Arts & Entertainment

Women’s professional sports is happening, and it’s taking off right here, in the Bay. In the third season of BOUNCE, we're still here, covering the Valkyries. But we’re also putting our focus on all of the other women’s professional sports teams exploding in and around the Bay. We lead off the season with a story on the largest baseball program for girls in the country.

In this episode of REVISITING THE GAY LIFE, we explore two very different versions of the 1970s queer experience through interviews with gay fiction writers Armistead Maupin and Larry Kramer. This limited series tries to make sense of the years between the murder of Harvey Milk and the early days AIDS by digging into the archive of a gay radio show that was hosted by Randy Alfred from 1979 to 1984.

We are bringing back Bounce for a third season, and expanding it to cover the expansion of women's professional sports. The podcast will track the 2nd half of the Golden State Valkyries' 2nd season and also cover the emerging football, baseball, and hockey leagues. Women's professional sports is here, and we're here for it!

What movies of the past year challenged your assumptions and made you think about things in new ways?

On this week's episode of "Sights + Sounds Picks," African American Art and Culture Complex Program Coordinator Ashley Smiley gives her arts and culture suggestions happening in the Bay Area.

Recently, two journalists from our station made Bay Area history by becoming– royalty. Reporter Wendy Reyes and and “Sights + Sounds” Producer Porfirio Rangel were crowned king and queen at the first ever BART Prom.

After 20 years, the Henry J Kaiser Center for the Arts is back! We’ll hear from the venue’s CEO about what’s to come.

On today’s show, Host Jeneé Darden catches up with Grammy-award winning singer and musician Melissa Etheridge. They talk about touring with Wynonna Judd and the foundation Melissa established to research medicinal plant treatments for opioid addiction . Then, after 20 years, the Henry J. Kaiser Center for the Arts is back! We’ll hear from the venue’s CEO about what’s to come. Finally, guess who was crowned king of BART Prom? Here's a hint, you hear this person’s name on both "Sights + Sounds" shows every week.

REVISITING THE GAY LIFE is a new audio documentary series from KALW’s QUEER POWER HOUR that takes listeners back five decades and tries to make sense of the earth-shattering years that were bookended by the murder of Harvey Milk and the early days AIDS. The series explores that pivotal moment in LGBTQ history through the lens of THE GAY LIFE, a local radio show that aired from 1977 to 84.

Singer Melissa Etheridge talks about touring with Wynonna Judd and the inspiration behind her new album “Rise.”