The Beat Goes On!

The Beat Goes On!
Celebrating 70 Years of Music on KALW
70th Anniversary concert at the Freight and Salvage
Photography/ Raymond Van Tassel
Wake The Dead headlines concert on August 27. (see p. 7)
Enjoy the Berkeley Symphony, Explorations in Music,
Ira Gershwin, Spoleto Chamber Music, plus our
regular line up of great music programs.
July/August/September 2011
KALW program guide edited by Matt Martin and David Latulippe,
designed by Georgette Petropoulos, Howard Quinn Company
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Manager’s Note
Since KALW’s beginnings in 1941,
music has been part of the station’s
sound – and sprit.
In the early 1940s, KALW programming was presented in 15-minute segments, and offerings such as Concert
Hall, Luncheon Music and Operetta
Gems were interspersed with shows addressing cultural and community affairs.
In the 1950s and 1960s, when the
station served primarily as a training
operation for San Francisco public
school students, it was also an outlet
for student musical expression – school
choruses and orchestras, as well as student DJs found their way onto KALW’s
airwaves.
In the early 1970s, KALW underwent
fundamental change as it became first
station to bring NPR and the BBC to
the Bay Area. The expansion of news
programming didn’t mean music was
pushed aside. In the late 1970s and
early 1980s, local music programming
on KALW grew, much of it focused
on jazz and American popular song.
Peter Mintun’s Music in the Air and
Don Giulietti’s Roll Up the Carpet were
staples, as were performances by the
Royal Society Jazz Orchestra and the
Chrysanthemum Ragtime Band. During
this time, Alan Farley also began to
bring the voices of a range of Bay Area’s
performing artists to KALW – a tradition
that continues on Open Air today.
Over the past two decades, the
range of music on KALW has expanded
tremendously to include folk, roots and
blues, the music of the African diaspora
and the art of song, as well as the avant
garde and the genre-defying sounds
of Tangents. We are fortunate to have
forged broadcast partnerships with Other Minds, SF Performances, the Berke-
ley Symphony
Orchestra and
the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.
And at the end
of every show,
the Crosscurrents team gives
you a taste of a
local band you
can check out at a Bay Area venue.
Music is part of the fabric of KALW
off the air as well. You may have heard
that, in addition to hosting Then & Now,
Sarah Cahill is an in-demand concert
pianist. But did you know that Joe Burke
sings and plays guitar in a band called
The Avenues? Or that Explorations in
Music producer Eric Wayne blows his
trumpet in the Cartoon Jazz Orchestra?
Martina Castro of KALW News and
Annette Bistrup in our development
department are passionate singers, and
announcer David Latulippe is a flutist
who performs with several ensembles
including the Peninsula Symphony.
We’ve kept music in the mix on
KALW because it’s essential to the
human experience, and has a unique
power to open minds and build connections between people. If you’ve had
a memorable experience with music on
Local Public Radio, please drop me a
line and tell me about it. And above all
else, enjoy the rhythm, harmony and
improvisation – as well as the news and
information – you hear on KALW.
Photo by Patrick Barber
KALW: By and for the community . . .
COMMUNITY BROADCAST PARTNERS
AIA, San Francisco • 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 • San Francisco Conservatory of Music • SF Performances
• StoryCorps • Youth Radio
FOUNDATION SUPPORTERS
Association for Continuing Education • The Cow Hollow Foundation • The Friedman Family
Foundation • Laurie Cohen Fund • Tulsa and Simone Fund • The Walter and Elise Haas Fund
• The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
KALW VOLUNTEER PRODUCERS
Pamela Brown, Sarah Cahill, Bob Campbell, Ronald Chase, Audrey Dilling, Emily Dulcan, Penina
Eilberg-Schwartz, Chuck Finney, Richard Friedman, Greg Gheorghiu, Rob Hoey, Kent Howard,
Daphne Humes, Robin Hunt, Eric Jansen, Max Jacobs, Tess Kenner, Carol Kocivar, Bea La’O,
David Latulippe, Kyung Jin Lee, Leyna Lightman, Martin MacClain, Ann Maley, Holly McDede,
Lauren Meltzer, Charlie Mintz, Sandy Miranda, Maya Mirsky, Mitzi Mock, David Momphard,
Emmanuel Nado, Mark Naftalin, Marty Nemko, Kevin O’Connell, Joseph Pace, Brian Pelletier,
Art Persyko, Marilyn Pittman, Peter Robinson, Dana Rodriguez, Judith Sansone, Summer Sewell,
Steven Short, Judy Silber, Jennifer Spoerri, Katy Styer, Dore Stein, Devon Strolovitch, Niels
Swinkels, Peter Thompson, Kevin Vance, Chloe Veltman, Melanie Young
KALW VOLUNTEERS
Daniel Aarons, Bud Alderson, Jody Ames, Jean Amos, Dan Barki, Ken Begun, Bob Benjamin,
Maxine Berg, Laura Bernabei, Karl Bouldin, Robbie Brandwynne, Diane Brett, Andrew
Broderick, Joshua Brody, Linda Clever, Peter Conheim, Jack Dawson, Carolyn Deacy, Natascha
Dimitijevic, Roger Donaldson, George Durgerian, Doug Dyment, Jim & Joy Esser, Steve
Fankuchen, Annette Floyd, Taylor Forester, Freeman Fox, Janet Frankel, Nina Frankel, Dave
Gomberg, Jo Gray, Terence Groeper, Paula Groves, Stefan Gruenwedel, Ted Gugenheim, Dan
Gunning, Roger Hall, Ian Hardcastle, Donna Heatherington, Christine Holdrup, Adee Horn,
Kent Howard, Lynn Jefferson, Jenny Jens, Kathleen Kaplan, Brenda Kett, Lou Kipilman, I.W.
Klein, Sarah Kuberg, Katherine Lincicum, Fred Lipshultz, Ariel Litsky, Edward Litwin, Toni Lozica,
Diana Lum, Jennifer Mahoney, Jack Major, Stephanie Manning, Horace Marks, Tom Mason,
Uday Mather, Nancy Mutnick, John McDevitt, Michael McGinley, Fred & Cheryl Merrick, Paul
Michael, Roger Miller, Linda Morine, Pat Nash, Jake Nassif, Tim Olson, Alice O’Sullivan, Susan
Parini, Amit Pendyal, Art Persyko, Vada Pinto, Rick Rose, Max Rosenblum, Leslie Rosenfeld,
Marty Rousch, Pam Routh, Sandra Russel, Maureen Russell, Mo Shooer, David Siegel, Kevin
Stamm, John Sullivan, Brent Sverdlof, Niels Swinkels, Bian Tan, Yuyu Thein, Robert Tomkinson,
Coban Tun, David Vartanoff, Charlie Wegerley, Marianne Wiener, Leslie Wellbaum, Harry
Weller, Patrick Wheeler, Steve Wilcott, Greg Wynn
OUR LICENSEE, THE SAN FRANCISCO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT
Superintendent: 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
KALW Personnel
Rose Aguilar, Host
Matt Martin, General Manager Ben Trefny, Managing News
William Helgeson,
Editor
Sandip Roy, Host
Operations Manager
Martina Castro, Senior News
Malihe Razazan, Producer
David Latulippe,
Producer
Ali Budner, Producer
Administration
Chris Hoff, News Engineer
Part-time announcers
Phil Hartman, Engineering
Erica Mu, News Tech Support
Eric Jansen
Annette Bistrup, Membership
Seth Samuel, News Engineer
Debi Kennedy
Joe Burke, Announcer
Hana Baba, Host/Reporter
David Latulippe
Alan Farley, Senior Announcer Casey Miner, Reporter
Bob Sommer
JoAnn Mar, Announcer
Rina Palta, Reporter
Kevin Vance
Ali Winston, Reporter
Holly Kernan, News Director
Eric Wayne
ABOUT KALW
KALW is a pioneer educational station licensed to the San Francisco Unified School District
since March 10, 1941 — the oldest non-commercial FM signal west of the Mississippi.
Mailing address:
KALW Radio
Offices: (415) 841-4121
500 Mansell Street
Fax: (415) 841-4125
San 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: [email protected]
© Contents KALW
Matt Martin
GM, KALW
[email protected]
On the cover: Wake the Dead (featured performers on 8/27/11), student DJ
circa 1965, Kiran Ahluwalia from a 2007 Tangents party.
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The Beat Goes On!
Celebrating 70 Years of Music on KALW
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Photo: Andrea Barton-Elson
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1) School Chorus, c.1958; 2) Radio Host
Peter Mintun from the early 1980s (yes,
80’s!); 3) Mary Martin; 4) The California
Honeydrops on Fog City Blues; 5) Dale
Miller, Az Samad, Teja Gerken, and
Florante Aguilar on A Patchwork Quilt;
6) Singer and violinist Lucia Comnes
with kora virtuoso Karamo Susso on
Africa Mix; 7) Michael Masley and his
Hungarian cymbalon on Folk Music &
Beyond; 8)Danny Schmidt and Sedge
Thomson on West Coast Live; 9) SF
Symphony Artistic Director Michael
Tilson Thomas talks about his “favorite
things”; 10) The Refugees on Folk Music
& Beyond.
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Photo: Lawrence Gay
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Lullabies For The End Of Life
produced by JoAnn Mar
Monday, July 11 at Noon
KALW’s JoAnn Mar offers a sound portrait of two women who have devoted their lives
to bringing comfort and healing to the terminally ill through music in Lullabies for the End of
Life. It was recently awarded a silver medal in this year’s New York Festivals, the international
competition that honors the world’s best radio programs.
I Love To Rhyme: The Lyrics of Ira Gershwin
Join host Alan Farley for his “occasional” series on the lyrics of
Ira Gershwin, with Gershwin biographer Philip Furia.
Friday, September 9 at 10pm
The groundbreaking musical Lady in the Dark, which Ira Gershwin wrote
with Kurt Weill.
Friday, September 16 at 10pm
Gershwin’s work with Aaron Copland (the film The North Star), Jerome
Kern (Cover Girl), Kurt Weill (Where Do We Go from Here?), including a
rare recording of a Gershwin lyric for a Noel Coward song.
Play the Match Game for KALW!
Company matching gifts are a significant source of income for KALW.
The following companies and foundations made employee matching gifts to
KALW during the past year. We are grateful to them for their support.
Abbott Laboratories • Adobe Systems • American International Group • Ameriprise Financial •
Advanced Micro Devices • American Express • Art Com • AT&T • Bank of America • Barclays
Global Investors • B & D Associates • British Petroleum • Business Wire • Carnegie Foundation •
Cengage Learning • Charles Schwab • ChevronTexaco • Chubb & Son, Inc. • Clorox Company •
College Access Foundation of CA • Ericsson • Expedia • ExxonMobil • Flora Family Foundation •
GAP • Genentech • GOOGLE • Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation • Hewlett Packard Company •
IBM • Intuit • John Wiley & Sons • Juniper Networks • K/P Corporation • Kaiser Permanente • Lam
Research Corporation • Levi Strauss • LexisNexis • Macy’s • McKesson Corporation • Microsoft
• Moody’s • Morrison & Foerster • Oracle Corporation • PC World Communications • Salesforce.
com • San Francisco Foundation • SAP • Sony Corporation of America • Stuart Foundation • Sun
Microsystems • Tellabs • The Chubb Corporation • Tyco Electronics Corporation • VISA • Wells
Fargo • William & Flora Hewlett Foundation
$40,466.00 That’s what the 96 donated cars netted KALW in 2010. It’s a great
source of easy income for the station, plus, a very green thing to do, whether
you’re upgrading to a more efficient vehicle or trading it in for a bike. We’ll take
care of the pickup and paperwork...you get the tax-deduction: 1-866-525-9227
Programming Changes and Additions:
After three years of daily production, Laura Flanders has put GritTV and its companion
program GritRadio on hiatus. We wish Laura well as she works to launch a new onehour weekly program for public TV. If you want to keep up with Laura and her latest
reports, check out her website grittv.org.
At Noon on Mondays, you’ll now hear The State We’re In from Radio Netherlands
Worldwide, and at 2pm, we’re reintroducing Emerging Voices, our showcase for new
documentaries from independent producers. Also, by popular demand, we’re moving
The Record Shelf to 10pm, an hour earlier in our Monday night classical music line-up.
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KALW 70th Anniversary Concert
Saturday, August 27th at 8pm
at the Freight & Salvage, 2020 Addison St., Berkeley
Join JoAnn Mar, Dore Stein and Peter Thompson to celebrate 70 years of KALW
and its connections to the diverse musical communities of the Bay Area.
Tickets are $25, available at thefreight.org. Or, you and a friend can have the
best seats in the house and join a special pre-show reception with the hosts and
musicians for a contribution of $240 to KALW – details at kalw.org.
Wake The Dead
When eight top Bay Area musicians realized they shared as
deep a love for the songs of the Grateful Dead as they did for
traditional Celtic tunes, some brand-new music sprang up and
started partying. Wake the Dead is the world’s first Celtic allstar Grateful Dead jam band, with music that flows seamlessly
from rock grooves to hot Irish reels, and from haunting airs to
achingly beautiful melodies familiar to Deadheads everywhere.
Flatt & Scruggs Tribute Band
Some of northern California’s finest bluegrass musicians perform the music of
Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs and the Foggy
Mountain Boys. Banjo powerhouse Bill
Evans hosts this All-Star Tribute with a hot
band that includes Del Williams (guitar,
vocals), Kathy Kallick (guitar, vocals), David Thom (mandolin, vocals), Jim Mintun
(dobro, vocals), Markie Sanders (bass,
vocals), and Paul Shelasky (fiddle).
George Brooks & Kai Eckhardt’s
Tangential Experience
Saxophonist George Brooks and bassist Kai
Eckhardt are two of the leading cross-pollinating musicians of their generation, possessing
the rare combination of virtuosity and soulfulness. Brooks bridges the worlds of jazz and
Indian classical music, and Eckardt brings
impeccable tone and technique as one of the
world’s top jazz fusion bassists.
Local Goodness
In addition to a record number of pledges during our “interruption free”
Spring Membership Drive, a record number of local businesses stepped forward to keep our
volunteers and staff well-fed. Thank them for their support of KALW next time you visit.
Avedano’s Market • Bi-Rite Market • Canyon Market • Dynamo Donuts • Eat Curbside • Flash Freeze
Sorbet and Ice Cream • Gabriele Muselli Catering • Gastronaut Catering • Goat Hill Pizza Restaurant
• Hansen’s Sodas • House of Bagels • It’s IT Ice Cream • La Boulange Bakery • La Mediteranee
Restaurant • Left Coast Catering • Metropol Restaurant • Mission Pie • Nopalito Restaurant • Peasant
Pies • Peet’s Coffee • PopChips • Real Foods Company • Straw Carnival Fare Restaurant • Zanze’s
Cheesecakes
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SUNDAY
MONDAY
Overnight
6 am
7 am
8 am
9 am
10 am
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY THURSDAY
New Dimensions
KALW host Joe Burke
Philosophy Talk 
Fresh Air with Terry Gross, with Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac at 9:01 am
Car Talk
Your Call with host Rose Aguilar. Join the conversation at 415-841-4134 or 866-798-TALK 
Rebroadcast Mon-Thurs at 8pm, Friday at 5pm
West Coast Live
with
Sedge Thomson
World Have Your Say from the BBC

Philosophy Talk
This American Life
(Rebroadcast)
(Rebroadcast)
1 pm
This American Life
Alternative Radio
Big Picture Science
Snap Judgment
Open Air
with Alan Farley 
2 pm
Sound Opinions
Emerging Voices
BBC’s The Forum:
A World of Ideas
The Sound of
Young America
Dispatches (CBC)
3 pm
New America Now 
4 pm
BBC World Briefing
5 pm
Selected Shorts
11 pm
8
Book Talk 
Minds Over Matter 
Music From The
Hearts of Space
=new program or time
Thistle & Shamrock
with Fiona Ritchie
Smiley & West
Folk Music & Beyond
with JoAnn Mar
& Bob Campbell
Your Call 
Crosscurrents from KALW News 
Media Roundtable
(Rebroadcast)
BBC World Briefing
Fresh Air
City Visions 
S.F. School Board meetings
8/9, 8/23, 9/13, 9/27
INFORUM from the
Commonwealth Club
Your Legal Rights
with Chuck Finney 
The Moth
State of the Re:Union
Record Shelf
with Jim Svejda
Too Much
Information
Spoleto Chamber
Music
Snap Judgment

This Way Out
CounterSpin

My Music
Fascinatin’ Rhythm
VoiceBox 
Gershwin 9/9, 9/16 
 KALW podcast available 1 pm
2 pm
3 pm
6 pm
7 pm
8 pm
My Word!
Music From
Other Minds
noon
5 pm
Left, Right & Center
Blues Power Hour 
11 am
A Patchwork Quilt
with Kevin Vance
OUT in the Bay 
Africa Mix 
10 am
4 pm
Bluegrass Signal
with Peter Thompson
Fog City Blues 
9 am

Fresh Air with Terry Gross
Your Call 
(Rebroadcast of 11am show.)
My Favorite Things
Explorations in Music
Michael Feldman’s
Whad’Ya Know?
The Tavis Smiley
Show
CBC’s As It Happens
with Carol Off and Jeff Douglas
Then & Now
with Sarah Cahill

New America Now 
BBC’s Newshour
(Rebroadcast)
New Letters on the Air
Binah 
7 am
8 am
A daily almanac at 5:49 and 8:49 SF school lunch menu at 6:49
To The Best
Of Our Knowledge
The State We’re In
(Radio Netherlands)
10 pm
Weekend Edition
with Scott Simon
Including BBC World News from London on the hour and Jim Hightower commentaries at 7:49
Harry Shearer’s
Le Show
9 pm
6 am
Morning Edition from National Public Radio (starts at 5 am)
TUC Radio
noon
8 pm
Overnight
Earthbeat
Work with
Marty Nemko 
7 pm
SATURDAY
BBC World Service Overnight — For detailed listings, visit: bbc.co.uk/worldservice
11 am
6 pm
FRIDAY
Tangents
with Dore Stein
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
 Available on KALW Local Music Player
9 pm
10 pm
11 pm
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programming A to Z
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) 
ALTERNATIVE RADIO
Progressive scholars and thinkers share their views, produced
by David Barsamian. 7/11 Michael
Parenti: Superpatriotism; 7/18 Pervez
Hoodbhoy: The War Within Pakistan;
7/25 Paul Cienfuegos: Corporations vs.
People; 8/1 Stephen Bezruchka: Dying
Younger Than We Should. (Remainder
of schedule unavailable at press time.)
www.alternativeradio.org (Monday at
1pm)
ARE WE ALONE? — See Big Picture
Science.
AS IT HAPPENS The international
news magazine from the Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation that probes
the major stories of the day, mixing
interviews with coverage in an informative and often irreverent style.
Hosted by Carol Off and Jeff Douglas.
www.cbc.ca/asithappens
(Weekdays, 4pm)
BERKELEY SYMPHONY Music
Director Joana Carneiro leads the
orchestra in Stravinsky’s Symphonies
of Wind Instruments, Shostakovich’s
Chamber Symphony, Op. 110a,
and James Macmillan’s Seven Last
Words from the Cross with the UC
Chamber Chorus. KALW’s Alan Farley
hosts, with special interviews during
intermission. (Sunday, September 11
at 4pm.)
BBC NEWS Current news from
London and BBC programming.
(Midnight-5am daily. Sunday at 4pm,
Mon-Fri at 3pm)
BINAH The best of arts & ideas,
authors & personalities, produced
in collaboration with the Jewish
Community Center of San Francisco.
Upcoming highlights: 7/7 Journalist
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Christopher McDougall; 7/14 Moisés
Kaufman in conversation with Tony
Taccone; 7/21 Myla Goldberg, Joyce
Maynard & Ayelet Waldman in conversation with Barbara Lane; 7/28 Kevin
Starr on the Golden Gate Bridge;
8/4 Mary Roach: “Packing for Mars”;
8/11 Novelist T.C. Boyle; 8/18 Joie de
Vivre’s Chip Conley on Innovation
and Entrepreneurialism; 8/25 Mike
Brown: The Man Who Killed Pluto; 9/1
Wagner Through a Jewish Lens with
Deborah Lipstadt, Randy Cohen and
Joshua Kosman; 9/8 Jonathan Lethem;
9/15 Eve Ensler; 9/22 John Waters;
9/29 Howard Jacobson. (Thursday at
Noon.) 
BIG PICTURE SCIENCE Are We
Alone? is now 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 variety of folk. Highlights:
7/2 The Gospel According To Bill
(Monroe); 7/9 Happy Birthday, Jesse
McReynolds!; 7/16 Across the Tracks:
A survey of new releases and reissues;
7/23 Rebel Rousin’: Recent reissues
from Rebel Records; 7/30 Bay Area
Twang: Jose (Hicks With Sticks) Segue
presents his annual survey of the
area’s Americana, rockabilly, swing,
alt-country, and related musics; 8/6
Musical previews of the annual Good
Old Fashioned Bluegrass Festival;
8/13 & 20 More from Bill Monroe and
his musical descendants; 8/27 Happy
Birthday, Carter Stanley!; 9/3 Musical
previews of the upcoming Berkeley
Old Time Music Convention; 9/10 &
17 TBA; 9/24 Happy (Belated) 100th
Birthday To Bill Monroe. (Saturday
6:30-8pm) 
BOOK TALK Alan Farley talks with
authors of our time. Recent guests
have included poet Billy Collins,
dancer Jacques d’Amboise, editor Caroline Kennedy, musicologist
Robert Greenberg, broadcaster Tavis
Smiley, and novelist Arthur Phillips.
www.kalw.org (Sunday at 6:30pm) 
Available on KALW’s Local Music Player  KALW podcast available at www.kalw.org
CITY VISIONS Hosts Lauren Meltzer
and Joseph Pace explore Bay Area
issues. To participate, call (415) 841-4134
or email [email protected]
www.cityvisionsradio.com. (Monday
at 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)
DISPATCHES Reports and documentaries by the CBC’s Radio correspondents and other journalists on assignment outside of Canada. www.cbc.ca
(Thursday at 2pm)
EARTHBEAT Produced by Radio
Netherlands Worldwide, Earthbeat
examines our footprint on the planet
and tells the stories of the people trying
to make that footprint lighter.
www.radionetherlands.nl (Sunday at
6am)
EMERGING VOICES A showcase
for top producers in public radio. (New
Time! Monday at 2pm)
EXPLORATIONS IN MUSIC An
in depth lecture/performance concert
series with insightful perspectives
on music’s grand masters. Join us
for an encore presentation with the
Alexander String Quartet and lecturer/
professor Robert Greenberg, as they
explore the music of Antonín Dvořák.
(Mondays at 9pm, beginning 7/11)
FASCINATIN’ RHYTHM Songs
from the Great American Songbook,
hosted by Michael Lasser. Highlights:
7/1 Sweet Madness: The Songs of
Victor Young; 7/8 The New Woman
(pre-WWII); 7/15 And the World Goes
Round; 7/22 Harrigan and Braham; 7/29
Winners and Losers; 8/5 Songs about
Children; 8/12 The Wit of Dorothy
Fields; 8/19 Catch Phrases; 8/26 Tributes
to sinful songs; 9/2 Love songs with
more than one emotion; 9/9 Agreeable
shaded boxes indicate locally-produced programming
songs, happy songs, ecstatic songs; 9/16
Arlen and Koehler; 9/23 Elusive glamour
in popular song. 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: 7/2 New
& Recent Releases, from Alasdair
Fraser & Natalie Haas, Eliza Gilkyson,
Jeffrey Foucault, Emmylou Harris,
and others; 7/9 Sandy’s Potluck; 7/16
Balladeers, including Old Blind Dogs,
Karine Polwart, and Natalie Merchant;
7/23 Music & Conversation with Steve
Earle; 7/30 Cross-cultural duets from
Olof Johansson and harpist Catriona
McKay, fiddler Ellika Frisell and kora
player Solo Cissokho, and Iranian
singer Mahsa Vahdat and blues singer
Mighty Sam; 8/6 Solas Live In Concert;
8/13 Sandy’s Potluck; 8/20 KALW’s
70th Anniversary Celebration, featuring Wake The Dead; 8/27 Roadside
attractions and transient visions, from
Richard Shindell, Ann Hills, Jamie
Byrd, and Still on the Hill; 9/3 Labor
Day: Our annual tribute to workers
and a salute to the late Hazel Dickens;
9/10 Sandy’s Potluck; 9/17 New
Releases www.kalwfolk.org
(Saturday 3-5pm) 
THE FORUM: A WORLD OF
IDEAS BBC correspondent Bridget
Kendall hosts a weekly discussion where
intellectuals, authors, scientists and
power brokers from around the world
meet and challenge one another about
big ideas. www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/
programmes/ (Tuesday at 2pm)
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
I LOVE TO RHYME Join host
Alan Farley for his “occasional” series
on the lyrics of Ira Gershwin, with
Gershwin biographer Philip Furia. 9/9
The groundbreaking musical Lady in
the Dark, which Ira Gershwin wrote
with Kurt Weill; 9/16 Gershwin’s work
with Aaron Copland (the film The
North Star), Jerome Kern (Cover Girl),
Kurt Weill (Where Do We Go from
Here?), including a rare recording of
a Gershwin lyric for a Noel Coward
song. (Selected Fridays at 10pm.) 
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 leaders, 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
confrontation 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 center. 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)
MARK NAFTALIN’S BLUES
POWER HOUR Contemporary
and historic blues recordings of
all styles, hosted by Mark Naftalin.
www.bluespower.com (Wednesday at
11pm)
MINDS OVER MATTER Dana
Rodriguez, The San Francisco
Chronicle’s Leah Garchik, and author
Gerry Nachman challenge each other
and KALW’s audience on the Bay Area’s
favorite quiz show. Call-in phone:
(415) 841-4134. (Sunday at 7pm) 
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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)
THE MOTH RADIO HOUR It’s
back! True stories told live on stage without scripts, notes, props, or accompaniment. Each hour mixes humorous and
heartbreaking tales told with honesty,
bravery and wit. (Selected Tuesday evenings at 9pm)
MUSIC FROM OTHER MINDS
New and unusual music produced and
hosted by Richard Friedman for 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 FAVORITE THINGS Join
host Alan Farley on Monday evenings
in September as he invites special
guests to share their favorite music:
9/5 Richard Patterson, founder of the
Omni Foundation, which has presented distinguished guitarists in the
Bay Area for thirty years; 9/12 Scott
Foglesong, Chair of the Department
of Music Theory and Musicianship
of the San Francisco Conservatory of
Music; 9/19 Mark Volkert, Assistant
Concertmaster of the San Francisco
Symphony; 9/26 Roman Mars, radio
producer of, among other programs,
KALW’s 99% Invisible. (Mondays in
September at 9pm.)
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 musical Entr’acte.
(Friday at 8pm)
Available on KALW’s Local Music Player  KALW podcast available at www.kalw.org
NEW AMERICA NOW:
DISPATCHES FROM THE NEW
MAJORITIES A weekly take on current events from the Bay Area’s ethnic
news media hosted by Shirin Sadeghi.
www.newamericamedia.org
(Friday at Noon, Sunday at 3pm) 
NEW DIMENSIONS A weekly dialogue that gives reasons for embracing
hopefulness regarding contemporary
problems, with perspectives relative
to physical, mental, and spiritual well
being of humanity and the planet.
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-fiction. 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
cellist Gautier Capuçon, performer
Ric Salinas, guitarist David Russell,
composer Erling Wold, baritone Mark
Delavan, pianist Yuja Wang, and conductor Donato Cabrera. (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, singers and songwriters,
interpreters, and instrumentalists.
[email protected] (Saturday
5-6:30pm) 
PHILOSOPHY TALK Stanford
philosophers John Perry and Ken
Taylor interview guest experts and
respond to questions from listeners.
Philosophy Talk questions everything...
except your intelligence. Upcoming
highlights: 7/3 & 5 Lincoln; 7/10 & 12
Atheism and the Well-Lived Life; 7/17
& 19 The Psychology of Evil; 7/24 & 26
What Are Words Worth?; 7/31 & 8/2
Philosophy and Everyday Life; 8/7 & 9
Is Nothing Sacred Anymore?; 8/14 & 16
shaded boxes indicate locally-produced programming
Time, Space, and Quantum Mechanics;
8/21 & 23 Health Care: Right or
Privilege?; 8/28 & 30 Schizophrenia and
the Mind; 9/4 & 6 Deconstructing the
College Admissions Rat Race; 9/11 & 13
War, Sacrifice, and the Media; 9/18 &
19 Latin-American Philosophy; 9/25 &
27 Wisdom. www.philosophytalk.org
(Sunday at 10am, rebroadcast Tuesday
at Noon)
RECORD SHELF Jim Svejda reviews
compact discs and explores classical
music. Upcoming highlights: 7/4 A
conversation with conductor (and Bard
College President), Leon Botstein; 7/11
Samuel Barber in performances of
his own music; 7/18 The Record Shelf
Record Reviews; 7/25 & 8/1 Recordings
by the English oboist (and wife of Sir
John Barbirolli), Evelyn Rothwell; 8/8 A
comparative survey of the recordings of
Haydn’s “Military” Symphony; 8/15 & 22
Swedish tenor, Jussi Bjorling; 8/29 Sergei
Rachmaninoff in recordings of his own
music; 9/5 A conversation with cellist
Matt Haimovitz. (Remainder of schedule
unavailable at press time.) www.kusc.org
(NEW TIME! Monday at 11pm)
SAN FRANCISCO SCHOOL
BOARD MEETINGS Live gavel-togavel broadcast 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,
8/9, 8/23, 9/13, 9/27
SELECTED SHORTS Celebrity
readers from stage and screen, recorded
at Symphony Space in NYC. 7/3 Beyond
the Pale by Joseph Epstein, read by
Isaiah Sheffer; Ma, A Memoir by Lynn
Freed, read by Marian Seldes; 7/10 The
Briefcase by Rebecca Makkai, read by
Victor Garber; Diem Perdidi by Julie
Otsuka, read by Jayne Atkinson; 7/17 The
Traveler by Wallace Stegner, read by Jack
Davidson; and Stegner’s Goin’ to Town,
read by Lillo Way, Isaiah Sheffer, and
Jack Davidson; 7/24 Disco Papa by Karen
Russell, read by Susanna Thompson;
Departure by Andrew Porter, read by
Khris Lewin; Waiting for Rusty by William
Cole, read by Ted Marcoux; 7/31 An
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programming A to Z
excerpt from Let the Great World Spin
by Colum McCann, read by Brian Stokes
Mitchell; Salt by Sherman Alexie, read by
David Strathairn; 8/7 Sunflower Sutra by
Allen Ginsberg, read by Isaiah Sheffer;
The Death of Jim Taylor by Elissa Hutson,
and Good Living by Aleksandar Hemon,
read by Boyd Gaines; Barbara Stanwyck,
It’s Your Time to Shine by Bianca
Galvez, and The Thing Around Your
Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie;
8/14 Dracula’s Guest by Bram Stoker,
read by Aasif Mandvi; The Masque
of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe,
read by Fionnula Flanagan; 8/21 Yurt by
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, read by Joanna
Gleason; Wild Plums by Grace Stone
Coates, read by Mia Dillon; 8/28 Breaking
and Entering and selected poems by
Sherman Alexie, read by B.D. Wong; 9/4
Double Check by Thomas Walsh, read
by James Naughton; False Alarm by Dave
Barry, read by Larry Keith; 9/11 Night
Calls by Lisa Fugard, read by Lisa Fugard;
Popsy by Stephen King, read by Michael
Imperioli; 9/18 The Things They Carried
by Tim O’Bryan, read by Dylan Baker;
9/25 Good Intentions by Etgar Keret, read
by Leonard Nimoy; Lost and Found by
Colson Whitehead, read by Alec Baldwin;
My Mother by Jamaica Kincaid, read by
Laurine Towler; A Soldier for the Crown
by Charles Johnson, read by Ruben
Santiago-Hudson. (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 culture, with Tavis Smiley and Dr.
Cornel West. (Friday at 2pm)
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)
SNAP JUDGMENT Host Glynn
Washington explores decisions that
define lives, taking listeners on an addictive narrative that walks a mile in someone else’s shoes — a rhythmic blend of
drama, humor, music, and personality.
(Tuesday at 11pm; Wednesday at 1pm)
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SPOLETO CHAMBER MUSIC One
of the longest-running chamber-music
series on public radio returns to KALW
with new host Lisa Simeone, marking
the final season of Spoleto’s venerable
Artistic Director Charles Wadsworth.
(Monday at 11pm.)
TANGENTS An unusually diverse,
genre-bending program hosted by
Dore Stein that explores the bridges
connecting various styles of music,
from world and roots to creative jazz
hybrids. www.tangents.com
(Saturday 8pm-Midnight) 
THE SOUND OF YOUNG
AMERICA Host Jesse Thorn mixes
it up with personalities from the
world of entertainment & the arts.
www.maximumfun.org (Wednesday at
2pm)
THE STATE WE’RE IN Radio Netherlands host Jonathan Groubert presents
stories from all over the world, with a
special focus on human rights issues.
www.radionetherlands.nl
(NEW TIME! Monday at Noon)
THE TAVIS SMILEY SHOW
A weekly high-energy discussion of political, cultural, and global issues of particular relevance to African Americans.
www.tavistalks.org (Friday at 1pm)
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 & SHAMROCK
Host Fiona Ritchie with well-established
and newly emerging artists that explore
Celtic roots in Euroope 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)
Available on KALW’s Local Music Player  KALW podcast available at www.kalw.org
TOO MUCH INFORMATION Host
WEEKEND EDITION Scott Simon
Benjamen 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)
and NPR wrap up the week’s events –
plus arts and newsmakers interviews.
www.npr.org (Saturday 6-9am)
TO THE BEST OF OUR
KNOWLEDGE An audio magazine
that offers a fresh perspective 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 passion. Upcoming
hightlights: 7/8 We Are Family: Families
that sing together; 7/15 One Night
Stand: The art of presenting classical
music recitals, with guest Ruth Felt
of San Francisco Performances; 7/22
Second Coming: The success of show
tunes in the pop music world, with
theatre journalist Chad Jones; 7/29
Holy Melisma!: A composer’s guide to
the development and practice of ornamentation in singing, with guest Brian
Rosen; 8/5 Angelic Cherubs?: On training boys to sing beautifully, with Kevin
Fox, the founding artistic director of
the Pacific Boychoir Academy; 8/12
Forever Young: A Guide to long-term
vocal health for singing children; 8/19
Don’t Let Your Ears Deceive You: On
the art of ventriloquism; 8/26 Choral
Almanac: Bay Area midsummer chorus showcase; 9/2 Songs of America:
Thomas Hampson on the Great
American Songbook; (9/9 & 9/16 Ira
Gershwin Specials with Alan Farley);
9/23 The Local Vocal: Bay Area singersongwriter showcase; 9/30 Hardly
Strictly Singing: Warren Hellman on
bluegrass vocals (and then some).
www.voicebox-media.org (Friday at
10pm) 
shaded boxes indicate locally-produced programming
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.
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 fi­nding the perfect job to networking,
and regularly 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
interactive 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 [email protected].
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) 8414134. www.yourcallradio.org (Weekdays
at 10am. Rebroadcast Monday-Thursday
at 8pm, Fridays at 5pm) 
YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS San
Mateo Deputy District Attorney Chuck
Finney talks with listeners about legal
and consumer problems. Call in your
questions to Chuck and his team of
guest attorneys: (415) 841-4134.
(Wednesday at 7pm)
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