Rightnowish
Rightnowish digs into life in the Bay Area right now… ish. Journalist Pendarvis Harshaw takes us to galleries painted on the sides of liquor stores in West Oakland. We'll dance in warehouses in the Bayview, make smoothies with kids in South Berkeley, and listen to classical music in a 1984 Cutlass Supreme in Richmond. Every week, Pen talks to movers and shakers about how the Bay Area shapes what they create, and how they shape the place we call home.
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Permanent Behavior: Collective Ownership + Bodi...
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Permanent Behavior: Repping “Cali-Chicano” Tatt...
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Tattoo Prep with Pen & Marisol
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Robert Liu-Trujillo on Creating Books For ‘Kid...
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Dispatch From Parker Elementary with Tongo Eise...
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Rightnowish Presents: "Polyfree" from The Stoop
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Sucka Free History with Dregs One
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“You’re On Native Land” : The Cultural District...
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Union City’s Joshua Neal is a Star For Real
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Filmmaker Maya Cueva Focuses on Reproductive Ri...
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Searching For A Kiki: The Next Generation of Bl...
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Searching for a Kiki: The World's First Transge...
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Searching for a Kiki: SF's First Black-Owned Ga...
The New Eagle Creek Saloon, long known as the city’s first Black-owned gay bar, opened in 1990.
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On Friendships and Basketball Shorts: Adult ISH...
Friends, how many of us (still) have them? ... And how do you make new ones?
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'Love me Before the City Disappears' from The B...
Nijla Mu’min's poetry preserves her home by painting portraits with words.
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Raw Material: 'Visions of Black Futurity'
Where is utopia for Black artists?
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The Mission’s Mother and Son Painting Duo
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High Schoolers Rock the Mic
As part of KQED's Youth Takeover, Pen visits a 10th grade media class at Oakland's Fremont High
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We All Come From Water: Poetry from the Edge
For National Poetry month, we talk to Terisa Siagatonu about writing poetry from atop her hyphen as a Tongan-American and how she languages the climate crisis.
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A Spam Can, an Urchin and an Eyeball: Handmade ...
Ghost riding the spam in San Francisco?
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Richmond Rapper Embraces Indo-Fijian Identity a...
Pallaví AKA Fijiana mixes sexuality with tradition, and her dad is one of her biggest supporters.
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The Oakland Entrepreneur Building Safety Nets f...
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Up In Smoke: Cannabis, Crime and Creating Equity
An Oakland Cannabis Commissioner Reflects on Weed Heists
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A Pocho Poet’s Ode to La Misión, Axolotls, and ...
Josiah Luis Alderete's poems speak truths about colonialism and displacement but are also imbued with irreverent humor for culture vultures of all kinds.
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