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Sources close to the Golden State Warriors say they are close to securing a WNBA franchise for the Bay Area. Although the deal is not yet finalized, it reflects what appears to be a growing appetite for professional women’s sports in the region.
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Jen Lumanlanlives in Berkeley. Her book, Parenting Beyond Power is about how we can make parenting easier.
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If you’re a Fantastic Negrito fan, you’ve heard his drummer James “Sticknasty” Small. The grammy-nominated musician has a new album called "A Universal Love Language."
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Ideals of manhood differ across times and cultures—why think there’s any one thing it means to be a man?
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Publisher J.K. Fowler talks about Nomadic Press' final book "The Town." The book is a love letter to Oakland. We also hear about his new endeavor, The Nomadic Foundation.
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Mill Valley author Sara Calvosa Olson reads from her book, "Chimi Nu’Am: Native Californian Foodways for the Contemporary Kitchen."
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San Francisco has many iconic songs. But there’s a song that celebrates San Francisco you might only know if you’re French. We uncover the myth and reality of La Maison bleue.
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Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta is a Jewish Nicaragüense poet and artist who came up in the unceded lands of the Tongva people. Their poems are rough sketches for weapons and spells against empire.
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State of the Bay learns about challenges to LGBTQ rights in California school districts, discusses the new city tech elites plan to build in Solano County, and sits down with the editor of "50 Years of Ms.: The Best of the Pathfinding Magazine That Ignited a Revolution."
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Jann Eyrich lives in Sonoma County. Her eco-mystery, The Rotting Whale covers the exploits of a San Francisco building inspector.
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Through its lively shows and community-led practices, the Punk and hardcore scene captures the spirit of a community that has long been a vital part of the Bay Area. A spirit that is kept alive through younger generations as they foster the DIY ethos.
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Playwright and actor Wayne Harris takes audiences back in time to 1948, through the eyes of three Black men in the play “Train Stories.”
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Shizue Seigel is a 3rd-generation Japanese American writer, visual artist and community activist who explores identity, cultural, and socopoitical history and intergenerational legacies through prose, poetry and visual art.
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German philosopher Theodor Adorno was born September 11, 1903.
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Lily Iona MacKenzie lives in Richmond. Her poetry collection, California Dreaming. It's about life and the things she experience in the outer world.