http://kalw.org en http://kalw.org/post/todays-local-music-frances-england <p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Today we are featuring a song by San Francisco artist <a href="http://francesengland.com/about.php">Frances England</a>. She never imagined anyone outside of her son’s pre-school would hear the songs she wrote for a fundraiser. But now, through the world wide-ness of the Web, her music is known as far away as Australia and Europe. </span></p> Wed, 03 Oct 2012 19:25:45 +0000 Steven Short 17550 at http://kalw.org Today's Local Music: Frances England http://kalw.org/post/hear-here-meet-chris-mason <p>The Hear Here project has been visiting libraries and community organizations around San Francisco and Oakland, bringing back the personal stories of people who live in those cities. At the San Francisco Main library, they discovered Chris Mason. Mason came to the library to share his story of coping with a life-altering nervous system disorder.</p><p><em>Listen to the full story above.&nbsp;</em></p> Wed, 22 Aug 2012 00:30:15 +0000 Audrey Dilling 15491 at http://kalw.org Hear Here: Meet Chris Mason http://kalw.org/post/helping-homeless-sf-public-library <div style="height: 100%; line-height: 1.5; font-size: 87.5%; word-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; outline-width: 0px;"><p><span style="font-size: 87.5%; line-height: 1.5;">A medley of people wait for the&nbsp;</span><a href="http://sfpl.org/" style="font-size: 87.5%; line-height: 1.5;">San Francisco Public Library</a><span style="font-size: 87.5%; line-height: 1.5;">&nbsp;to open in the morning. Students on a deadline. People who <em>really</em> need a library book. Retired folks. And people checking email.</span></p> Tue, 31 Jul 2012 22:00:22 +0000 Julia Scott 4568 at http://kalw.org Helping the homeless at the S.F. Public Library