and even stranger sound generating devices, using styles ranging from the strictly formal to jazz and world music influences. But much of this music never makes it to the radio or concert hall. MFOM tries to fill the gap.

Starting this year, MFOM will be produced by a collective of Other Minds staff-ers, including Charles Amirkhanian, Adam Fong, Brent Miller, myself and others, which will widen further the scope of musical styles and tastes we present. So stay tuned.

— Richard Friedman, MFOM producer

Up late Friday nights? Tune to KALW for adventurous and wide-ranging music . . .

John Luther Adams Agata Zubel

Living composers from A to Z

My Mix TapeKALW News has been collecting the personal

stories of songs that have made a difference in the lives of people in the Bay Area, asking all kinds of interviewees to talk about why a particular song is meaningful to them.

Now we’re putting the songs and the stories on the air – and we want you in the mix! Keep an ear out for “My Mix Tape” pieces every Monday and you can hear all of them we’ve broadcast so far, featuring music ranging from Dvorak’s “American” String Quartet to “Stayin’ Alive” by the Bee Gees, by clicking on My Mix Tape at kalw.org.

And if you have a story to tell about a song that’s important to you, call the KALW news tipline at (415) 264-7106 or send an e-mail to news@kalw.org.

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SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY

Midnight– 5 am

Public Radio Remix PRX BBC World Service Overnight — For detailed listings, visit: bbc.co.uk/worldservice Midnight– 

5 amThe Forum BBC

6 am Earthbeat

NPR’s Morning Edition from National Public Radio (starts at 5 am)

Includes BBC World News live from London on the hour, a Daily Almanac at 5:49 & 8:49, SF school lunch menus at 6:49, and Jim Hightower commentary at 7:49.

On Fridays at 7:34: 99% Invisible, with Roman Mars. KALW host: Joe Burke

NPR’s Weekend Edition

with Scott Simon

6 amTUC Radio

7 am New Dimensions 7 am

8 amTo The Best

Of Our Knowledge

8 am

9 am Fresh Air with Terry Gross, with Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac at 9:01 am Car Talk 9 am

10 am Philosophy Talk Your Call with host Rose Aguilar. Join the conversation at 415-841-4134 or 866-798-TALK Rebroadcast Mon-Thurs at 11pm, Friday at 5pm West Coast Live

with Sedge Thomson

10 am

11 am Work with Marty Nemko BBC’s World Have Your Say 11 am

noon Harry Shearer’s Le Show

The State We’re In (Radio Netherlands)

Philosophy Talk (Rebroadcast)

This American Life (Rebroadcast) Binah The Tavis Smiley Show

Michael Feldman’s Whad’Ya Know?

noon

1 pm This American Life Alternative Radio Big Picture Science Snap Judgment Open Air with Alan Farley Smiley & West 1 pm

2 pm Sound Opinions BBC’s Newshour Thistle & Shamrock with Fiona Ritchie 2 pm

3 pm Snap JudgmentNPR’s All Things Considered

BBC News update at 4:01, and Roman Mars’ 99% Invisible on Fridays at 4:45. KALW Host: Alan Farley

Folk Music & Beyond

with JoAnn Mar, Bob Campbell, &

Sandy Miranda

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4 pm Bullseye formerly The Sound of

Young America 4 pm

5 pm Selected ShortsCrosscurrents from KALW News Your Call

Media Roundtable (Rebroadcast)

A Patchwork Quilt

with Kevin Vance

5 pmBBC Business Daily

6 pm New Letters on the AirFresh Air

S.F. School Board meetings (1/10, 1/24, 2/14, 2/28, 3/13, 3/27)

Fresh Air with Terry Gross 6 pmBook Talk Bluegrass Signal

with Peter Thompson 7 pm Minds Over Matter City Visions INFORUM from the

Commonwealth ClubYour Legal Rights

with Chuck Finney OUT in the Bay Left, Right & Center 7 pmThis Way Out CounterSpin

8 pm Then & Now

with Sarah Cahill

CBC’s As It Happens with Carol Off and Jeff Douglas Includes the Marketplace Tech Report at 8:30

My Word!

Tangents

with Dore Stein

8 pmMy Music

9 pm Song of America w/Thomas Hampson

KALW Experimantal Radio Space Fog City Blues

with Devon Strolovitch

Africa Mix

with Emanuel Nado &

Edwin Okong'o

Fascinatin’ Rhythm 9 pm

10 pmMusic From The Hearts of Space

Record Shelf with Jim Svejda Too Much Information

VoiceBox

with Chloe Veltman 10 pm

11 pm Your Call (Rebroadcast of 10am show)

Music From Other Minds 11 pm

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programming A to Z

Available on KALW’s Local Music Player KALW podcast available at www.kalw.org

AFRICA MIX Musical gems from Africa and the African diaspora that will revive your weary soul. Vintage and contemporary sounds — from Abidjan to Zimbabwe, the Caribbean, Latin America, and beyond, with your host Emmanuel Nado. www.kalwafricamix.blogspot.com (Thursday 9pm-midnight)

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED NPR’s sig-nature afternoon news program features the biggest stories of the day, thoughtful com-mentaries, insightful features on both the quirky and the mainstream in arts and life, music and entertainment. Includes BBC news headlines at 4:01pm and Roman Mars’ 99% Invisible on Fridays at 4:45. (It’s Back! Weekdays from 3-5pm.)

ALTERNATIVE RADIO Progressive scholars and thinkers share their views, produced by David Barsamian. www.alternativeradio.org (Monday at 1pm)

AS IT HAPPENS The international news magazine from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation that probes the major stories of the day, mixing interviews with cover-age in an informative and often irreverent style. Hosted by Carol Off and Jeff Douglas. www.cbc.ca/asithappens (NEW TIME! Mon-Thurs at 8pm)

BBC NEWS Current news from London and BBC programming. (NEW TIMES! Mon-Sat Midnight-5am, Weekdays at 2pm, Mon-Thurs at 5:30pm.)

BERKELEY SYMPHONY KALW con-tinues its exclusive broadcast partnership with the Berkeley Symphony for a broad-cast of their 10/27/11 concert in Zellerbach Hall. Music Director Joana Carneiro leads the orchestra in Brahms’ Symphony No. 3, the Bay Area Premiere of Enrico Chapela’s Li Po, and the Shostakovich Cello Concerto No. 1 with cellist Johannes Moser. (Sunday, January 22 at 4pm.)

BINAH The best of arts & ideas, authors & personalities, produced in collaboration with the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco. Upcoming highlights: 1/5 Taj Mahal in conversation with Ben Fong-Torres; 1/12 Hardball’s Chris Matthews in conversation with Phil Bronstein; 1/19 Eric Weiner: Man Seeks God; 1/26 Walter Isaacson on Steve Jobs, In conversation with Wired Magazine’s Kevin Kelly; 2/2

Carey Perloff of ACT in conversa-tion with Reverend Alan Jones; 2/9 The Madoff Scandal with journalist Diana Henriques; 2/16 Shalom Auslander in conversation with McSweeney’s Eli Horowitz; 2/23 Humor in Hilter’s

Germany with Rudolph Herzog; 3/1 Chef Gabrielle Hamilton in conversation with Barbara Lane; 3/8 Writer, filmmaker and performance artist Miranda July in conversation with Peter Stein; 3/15 Writer Nicole Krauss in conversation with Elizabeth Rosner; 3/22 Journalist Eyal Press examines the choices and dilemmas we face when our principles collide with the loyalties we harbor and the duties we are expected to fulfill; 329 Changing Lives Through Design with IDEO’s Fred Dust. (Thursday at Noon.)

BIG PICTURE SCIENCE From amoebas to zebras, the science of what makes life possible. Produced at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California. (Tuesday at 1pm)

BLUEGRASS SIGNAL Host Peter Thompson presents bluegrass music with elements of Celtic, jazz, and a vari-ety of folk. 1/7 January Birthday tributes to, among others, Bill Emerson, Butch Waller, Casey Henry, and Tom Rozum; 1/14 & 21 Songs of the night to put some soul in the Winter Solstice; 1/28 Heart songs slightly in advance of Valentine’s Day; 2/4 Previews of the 13th Annual San Francisco Bluegrass & Old-Time Festival; 2/11 An overview of the music of Red Wine, Europe’s premier bluegrass band; 2/18 Happy Birthday, Dudley Connell; 2/25 The Country Gentlemen in the 1960s and 1970s, from both released and unreleased sources; with guest co-host Todd Gracyk; 4/3 Musical previews of the annual Sonoma County BG & Folk Fest, upcoming RBA concerts, and other area club dates; 3/10 Windy Hill performs live in the KALW studios; 3/17: Pre-empted for a St. Patrick’s Day special extended edition of A Patchwork Quilt with Kevin Vance; 3/24 New releases and reissues; 3/31 Songs about messages and messen-gers. (Saturday 6:30-8pm)

Miranda July, 3/8

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BLUES POWER HOUR: Blues Power Hour will no longer be part of the regular broadcast line-up on Wednesday nights, but Mark Naftalin’s latest productions will continue to be available on the Local Music Player at kalw.org, and Mark plans on pro-ducing occasional Blues Power Hour specials for KALW. Keep up with Mark through the Blues Power Hour program page on kalw.org, and at bluespower.org.

BOOK TALK Alan Farley talks with authors of our time. Recent guests have included novelist A. S. Byatt, Symphony Publications editor Larry Rothe, planetary astronomer Mike Brown, composer John Adams, and novelist/producer Lynda LaPlante. (Sunday at 6:30pm)

BULLSEYE (formerly The Sound Of Young America) Host Jesse Thorn mixes it up with personalities from the world of enter-tainment & the arts. www.maximumfun.org

(NEW TIME! NEW NAME! Sundays at 4pm)

CITY VISIONS Hosts Lauren Meltzer and Joseph Pace explore Bay Area issues. To participate, call (415) 841-4134 or email feedback@cityvisionsradio.com www.cityvisionsradio.com. (Mondayat 7pm)

COUNTERSPIN An examination of the week’s news and that which masquerades as news. www.fair.org (Friday at 7:30pm)

CROSSCURRENTS The evening newsmagazine from KALW News featuring in-depth reporting that provides context, culture, and connections to communities around the Bay Area. www.kalwnews.org (Monday-Thursday at 5pm)

EARTHBEAT Produced by Radio Netherlands Worldwide, Earthbeat examines our footprint on the planet and tells the sto-ries of the people trying to make that foot-print lighter. www.radionetherlands.nl(Sunday at 6am)

Jesse Thorn

EMERGING VOICES: KALW’s showcase for top producers in public radio. (Monday at 2pm)

FASCINATIN’ RHYTHM Songs from the Great American Songbook, hosted by Michael Lasser. www.wxxi.org/rhythm (Friday at 10pm)

FOG CITY BLUES Host Devon Strolovitch brings you blues from the Bay Area and beyond www.fogcityblues.com (Wednesday 9-11pm)

FOLK MUSIC AND BEYOND Hosts JoAnn Mar, Bob Campbell, and Sandy Miranda present the best in live and recorded contemporary folk, traditional, and original music from America, England, Ireland, Scotland, and other parts of the world. Upcoming highlights: 1/7 A mix of music from guest host Michele Flannery; 1/14 John McCutcheon Live; 1/21 Irish Fiddling with Tony DeMarco; 1/28 New and Recent Releases; 2/4 Art Songs, Chanson, Jazz, and Sung Poetry; 2/11 Sandy Miranda offers an eclectic mix; 2/18 Musica Pacifica Live; 2/25 Some twists and turns of love explored by Richard Thompson, Bob Dylan, June Tabor, the late Jack Hardy, and others; 3/3 Mick Moloney Live; 3/10 Music and Conversation with George Kahumoku; 3/17 Lots of Irish music and blarney; 3/24 Music from France, Spain, Greece, Italy, and environs; 3/31 Music & Conversation with Gabriel Yacoub. www.kalwfolk.org (Saturday 3-5pm)

THE FORUM: A WORLD OF IDEAS BBC correspondent Bridget Kendall hosts a weekly discussion where intel-lectuals, authors, scientists and power brokers from around the world meet and challenge one another about big ideas. www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/ (NEW TIME! Now Saturday at 5am)

FRESH AIR Terry Gross hosts this weekday magazine of contemporary arts and issues. www.freshair.com (Weekdays at 9am & 6pm)

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programming A to Z

Available on KALW’s Local Music Player KALW podcast available at www.kalw.org

INFORUM From the Commonwealth Club, programs recorded exclusively for KALW that provide a forum for young people to access the best informed, most involved, and brightest minds — be they politicians, business gurus, thought lead-ers, trendsetters or culture-jammers. (Tuesday at 7pm)

JIM HIGHTOWER A two minute shot across the bow aimed at corporate and political corruption, heard exclusively in San Francisco on KALW. (Weekdays at 7:49am)

LEFT, RIGHT & CENTER A weekly con-frontation over politics, policy and popular culture hosted by Matthew Miller, with Robert Scheer on the left, Tony Blankley on the right, and Arianna Huffington in the cen-ter. www.kcrw.com (Friday at 7pm)

LE SHOW A weekly, hour-long romp through the worlds of media, politics, sports and show business, leavened with an eclectic mix of mysterious music, hosted by Harry Shearer. www.harryshearer.com (Sunday at Noon)

MINDS OVER MATTER Dana Rodriguez, The San Francisco Chronicle’s Leah Garchik, and author Gerry Nachman challenge each other and KALW’s audi-ence on the Bay Area’s favorite quiz show. Call-in phone: (415) 841-4134. (Sunday at 7pm)

MORNING EDITION NPR’s signature morning show, with news updates from the BBC at the top of each hour. Local host Joe Burke offers today’s school lunch menu at 6:49, and a daily almanac at 5:49 and 8:49. Plus daily commentaries from Jim Hightower at 7:49, and KALW News’ Morning Reports Tues.–Fri. at 8:51.www.npr.org (Weekdays 5-9am)

MUSIC FROM OTHER MINDS New and unusual music produced by Other Minds in San Francisco. Program details at otherminds.org/mfom (Friday at 11pm)

MUSIC FROM THE HEARTS OF SPACE Slow music for fast times hosted by Stephen Hill, bringing you the timeless world of space, ambient and contemplative music. www.hos.com (Sunday 10pm-Midnight)

MY WORD! & MY MUSIC From the BBC archives, panelists explore the English language as it is written, spoken, and sung. Between “Word” and “Music” KALW’s Alan Farley presents a weekly Noël Coward musi-cal Entr’acte. (Friday at 8pm)

NEW DIMENSIONS A weekly dialogue that gives reasons for embracing hopeful-ness regarding contemporary problems, with perspectives relative to physical, mental, and spiritual well being of humanity and the plan-et. www.newdimensions.org (Sunday at 7am)

NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR Angela Elam hosts this series of conversations with great established and emerging writers of poetry, fiction, drama and creative non-fic-tion. www.newletters.org (Sunday at 6pm)

OPEN AIR Host Alan Farley presents the performing artists and writers who create our contemporary culture and arts. Recent guests have included singer Kim Nalley, playwright Michael Gene Sullivan, puppe-teer and director Brian Henson, soprano Irene Theorin, and actors Kimberly King and Ken Grantham. (Thursday at 1pm)

OUT IN THE BAY Gay radio for San Francisco and beyond, hosted by Eric Jansen and Marilyn Pittman. www.outinthebay.com (Thursday at 7pm)

A PATCHWORK QUILT Kevin Vance presents a program of Celtic and other traditional music, American roots, sing-ers and songwriters, interpreters, and instrumentalists. kevin_vance@yahoo.com (Saturday 5-6:30pm)

PHILOSOPHY TALK Stanford phi-losophers John Perry and Ken Taylor interview guest experts and respond to questions from listeners. Philosophy Talk questions everything...except your intelligence. Upcoming highlights: 1/1 & 3 Nihilism and Meaning; 1/8 & 10 The Examined Year: 2011; 1/15 & 17 Is Democracy a Universal Value?; 1/22 & 24 Philosophy in Fiction; 1/29 & 31 The Right to Privacy; 2/5 & 7 Black Solidarity; 2/12 & 14 The Dionysus Awards: philosophical films of 2011; 2/19 & 21 What Is ‘Normal’?; 2/26 & 2/28 Pantheism; 3/4 & 6 Epicurus

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and the Good Life; 3/11 & 13 What Is a Wife?; 3/18 & 20 The Ethics of Torture; 3/25 & 3/27 Economics: Science or Cult?. www.philosophytalk.org (Sunday at 10am, rebroadcast Tuesday at Noon)

RECORD SHELF Jim Svejda reviews compact discs and explores classical music. Upcoming highlights: 1/2 Unusual (and historic) recordings of Johann Strauss, Jr.; 1/9 & 16 Recordings of the brilliant, tragic New Zealand pianist, Richard Farrell; 1/23 A conversation with the French violinist, Renaud Capucon; 1/30 The Record Shelf Record Reviews; 2/6 Historic recordings by pianist Ernst von Dohnanyi; 2/13 A comparative survey of the recordings of Beethoven’s Fidelio; 2/20 Historic recordings by the controversial English oboist Leon Goossens; 2/27 & 3/5 Australian violinist Richard Tognetti. www.kusc.org (Monday at 11pm)

SAN FRANCISCO SCHOOL BOARD MEETINGS Live gavel-to-gavel broad-cast of the San Francisco Unified School District board meetings from 555 Franklin Street in San Francisco. While the Board is in closed session, educator Carol Kocivar presents an interview feature, “Looking at Education.” www.sfusd.edu (Tuesdays, 1/10, 1/24, 2/14, 2/28, 3/13, 3/27 at 6pm)

SELECTED SHORTS Celebrity read-ers from stage and screen, recorded at Symphony Space in NYC. 1/1 & 8 The Dead by James Joyce (Rene Auberjonois, Fionnula Flanagan, and Isaiah Sheffer); 1/15 My First Goose by Isaac Babel (Joe Morton), The Father by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya (Nina Arianda), Rothschild’s Fiddle by Anton Chekhov (Denis O’Hare); 1/22 (Pre-empted for Berkeley Symphony Concert broadcast); 1/29 What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver (Leonard Nimoy), The Getaway by Dorothy Thomas (Mia Dillon); 2/5 Rapture of the Deep by T.C. Boyle (Isaiah Sheffer), Wanting an Orange by Larry Woiwode (Michael Keck); 2/12 La Vita Nuova by Allegra Goodman (Marin Ireland), The Secret Goldfish by David Means (Charles Keating); 2/19 A selection from 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami (Miriam Silverman), The Night Bookmobile by Audrey Niffenegger (Christina Pickles); 2/26 An

Evening with Miranda July (with Tom Bloom, Mia Dillon, Rebecca Naomi Jones, Adrian Martinez, Olga Merediz and Tom Nelis); The Leopard of Ti Morne by Mark Kurlansky (Stephen Lang), Graven Image by John O’Hara (Denis O’Hare); 3/11 Smorgasbord by T.C. Boyle (Rene Auberjonois), Football by Elizabeth Crane (Martha Lavey); 3/18 Haruki Murakami’s Airplane (Parker Posey), The Mirror (Campbell Scott), and The Little Green Monster (Dana Ivey); 3/25 Why I’m Not Where You Are by Jonathan Safran Foer (Isaiah Sheffer), Interview by Will Eno (Will Eno), All the Days and Nights by William Maxwell (Tony Roberts). (Sunday at 5pm)

SMILEY & WEST An energetic radio fusion of thought provoking, intelligent and stimulating dialogue on every subject from news and politics to entertainment and cul-ture, with Tavis Smiley and Dr. Cornel West. (NEW TIME! Now Friday at 1pm)

SNAP JUDGMENT Host Glynn Washington explores decisions that define lives, taking listeners on an addictive narra-tive that walks a mile in someone else’s shoes — a rhythmic blend of drama, humor, music, and personality. (NEW TIME! Now Sunday at 3pm)

SONG OF AMERICA Thomas Hampson continues his impas-sioned advocacy for American song with this series that reveals American classic song – poetry set to music by American compos-ers – as a vibrant diary of the American expe-rience. 1/2 American Characters; 1/9 Stephen Foster; 1/16 Whitman and Music; 1/23 Many Are the Voices; 1/30 War Cries; 2/6 Ives the Chronicler; 2/13 Champions of American Song; 2/20 Arthur Farwell, American Pioneer; 2/27 “There Is No Gender in Music”; 3/5 Emily Dickinson: Letter to the World; 3/12 Songs We’ve Always Sung; 3/19 Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance; 3/26 Places That Sing To Us.www.songofamerica.net (Monday at 9pm.)

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programming A to Z

Available on KALW’s Local Music Player KALW podcast available at www.kalw.org

SOUND OPINIONS Smart and spirited discussions about a wide range of popular music, from cutting-edge underground rock and hip-hop, to classic rock, R&B, electronica, and worldbeat. Hosted by music critics Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot from the studios of WBEZ in Chicago. www.soundopinions.org (Sunday at 2pm)

THE SOUND OF YOUNG AMERICA (see BULLSEYE)

THE STATE WE’RE IN Radio Nether-lands host Jonathan Groubert presents stories from all over the world, with a special focus on human rights issues. www.radionetherlands.nl (Monday at Noon)

TANGENTS An unusually diverse, genre-bending program hosted by Dore Stein that explores the bridges con-necting various styles of music, from world and roots to creative jazz hybrids. www.tangents.com (Saturday 8pm-Midnight)

THE TAVIS SMILEY SHOWA weekly high-energy discussion of political, cultural, and global issues of par-ticular relevance to African Americans. www.tavistalks.org (NEW TIME! Now Friday at Noon)

THEN AND NOW Host Sarah Cahill presents two hours of new and classical music, with local composer interviews and previews of upcoming concerts. www.sarahcahill.com (Sunday 8-10pm)

THE THISTLE & SHAMROCKHost Fiona Ritchie with well-established and newly emerging artists that explore Celtic roots in Europe and North America. www.thistleradio.com (Saturday at 2pm)

THIS AMERICAN LIFE A different theme each week with contributions from a variety of writers and performers, hosted by Ira Glass. www.thislife.org (Sunday at 1pm and Wednesday at noon)

THIS WAY OUT LGBT stories and news from around the corner and around the world, produced by Greg Gordon in Los Angeles. www.qrd.org (Thursday at 7:30pm)

TOO MUCH INFORMATION Host Ben-jamen Walker helps you make sense of life in the digital information age. Using interviews, stories, journalism, tall tales, and over-sharing, your host pulls meaning from the deluge with a program that’s more internet than radio talk show. (Tuesday at 10pm)

TO THE BEST OF OUR KNOWLEDGE An audio magazine that offers a fresh per-spective on the cultural topics that shape today’s headlines. www.ttbook.org (Sunday 8-10am)

TUC RADIO (Time of Useful Consciousness) Probing reports on the impact of big corporations on society. www.tucradio.org (Sunday at 6:30am)

VOICEBOX The best of the vocal music scene from the Bay Area and beyond, hosted by Chloe Veltman. The art of singing is explored with musicians who love vocal music and provide focused, contextual reflection about their pas-sion. Upcoming hightlights: 1/6 Matt Lombardi and Jamie Freedman of Hear It Local, feature some of their favorite female vocalists from the Bay Area music scene; 1/13 Composer and blogger Brian Rosen discusses the worst songs in the world and what makes them so bad; 1/20 Melissa Czarnik, an emcee and poet from Milwaukee chats about the musicality of rap; 1/27 Ventriloquist Ron Coulter, the-atrical impresario Sean Owens and Ron’s puppet partner Sid Star explain why throwing your voice on the radio makes sense; 2/3 Chloe and Rachel Tietjen of the T Sisters, an Oakland-based singing group, talk about how voices can create lush harmonic vistas; 2/10 Monika Jalili, a vocalist specializing in the Persian reper-toire, takes listeners on an exploration of the region’s rich and diverse vocal tradi-tions; 2/17 Concetta Tomaino and Indre Viskontas discuss the profound con-nection between our minds and voices; 2/24 Stanford Music Professor Stephen Hinton discusses the vocal music of Kurt Weill; 3/2 Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival founder, banjo player and finan-cier Warren Hellman chats about the history and development of old-time and bluegrass vocals; 3/9 Carola Zertuche, artistic director of San Francisco’s Theatre Flamenco, charts the impact

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of vocal music on Spain’s flamenco tra-dition; 3/16 & 23 (pre-empted for Alan Farley’s documentary series about Ira Gershwin, “I Love to Rhyme”); 3/30 Kevin Fox, founding artistic direc-tor of the Pacific Boychoir Academy in Oakland explains the process of training boys to sing beautifully. www.voicebox-media.org (Friday at 10pm)

WEEKEND EDITION Scott Simon and NPR wrap up the week’s events – plus arts and newsmakers interviews. www.npr.org (Saturday 6-9am)

WEST COAST LIVE! San Francisco’s “live radio program to the world” hosted by Sedge Thomson with pianist Mike Greensill. Two hours of conversation, performance, and play, broadcast live from locations around the Bay Area. Tickets online at www.wcl.org (Saturday 10am-Noon)

WHAD’YA KNOW? A two-hour comedy/quiz show hosted by Michael Feldman, “the sage of Wisconsin.” www.notmuch.org (Saturday Noon-2pm)

WORK WITH MARTY NEMKO Career coach Marty Nemko talks with listeners about work issues, from fi nding the perfect job to networking, and regu-larly offers “3 minute career makeovers.” Guests have included F. Lee Bailey, Studs Terkel, Noam Chomsky, Alan Dershowitz, Cokie Roberts, Jack Welch, Suze Orman, Willie Brown, and Robert Reich. www.martynemko.com (Sunday at 11am)

WORLD HAVE YOUR SAY An interac-tive program on key issues in the news with a worldwide audience, global hosted by Ros Atkins. To participate in the live webcast at bbc.com at 10am, call 011 44 20 70 83 72 72 or email worldhaveyoursay@bbc.com. www.worldhaveyoursay.com (Weekdays at 11am, taped delayed)

WRITER’S ALMANAC Garrison Keillor’s daily digest of all things proseworthy. www.writersalmanac.com (Weekdays at 9:01am)

YOUR CALL Politics and culture, dialogue and debate, hosted by Rose Aguilar. To participate, call (415) 841-4134. www.yourcallradio.org (Weekdays at 10am. Rebroadcast Monday-Thursday at 11pm, Friday at 5pm)

YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS San Mateo Deputy District Attorney Chuck Finney talks with listeners about legal and con-sumer problems. Call in your questions to Chuck and his team of guest attorneys: (415) 841-4134. (Wednesday at 7pm)

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