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On this week's episode of Sights & Sounds, magician Dan Chan gives his arts and culture suggestions happening in the Bay Area.

An effort to remove San Francisco's progressive District Attorney Chesa Boudin from office is gaining momentum. It's part of a wider (so far unsuccessful) backlash against reformist DAs nationally.

NPR spoke with high school and college students who have been impacted by gun violence, and are now working to make sure others won't be.

Recent legal moves by the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol offer some clues on how it's following the money.

This week on Open Air, KALW’s radio magazine for the Bay Area Performing Arts, guest host JoAnn Mar talks with directors Nicole Paiement and Brian Staufenbiel from San Francisco’s Opera Parallèle, about the opera ‘Everest’, reimagined as a graphic novel opera film. Also, a conversation about the first weekend of the Music@Menlo 2021 Summer Festival, which runs through August 1; and we broadcast episode two of the San Francisco Mime Troupe’s summer series Tales of the Resistance - Volume 2: Persistence, as part of our Corona Radio Theater Initiative.

In his new book Of Boys and Men, Richard V. Reeves of the Brookings Institution argues that men must move into fields that are now dominated by women to reverse economic declines.

A year ago Tuesday, George Floyd died on a Minneapolis street as a police officer pressed his knee into Floyd's neck. Nearly a year after his murder, family and a crowd of others remembered him.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Lindsay Jones, senior NFL Editor for The Ringer, about the NFL suspending quarterback Deshaun Watson for six games.

A young woman's family recipes transformed the menu at a restaurant in Arizona where she worked. Decades later, the business is gone but the owners' granddaughter still makes the taco filling today.

The former Minnesota police officer, who fatally shot Wright after mistakenly drawing her handgun instead of a Taser during a traffic stop, was found guilty of first- and second-degree manslaughter.

They argue the threat posed by COVID has lessened because of preexisting immunity and access to treatment. Plus, some deaths may be incorrectly blamed on COVID. Others caution it's too soon to tell.

It's been just over a week since a train carrying hazardous material derailed and caused a fiery crash in Ohio. Some residents worried about health risks have filed a federal lawsuit.