Steven Short
Reporter/ProducerSteven has been with KALW News since it’s beginnings in 2004. His history, art and public interest stories have won awards for Breaking News, Feature Writing and Explanatory Journalism. Some of his reports have aired nationally on NPR.
He is responsible for The Source, a recurring feature on the origins of Bay Area place names. He also researches most of the listings for the Crosscurrents local music calendar and compiles the weekly online Cannabis News Round-up.
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CrosscurrentsSinger, songwriter, and activist Barbara Dane died at the age of 97 in her Oakland home this past weekend. -
A lot of people see San Francisco as different. Maybe that’s why there are so many songs about the city by the bay. And, it’s perhaps the only city in the country with not one, but two official songs. -
CrosscurrentsGeneral Mariano Vallejo, the 19th century founder of Sonoma, had a lot of influence in the North Bay. He’s got a town named after him, of course, and he also had something to do with naming the neighboring county of Marin. We find out all about it in this episode of “The Source.”
