January/February/March 2011

91.7
70!
@
In 2011, KALW
celebrates 70 years
on the air.
Share your story about
the station (p.4)
and read about
our vision
for the future. (p.3)
Wait Wait...Don’t Tell Me!
Peter Sagal and NPR’s weekly news quiz
come to KALW, Saturday mornings at 9.
(p.5)
Your Call returns to 10am. (p.5)
Out in the Bay
looks back at six years of great interviews with John Waters,
Phyllis Lyon & Del Martin, Ang Lee, Judy Shepard and more. (p.6)
As It Happens
welcomes new co-host, Jeff Douglas. (p.7)
The threat to public broadcasting on Capitol Hill
— and what you can do about it. (p.6)
also inside…
January/February/March 2011
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
The Charles Schwab Foundation • The Cow Hollow Foundation • The Friedman Family Foundation •
Laurie Cohen Fund • The Levi Strauss Foundation • Marin Community Foundation • 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, Chuck
Finney, Richard Friedman, Kent Howard, Daphne Humes, Robin Hunt, Eric Jansen, Max Jacobs,
Carol Kocivar, Bea La’O, David Latulippe, Kyung Jin Lee, Leyna Lightman, Martin MacClain, Ann
Maley, 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, Steven Short,
Judy Silber, Jennifer Spoerri, Dore Stein, Devon Strolovitch, Niels Swinkels, Peter Thompson,
Kevin Vance, Chloe Veltman, Melanie Young
KALW VOLUNTEERS
Bud Alderson, Jody Ames, Jean Amos, Dan Barki, Ken Begun, Bob Benjamin, Maxine Berg, Laura
Bernabei, Annette Bistrup, Karl Bouldin, Noelle Boyd, Robbie Brandwynne, Diane Brett, Andrew
Broderick, Joshua Brody, Linda Clever, Jack Dawson, Carolyn Deacy, Natascha Dimitijevic, Roger
Donaldson, George Durgerian, Doug Dyment, Tuffy Eldridge, 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, Leonard & Kathleen Kaplan, Brenda Kett, Katherine Lincicum, Fred Lipshultz, Ariel Litsky, Edward
Litwin, Toni Lozica, Diana Lum, Jennifer Mahoney, Jack Major, Stephanie Manning, Horace Marks, Tom
Mason, Uday Mather, Sam McClelland, John McDevitt, Michael McGinley, Fred & Cheryl Merrick, Paul
Michael, Roger Miller, Linda Morine, Erica Mu, Pat Nash, Jake Nassif, John Navas, Tim Olson,
Alice O’Sullivan, Susan Parini, Amit Pendyal, Art Persyko, Vada Pinto, Gregor Rittinger, Rick Rose,
Max Rosenblum, Leslie Rosenfeld, Marty Rousch, Pam Routh, 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 Weiner, Leslie Wellbaum,
Harry Weller, Steve Wilcott
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
Holly Kernan, News Director
Matt Martin, General Manager
Sandip Roy, Host
Ben Trefny, Managing News
William Helgeson,
Malihe Razazan, Producer
Editor
Operations Manager
Ali Budner, Producer
Martina Castro, Senior News
David Latulippe,
Producer
Administration
Part-time announcers
Chris Hoff, News Engineer
Phil Hartman, Engineering
Eric Jansen
Erica Mu, News Tech Support
JoAnna Robertson,
Debi Kennedy
Seth Samuel, News Engineer
Development Assistant
David Latulippe
Hana Baba, Host/Reporter
Joe Burke, Announcer
Bob Sommer
Rina Palta, Reporter
Alan Farley, Senior Announcer
Kevin Vance
Eric Wayne
Ali Winston, Reporter
JoAnn Mar, Announcer
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,
© Contents KALW
use the following email address: [email protected]
KALW program guide edited by Matt Martin and David Latulippe,
designed by Georgette Petropoulos, Howard Quinn Company
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869-M
The future of public radio,
right here on KALW
college campuses.
Create postscarcity public
radio. Thanks
to on-line
streaming, we
don’t have to
limit ourselves
to what can be
programmed
on one station in a 24-hour day. Remix
Radio from PRX (check it out at remixradio.org) has begun to show how
public radio can create compelling online streams that will draw a significant
audience. KALW plans to build on that
model to create a stream that combines
the best from independent radio-makers
around the country, while highlighting
local reporters and producers to give it
a distinctly Bay Area flavor.
Remember what makes radio special.
Immediacy, intimacy, and interactivity
have always been at the core of great
radio, and they can distinguish us as
commercial radio tends toward mindless automation and narrow programming driven by personality or ideology. KALW will continue to develop
a carefully-curated broadcast day that
packs in diverse, original content, tied
together by a friendly, human presence.
In 2011, KALW will celebrate 70
years on the air. We’ll look back at the
station’s rich history, and invite you to
share your stories about the role KALW
has played in your life. We’ll also be
looking forward. I hope you’ll join us in
the celebration, and be with us as we
imagine what’s next for Local Public
Radio.
Sincerely,
Photo by Patrick Barber
I recently flew to Washington, DC
for a meeting convened by the National
Federation of Community Broadcasters,
Public Radio Exchange and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting about
how public radio can reach out to
younger and more diverse audiences.
Our mission as public broadcasters
demands that we constantly think about
how to expand the audience we serve
while remaining true to our core values
of civic engagement and intellectual discovery. And in a context where federal
support is once again being challenged
(see p. 4), it’s even more important to
demonstrate that the information, ideas
and culture we present are relevant to a
broad public.
I welcome the opportunity to think
about how KALW can reach out to
new audiences, both because it’s our
responsibility and because in the long
run, bringing more people into our radio community will enrich our programming and increase the impact we make.
I want you — the people who appreciate and support KALW, and who’ve
made this such a vibrant and creative
spot on the dial — to be engaged in the
station’s ongoing evolution. So I want to
share with you the ideas I presented in
Washington about what KALW can do
to expand our audience in the years to
come:
Move into the spaces, virtual and
real, where the next audience lives.
KALW will invest in the technology that
will not only allow us to be present on
mobile phones and other devices, but
make it possible for the people who
find us there to tell us what they think,
to share their stories and knowledge.
We’re also going to get out into public
to let new listeners encounter us and
become part of our creative process.
Given that the one consistent indicator
of public radio listening is education,
we’ll start with live broadcasts on local
Matt Martin
General Manager
[email protected]
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As We Celebrate 70 Years,
Tell Us Your KALW Story
On March 10, 1941, KALW started
broadcasting at 91.7 FM. Throughout
2011, we’ll be celebrating the station’s
70 years on the air and collecting stories
of the station’s history and its impact on
people throughout this community.
Do you have a story of how KALW’s
affected your life? Is there a moment of
listening you’ll never forget? Or a time
when you particularly valued KALW?
Did you volunteer or work or receive
training at the station? Know someone who played an important role in
KALW’s development?
Whether you’ve known KALW for
weeks or decades, we want your story
about why this station matters to you.
You can e-mail [email protected] with the
subject line “70 Stories,” drop us a line
ATTN: “70 Stories” at KALW 500 Mansell Street, San Francisco, CA 94134,
or simply call General Manager Matt
Martin at 415-841-4121 x6.
The Threat to Public Broadcasting
(and what you can do about it)
2011 looks like it could be
a dire year for public broadcasting on Capitol Hill.
In November, the co-chairs
of President Obama’s deficit
reduction commission recommended that funding for the
Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) be zeroed out
by 2015. During end-of-year debates
over tax cut legislation, Senators Tom
Coburn (R, OK) and Jim DeMint (R, SC)
tried unsuccessfully to add an amendment that would immediately end
funding for the CPB. And NPR’s decision to terminate Juan Williams contract
has given the right a powerful talking
point about public radio as governmentfunded liberal media. Altogether, public
broadcasting faces its greatest challenge
in Washington since Newt Gingrich was
Speaker of the House.
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But here’s what’s different from 1995: We’ve been
through this before. And
we’re ready to fight back at
a time when public broadcasting is more important
than ever.
KALW has joined a broad
coalition called 170 Million
Americans for Public Broadcasting. Every month, 170 million Americans listen
to public radio, watch public TV, or visit
public media websites. It’s your voice,
telling your elected representatives
about the importance of public broadcasting in your life and in the civic and
intellectual life of your community, that
will make the difference in this debate.
Please visit 170MillionAmericans.
org to learn more, and find out how
you can be part of the effort to defend
public broadcasting.
YOUR CALL…back at 10am!
I’m excited to report that Your Call is
moving back to the 10am time slot, immediately following Fresh Air. We hope
the move will allow more of you to
listen and take part in the conversation.
My main goals for 2011 are to focus
on solutions to the many issues we face,
from the economy to the environment,
and to bring new and diverse voices to
the air.
The Your Call team looks forward to
finding thought provoking angles to the
news making headlines, and exploring
subjects that don’t the attention they
deserve. We strive to offer substance,
thoughtful debates, an informative and
meaningful exchange of ideas, and an
inviting forum for you to share your
thoughts and ideas.
Thanks to the help of one of our
many generous listeners, Colin Fran-
gos, we have a
fully-redesigned
website at
yourcallradio.
org. We hope
you will use it
to express your
opinions and
find out how
you can take
action on the
issues you care about.
We wouldn’t be on the air with
you. Some of our best show ideas and
questions have come from you. Thank
you for supporting independent public
radio. Here’s to a peaceful and healthy
New Year.
­–Rose Aguilar,
[email protected]
Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!
The Oddly Informative News Quiz from NPR
(Saturdays at 9am – NEW on KALW!)
Wait Wait…Don’t
Tell Me! takes a
fast-paced, irreverent look
at the news of
the world…and the
weird. Each week, host
Peter Sagal quizzes the
panelists and listeners
to determine just how
closely they paid attention to the week’s
news. He serves up
questions in all forms: lightning rounds,
tape from NPR news shows, multiple
choice, identify the “fake” stories, and
fill-in-the-blank limericks.
A rotating trio of
witty panelists with veteran NPR newscaster
Carl Kasell completes
the Wait Wait team.
They include author
and humorist Roy
Blount, Jr., advice
columnist Amy
Dickinson, Washington Post columnist Roxanne Roberts,
writer/performer Adam
Felber, author P.J.
O’Rourke, comedian
Paula Poundstone and
humorist/pundit Mo Rocca.
How To Turn Your Car Into Radio:
If you can’t go riding in your car anymore, donate it to KALW. You will
get a tax receipt for your donation and your old car, running or not,
will turn into great programming for KALW. Call our toll-free donation line at 1-888 KALW-CAR or visit us online at KALW.org for all
of the details.
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Out In The Bay –
gay radio from San Francisco
(Thursdays at 7pm)
Our weekly LGBT interview program produced and hosted by Eric Jansen and Marilyn Pittman celebrates six years on KALW with a special retrospective for the first quarter of 2011.
January 6: Marilyn talks with Gilbert Baker,
who created the Rainbow Flag, symbol of
gay liberation, in 1978 for the San Francisco
Freedom Day Parade.
January 13: The Fabulous Sylvester and
Beyond The Down Low. Marilyn interviews
Josh Gamson
about his biography of the late,
great disco diva,
with Sylvester’s
music and readings from the
book. Eric talks
about black men
Keith Boykin
leading secret gay
lives with Beyond the Down Low: Sex, Lies,
and Denial in Black America author Keith
Boykin.
January 20: Marilyn talks with Augusten
Burroughs, author of Running With Scissors
and A Wolf At My Table.
January 27: Eric’s sound portrait and interviews about one of America’s most famous
queens, Liberace! (Relax in your marble tub
for this one …)
February 3: The L Word. Marilyn’s 2006
interview with Ilene Chaikin, creator of the
show, and, in 2008, one of the show’s stars,
Cybill Shepherd.
February 10 &
17: Eric’s two-part
interview with
civil rights pioneers
Phyllis Lyon and
the late Del Martin,
the first same-sex
couple to be married at S.F. City
Hall in 2004 and
Del Martin and Phyllis
again in 2008.
Lyon
Sean Penn
Harvey Milk
February 24: Milk. Marilyn weaves her interviews with director Gus Van Sant, Cleve
Jones, Danny Nicoletta and Anne Kronenburg together with comments and clips from
the actors who played them. Sean Penn
won Best Actor for portraying Harvey Milk.
March 3: Continuing the Oscar thread,
Eric’s interviews with award-winning Ang
Lee, first for Brokeback Mountain in 2005,
and then for Taking Woodstock in 2009.
March 10: John Waters. Marilyn and Eric
take a tour of his art show at The Rena
Bransten Gallery in San Francisco and then
sit down with filmmaker John Waters to talk
about his films, his life, and his hilarious
takes on “the gays.”
March 17: Marilyn interviews scholar,
author, and free speech movement activist
Bettina Aptheker about her book, Intimate
Politics, a revealing personal memoir about
her life and relationship with her father, a
Communist Party leader.
March 24: Eric interviews Judy Shepard,
mother of Matthew Shepard, about her
2009 book, The Meaning of Matthew:
My Son’s Murder in Laramie and a World
Transformed.
March 31: Interviews with comedians, including Margaret Cho and Bruce Vilanch.
To learn more about Out in the Bay, to hear past shows, to sign up for free weekly podcasts
or to receive Out in the Bay on your mobile device via Stitcher, or to send your comments,
contribute, or share your skills, please visit OutInTheBay.com.
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Berkeley Symphony
hosted by Alan Farley
KALW is proud to be the exclusive broadcast home of the
Berkeley Sumphony Orchestra, under the direction of Maestro
Joana Carneiro.
Sunday, January 16 at 4pm: Music Director Joana Carniero
with violinist Jennifer Koh perform violin concerti of Beethoven
and John Adams.
Sunday, March 6 at 4pm: Mezzo-soprano Rachel Calloway
is guest with Maestra Carneiro for Peter Lieberson’s Neruda
Songs; plus the World Premiere of Enrico Chapela’s Private Alleles, and Manuel de Falla’s El amor brujo.
I Love To Rhyme:
The Lyrics of Ira Gershwin
hosted by Alan Farley
Successes and Failures of the 20s & 30s: “Strike Up the Band”,
“Funny Face”, “Treasure Girl”, and “Girl Crazy”.
Friday, March 18 at 10pm.
Of Thee I Sing: The Pulitzer Prize-winning show that lampooned
American politics, and its sequel, “Let ‘Em Eat Cake.”
Friday, March 25 at 10pm.
The Search is Over: As it Happens
welcomes co-host Jeff Douglas
Regular listeners to the CBC’s As It
Happens have been hearing a variety of
voices lately (including former Your Call
host Mary Ambrose) as they searched
for the right combination to accompany
Carol Off as co-host since the departure
of Barbara Budd.
In Jeff Douglas, they’ve found someone with a background in narration,
storytelling and considerable experience
in theatre, whose dynamic personality
has been heard and seen in various radio and television programs tackling the
most obscure and interesting situations
– from mushing dogs in Yukon to leaping out of planes with 442 Squadron
search and rescue personnel. Jeff has
hosted the award-winning documentary
series Ancestors in the Attic, chronicling
the stories of ordinary people and their
extraordinary experiences and more
recently, starred in National Geographic‘s Making History, an internationally
broadcast four-part series exploring and
re-creating significant historic places
and events. Listen for Jeff with Carol
weekdays at 4pm.
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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 
Your Call with hosts Rose Aguilar & Sandip Roy. 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

This American Life
(Rebroadcast)
(Rebroadcast)
1 pm
This American Life
Alternative Radio
Are We Alone?
Snap Judgment
Open Air
with Alan Farley 
2 pm
Sound Opinions
The State We’re In
(Radio Netherlands)
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 
Then & Now
with Sarah Cahill

Music From The
Hearts of Space
=new program or time
Binah 
New America Now 
The Tavis Smiley
Show
CBC’s As It Happens
with Carol Off and Jeff Douglas
Your Call 
Crosscurrents from KALW News 
Media Roundtable
(Rebroadcast)
BBC World Briefing
Fresh Air
City Visions 
S.F. School Board meetings
1/11, 1/24, 2/8, 2/22,
3/8, 3/22
INFORUM from the
Commonwealth Club
Chamber Music Society
of Lincoln Center
Your Legal Rights
with Chuck Finney 
Record Shelf
with Jim Svejda
Snap Judgment

CounterSpin

My Music

1 pm
2 pm
3 pm
6 pm
7 pm
8 pm
My Word!
VoiceBox 
Gershwin 3/18, 3/25
Music From
Other Minds
noon
5 pm
This Way Out
Blues Power Hour 
11 am
A Patchwork Quilt
with Kevin Vance
Left, Right & Center
Africa Mix 
10 am
4 pm
OUT in the Bay 
Fog City Blues 
9 am

Bluegrass Signal
with Peter Thompson
Fascinatin’ Rhythm
L.A. Theatre Works
Thistle & Shamrock
with Fiona Ritchie
Fresh Air with Terry Gross
Your Call 
(Rebroadcast of 11am show.)
From the
Conservatory &
My Favorite Things 
Michael Feldman’s
Whad’Ya Know?
Folk Music & Beyond
with JoAnn Mar
& Bob Campbell
BBC’s Newshour
(Rebroadcast)
New Letters on the Air
Wait, Wait…
Don’t Tell Me!
Fresh Air with Terry Gross, with Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac at 9:01 am
Philosophy Talk
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
Grit Radio
with Laura Flanders
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


KALW podcast available  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 hosts
Emmanuel Nado and Pamela Brown.
www.kalwafricamix.blogspot.com
(Thursday 9pm-midnight)
ALTERNATIVE RADIO Progressive
scholars and thinkers share their views,
produced by David Barsamian. 1/10
Corporations vs. People (Paul Cienfuegos);
1/17 Human Intelligence & the Environment
(Noam Chomsky); 1/24 Roots of the
Economic Collapse (Robert Scheer); 1/31
Resistance and the Arts (Amiri Baraka)
www.alternativeradio.org
(Monday at 1pm)
ARE WE ALONE? — Science Radio
for Thinking Species. Searching for life
as we don’t know it begins with understanding life as we do. From amoebas
to zebras, from androids to antimatter, Are We Alone? explores the science
that makes life possible. From the SETI
Institute in Mountain View, California.
(Tuesday 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 coverage in an informative and often irreverent style.
Hosted by Carol Off and Jeff Douglas.
www.cbc.ca/asithappens
(Weekdays, 4pm)
BERKELEY SYMPHONY 1/16:
Music Director Joana Carniero with
violinist Jennifer Koh perform violin concerti of Beethoven and John Adams; 3/6:
Broadcast of the December 02, 2010
concert
BBC NEWS Current news from
London and BBC programming.
(Midnight-5am daily.
Sunday at 4pm, Mon-Fri at 3pm)
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BINAH The best of arts & ideas,
authors & personalities, produced
in collaboration with the Jewish
Community Center of San Francisco.
Upcoming highlights: 1/6 Litquake Fall
Harvest; 1/13 Joseph O’Neill; 1/20 Sue
Fishkoff/Kosher Nation; 1/27 Stephen
Sondheim; 2/3 Anne Lamott; 2/10 Tom
Segev & Simon Wiesenthal; 2/17 Myla
Goldberg, Maynard and Waldman;
2/24 Mike Brown “The Man Who Killed
Pluto”; 3/3 Yehuda Berg/Kabbalah; 3/10
Oscar ‘Andy’ Hammerstein III; 3/17
Debra Rhode/Beauty Bias; 3/24 Chip
Conley/Joie de Vivre.
(Thursday at noon) 
BLUEGRASS SIGNAL Host
Peter Thompson presents bluegrass
music with elements of Celtic, jazz,
and a variety of folk. Highlights: 1/1
The Annual IBMA Awards Show (from
9/30/10); 1/8 Appropriately, we’ll hear
music from “The Eighth Of January”;
1/15 Musical previews of Redwood
Bluegrass Associates 2011 Concerts; 1/22
Bluegrass songs about snow; 1/29 New
releases & reissues; 2/5 Musical previews
of the San Francisco Bluegrass & Old
Time Festival; 2/12 Happy Birthday, Red
Allen; 2/19 Bluegrass Chat – recent interviews with some notable musicians; 2/26
Songs Of Tragedy & Sorrow with guest
co-host Todd Gracyk; 3/5 Musical previews of the Sonoma County Bluegrass
& Folk Festival; 3/12: Happy Birthday,
Marshall Wilborn; 3/19 New releases &
reissues; 3/26 Beautiful Bouquet – bluegrass songs about flowers. (Saturday
6:30-8pm)
BOOK TALK Alan Farley talks
with authors of our time. Recent
guests have included Pulitzer Prizewinner Isabel Wilkerson, journalist
Andrew Lam, novelist A. S. Byatt, actress
Marlo Thomas, and composer John
Adams, and biographer Edmund Morris.
www.kalw.org (Sunday at 6:30pm) 
CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF
LINCOLN CENTER World-class
performances from the Chamber Music
Society’s 2009-2010 season, hosted by
Elliott Forrest with commentary by CMS
Co-Artistic Director David Finckel and
musicians. (Monday at 10pm)
Available on KALW’s Local Music Player  KALW podcast available at www.kalw.org
CITY VISIONS Hosts Lauren Meltzer
FOG CITY BLUES Host Devon
and Joseph Pace explore Bay Area
issues. To participate, call (415) 841-4134
or email [email protected]
www.cityvisionsradio.com.
(Monday at 7pm) 
Strolovitch brings you blues
from the Bay Area and beyond
www.fogcityblues.com
(Wednesday 9-11pm)
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. http://www.radionetherlands.nl (Sunday at 6am)
FASCINATIN’ RHYTHM Songs
from the Great American Songbook,
hosted by Michael Lasser. Highlights:
1/7 (Broadway) Curtain Going Up; 1/14
The story of “Blue Moon”; 1/21 Dave
Frishberg Is Hip; 1/28 Living In Loveland;
2/4 Hammerstein Before Rodgers; 2/11 Odd
Conversations – strange associations, offbeat
expressions, and complicated constructions;
2/18 Early Dance Bands from the 1920s that
shaped the Big Band sound; 2/25 Hoagy
Carmichael After Dark; 3/4 Live Alone And
Like It; 3/11 Bill Bailey…And More; 3/18
Details – the ways songwriters shape the
quick, familiar references that define and distinguish popular songs; 3/25 Anne Caldwell
– songs by one of the important female
lyricists of her time with music, mostly, by
Jerome Kern. www.wxxi.org/rhythm
(Friday at 10pm)
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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: 1/1
New Releases, including Mavis Staples,
Anonymous 4, and Molly’s Revenge; 1/8
Cajun & Zydeco with promoter Nancy
Covey; 1/15 John McCutcheon Live;
1/22 Troubadors Then and Now; 1/29
Music and Conversation with Archie
Fisher; 2/5 Local Folk Showcase featuring guitarist Steve Baughman; 2/12 Hot
Rize In Concert; 2/19 On The Road:
traveling songs, including those by Lucy
Wainwright Roche, Mark Knopfler &
Emmylou Harris, and readings by Jack
Kerouac; 2/26 Old World Melodies from
Here and Abroad; 3/5 Liz Carroll Live:
the world-class fiddler returns to the
KALW studios to perform solo fiddle and
talk about the Crossroads Irish-American
Festival in San Francisco; 3/12 Sandy’s
Potluck; 3/19 Music for St. Patrick’s; 3/26
Classical Folk: the intersection where
classical and folk meet, with music by
Mad Pudding, Mark O’Connor, Sharon
Isbin, and others. 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
FROM THE CONSERVATORY
Host David Latulippe offers recorded
highlights of recent concerts from
the students, faculty, and alumni of
the San Francisco Conservatory of
Music. Featured works: 1/3 Mozart
and Hindemith with guest pianist
Menahem Pressler and Conservatory
faculty member Jodi Levitz, viola; 1/10
Ernest Bloch, Carlo Domeniconi, and
Leos Janacek; 1/17 & 24 Rossini’s Petite
messe solonelle; with Debussy’s Sonata
for Flute, Viola, and Harp (1/17) and
music from Mozart’s Mitridate (1/24);
1/31 Bartok & Richard Strauss; 2/7
Hindemith & Bartók; 2/14 J.S. Bach,
Dan Becker, & Matthew Cmiel; 2/21
Beethoven & Sebastian Plano; 2/28 A
Preparatory Division Showcase. Full
program details and performers at
kalw.org/conservatory.html.
(Monday at 9pm, Jan/Feb) 
GRIT RADIO Host Laura Flanders
cuts through the news and blather of the
week and talks directly to the activists,
newsmakers and artists who are making
change. www.lauraflanders.com
(Monday at Noon)
I LOVE TO RHYME 3/18 Ira
Gershwin Specials with Alan Farley:
“Successes and failures in the 20s and
30s” (Friday 3/18 at 10pm); “The Pulitzer
Prize-winning ‘Of Thee I Sing’ and its
sequel, ‘Let ‘Em Eat Cake’”
(Friday 3/25 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)
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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) 
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, a daily almanac at
5:49 and 8:49, plus daily commentaries
from Jim Hightower at 7:49. www.npr.org
(Weekdays 5-9am)
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)
Available on KALW’s Local Music Player  KALW podcast available at www.kalw.org
MY FAVORITE THINGS Recent
guests have included Wesla Whitfield and
Mike Greensill; Chloe Veltman, host of
Voice Box; TV producer David Kennard;
and Stephen Paulson, the San Francisco
Symphony’s Principal Bassoonist.
(Mondays in March at 9pm)
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)
MY WORD! & MY MUSIC From
PHILOSOPHY TALK Stanford
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)
philosophers John Perry and Ken
Taylor interview guest experts and
respond to questions from listeners.
Philosophy Talk questions everything...
except your intelligence. Upcoming
highlights: 1/2 & 1/4 The Moral Costs
of Free Markets; 1/9 &1/11 Abortion;
1/16 & 1/18 Derrida and Deconstruction;
1/23 & 1/25 Different Cultures, Different
Selves;1/30 & 2/1 Procrastination; 2/6 &
2/8 Cooperation and Conflict; 2/13 &
2/15 The Movie Show 2011; 2/20 & 2/22
Bi-racial Identities; 2/27 & 2/29 John
Locke; 3/6 & 3/8 Challenges to Free Will;
3/13 & 3/15 Too Much Information; 3/20
& 3/22 Relativism; 3/27 & 3/29 Desire.
www.philosophytalk.org (Sunday at
10am, rebroadcast Tuesday at Noon)
NEW AMERICA NOW:
DISPATCHES FROM THE NEW
MAJORITIES A weekly take on current events from the Bay Area’s ethnic
news media hosted by Sandip Roy.
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
historian/librarian Kevin Starr, pianist Kiril
Gerstein, playwright David Cale, conductor Pablo Heras-Casado, composer/performer Rufus Wainwright, and soprano
Karita Mattila. (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) 
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RECORD SHELF Jim Svejda reviews
compact discs and explores classical music. Upcoming highlights: 1/3 A
Chopin Year Post Mortem – reviewing the
highlights (and bombs) of the composer’s
Bicentennial; 1/10 & 1/17 A conversation with the American mezzo-soprano,
Joyce DiDonato; 1/24 & 1/31 The Young
Celibidache – early and revealing live
recordings by the controversial Romanian
conductor Sergiu Celibidache; 2/7 The
Record Shelf Record Reviews; 2/14 & 2/21
A conversation with the Beaux Arts Trio’s
founding pianist, Menahem Pressler; 2/28 A
comparative survey of the best recordings
of Tchaikovsky’s Capriccio italien; 3/7 A
conversation with members of the Ebene
Quartet. www.kusc.org (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,
1/11, 1/25, 2/8, 2/22, 3/8, 3/22)
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programming A to Z
SELECTED SHORTS Celebrity
readers from stage and screen, recorded
at Symphony Space in NYC. 1/2 Ardour by
Jonathan Keats (Lili Taylor), Little Pot by Ilya
Kaminsky (Sonia Manzano), Blue Bearded
Lover by Joyce Carol Oates (Betsy Lippitt),
Relic by Robert Olen Butler (Ron Nakahara),
The Porcelain Man by Richard Kennedy
(Estelle Parsons); 1/ 9 Liliana by Maile Meloy
(James Naughton), Hunters by Richard
Ford (Isaiah Sheffer); 1/16 (pre-empted for
the Berkeley Symphony broadcast); 1/23
Neighbors by Julia Alvarez (Lili Taylor); Flight
Patterns by Sherman Alexie (B.D. Wong);
1/30 Porte Cochere by Peter Taylor (Leonard
Nimoy), Enough by McDermott (Fionnula
Flanagan); 2/6 Ever After by Kim Addonizio
(Christine Ebersole), Boys by Rick Moody
(B.D. Wong), The Fortunes of Madame
Organza by Natalie Babbitt (Janel Maloney).
Additional listings forthcoming at kalw.org.
(Sunday at 5pm)
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)
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
(Monday at 2pm)
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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 1-3pm)
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
1/1 American Original: The Wisdom
of Pete Seeger; 1/8 Cherish The Ladies;
1/15 Northern Highlights – music from
Scandinavian artists; 1/22 Celtic Piano;
1/29 Songs Of Robert Burns; 2/5 A Broader
Canvas – traditions from Cornwall, the Isle of
Man, Galicia, Asturias, Wales and Brittany;
2/12 Dougie MacLean; 2/19 A Different
Kind Of Love Song; 2/26 Wales; 3/5 Music
of Donal Lunny, Jim Malcolm, Skolvan, and
Capercaillie; 3/12 Irish Pairs – including the
fiddle of Martin Hayes with Dennis Cahill’s
guitar, the late Frankie Kennedy’s flute with
Mairead Ni Mhaonaigh’s fiddle, and others; 3/19 Tomorrow, Today – youngsters
playing traditional music; 3/26 Canada.
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)
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)
Available on KALW’s Local Music Player  KALW podcast available at www.kalw.org
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: 1/7 Second Coming:
The success of show tunes in the pop music
world; 1/14 Holy Melisma!: A composer’s
guide to the development and practice of
ornamentation in singing; 1/21 Siberian
Express: The art of Tuvan throat singing; 1/28
Wired for Sound: Daniel Lannon of The Frail
on electropop vocals; 2/4 Crowd Scenes:
Opera choruses take center stage; 2/11
Call of the Wild: The art of yodeling; 2/25
Lieder Alive!: Workshopping the German
art song; 3/4 Boogie Woogie Bugle Bash:
Celebrating KALW’s 70th anniversary with
songs that came into being in 1941; 3/11 Life
is a Cabaret: On running a vocally multifaceted nightspot; ; 4/1 Trains, Planes and
Automobiles: The art of staying healthy on
the road as a touring vocalist. www.voicebox-media.org (Friday at 10pm) 
WAIT WAIT…DON’T TELL ME!
A wacky and whip-smart approach to the
week’s news and newsmakers, with host
Peter Sagal and judge/scorekeeper Carl
Kasell. A rotating trio of witty panelists
compete by answering questions about the
week’s events, identifying impersonations,
filling in the blanks at lightening speed,
sniffing out fake news items, and deciphering limericks. Panelists include author and
humorist Roy Blount, Jr., advice columnist
Amy Dickinson, Washington Post columnist
Roxanne Roberts, writer/performer Adam
Felber, author P.J. O’Rourke, comedian Paula
Poundstone and humorist/pundit Mo Rocca.
(Saturday at 9am – NEW on KALW!)
WEEKEND EDITION Scott Simon
and NPR wrap up the week’s events –
plus arts and newsmakers interviews.
www.npr.org (Saturday 6-9am)
Now you can listen to
your favorite KALW
music show with our
Local Music Player.
Click the Music tab at
www.kalw.org
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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.” Recent guests include
former U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert
Reich, Craig Venter, decoder of the
human genome, and David Bornstein,
author of How to Change the World.
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 and Sandip Roy. To participate,
call (415) 841-4134. www.yourcallradio.org
(Now weekdays at 10am. Rebroadcast
Mon-day-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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