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  • An image of a building in the distance reflecting against the water of Lake Merritt below it, with the silhouetted branches of a tree in the foreground.
    Crosscurrents
    In the Mood for Healthy Relationships
    Residents of San Francisco's Chinatown are grappling with competing concerns. Then, get ahead of Valentine’s Day with some relationship advice. Plus a love song, and a poem.
  • Close up of a poster on display. The poster reads "ASIAN AMERICAN JAZZ FESTIVAL" with a large cartoon graphic of two hands playing piano.
    Crosscurrents
    Music to Connect us, Protect us, and Move us Forward
    Today, the legacy and relevance of the Asian American Jazz Movement. Then, a local brass band that’s lending a whole new layer to protests. And, a big lesson in forgiveness.
  • An Olympus Beefsteak.
    KALW Culture
    A Beefsteak at Stake
    Sandip Roy
    We are all a little too sensitive these days. In Kolkata one influencer got a little burnt with his post about being served a wrong dish at a popular restaurant. Sandip considers that maybe we all need to cool down a little.
  • 'Tiny Chef, Big Impact' at the California Academy of Sciences
    Crosscurrents
    Tiny Chef, Childcare, and World Bluegrass
    Today, "The Tiny Chef" is coming to the California Academy of Sciences! Then, we get some context for a plan for free and subsidized childcare in San Francisco.
  • A donkey jaw sits next to a conch shell on a shelf at Lark in the Morning.
    Crosscurrents
    Making World Music in Berkeley
    Today we hear instruments from all over the world from a little shop in Berkeley. Then, why Oakland’s police remain under federal oversight after more than two decades.