The California Report Magazine

Aisha’s Wahab’s ‘Long Run,’ Terisa Siagatonu’s Moment on Earth, My Carbon Footprint, A Writer’s CA Dream, Alice Coltrane’s ‘Spiritual Eternal’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Reporter’s Notebook from Tijuana, The French Dip’s Roots, Seeking a Seat on the School Board, Cannabis Meds at School, The Forest Transforms Me Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Green Goddess Dressing, Poetry of Climate Change, California’s Original Detention Center, A Granddaughter’s Message to “Ojiichan,” Sign Wars on the Campaign Trail Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Yoga community struggles to rein in sexual misconduct, abuse in its ranks; How wildfire increases poverty; 92-year old artist says planet Earth is ‘screwed’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sons & Brothers Camp, Betty Valencia’s ‘Long Run’, The (W)hole Story on Mt. Shasta, Lured From Germany By SF ‘Sound’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Science shows childhood trauma leads to poorer health later in life, mentally and physically. But there are ways to intervene that can heal the wounds of the past for a parent, and safeguard a daughter’s future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Illegal Love in Uganda, The Damaging Effects of ‘White Voice,’ One ‘Lost Boy’s’ Journey Out of Sudan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mexican Restaurant Feeds Fire Victims, Coping With Fire Trauma In Santa Rosa, Music Giants Talk ‘Downey to Lubbock’, A Separation Still Painful After 76 Years Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

My Dad Spent My Childhood Behind Bars, Summer Camp for Refugee Kids, Asian American Actresses Rewrite the Script, My Mom’s Teenage Dream Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mom Seeks Refuge at the Border; Healing from Family Separation Four Decades Later; No One Recognizes this Hong Kong Star in Berkeley; Hello to Coachella, Grass Valley and Nevada City! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We've come a long way from a 6-foot-tall computer. But the internet hasn't solved everything it promised to. This week we visit the Computer History Museum in Mountain View to muse on how the internet has changed our lives. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Mother Launches a Painful Search After Her Ex-Husband Abducts Their Daughter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On Her Own at 17, LGBTQ and Homeless, Finding the Gay Mecca, Family Separations Open Old Wounds Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Black Chasm Cavern; Foster’s Bighorn; Back Dancing and Dynamite Society; Valley Relics Museum; Forestiere Underground Gardens Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Taste of Oaxaca in Madera; My Big Brother’s CA Dream; High School Behind Bars; Woodworking for the Blind Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sirhan Sirhan’s Brother; My Mom’s California Dream is Muted; TEPCO Dishes Out Nostalgia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Losing Language Behind Bars; Rachel Kushner’s New Novel Based on Friendship with Women Prisoners; Life After a Life Sentence; Letter to My CA Dreamer: A Place Where Dreams are Safe to Grow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Parents Deported, Big Sister in Charge; When UC is not the Golden Ticket; Tell Us Your California Dream Story; L.A.'s 'No ICE' Man Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Addicted to Heroin and Living in a Motel with a Baby on the Way, Persistent Poison, Calling it Quits on the Golden State, Birthplace of Flamin' Hot Cheetos Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Faith in Her Child Despite What the Doctors Said, When Mom Doesn’t Approve of Your Job…As a Dominatrix, Moving Towards Motherhood in the Shadow of Big Oil, A Song for Grandma Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fighting Harassment At High School, Seniors Share Advice on 'Lives Well Lived,' Potstickers and Pie at Sacramento's Oldest Chinese Restaurant, Does Rent Control Work? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

They explore issues like homelessness, redefining masculinity, and finding identity through art. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Konocti: A Last Resort For People Hit With Disaster, A Second Chance After Two Decades of Anxiety, Finding Self-Esteem…Through Pole Dancing, Poet Re-Examines his Farmworker Past, The Town That Changed Its Name to Happy Camp Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

When Italians in California were "enemy aliens," Black Panther: the Movie vs the Movement, The Body is Not an Apology, Life as a Stay-At-Home Dad Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

No One Under 60 Allowed at This LA Dance Party, Singing Gondoliers, Facing Violence and Isolation as a CA Deportee in El Salvador, Lasting Health Effects of Sexual Harassment, Chinese History in Fiddletown Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Being in DACA Limbo, A Musician on Love and Loss, Conserving Water With GMO Beer, Seeking Help for Post-Partum Depression, A Town Named For Coal Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kids and Medical Cannabis, Grammy Nods for Young Composer, Moringa Mania, A Song Springs From Tragedy, Berkeley Perfume Museum Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Janitor Fights Back, Songwriter In a Cage, White Awake, Brothers Vie For Superbowl Spot Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Ride with a Rapper, The Curse of Bodie, From Ashes to Ashes, #MeToo Sparks A Former Abuser to Speak Up, A Town Called You Bet Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As we head into 2018, we feature stories from our 'Start the Conversation' series, about people bridging divides despite their differences. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Refugee Café, Viet Nguyen on why Refugees are Threatening. Holocaust Survivor’s Roommate? The Granddaughter of Nazis, Syrian Family Puts Down Roots in Oakland Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Elaborate Christmas Display by a Non-Christian, Giving Back with a Tamalada, Turning Up the Politics by Turning off the Amps Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Public Art You Can’t Avoid Seeing, They Went from Immigrants to 'Burrito Royalty,' #USToo: Assault in the Jehovah’s Witness Church, Tiny Bookstore With Big Appetite for Old Cookbooks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Controversial Discipline Practices, School for Autistic Kids Post-Wildfire, A Teacher’s #MeToo Story, Sphinx Buried in Sand Dunes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Helping the Homeless, By Living With them, A Reporter and A Politician Share Loss, Giant Tree Stump Takes the Opera Stage, Bumpass Hell Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Unusual Romance Leads to Unlikely Family, Food and Family from 826 Valencia, Bringing Seniors Some Love, the OId-School Way, Gospel Quartet of Brothers Find Praise Outside the Church Walls Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Human Library, 'California Typewriter,' an Ode to Analogue, Placido Domingo’s 50-Year Run in L.A., Winery Faces Life After Fire, A Visit to Volcano, Calif. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

From Aptos, California to ZZYZX (Population 1), it's a weekly California road trip for your ears, and your imagination. Cattle ranching moms. Homeless college students. Young mariachis. They’re all Californians, and we’ve got their stories. Subscribe now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Meet Flipper’s Ted Falconi, Vietnam Vet and Punk Rock Legend Flipper may not be the best-known band from Oakland, but after more than 40 years, it’s definitely one of punk’s most influential. It has inspired scores of musicians like Kurt Cobain and Moby. A large part of its signature sound comes from guitarist Ted Falconi, a Vietnam vet who brought the noises of war home with him. KQED’s Kevin Jones has this profile. He Served in the U.S. Military, But That Didn’t Stop His Deportation Jose Cardenas decided to enlist in the Army because his stepfather was a veteran. Cardenas’ son and grandson have kept up that family tradition of military service, but Cardenas lives in Mexico now and not by choice. He was deported. He's one of tens of thousands of veterans who've served in the U.S. military but aren't U.S. citizens. KQED’s Erika Aguilar met him in Tijuana where hundreds of deported veterans now live. What Vets Want at the End of Life Is Very Different From What Civilians Want Many veterans of the Vietnam war are now in their seventies and some are coming to the end of their lives. What soldiers, even former soldiers, want in death may be very different from what civilians want. Honor and respect can be much more important than being comfortable or free of pain. That can make vets harder to treat at the end of life, as KQED’s health reporter April Dembosky explains. Raised by the River in Forks of Salmon, California In our continuing series “A Place Called What??” about California places with peculiar names, we visit Forks of Salmon, a very tiny town in Siskyou County where two forks of the Salmon River meet. To find out more about the town, the California Report’s Bianca Taylor called up professional kayaker and filmmaker Rush Sturges, who was born and raised in the place he affectionately calls "Forks." A North Korean Refugee’s Journey to a Life in Southern California President Donald Trump’s trip to Asia this week comes at a point of extreme tension between the United States and North Korea. One sticking point has to do with North Korean refugees and Trump's executive order banning them from entering the U.S. The ban worries North Korean refugees already here. Many survived a harrowing journey, leaving friends and family behind. KCRW’s Benjamin Gottlieb tells the story of one man who escaped North Korea and made it to California. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sound Guru Bernie Krause’s Beloved ‘Wild Sanctuary’ Destroyed by Fire Last month's fires in Northern California destroyed thousands of homes and businesses. But we also lost some key cultural landmarks. One of those places was an inspiration to artists, scientists and sound recordists around the world. Yet mostly unknown to its neighbors in Sonoma County's Valley of the Moon. It was home and studio of Kat and Bernie Krause. KQED Science Editor Craig Miller had visited many times before - both as a journalist and friend. After the fire, he returned, to help sort through the rubble - and record this story. Nearly 2,000 Miles From Home, A Prisoner Gets a Visit From His Mom More than a decade ago, then-Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a state of emergency in our state's prison system. That meant prison officials could do whatever it took to ease the overcrowding, including shipping thousands of inmates to other states. It was supposed to be a temporary solution. But many years later, many California prisoners are still locked up out of state. KCRW's George Lavender follows one mother on a journey to see her son, who's now two thousand miles away. Trans Singer Encounters Mother (and Bathroom Laws) on Tour in the South For more than 40 years, the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus has used its music to help create community and inspire activism. The chorus recently went on a tour of five southern states. The idea was to support local LGBTQ communities in the South. KQED Arts Reporter Chloe Veltman caught up with them on the tour bus. She tells us about one of the singers and his mom, who hadn't heard him perform since he was living as a little girl. Lost Mural with Covert Political Messages Rediscovered in Post Office Basement You may not have heard of Victor Arnautoff, but he was a Russian artist who painted murals around San Francisco in the 1930s. He started off as an assistant to Diego Rivera and became known for his work on San Francisco's Coit Tower. He also painted three murals inside California post offices, including one in the Bay Area city of Richmond. But as Eli Wirtshafter tells us, that mural disappeared for almost 40 years. Until an amateur sleuth tracked it down. Welcome to Rough and Ready, the Tiny Town That Used to Be a Republic Now for another installment of our new series, A Place Called What?!, about California towns with bizarre and surprising names. Last week we took you to Zzyzx, near Death Valley. And we asked our listeners for their ideas for weird place names. Scott Schlacter of San Jose sent us a note asking how the town of "Rough and Ready" near Grass Valley in Nevada County go its name. So KQED's Bianca Taylor called up Jayna Ashcraft, who lives in Rough and Ready. She says her small gold mining town has a big history: in 1850, it seceded from the nation, and temporarily became its own republic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Water Belongs to Everyone, and This Blind Kayaker Will Prove It We start our show with a man on a mythological mission. His name is Ahmet Ustunel. He lives in San Francisco, and he has a dream. He wants to return to his homeland of Turkey and take a big journey on a tiny kayak across the Bosphorus Strait, one of the busiest shipping channels in the world. Think enormous freighters. And his little human-powered boat. But Ahmet Ustunel faces a unique challenge that will make this much harder for him. The California Report’s Laura Klivans joined him at a lake, where he’s training to make the journey. You May Have Seen This Man Zipping Around Berkeley, but Did You Know He’s the Godfather of Disability Rights? “Hale” is a new short film exploring activism around people with disabilities. It tells the story of Hale Zukas, who helped make Berkeley the birthplace of the disability rights movement. He was diagnosed with cerebral palsy as a child. He went on to study Russian and math at UC Berkeley in the 1970s and he helped found Berkeley’s groundbreaking Center for Independent Living. Filmmaker Brad Bailey made the documentary as his thesis project at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. He just picked up a Student Academy Award for the project. Oakland Dad Reunites with Family After Lengthy ICE Detention We introduced you to this family a few months ago, when they found themselves in limbo because of new immigration policies under President Trump. The father, Maguiber -- he's named after the guy in the TV show MacGyver -- is from Guatemala. He's 27, and undocumented. He was arrested by immigration agents in February, and held in a jail in the Bay Area city of Richmond. Meanwhile, his wife has been struggling to care for their three children on her own. Maguiber has no serious or violent criminal history. In the past someone like him probably would have been released within a month or two on bond. But Maguiber spent over half a year in detention, before he got his day court. KQED's Julie Small brings us this update on his story. A Day of the Dead Tradition Blooms in the Central Valley In some California communities with roots in Mexico, the last days of October are spent getting ready for Day of the Dead, and that means making altars for loved ones and covering them with marigolds. Those bright orange flowers aren’t always easy to find. The California Report's Vanessa Rancaño met a farmer who’s growing them in the Central Valley for people longing for a piece of home. Welcome to Zzyzx, California – Population: 1 A lot of us Californians like to hit the open road, explore miles of highway, or venture off into some back roads. Sometimes, we come across towns with some pretty bizarre and surprising names, from Rough and Ready to Bumpass Hell. So today we're launching a new series we’re calling "A Place Called What?!" For our first installment, we head to Zzyzx. If you’re driving on I-15 near Death Valley, you might spot the sign. You won’t find any shops or restaurants or even houses there. But you will find the Desert Studies Center, a research station operated by a consortium of seven California State Universities. Rob Fulton manages the center, and he’s the only permanent resident in Zzyzx. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Voices From the Fires The wildfires that roared through Wine Country will rank among the deadliest and most destructive in California history. But many Californians are already jumping in, doing what they can now to support the recovery. We hear from both survivors and volunteers, who are looking ahead to a new future, post-fire. An Oakland Hills Fire Survivor's Advice to a North Bay Fire Victim Jill Permutt couldn’t sleep the night the fires broke out near her home in Santa Rosa-- the moon was oddly red, and the winds were whipping fast. That feeling of desperate, surreal, surging panic? Joan Tanzer has felt it too. She lost her house in the Oakland Hills firestorm of 1991. Until last week, the two women were strangers. But then a mutual friend told Joan about Jill, about how her entire neighborhood in Santa Rosa had just burned to the ground. Joan called her right away, and since then they’ve talked several times. Sasha Khokha brings us inside their conversation, to hear the exchange of stories and advice. How Do You Help Homeless Kids Stay in School? When families lose their homes, whether from fire, foreclosure or another kind disaster, helping the kids adapt is tough. Now we're going to hear about fifth grader who became homeless after his family was evicted from their home in Oakland. He spends hours just trying to get to school each day. Federal law says school districts are supposed to help students like him, making it as easy as possible for them to get to school, even as they bounce around in search of stability. Reporter Lee Romney spent the day with 10-year-old Naseem Bennett. Worshipping at Santa Monica’s Church of Type In Santa Monica, off Pico Boulevard, there’s a shop that feels like it's from another time, from the era before computers, scanners and copiers. Kevin Bradley, the proprietor, is a master of the handset letterpress. After spending two decades building up his business in Tennessee, he came West to carry on the sacred tradition. Reporter Peter Gilstrap takes us to Bradley's storefront studio, the Church of Type. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices