Crosscurrents

Here are some readings from our series New Arrivals, a pocket-sized book tour with Bay Area authors. Today we’re featuring a collection of stories for young readers.

Today we hear about the middlemen who are partly to blame for local pharmacy closures. Then, how National Parks are having to make big changes. 

Pharmacies are shuttering around the Bay Area. Today we hear about the middlemen who are partly to blame. 

Earlier this week KALW's Marissa Ortega Welch hosted a special live edition of her podcast, How Wild, about the state of California public lands. She spoke with Jon Jarvis, the former director of the National Park Service.

On Repeat is a mini-pod for music discovery. In this segment, we’ll hear from Tarik Ansari, one of KALW’s on-air announcers. Tarik gets us in the mood for summer with some sunny tracks.

Today, we meet our friendly neighborhood Satanists. Then, we hear how small business owners are getting creative in a growing industry. And, a collection of readings from Berkeley Authors.

Pets are big business here in the Bay. Americans are spending about 240 million dollars every year on their animal companions. We visit a pet party in San Jose to talk to artists, vendors, and pet lovers about what inspires them.

Here are some readings from our series New Arrivals, a pocket-sized book tour with Bay Area authors. Today we’re featuring a collection of Berkeley writers.

Today we take you to the US-Mexico border where the Tijuana river is overflowing with sewage. Then, we pop into the launch party for KALW's new podcast-in-development, Note From the Edge with Jeff Chang.

Residents and environmental advocates confront a decades-in-the-making binational pollution crisis that continues to plague the U.S. - Mexico border.