KALW 91.7 Local Public Radio

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PHONE/DATA ENTRY HELP
Can you spare an hour or two...(or more!) ...to help us with our Fall Membership Drive ?

We still need phone volunteers and data entry whizzes! Meet your fellow KALW listeners, see the faces behind the voices...and enjoy some great food donated by area restaurants. For phone help, we're looking for folks Monday-Friday 6am-2pm, Saturday 8am-midnite, and Sunday 8am-2pm, September 16-27. Call JoAnna at (415) 841-4121 x3509 and she'll tell you when we need you most. Or, send her an email and tell her when you're available.

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EFT & KALW
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If you currently fulfill your pledge with a monthly debit from your debit or credit card, you can save KALW money if you switch to EFT (Electronic Funds Transfer). You designate a monthly amount ($10 minimum) that will be linked directly to your checking or savings account. We'll continue to take that monthly amount until you tell us to cancel. We also save resources by NOT having to mail you a renewal notice! Print this simple one-page document below (as either a Word document or Adobe PDF file ) and mail it back to us. Or, call us at (415) 841-4121 and we'll mail a form to you. Thanks!

GETTING IN TOUCH

Mailing Address:
KALW 91.7FM
500 Mansell Street
San Francisco, CA 94134

Administration:
(415) 841-4121 (voice)
(415) 841-4125 (fax)

Studio line:
(415) 841-4134

Directions to KALW

E-mail:
kalw@kalw.org

Full Phone/Email
Directory

Program Contacts

We get you talking every weekday morning...

At 10am, the BBC's Ros Atkins hosts World Have Your Say - live, global, interactive.
Share your views on key issues in the news with a worldwide audience. To participate, call 011 44 20 70 83 72 72 or email worldhaveyoursay@bbc.co.uk

And then stay tuned at 11 for Your Call. On Friday's show: “Weekly Media Roundtable" with host Rose Aguilar and guests Tina Sussman, LA Times Baghdad Correspondent, and John Nichols of The Nation. Plus, your calls to (415) 841-4134.

Beginning September 1, Your Call will welcome listeners in the Santa Cruz area via KUSP 88.9, Central Coast Public Radio.

KALW Election Coverage - September 2-4

KALW will broadcast NPR coverage of the Republican National Convention from 6-8pm on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Regular programming will be interrupted.

Fog City Blues - Wednesday at 9pm

Join host Devon Strolovitch for Fog City Blues - a focus on local blues artists and venues - every Wednesday evening from 9-10pm.

Then stay tuned for MORE blues, with Mark Naftalin's Blues Power Hour at 10, and Beale Street Caravan at 11.

Bluegrass Signal - Saturday, September 6

The traditional ballad singer Sheila Kay Adams is part of this Saturday's "Bluegrass Signal" program previewing upcoming area events, including the Berkeley Old Time Music Convention.

Saturday, September 6 from 6:30-8pm

BLUEGRASS SIGNAL host Peter Thompson was featured in the March 2008 edition of the California Bluegrass Association's newsletter, "Bluegrass Breakdown." You can read a PDF file of the article by clicking HERE.

KALW is a proud media sponsor of the Berkeley Old Time Music Convention, which runs from September 11-14, 2008.

Stay Engaged with What's Happening at KALW

These are exciting times at your local public radio station.

On the air, KALW News launched Crosscurrents, our new daily local news magazine. The show provides a high-profile platform for creative, in-depth public interest reporting from the KALW News team and opens the door for listeners to have greater input in the newsmaking process. Read all about it in the latest KALW program guide, which you can download here.

Behind the scenes, we’re in the midst of the first expansion of our studios since KALW moved to the campus of Burton High School in 1996. In the coming months, we’ll be creating a space where we can produce more local programming, and where small groups of students from Burton High can learn from and collaborate with KALW staff.

We’ve also expanded the ways you can listen to KALW programming. All of our local public affairs and listener call-in programs – including Book Talk, Work With Marty Nemko, Your Legal Rights and Minds Over Matter – are now available as podcasts. And we’ve added an MP3 stream, allowing you to listen to KALW worldwide in the most universal audio format.

Please click here to open up a page that gives you several options for greater involvement with KALW. Whether it’s becoming a member, volunteering for our September membership drive, offering your professional services, or simply signing up for our e-mail newsletter, consider taking a step to increase your engagement with the station.

However you choose to be involved with KALW, we thank you. You make all our work possible and meaningful. Thank you!

—-Matt Martin, KALW General Manager matt@kalw.org

Exclusive Seating Offer!

David Sedaris returns to the San Francisco War Memorial Opera House.

Monday, October 27, 2008 at 8pm. KALW is proud to host David on his return to San Francisco and will be the exclusive source for the best seats in the house before tickets go on sale to the general public. Click here to be redirected to our pledge page: $170 for 1 ticket; $300 for 2 tickets.

Philosophy Talk Live at The Marsh: A Matter of Death and Life

Join Philosophy Talk hosts John Perry and Ken Taylor on Sunday, September 28 at The Marsh Theater in San Francisco for two rousing recording sessions of Philosophy Talk. At 2:30, John and Ken probe "The Terror of Death" with world-renowned psychotherapist Irv Yalom, and at 6:30, it’s "Digital Selves: Avatars, Second Life, and Virtual Reality" with Jeremy Bailenson, director of Stanford's Virtual Human Interaction Lab.

Don't miss these opportunities to participate in deep discussion and get up-close and personal with the Philosophy Talk Crew.

Information and tickets are available through the Philosophy Talk website.

Writer's Almanac

Join us every weekday morning at 9:01 for the Writer's Almanac featuring Garrison Keillor, who recounts the highlights of this day in literary history and reads a short poem or two.

Joe Burke's KALW Almanac

What's today's Bay Area weather forecast? Who really invented the internet? Who shares my special day? What's the name for the next full moon? When is National Cheese Doodle Day? Find all the answers in today's almanac, as presented by Joe Burke on Morning Edition each weekday morning at 5:49 and 8:49 a.m.