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KALW Culture

KALW Culture

  • Courtesty of Destiny Muhammad
    Today, Destiny Mohammad talks about her new album and why she calls herself a sound sculptress. And, KALW’s Dore Stein shares some favorite songs by Middle Eastern artists.
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    Today is Chocolate Cake Day!
  • Kate Quach helps a group of elementary school students assemble their journals at a Golden Keepers workshop in West Portal Library.
    Courtesy of Jack Quach
    For the last eight years, 19-year-old Kate Quach has been volunteering at a senior center in San Francisco. In that time, Kate has made a lot of friends among the elderly residents living there. And she’s captured their stories in two self-published poetry collections.
  • When We All Get to Heaven is a new 10-part audio documentary series from Eureka Street Productions that focuses on how the MCC congregation in San Francisco responded to the personal and political trials of the AIDS epidemic, including the deaths of hundreds of its members.