Little-Known Tales of California’s Past
Oakland’s Time-Travelling Map, The Secret World of Inez Burns, Japanese-American 1950s Car Clubs, A Firefighter on Witnessing Too Much Tragedy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
13 Apr 201830min
Life and Death Off Point Reyes, Wetlands Get Help From Rice Farmers
A Cemetery of Life Saving Secrets on Point Reyes, How California’s Rice Fields Are Welcoming Back the Birds, Couples Counselors Get Real About Their Own Marriages, The Sodden Story Behind Whiskeytown, CA. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
6 Apr 201830min
Counted: An Oakland Story
Throughout 2017, a team of Snap Judgment producers - together with Oakland activists and parents - learned about Oakland’s homicide victims, their families and communities. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
30 Mar 201830min
‘We’re All Getting Older’
College hopefuls leaving California, a taste of home for South Asian seniors, when a job becomes a friendship, A Place Called 'Peanut' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
23 Mar 201830min
The California Report Magazine: Chasing the Original California Dream
Modern-day Gold Miner Still Finds Plenty, A Visit to Paradise (CA), How CA Went from Anti-Immigrant to ‘Sanctuary State,’ Birdsong Clues to Climate Change Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
17 Mar 201831min
My World Was Burning: The Northern California Fires and What Went Wrong
A special half-hour investigation based on 911 tape + interviews with first responders and survivors of the Oct. 2016 Northern CA wildfires. A collaboration with Reveal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
10 Mar 201831min
Stories About Belonging
Taxi Drivers Losing Their Identity, Queer Skateboarders Confront Macho Culture, A Teen Loner Turns into a Celebrated Mapmaker of California's Wilderness Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
3 Mar 201831min
Synchronized Ice Skaters and A Visit to Timbuctoo
On This Ice Skating Team There Are No Olympians and No One Under 25 Robyn Fernsworth wakes up before the sun rises every Saturday morning so she can ice skate for two hours. But she's not training for the next Winter Olympics, she's practicing with the IceSymmetrics, a masters synchronized skating team based in Oakland. The IceSymmetrics are a group of moms, lawyers, teachers, some professional skaters...and they're heading to Portland this week to compete in nationals. Bianca Taylor caught up with Robyn during practice. The Lowly Seagrass That Could Save Your Oysters From Climate Change What do you do when a global problem like climate change lands on your front doorstep? That’s what’s facing oyster farms up and down the West Coast, which are already feeling the impact. But, as KQED Science reporter Lauren Sommer tells us, one Bay Area oyster farm is teaming up with scientists to find a way to use nature to adapt. Timbuctoo: The Ghost of a Ghost Town For the next installment in our series "A Place Called What?!", about California places with bizarre or surprising names, we take a trip to Timbuctoo! Sacramento Finds and Celebrates Itself in New ‘Lady Bird’ Walking Tour While Hollywood prepares for the Oscars on March 4, a "Lady Bird"-themed walking tour began its inaugural trek in Sacramento. We join the tour and hear from guides and tourists about their personal connection to the semi-autobiographical movie. Lady Bird director Greta Gerwig called her film a “love letter to Sacramento.” What did the film mean for Sactown superfans? Mean: A Conversation with Myriam Gurba True crime, memoir and ghost story, "Mean" is the bold and hilarious tale of Myriam Gurba’s coming of age as a queer, mixed-race Chicana. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
24 Feb 201831min
