Great-Grandma Survived, and Forgave; California's Last Known Slave; Taking a Stand at the 1973 Oscars

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

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?

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

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

An immunocompromised boyfriend; "Is sex still safe during a pandemic?"; Voicemails about life without sex; A WFH Dominatrix

How a San Francisco woman became an unexpected source of comfort at a time when another pandemic rocked the state.

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?

A bartender, a farmworker, a person on disability and a musician cope with the fallout from COVID-19.

What CA Did Right (and Wrong); Working Without Sick Leave; Life After Lockdown

Making Dinner Political; The Un-Selfie; Fighting with Grandpa; An Unusual Friendship

A 19-year-old runs for office; Colleges hold voting centers; Activists fall in love; Catalina Island loses its theater.

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.