Arts & Entertainment Longtime 'Forum' Host on KQED, Michael Krasny, Announces Retirement One of the most consistent voices in the Bay Area radio sphere of the last three decades, Michael Krasny, has just announced that he will relinquish the program he hosts and retire in February.
SF News What It's Like To Walk Around Big Sur These Days, With Almost No Cars Into the Big Surreal: 36 Hours in California’s Isolated, Lonely Island https://t.co/Kggyi9xAQL— KQED (@KQED) June 5, 2017 California Report reporter John Sepulvado, along with a friend, decided to spend
SF News KQED Sells Chunk Of Its Airwaves To FCC For $95 Million The Bay Area's public radio and TV broadcasting station KQED is selling six megahertz of broadcast spectrum to the FCC for $95.4 million — a figure that's seriously in excess of its $70
Arts & Entertainment Watch The Trailer For This Maya Angelou Documentary That Premieres Tonight On KQED A documentary that's been on the festival circuit but hasn't yet premiered to the general public, Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise might, as the New York Times points out, "seem redundant to
Arts & Entertainment <em>Film School Shorts</em> Is Back With The Best And Brightest In Student Cinema Film School Shorts, KQED's half-hour weekly series showcasing short student films from across the country, returns this month for a new season. With a lineup of rock star talent, including Bay Area filmmakers,
Arts & Entertainment Weird Documentary Profiles Local Drag Queen Heklina As part of their Truly CA series, KQED has just shared this documentary short about San Francisco drag star and Oasis co-owner Heklina. It's a little odd, with a Bergman-esque opening sequence involving
Arts & Entertainment Watch 'The Rejected,' A Recently Rediscovered 1961 Documentary Thought To Be The First Ever Made About Gay People Two local archivists recently triumphed after a six-year treasure hunt, trying to locate an existing copy of a 54-year-old documentary that aired on PBS stations called "The Rejected." Made in 1961 and produced
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Video: Bay Area Food Folks Featured On New 'Victory Garden' Series PBS has revived their defunct Victory Garden series with the help of The Perennial Plate and Edible magazine, and the result is The Victory Garden: Edible Feast. The newly released episode 5 of
SF News Liveblogging An Ed Lee Interview: The Mustache Faces The Music How exciting! San Francisco mayor Ed Lee was on KQED's Forum this morning, ostensibly to "discuss the economy, the future of MUNI [sic], the city college accreditation crisis, State Senator Leland Yee's corruption
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 'Check, Please! Bay Area' Returns With Bacon Bacon, Pläj Really, Check, Please! Bay Area is such choice TV viewing. Not only do you yearn to punch the guests for their inane commentary ("It's noodle crack!" "Holy mother of comfort food!" "Craft!"), you
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 5 Reasons Why You Should Be Watching 'Check, Please! Bay Area' Now in its seventh season, if you are not watching Check, Please! Bay Area, you are dead to us. Or, perhaps, you are dead for it is quite popular—especially with the local
SF News Mirkarimi Tells His Side, Cries on 'Forum' Embattled Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi finally went public today with his entire side of the story on KQED's 'Forum.' He explained how wife Eliana Lopez's arm got bruised on New Year's Eve, and
Arts & Entertainment Callers On NPR Whine About How Facebook Has Ruined Their Lives Michael Krasny took on the Facebook IPO today on Forum (a morning talk show on NPR's Bay Area affiliate), and not surprisingly, the call-in audience had A LOT to say about how Facebook
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Meet Christopher Kimball, October 20 Oh boy, do we have a bushel of questions for America's Test Kitchen host Christopher Kimball. Like: who do you like better, Bridget Lancaster or Julia Collin-Davison? (We cannot decide!) What's the deal
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: 'Life Before the Lifeboat' Featuring Dr. Paul Volberding After heading out to play in the Civic Center during the Gay Pride festivities and Gay Inc.-related parties and whatnot, be sure to check out Life Before the Lifeboat on KQED. Airing
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Be a Guest on 'Check, Please! Bay Area' The lovely Michele Mandell brings word that noted KQED restaurant-review show Check, Please! Bay Area is looking for a few good reviewers. Might you be one of them? The rules, in addition to
SF News KQED Covers the Redevelopment Battle in Sacramento "The California Report" on KQED today takes on the subject of redevelopment and Jerry Brown's plan to eradicate hundreds of redevelopment agencies in the state. We've already wondered if the cuts are going
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reads: Author Michael Cunningham on <em>Forum</em> Today on KQED's Forum, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Cunningham (The Hours, Specimen Days, At Home at the End of the World) talked with Michael Krasny about his new novel, By Nightfall, which tells
SF News KQED's 'Forum' Discusses the Census and Why It's Good Forum's Scott Shafer has a lengthy discussion today about the 2010 Census with regional director of the Census Bureau Ralph Lee and AP reporter Julianna Barbassa, answering such fascinating questions as "What kind
SF News <i>Guardian</i> Offers Advice to New Online Newspaper There's a staff editorial in this week's SFBG discussing the decline of the Chronicle and a new KQED/Warren Hellman-led non-profit venture to create a new online news source for San Francisco. The
SF News East Bay Afghan Community Riveted to Election in Afghanistan The East Bay is home to over 40,000 Afghan-Americans, and the big news back home in Afghanistan over the past two days has been the country's second national election since the end
SF News County Official: "Budget Will Mean More Mentally Ill On Streets" You've probably heard that some California counties are fuming over the new state budget, which borrows $4 billion from county budgets and will mean major cuts in local services from health care to
Arts & Entertainment Dave Eggers Goes Back to His Journalistic Roots One of San Francisco's favorite writers in residence, Dave Eggers, was on KQED's "Forum" this morning discussing his new book Zeitoun. It's a non-fiction work, just out from McSweeney's press as of last
SF News We're All Gonna Die KQED today brings us this report about a move in the California Assembly to ban Bisphenol-A, a.k.a. BPA, a widely used chemical in plastic packaging. It's been known to be potentially
SF News The Great Recession Means Lots of Volunteers KQED offers up this report, embedded below, about the National Conference on Volunteering and Service currently happening at the Moscone Center. The conference almost got canceled, due to the slashing of non-profit budgets
