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“It’s about people who are possessed,people possessed with a vision,with principles, with a mission.”Kitchen Sister Davia Nelsontalks about The Keepers. p.6“When a man is indespair, it meansthat he still believesin something.”Shostakovich returns toExplorations in Musicp. 4“It’s gotta be this or that!”Minds Over Matter celebrates 25 years on KALWp. 5A message from KALW’s new GM Tina PamintuanKALW News & Your Call take on Election 2018Left Right & Center Live comes to San Franciscop. 3p. 9p. 9Fall 2018
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Pitman, ElisePhillips, Maria Politzer, Caterine Raye-Wong, Ronald Rohde, Marti Roush, John Roybal, Jaimie Sanford,Jean Schnall, Deb Schneider, Bill Schwalb, Ron Scudder, Marc Seidenfeld, Lezak Shallat, Anna Sojourner,Angelo Sphere, Kevin Stamm, Tim Sullivan, Flora Summers, Linnea Sweet, Bian Tan, Howard Tharsing,Madelon Thompson, Sal Timpano, Kathy Trewin, David Vartanoff, Gail Wechsler, Charlie Wegerle, HarryWeller, Patrick Wheeler, Steve WilcottOUR LICENSEE, THE SAN FRANCISCO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICTSuperintendent: Vincent Matthews Board of Commissioners: Stevon Cook, Matt Haney,Hydra Mendoza-McDonell, Emily Murase, Rachel Norton, Mark Sanchez, Shamann Walton Director, Office of Public Outreach and Communications: Gentle BlytheKALW PERSONNELTina Pamintuan,Laura Wenus, ProducerLiza Veale, ProducerBen Trefny, News DirectorGeneral ManagerRyan Nicole Peters, ProducerJen Chien, Managing EditorWilliam Helgeson,Bo Walsh, ProducerHana Baba, Host/ReporterOperations ManagerHolly McDede, ReporterJeremy Dalmas, ProducerPhil Hartman, EngineeringEli Wirtschafter, ReporterNinna Gaensler-Debs, ProducerAnnette Bistrup,Lee Romney, ReporterAngela Johnston, ProducerDevelopment DirectorMarisol Medina-Cadena, TrainerJenee Darden, ProducerTruc Nguyen, MembershipJeanne Marie Acceturo,Judy Silber, ProducerChris Hambrick, MembershipAnnouncerLisa Morehouse, EditorOlga Volodina, MembershipEric Jansen, AnnouncerAndrew Stelzer, EditorShipra Shukla,Debi Kennedy, AnnouncerRaquel Maria Dillon, EditorProgram InformationShereen Adel, Content Manager Damien Minor, AnnouncerDavid Latulippe, AnnouncerJames Rowlands, News Engineer Bob Sommer, AnnouncerJoAnn Mar, AnnouncerGabe Grabin, News EngineerKevin Vance, AnnouncerRose Aguilar, HostTarek Fouda, EngineerMalihe Razazan, Sr. ProducerEric Wayne, AnnouncerABOUT KALWKALW is a pioneer educational station licensed to the San Francisco Unified School District, broadcasting sinceSeptember 1, 1941 — the oldest FM signal west of the Mississippi.Mailing address:KALW RadioOffices: (415) 841-4121500 Mansell StreetFax: (415) 841-4125San Francisco, CA 94134Studio Line: (415) 841-4134KALW program guide edited by Matt Martin, David Latulippe and Shipra Shukla, Contents KALWdesigned by Georgette Petropoulos.ON THE COVER: Quote from Davia Nelson; Nas at Harvard’s Hiphop Archive as featured in The Keepers (photocourtesy of The Kitchen Sisters); quote from Testimony: The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich, as related to and edited bySolomon Volkov; quotation from “Gotta Be This or That” by Sunny Skylar – the version recorded by Benny Goodman andhis Orchestra is the theme song for Minds Over Matter; the KALW studio bell (Photo credit: Jeanne Marie Acceturo).2
Let’s get going!September always feels special toasking you to take this journey with meme. The sweetness of the last weeksand the staff and volunteers of KALW, Iof summer, back-to-school nerves, thepromise to listen to you, our supportersanticipation of newand audience, and tobeginnings—there aresafeguard this journalisso many reasons thistic and cultural resourceliminal time of year isas it enters a new phaseclose to my heart.of growth.No better momentCreating space andthen to take the reinswelcoming newcomersat KALW, a stationis one of this station’spoised for its next bighallmarks and resonateschapter. I am honoreddeeply with the timesto be leading thiswe are in. KALW isfiercely independentknown for opening itsmedia outlet as thedoors to green producstation’s new GM. Anders, training them, andI am dedicated to helpphoto credit: Georgia Popplewell putting them on air. Ining secure its future inthe coming year, we willa media and financial landscape that isn’tfind new ways to increase opportunitiesalways friendly to the grassroots, thefor racial, ethnic, gender, religious andalternative, and the community-oriented.spiritual diversity within our staff and inFor more than a decade, KALW hasour programming.climbed to new heights under the leadWe’ll also explore ambitious digitalership of outgoing GM, Matt Martin. I’dmedia initiatives in an effort to stay truelike to thank him for overseeing severalto the founding mission of National Pubmonths of transition, and for his kindlic Radio: to help listeners become “moreness, patience, and humor as I get myresponsive, informed human beings andbearings.intelligent responsible citizens of theirThis thoughtful handoff is a testacommunities and the world.”ment to Matt’s character and his loveSo, expect to hear new voices andand dedication for this station and thisnew perspectives. And as always, let uscommunity.know what you think and how we areKALW has been the creative startingdoing.point for podcasts that have garneredThe Bay Area, like much of thenational attention, a place where budcountry and our planet, is undergoingding reporters and producers learn theirenormous change in its environment,craft, and where a gutsy local newsroomdemographics, and economy. Key queswas born. Matt’s leadership and genuinetions are at stake. We need KALW torelationships with colleagues, volunteers,take its rightful place in the conversaand listeners helped make this possibletion about who we are and what we canand I am truly grateful for the work he’sbecome together.done, a feeling I’m sure many of us share.This is our radio station. There’s workHaving recently finished a job of 12to be done. Let’s take a deep breath andyears and packed up an apartment thatget going!was my home for close to a decade, theTina Pamintuandifficulty of transitions—and the faithGeneral Managerand trust they require—is top of mind. InKALW, 91.7FM3
Shostakovich Part 2Explorations in MusicMondays at 9pm beginning in OctoberExplorations in Music continues its deep dive into thelife and music of Dmitri Shostakovich. One of the 20thcentury’s most gifted composers, Shostakovich lived inconstant fear of the totalitarian Soviet regime. Was he arebel, a soviet sympathizer or just a musical genius tryingto survive?Join Dr. Robert Greenberg and the Alexander StringQuartet for the 13th season of Explorations, with DavidLatulippe as your broadcast host.October 1:October 8:October 15:October 22:October 29:November 5:November 12:Piano Trio in E min., Op. 67 (1944)String Quartet No. 8 in C min., Op. 110 (1960)String Quartet No. 9 in Eb Maj., Op. 117 (1964)String Quartet No. 10 in Ab Maj., Op. 118 (1964)String Quartet No. 11 in F min., Op. 122 (1966)String Quartet No. 12 in Db Maj., Op. 133 (1968)String Quartet No. 13 inBb Maj., Op. 138 (1970)November 19: String Quartet No. 14 inF# Maj., Op. 142 (1973)November 26: Viola Sonata Op. 147(1975)December 3:String Quartet No. 15 inEb min., Op. 144 (1974)Explorations in Music is producedin partnership between KALW andSan Francisco Performances.The Alexander String QuartetThese generous local businesses provide food, drink andinspiration to KALW’s staff and volunteers during ourmembership campaigns. The next time you visit them,please thank them for supporting Local Public Radio!Arizmendi Bakery BiRite Market Casa Sanchez San Francisco CheeseBoutique Destination Baking Company Dianda’s Italian American Bakery El Porteño Empanadas Emmy’s Spaghetti Shack Gabriele MuselliCatering Goat Hill Pizza Gott’s Roadside Hearth Coffee Henry’sHunan on Mission House of Bagels La Boulangerie de San Francisco Left Coast Catering Longbridge Pizza Co. LRE Catering LuccaRavioli Company Mission Pie Mitchell’s Ice Cream Noe Valley Bakery Peasant Pies Pi Bar Restaurant Rainbow Grocery Cooperative Sibby’sCupcakery Trader Joe’s Veritable Vegetable Zanze’s Cheesecake4
25 Years ofMinds Over Matter on KALWJoin the celebration!Moderator DanaRodriguez and theMinds Over Matter crew invite youto join them as theycelebrate 25 years ofthe Bay Area’s favoriteradio quiz show witha special party on theevening of Sunday,October 14th.Meet the panelists, see KALW’s refurbished studios, take part in a pre-showquiz, enjoy food & drink, and then watchthe show live in studio. (And yes, you canring the bell!)Special guests will include new KALWGeneral Manager TinaPamintuan and longtime GM Matt Martin.You can reserveyour spot at the partywhen you becomea member or renewyour membership inKALW’s Septembercampaign.Dana and his fellow panelists look forward to meetingas many of their longtime listeners andphone friends as possible – it is yourfaithful support of the program and thestation that make a special occasion likethis possible.Good and Mad:The Revolutionary Powerof Women’s AngerRebecca Traister in conversation withInflection Point’s Lauren SchillerAnger is power. With her latest book, Good and Mad: TheRevolutionary Power of Women’s Anger, Rebecca Traister tracksthe history of female anger as political and personal dynamite.Rebecca TraisterInform your rage! Join Rebecca Traister, Lauren Schiller, andyour fellow agitators and thinkers for a compelling conversationabout women’s power today.Wednesday, October 10th at 7pmat the Berkeley City ClubTickets and information at womenlit.orgThis is the inaugural event in WOMEN LIT, a new literaryevent series presenting female authors on lightning-hot topicsfor women and men today. It’s presented by the Bay Area BookFestival’s Women Lit society and KALW’s Inflection Point, thepodcast and broadcast about how women rise up.Go to womenlit.org for a full schedule.KALW is a proud media sponsor of WOMEN LIT.5
The KeepersDavia Nelson talks about theKitchen Sisters’ ambitious new seriesNikki Silva andDavia NelsonThe Kitchen Sisters – Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva – are the Peabody Award-winningpublic radio producers behind NPR’s Hidden Kitchens, Lost & Found Sound, and TheHidden World of Girls. Their home base in San Francisco is at Francis Coppola’s historic Sentinel Building in North Beach. We sat down with Kitchen Sister Davia Nelson inthe building’s basement recording studio to talk about their new series, The Keepers.The Keepers begins airing on Morning Edition Thursdays in September – and longerversions of those stories will be on their Kitchen Sisters Present podcast.Who are The Keepers?The Keepers is a series of storiesof activist archivists, rogue librarians,curators, collectors, and historians, keepers of the culture, and the culture andcollections they keep. And when we go alittle bit further into it, we say guardiansof history, large and small, protectors ofthe free flow of information and ideas,individuals who take it upon themselvesto preserve some aspect of our culturalheritage.Where did you and Nikkiget the idea from?The series was born when DonaldTrump became President and we startedwatching how certain governmentwebsites were immediately disappearing– information about climate change, information about aspects of real science,information about women’s health andbirth control, governmental information6we assumed stayed alive one administration to the next.As information disappeared and thethreats to the press and the Bill of Rightsmounted we watched as the archivistcommunity just sprang to life. Activist archivists were organizing themselves andfighting back, sharing their tools, makinginformation available, opening people’seyes, and librarians were as activated asanybody could be.At the millennium we did an NPRseries called Lost & Found Sound. Duringthat series we worked immensely witharchivists and librarians. Preservationistsand historians. We started to feel likethey were some of the unsung heroes ofthe nation. We had had an idea for a series called “We’ve Always Relied on theKindness of Archivists.” Then 9/11 happened and we were moved to produceThe Sonic Memorial Project instead.
With the election, and the threats tofreedom of information and the attackson the institutions that nurture and feedthe cultural heritage of the nation – TheNEA, The NEH, public radio, libraries,schools, so many organizations — wethought “It’s time for that series now .”And it won’t only be individual profilesor archivists and librarians, it’s wholearchives, movements, and people whohave been collecting and gathering, eccentric individuals who preserve piecesof the cultural heritage. But, that was theimpetus that got it going.and save lives. In our own San Francisco,it’s a place where homeless people areable to get so many services. They’rebecoming social service agencies.And at that same time as the seriesgoes, we’ll be launching Keeper of theDay, a year-long series of daily social media stories featuring Keepers of all sorts,from all around the world — sort of likebaseball cards — for a year on Instagram,on Twitter, on Facebook, on all mannerof social media. Keepers then and now.Finally the men began to talk with herand she invited them to the library for ameeting. The librarians asked the men,“What would you like from the library?”And the men had this conversationtogether, and they said, “We would likethere to be a telescope on the roof ofthe library.” She said, “Telescope? Whya telescope?” They said, “We’ve beensleeping rough, outside, for so manyyears, looking at the stars and the sky.We would like to look up to the skies andknow more about what we look at everynight ”What surprised you as you starteddiving into these stories?Part of what’s really grabbing me ishow dynamic, and how complicated libraries and librarians are at the moment.In Florida, a lot of the places wherepeople are going and shooting up,where drug addicts are showing up, isin front of libraries. The parks in front oflibraries, because the librarians are theones with the [Naloxone] pens to shootthem, to keep them from OD’ing. Librarians are taking it upon themselves to tryOne librarian in Vancouver, whomoves me, began to work with a groupof homeless men, trying to reach out tothat group of people and say, “How canthe library be part of your life? Whatdo you need a library to be?” And shestarted the donuts, the coffee, luringpeople in with a little bit of food, goingto neighborhood centers where theywere congregating.And you’ve been inviting people to tellyou about Keepers they know about?As we have done with every otherseries that we’ve started on NPR, we’veopened up a phone line and we’reinviting listeners to collaborate withcontinued on page 8Do you have a keeperThe Kitchen Sisters need to know about?Who is protecting, collectingand preserving in your world?What collections move and astound you?Call the Keepers hotline at 415-496-9049or submit your idea at kitchensisters.org/keepers7
The Keeperscontinued from page 7us, to tell us their tips and suggestions,thoughts on what Keepers they thinkneed to be chronicled, or what archivesor collections matter to them, whatneeds keeping, or what is being kept, orwhat is endangered.When we did Hidden Kitchens, 2,789minutes of messages came into the Hidden Kitchens hotline, and that doesn’teven begin to talk about what came inwith Lost & Found Sound. Out of those,probably a third of the stories in theseries come fromlistener calls, fromlistener suggestions.We love to trigger astory from a call.Once the firstepisodes hitMorning Editionin September,you’re going tobe deluged.I know. We can’twait. A lot of thingsthat people arecalling us about area 100 years old, orback in World War Henri LangloisII, or the VietnamWar, and then a lot of things are just, “I’mdocumenting the punk music scene inOmaha in 1984.”So specific, and that’s I think thebeauty of this series too, it’s so tight andindividual. I think that like with all thework that The Kitchen Sisters, it’s aboutpeople who are possessed, people possessed with a vision, with principles, witha mission. Some people run for electedoffice, some people elect themselvesto be an active, creative citizen of theircommunity, to be a steward. We’re tryingto tap back into that part of us in thistime.8Can you give us a preview of someof the stories you’ll be telling?One of the stories in the series is“Archiving the Underground,” aboutthe Hiphop Archive at Harvard, and thearchiving of hiphop and how that’s happened around the nation.There’s another story that we’re working on called “Archive Fever”, about thepioneering film archivist, Henri Langloisand the Cinémathèque Française, andall the implicationsof what happenedwhen film started tobe preserved, in the1930s right as talkies came in.Because silentfilm was just beingtossed. I mean it’sa lot like now, asmediums change,all of the material inthat last form startsbeing chucked.This young man inFrance, possesse
people possessed with a vision, with principles, with a mission.” Kitchen Sister Davia Nelson talks about The Keepers. p.6 “When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something.” Shostakovich returns to Explorations in Music p. 4 “It’s
