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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'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
11 min
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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.
17 min
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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.
17 min
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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
14 min
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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.
18 min
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Big Love: Much Love for the African Diaspora
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Big Love: A New Kind of Tough Love
Krea Gomez is redefining tough love with support and patience.
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Big Love: Shroomin' and Shmopin' to Happiness
How to ooze love the hippie way
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Big Love: Practicing Self-Love in Community
The best love starts with self-love.
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Tracing Frida and Diego's Footsteps in the Bay
San Francisco gave Frida and Diego a platform to create and thrive in the 1930s and 1940s but the couple also gave the region a lasting blueprint for creativity.
20 min
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Using an Upright Bass to Break Through The Boys...
Caroline Chung on how she's navigated the “boy’s club” of jazz
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Releasing Pain Through Underwater Photography
A Majestic Lens into Underwater Photography with Erena Shimoda
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Getting a New Routine in the New Year
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Breaking Isolation and Building Bridges
A personal audio essay on building bridges from Pendarvis Harsahaw.
10 min
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On the Frontlines of Indigenous Activism
Oakland's Marty Aranaydo Takes Direct Action to Support His People
11 min
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Revisiting Oakland's Roller Skating Country Singer
With her country music career on the move as well as the popularity of roller skates. It's time for us to check in with Miko Marks.
12 min
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Friends, Feelings, and Food this Thanksgiving
A conversation with the Rightnowish host, producer and editor.
15 min
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The 1Up Crew Teaches the Art of Dance Battles
Tarik Rollerson on how to keep the momentum and create stories through dance.
14 min
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Startup Dreams, Hip Hop and Theater Meet in a N...
How theater is being used to try to bridge the perceived divisions in Silicon Valley.
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Rapping About The WWII Black Shipyard Workers i...
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