Every week, The California Report Magazine takes you on a road trip for the ears: to visit the places and meet the people who make California unique. The in-depth storytelling podcast from the California Report.
Everyone's home at my apartment complex; Connecting through Corona Diaries; Gen Z: Masters of virtual connection; Video games for the soul; What brings you joy?
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Unemployed, Uninsured, Uncertain
A bartender, a farmworker, a person on disability and a musician cope with the fallout from COVID-19.
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When COVID-19 Came to California
What CA Did Right (and Wrong); Working Without Sick Leave; Life After Lockdown
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Healing the Divide
Making Dinner Political; The Un-Selfie; Fighting with Grandpa; An Unusual Friendship
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Pupusas for Voters, Love for Activists, and No ...
A 19-year-old runs for office; Colleges hold voting centers; Activists fall in love; Catalina Island loses its theater.
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California Apologizes But Scars Remain
Scars of Internment at Heart Mountain; Big Band Swing Meets Taiko Drumming; My Mom Has DACA
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Valentine’s Day, California Style
A rideshare romance; a 94-year-old DJ; and teaching how to love.
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Mothers, Mental Illness and the Unthinkable
Sometimes, it’s only after something really terrible has happened that you start to see the signs leading up to it. Years later, Rudy Coronado still refers to what happened as “that day.” He still thinks about what he said to his wife, and,
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‘Dreaming the Golden State’ With The California...
The California Report Magazine listeners and reporters take the stage to share their stories about the 'California Dream' and whether it's still alive.
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‘Dreaming the Golden State’ With the California...
Excerpts from a live stage version of The California Report Magazine's night of storytelling, 'Dreaming the Golden State,' which explored California dreams found, and lost.
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Taking the Frida Kahlo Corporation to Court, an...
An artist's legal battle brings up complex questions about who owns images of cultural heroes; a superfan’s obsession with 'Heat' leads to a Hollywood ending; and the Vietnamese immigrant who helped make Sriracha so popular.
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Getting Inside the Political Mind of Jerry Brown
How do you tell the story of Jerry Brown’s political career? You start by sitting down with the former California governor for over 40 hours of interviews.
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The Cave Woman of India: Tracing My Scars as an...
Most children of immigrant parents know what it's like to walk between two worlds. In this week's episode, Sandhya Dirks takes us back with her to her mother's India.
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Transgender Opera Singers Take Enormous Risks t...
Elliot Franks, Lucia Lucas and Breanna Sinclairé are transgender opera singers navigating an industry that has been slow to evolve with the times.
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Barbed Wire at the Border Brings Back Memories ...
Memories of Internment; Childcare Saves a Family; The Fight Over Police Use of Deadly Force; Legal Cannabis' Impact on Farming
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Living In and Out of the Box
A Fantasy World Made of Cardboard Boxes; Bringing up Baby in a Tiny House; What Box Do you Check?; Transgender Prisoners
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The Hidden History of Slavery in California
An Afro-Diasporic Remix of The Nutcracker; The Ghost of Mary Ellen Pleasant; A Slave Auction in Los Angeles?; Indigenous Red Market
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How One Woman’s Search for Her Homeless Mother ...
Robin Burton started out trying to find her mom. But the search morphed into something else: a mission to help other people who are homeless and missing too.
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Do You Really Want to Know? One Man’s Search fo...
Forty-one years ago this week, more than 900 people died in a mass suicide in Jonestown, a remote settlement in South America. This documentary follows a Bay Area man who unravels the tangled family history that binds him to that tragedy.
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What Is the California Dream, and Is it Still A...
Prison-to-College Pipeline, Prop 13’s Impact on the CA Dream, Letter to My CA Dreamer, a Dream Shaped By Water
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Living Through Wildfire and Facing a New Normal
A Mind Scarred by Wildfire, Survivors Struggle to Find Housing, Radio Station Relays Fire Info in Indigenous Languages
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The Thin Place
A paramedic and ER nurse from Northern California may himself be a conduit between the living and the dead.
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A ‘Nest’ for Migrant Kids at the Border – and a...
Tijuana’s First Early Childhood Education Center…Affiliated With a Migrant Shelter, Fictional Podcast ‘Moonface’ Explores Being Korean and Queer, Alums of Iranian Jewish School Reunite 40 Years Later
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Special Ed for California’s Black Students Was ...
A landmark ruling in 1977 changed special education for black students in California. But many educators, black parents and advocates say plenty remains broken.
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These Five People Challenge the Notion of Blind...
The world of mollusk, a master in tinkering, guitarist Ioana Gandrabur, an architect who listens to buildings and designing how products sound.