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.
“No One Is Disposable”: Living With Disability ...
An Activist With Autism Creates a New Routine; A Conversation With Disability Rights Activist Alice Wong; A Teacher With Visually Impaired Students Gets Creative
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Gold Chains: California’s Hidden History
Great-Grandma Survived, and Forgave; California's Last Known Slave; Taking a Stand at the 1973 Oscars
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How Tiny Sierra Towns are Coping With Pandemic
A 164 Year-Old Hotel Closed for the First Time; The Fate of Mark Twain's Old Newspaper; Disabled and Broke in Yosemite; Keeping a Cafe Going Along the Pony Express
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Feeding California During a Pandemic
One Man's Mission To Bring Groceries to Rural Trinity County; 90% of Catalina Unemployed; Transforming a Sacramento Restaurant to a Food Kitchen; Filipinos Feed the Frontlines. Plus: What's Bringing You Joy?
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Art Lives On, Even During a Pandemic
Social distancing haiku; Poet captures life on the brink; Building a GenZ pop empire from home; Show doesn't stop for 83 year old comic
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Life on the Front Lines of a Pandemic
Dispatch from the ER; Kids Can't Hug their Nurse Mom; Comforting the Dying from Afar; A Public Health Officer Gets Sick; In-Home Caregivers Demand Face Masks
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Love and Sex in the Time of Corona
An immunocompromised boyfriend; "Is sex still safe during a pandemic?"; Voicemails about life without sex; A WFH Dominatrix
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Home Baked: One Woman’s Subversive Response to ...
How a San Francisco woman became an unexpected source of comfort at a time when another pandemic rocked the state.
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Coping Under Quarantine
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