Scars of Internment at Heart Mountain; Big Band Swing Meets Taiko Drumming; My Mom Has DACA

A rideshare romance; a 94-year-old DJ; and teaching how to love.

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,

The California Report Magazine listeners and reporters take the stage to share their stories about the 'California Dream' and whether it's still alive.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Elliot Franks, Lucia Lucas and Breanna Sinclairé are transgender opera singers navigating an industry that has been slow to evolve with the times.

Memories of Internment; Childcare Saves a Family; The Fight Over Police Use of Deadly Force; Legal Cannabis' Impact on Farming

A Fantasy World Made of Cardboard Boxes; Bringing up Baby in a Tiny House; What Box Do you Check?; Transgender Prisoners

An Afro-Diasporic Remix of The Nutcracker; The Ghost of Mary Ellen Pleasant; A Slave Auction in Los Angeles?; Indigenous Red Market

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.

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.

Prison-to-College Pipeline, Prop 13’s Impact on the CA Dream, Letter to My CA Dreamer, a Dream Shaped By Water

A Mind Scarred by Wildfire, Survivors Struggle to Find Housing, Radio Station Relays Fire Info in Indigenous Languages

A paramedic and ER nurse from Northern California may himself be a conduit between the living and the dead.

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

A landmark ruling in 1977 changed special education for black students in California. But many educators, black parents and advocates say plenty remains broken.

The world of mollusk, a master in tinkering, guitarist Ioana Gandrabur, an architect who listens to buildings and designing how products sound.

It has been almost 30 years since Aerial Gilbert lost her sight. In that time she’s relearned just about everything she used to do before going blind — and she did it through the power of sound.

Climate change is making it hotter everywhere in California. And heat can be a sneaky threat to our health and safety. It’s getting more dangerous, and deadly - even in parts of California you wouldn’t expect.

Author and Dance Teacher’s Mission to Redefine Aging, Rocky Road Ice Cream’s Bumpy History, Singer Mike Marshall’s Second Chance, Letter to My California Dreamer

Elliot Franks, Lucia Lucas and Breanna Sinclairé have taken enormous risks to live their most authentic lives. And they’ve navigated an industry that has been slow to evolve with the times.

Police shootings of Black and Latino men have sparked protests across California and the nation. The East Bay city of Vallejo is also grappling with officer-involved shootings. Community members there are asking for accountability, and demanding answers.