Bay Curious
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Oct 8, 2020
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Bay Curious is a show about your questions – and the adventures you find when you go looking for the answers. Join host Olivia Allen-Price to explore all aspects of the San Francisco Bay Area – from the debate over "Frisco", to the dinosaurs that once roamed California, to the causes of homelessness. Whether you lived here your whole life, or just arrived, Bay Curious will deepen your understanding of this place you call home.
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How Bacon Wrapped Hot Dogs Became Iconic Bay Area Street Food
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May 22, 2025 |
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A Ford Factory Changed Milpitas, Then it Became a Mall
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May 15, 2025 |
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San Francisco Businesses That Date Back to the Gold Rush
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May 08, 2025 |
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Why Are Private Schools So Popular In San Francisco?
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May 01, 2025 |
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Check Out KQED's New Show Hyphenación
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Apr 30, 2025 |
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A Peek Into The Lives Of Four Bay Area Teens
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Apr 24, 2025 |
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Olivia's Out On Maternity Leave
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Apr 21, 2025 |
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Who is the 'Stevens' of Stevens Creek?
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Apr 17, 2025 |
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How Canned Salmon Became Big Business in San Francisco
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Apr 10, 2025 |
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The Berkeley Park That Was Once All Trash
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Apr 03, 2025 |
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Behind the Fillmore's Iconic Music Posters
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Mar 27, 2025 |
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Your Bay Area Transit Questions, Answered: Bridge Tolls, Lane Closures and Vanity Plates Too
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Mar 20, 2025 |
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Fairy Houses And A Very Green Waterfall
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Mar 13, 2025 |
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San Francisco's Oldest Lesbian Bar: Wild Side West
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Mar 06, 2025 |
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It’s Back! A Full 'Close All Tabs' Season Is Here!
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Mar 03, 2025 |
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What is a Frisco Biscuit?
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Feb 27, 2025 |
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Dating in the Bay Area: Your Stories
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Feb 20, 2025 |
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A Fallen Gem: Oakland’s 16th Street Train Station
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Feb 13, 2025 |
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Tips and Tricks to Snag California Campsites
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Feb 06, 2025 |
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Journey to a Lonely Island in San Francisco Bay
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Jan 30, 2025 |
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What it Takes to Redevelop Old Military Bases
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Jan 23, 2025 |
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Why Are There so Many Abandoned Military Bases?
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Jan 16, 2025 |
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Is it Safe to Swim in San Francisco Bay?
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Jan 09, 2025 |
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Chinese Food and Donuts: A Classic Bay Area Combo
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Jan 02, 2025 |
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How Fernet-Branca Became San Francisco's Favorite Spirit
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Dec 19, 2024 |
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Which San Francisco Sounds Are Lost to Time?
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Dec 12, 2024 |
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Is Monterey Jack Cheese ... Not From Monterey?
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Dec 05, 2024 |
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An Instrument Played by the Waves
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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Bay Curious Presents Mindshift: The Black Panther Legacy and Oakland Community Schools
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Nov 14, 2024 |
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The Explosive History Hidden in Glen Canyon Park
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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An Eerie Night on the USS Hornet
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Oct 31, 2024 |
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Bay Curious Presents Close All Tabs: Stan Wars, The Fandom Menace
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Oct 29, 2024 |
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How Often Should our Wild Lands Burn?
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Oct 24, 2024 |
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A Final Resting Spot for Furry Friends
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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The Secret History of Mary Ellen Pleasant
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Oct 10, 2024 |
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Proposition 36: Increasing Penalties for Drug and Theft Crimes
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Oct 04, 2024 |
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Proposition 35: Funding Medi-Cal
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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Proposition 34: Prescription Drug Spending (But Also ... Rent Control?)
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Oct 02, 2024 |
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Proposition 33: Removing State Limits on Rent Control
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Oct 01, 2024 |
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Proposition 32: Minimum Wage Increase
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Sep 30, 2024 |
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Proposition 6: Ending Forced Labor for Prisoners
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Sep 27, 2024 |
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Proposition 5: Lower the Voting Threshold to Pass Some Local Bonds
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Sep 26, 2024 |
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Proposition 4: Climate-Related Programs Bond
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Sep 25, 2024 |
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Proposition 3: Marriage Equality Amendment
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Sep 24, 2024 |
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Proposition 2: School Facilities Bond
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Sep 23, 2024 |
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The Hunters Point Crane
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Sep 19, 2024 |
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Does Mount Diablo Have the Biggest View in the World?
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Sep 11, 2024 |
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Port Costa: Quirky, Historic, Cool
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Aug 29, 2024 |
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The Low Down on Lowriders
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Aug 22, 2024 |
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Ice Plant is Pretty but Pernicious
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Aug 15, 2024 |
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It's Electric! But Car Charging Infrastructure Could Use a Jolt
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Aug 08, 2024 |
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Scarlot Harlot Made Sex Worker Rights Her Life's Work
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Aug 01, 2024 |
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Which Dinosaurs Roamed the Bay Area?
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Jul 25, 2024 |
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Roses Are Red, Glitter is Plastic
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Jul 18, 2024 |
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San Francisco's Equine Officers
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Jul 11, 2024 |
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Is There Treasure At the Bottom of the Bay?
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Jun 27, 2024 |
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How Activists Stopped Developers From Filling in the Bay
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Jun 20, 2024 |
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Why the Name Brotherhood Way in SF?
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Jun 13, 2024 |
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Is the Water in the Bay Getting Greener?
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Jun 06, 2024 |
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Ever Seen A Koi Fish on the Sidewalk?
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May 23, 2024 |
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The Homes BART Tore Apart
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May 16, 2024 |
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History of Sutro Baths
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May 09, 2024 |
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Exploring San Francisco's Hidden Tunnels
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May 02, 2024 |
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Behind the Scenes (and Underground) with Carly Severn
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May 01, 2024 |
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Alameda: The Island That Almost Wasn't
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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1906 Earthquake: Oral Histories from Black San Franciscans
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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How Eucalyptus Got Here, and Why It Burns
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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Abalone: The Treasured Sea Snails Disappearing Off California's Coast
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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Where Are All the School Buses?
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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Queer, Fabulous and Proud: SF’s Drag History
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe at SLAC
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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Why Is It So Hard to Fix Our Own Stuff Now?
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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Hidden in the Oakland Hills Is An Outdoor Gallery of Murals
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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Has Aggressive Driving Gotten Worse? And Two Other Transit Qs
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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Unwrapping SF's Rich Chocolate History
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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Prop 1: Big Changes to Mental Health Funding
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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Why Piedmont Is A Separate City From Oakland
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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Squirrelmania!
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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The Hidden History of Fort Scott
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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Two Water Temples ... Why?!
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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San Francisco's Sliver of Alameda
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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Dialing POP-CORN
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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How Italians Were Treated As 'Enemy Aliens' During WWII
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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How Anchor Brewing Started the Craft Beer Craze
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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The Future of Fog
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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Rethinking San Jose's Urban Sprawl
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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The Poster Queen of the Fillmore
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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The Marijuana Minister of the Castro
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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The Demon of the Belfry
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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Anton LaVey and the Church of Satan
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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A Spooky Mansion & The Notorious Lone Tree
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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The House Sarah Winchester Built
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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Bay Curious Presents Spooked: Teacher's Pet
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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Is Our Bottle Recycling System Garbage?
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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The Burrito. The Myth. The Legend.
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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Why The Iconic Claremont Hotel Was Dry For So Long
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Aug 31, 2023 |
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The Original San Mateo-Hayward Bridge
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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‘Maison Bleue’: The S.F. Landmark You’ve Never Heard Of
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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The Rise and Fall of the 'Harlem of the West'
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Aug 10, 2023 |
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Can We Turn Ocean Waves into Energy?
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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Oppenheimer, UC Berkeley and the Atomic Bomb
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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What's Going on With Pro Women's Sports in the Bay Area?
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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Can Empty Offices Become Homes?
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Jul 13, 2023 |
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The Martini: A Story with a Twist
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Jul 06, 2023 |
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Mac Dre and Lyrics on Trial
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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Are the Redwoods Doing Okay?
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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Bay Curious Presents: A Book!
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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The Iron Horse Trail
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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Zero Emission Cars and a Golden Gate Lookalike
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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Bay to Breakers: Half Race, Half Party
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May 25, 2023 |
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Crows Everywhere!
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May 18, 2023 |
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Why Are Stores Locking Up Basic Necessities?
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May 11, 2023 |
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A History of Children's Fairyland
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May 04, 2023 |
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Real High Schoolers of the Bay Area
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Apr 27, 2023 |
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Is Picking California Poppies Illegal?
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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San Francisco's Little Slice of Paris
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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Our Night Skies Are Getting Brighter
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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Why Do People Fish off Hwy 101?
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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Farming in the Middle of a City
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Mar 16, 2023 |
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The Castro Theatre's Past and Future
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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Renaming a State Park
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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How San Francisco Got its Bike Lanes
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Feb 23, 2023 |
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The Boat-Shaped Building in Palo Alto
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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Runoff, Rivers and Rodents
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Feb 09, 2023 |
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Endless Winter: The Real Story of the Donner Party
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Feb 02, 2023 |
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This Old Bay Area House
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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Can Religious Groups Help Build Affordable Housing?
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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The East Bay Mystery Walls
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Jan 12, 2023 |
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Should There be Cattle in Point Reyes?
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Jan 05, 2023 |
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Ask Me Anything with the Bay Curious Team
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Dec 15, 2022 |
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Iconic Transamerica Pyramid
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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Homes for All: Richmond's 1950s Attempt at Integrated Housing
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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Why Doesn't BART Go More Places?
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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Intoxicating Beats: The Bay Area’s African Music Scene
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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Why A Lot of Plastic Isn't Getting Recycled
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Nov 03, 2022 |
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Did I Actually Contact a Dead Person? A Science Editor In Search of His Mother’s Ghost
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Oct 27, 2022 |
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When and Why the Bay Area Became So Liberal
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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Why Does the Bay Area Have So Many Microclimates?
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Oct 13, 2022 |
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Prop 31: Flavored Tobacco
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Oct 06, 2022 |
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Prop. 30: Taxes For Greener Transit
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Oct 05, 2022 |
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Prop. 29: Dialysis
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Oct 04, 2022 |
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Prop. 28: Arts Education Funding
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Oct 03, 2022 |
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Props. 26 & 27: Sports Betting
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Sep 30, 2022 |
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Prop 1: Abortion and Reproductive Rights
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Sep 29, 2022 |
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Wanna Try Roller Skating in San Francisco? Better Head to Church
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Sep 22, 2022 |
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Long Gone Amusement Parks That Captured Bay Area Hearts
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Sep 15, 2022 |
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Purissima: The Ghost Town Hidden Near Half Moon Bay
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Sep 08, 2022 |
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What Animals Lived in the Bay Area Before European Settlement?
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Aug 25, 2022 |
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The San Francisco Years of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera
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Aug 18, 2022 |
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The Story of Russell City, the Town that Lost the Blues
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Aug 11, 2022 |
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Labyrinths Everywhere! Why Are There So Many in the Bay Area?
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Aug 04, 2022 |
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The Story Behind Those Giant Paintings Off Central Valley Highways
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Jul 28, 2022 |
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The Farallon Islands: Nice Home For Birds, Less So for Humans
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Jul 21, 2022 |
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Why Were Many SF Hospitals Once Affiliated With Ethnic Groups?
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Jul 14, 2022 |
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The WWII Prison Camp in Pacifica That's Been Largely Erased
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Jun 30, 2022 |
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The Sizzler: The California Origin Story Behind One of India’s Flashiest Dishes
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Jun 23, 2022 |
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How San Francisco and Ed Hardy Gave Rise to the Custom Tattoo
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Jun 16, 2022 |
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Was Monterey Jack Cheese Created in Pacifica?
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Jun 09, 2022 |
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S.F.’s AIDS Memorial Grove is a Place Like No Other
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Jun 03, 2022 |
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Does Anyone Play Polo at the Golden Gate Park Polo Field Anymore?
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Jun 02, 2022 |
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Golden Gate Park's Windmills Were Essential, Then Abandoned for Decades.
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Jun 01, 2022 |
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The Complicated Origins of S.F.'s Beloved Japanese Tea Garden
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May 31, 2022 |
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Meet The Bison Herd of Golden Gate Park
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May 30, 2022 |
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Golden Gate Park Was Once Miles and Miles of Sand Dunes
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May 26, 2022 |
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This Bay Area Sex-Loving Commune Is Still Going Strong
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May 12, 2022 |
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Nope, The Stanford Dish Isn’t Listening For Aliens. It Was Built to Spy on Russia
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May 05, 2022 |
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Teens Take Us Inside Bay Area Sneaker Culture
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Apr 28, 2022 |
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For Many Tenants, Section 8 Is A Broken Promise. Can It Be Fixed?
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Apr 21, 2022 |
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West Oakland's 16th Street Station Was Once A Community Anchor
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Apr 14, 2022 |
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Why You Might See Wacky Art Cars Rolling Downhill in McLaren Park
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Apr 07, 2022 |
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What Makes a Street ‘Private’? And Why Does San Francisco Have So Many?
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Mar 31, 2022 |
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What Happened to the Ohlone Shellmounds?
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Mar 24, 2022 |
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Latinos in La Misión: A Story of Resistance and Community
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Mar 17, 2022 |
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What's It Like to Live on the Filbert Steps?
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Mar 10, 2022 |
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The Sordid Saga of San Francisco’s Trash Cans
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Mar 03, 2022 |
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Despite What You Learned, California Had Slavery. What Now?
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Feb 17, 2022 |
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When the Winter Olympics Came to Lake Tahoe
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Feb 10, 2022 |
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Bay Curious Presents: Berkeley's Rainbow Sign
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Feb 03, 2022 |
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Shipwrecked! How a 120-Year-Old Ship Ended up in the Martinez Mud
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Jan 27, 2022 |
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How You Can Responsibly Recycle Old Clothes
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Jan 20, 2022 |
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How You Can Help Save the Monarch Butterfly And Other Pollinators
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Jan 13, 2022 |
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$15,000 in Toll Penalties?! It Can Happen Faster Than You Think
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Jan 06, 2022 |
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Is There A San Francisco Accent?
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Dec 16, 2021 |
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How Black Shipyard Workers in Marin Helped Win World War II
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Dec 09, 2021 |
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Why So Many Driverless Cars in SF?
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Dec 02, 2021 |
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More Whales Are Washing Up Dead on Bay Area Beaches. Why?
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Nov 18, 2021 |
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Are S.F. Streets Really Named For Gold-Rush Era Sex Workers?
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Nov 11, 2021 |
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La Llorona, Legend and Protector, in the Streets of San Francisco
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Nov 04, 2021 |
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Listen If You Dare! Three Bay Area Ghost Stories
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Oct 28, 2021 |
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Deep in the Santa Cruz Redwoods, Your Mind Will Play Tricks On You
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Oct 21, 2021 |
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Meet the Bay Bridge Troll and the Broadway Tunnel Dragon
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Oct 14, 2021 |
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Why Are There So Many Graveyards in Colma?
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Oct 07, 2021 |
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Can Redwood City Really Boast “Climate Best By Government Test”?
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Sep 30, 2021 |
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There's a Castle in Pacifica?!
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Sep 23, 2021 |
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A Prison with Million Dollar Views? How San Quentin Came to Be
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Sep 16, 2021 |
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State of Drought 6: Big Solutions
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Sep 03, 2021 |
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State of Drought 5: Desalination, Water Recycling and More
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Sep 02, 2021 |
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State of Drought 4: Saving Water In Your Home
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Sep 01, 2021 |
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State of Drought 3: Are We in a Megadrought?
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Aug 31, 2021 |
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State of Drought 2: Where Our Water Comes From
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Aug 27, 2021 |
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State of Drought 1: Facing Our Hotter, Drier Future
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Aug 26, 2021 |
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The Story Behind the Bay Area's Favorite Sandwich Bread
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Aug 19, 2021 |
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Your Guide to the Gavin Newsom Recall Election
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Aug 12, 2021 |
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In Daly City, Filipino Culture Runs Deep
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Aug 05, 2021 |
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Daly City Is One of the Densest Cities in the Country. Why?
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Jul 29, 2021 |
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‘It’s Pure Energy’: How Hyphy Came to Define Bay Area Hip Hop
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Jul 22, 2021 |
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Who Were the First People to Live in the Bay Area?
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Jul 15, 2021 |
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What Questions Do You Have About the Drought?
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Jul 08, 2021 |
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Trucks are Banned on Oakland’s I-580. These Sixth Graders Wondered Why
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Jul 01, 2021 |
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Lightning Round! The Bay Area's Arts Innovators
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Jun 24, 2021 |
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San Jose Had 5 Chinatowns. Why Did They Vanish?
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Jun 17, 2021 |
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The Beautiful Bay Bridge Frank Lloyd Wright Never Got to Build
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Jun 10, 2021 |
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Wait. There's A Volcano in the East Bay Hills?
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Jun 03, 2021 |
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The True Story Behind the Myths and Mysteries of Searsville Lake
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May 20, 2021 |
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The Gold Rush Delicacy That Started A War: Eggs
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May 13, 2021 |
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The Origins of the Bay Area's Donut and Chinese Food Combo
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May 06, 2021 |
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Marin Was Once Armed With Nuclear Missiles, Luckily They Were Never Deployed
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Apr 29, 2021 |
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How Bay Area Homelessness Compares Globally
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Apr 22, 2021 |
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Crumbling Tunnels to Nowhere: The Story Behind Santa Cruz's Mountain Route
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Apr 15, 2021 |
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Lightning Round! Ch-ch-changes Around the Bay Area
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Apr 08, 2021 |
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Why There’s a Cross on San Francisco’s Highest Peak
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Apr 01, 2021 |
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The Wacky Lumberjack Frat Behind 'Hoo Hoo Way'
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Mar 25, 2021 |
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Your Stories From the Year of COVID
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Mar 18, 2021 |
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Why So Trashy? Your Highway Questions Answered
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Mar 11, 2021 |
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Will Oysters Ever Make a Comeback in the Bay?
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Mar 04, 2021 |
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What Would Happen If Chabot Dam in the East Bay Hills Broke Open?
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Feb 25, 2021 |
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The True History of Irish Coffee and Its San Francisco Origins
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Feb 18, 2021 |
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How COVID Could Change the Bay Area For All of Us
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Feb 11, 2021 |
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Why It's So Expensive To Build Housing In The Bay Area
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Feb 04, 2021 |
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Why California’s Vaccine Rollout Has Been Chaotic
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Jan 28, 2021 |
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Olivia's Having a Baby!
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Jan 21, 2021 |
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Calling For Time: Whatever Happened to POP-CORN?
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Jan 14, 2021 |
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Why Doesn't PG&E Bury the Power Lines to Prevent Wildfires?
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Dec 17, 2020 |
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What's the Best San Francisco Movie? A (Sorta) Heated Debate
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Dec 10, 2020 |
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Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera’s Life in San Francisco
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Dec 03, 2020 |
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What's Special About San Francisco’s Sourdough?
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Nov 26, 2020 |
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How a Berkeley Police Chief Gave Rise to the Modern Force
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Nov 19, 2020 |
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What's Next For Incarcerated Firefighters In California?
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Nov 12, 2020 |
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How Ballots Get Counted in California
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Nov 05, 2020 |
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Part II: The Aftermath and Legacy of the Donner Party Saga
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Oct 29, 2020 |
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Part I: The Donner Party Story You Haven’t Heard Before
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Oct 29, 2020 |
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How The Official California Voter Guide Gets Made
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Oct 22, 2020 |
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Proposition 25: Cash Bail
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Oct 16, 2020 |
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Proposition 24: Consumer Privacy
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Oct 15, 2020 |
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Proposition 23: Dialysis Physicians
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Oct 14, 2020 |
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Proposition 22: App-Based Drivers
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Oct 13, 2020 |
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Proposition 21: Rent Control
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Oct 12, 2020 |
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Proposition 20: Criminal Sentencing and Parole
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Oct 09, 2020 |
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Proposition 19: Property Tax Transfers
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Oct 08, 2020 |
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Proposition 18: Youth Voting
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Proposition 17: Voting While on Parole
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Oct 06, 2020 |
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Proposition 16: Affirmative Action
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Oct 05, 2020 |
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Proposition 15: Commercial Property Tax
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Oct 02, 2020 |
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Proposition 14: Stem Cell Research Bond
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Oct 01, 2020 |
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What Was the Bay Area Like During the Last Ice Age?
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Sep 24, 2020 |
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How the North Bay Became 'Wine Country'
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Sep 17, 2020 |
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Does the Golden Gate Bridge Howl?
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Sep 10, 2020 |
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Evacuation 101 And Why Wildfire Can't Defeat Those Redwoods
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Sep 03, 2020 |
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The Secret Lives of The Palace of Fine Arts Swans
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Aug 27, 2020 |
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When And Why Did the Bay Area Become So Liberal?
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Aug 20, 2020 |
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The Unassuming East Bay Beach Strewn With Ceramic Treasures
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Aug 13, 2020 |
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Getting Naked in San Francisco: A History
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Aug 06, 2020 |
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Ethnic Studies: Born in the Bay from History's Biggest Student Strike
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Jul 30, 2020 |
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Vegan Food is Big in S.F. — But Will the Scene Survive COVID-19?
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Jul 23, 2020 |
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How Love Inspired the Murphy Bed
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Jul 16, 2020 |
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Why Does The Bay Area Have So Many Microclimates?
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Jul 09, 2020 |
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A Long and Winding Journey For Some Drinking Water
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Jul 02, 2020 |
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Why San Francisco's Fillmore District Is No Longer the 'Harlem of the West'
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Jun 25, 2020 |
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The Bay Area’s Long Tradition of Celebrating Juneteenth
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Jun 18, 2020 |
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What History Teaches Us About How Protests Spark Change
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Jun 11, 2020 |
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Truth Be Told: Protesting For The Soul of America
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Jun 04, 2020 |
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The Little Known History of Japanese Internment on Angel Island
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May 28, 2020 |
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Where Everyone Gets a Slice of the Pie
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May 21, 2020 |
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How Rice-A-Roni Became The San Francisco Treat
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May 14, 2020 |
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No Prom. No Yearbook Signing. No Graduation Ceremony. It's High School in 2020.
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May 07, 2020 |
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What Help Is There for California’s Undocumented Immigrants?
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May 05, 2020 |
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For Love and Hair
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Apr 30, 2020 |
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Cleaner Air and Weirder Dreams — Such Is Life in April 2020
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Apr 23, 2020 |
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Did We Put the 'Bay' In Bay Windows?
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Apr 16, 2020 |
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Coronavirus: A Guide to Grocery Shopping
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Apr 09, 2020 |
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Just Don't Call Them Buffalo: Meet the Bison of Golden Gate Park
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Apr 02, 2020 |
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Does Mount Diablo Have the Biggest View in the World?
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Mar 26, 2020 |
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A Coronavirus Care Package: Care For Yourself, Others and Still Have Fun
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Mar 19, 2020 |
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Coronavirus in the Bay Area: Your Questions Answered
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Mar 12, 2020 |
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Why Highway 280 Has So Few Billboards
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Mar 05, 2020 |
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In A Changing City, How Does The Tenderloin Stay The Same?
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Feb 27, 2020 |
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Coyotes, They're Back and They're Thriving
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Feb 20, 2020 |
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Bay Area, I Love You
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Feb 13, 2020 |
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We Built This City on ... Water and Marsh?
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Feb 06, 2020 |
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You're Really, Really Curious About BART
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Jan 30, 2020 |
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Jerry Brown’s Impact on Oakland May Surprise You
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Jan 23, 2020 |
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What's The Real History of El Camino Real?
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Jan 16, 2020 |
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Why Do S.F.'s Crosswalks Play a Machine Gun Sound?
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Jan 09, 2020 |
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What Are Those Grids of Glass in the Sidewalk — And Why Are They Purple?
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Jan 02, 2020 |
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Rising Seas and Sinking Land: The Precarious Future of Treasure Island
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Dec 19, 2019 |
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Between Romance and War: the Making of Treasure Island
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Dec 12, 2019 |
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How Charlie Chaplin and Silent Films Flourished in the East Bay
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Dec 05, 2019 |
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A Look Back at the Occupation of Alcatraz, 50 Years Later
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Nov 28, 2019 |
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Why Is There A Texas Flag Outside S.F. City Hall? What is S.F.’s First Square?
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Nov 21, 2019 |
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Think the Bay Used to Be Bluer? You're Not Imagining It
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Nov 14, 2019 |
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It's Our Birthday! Come Behind the Scenes
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Nov 07, 2019 |
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Secret Tunnels Under San Francisco?
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Oct 31, 2019 |
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Why Can't You Swim in Most of the Bay Area Lakes?
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Oct 24, 2019 |
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How Rocky Road Ice Cream Got Its Start in Oakland
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Oct 17, 2019 |
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You Gotta Check Out These Offbeat Museums
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Oct 10, 2019 |
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Do Preserved Bodies Dwell in Lake Tahoe's Depths?! The Truth Behind Tahoe's Myths
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Oct 03, 2019 |
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Sutro Tower’s Journey From Eyesore to Icon
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Sep 26, 2019 |
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The State Capitol Almost Moved to Berkeley and All It Got Was This Sweet Bear Fountain
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Sep 19, 2019 |
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Oh, SFO: Why So Delayed? (And What’s With the “O”?)
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Sep 12, 2019 |
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How the Bay Area Came to be a Hub for Casual Style
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Sep 05, 2019 |
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Why Are There So Many Palm Trees in the Bay Area?
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Aug 29, 2019 |
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Think Bay Area Nightlife Ends Early? That Could Be About to Change
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Aug 22, 2019 |
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The Minister of Loneliness, Aristotle And How To Make That Awesome Person Your Friend
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Aug 15, 2019 |
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How To Find New Friends
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Aug 08, 2019 |
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Why Isn’t Local Seafood a Bigger Deal in the Bay Area?
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Jul 19, 2019 |
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Is Dutch Crunch Bread From the Bay Area?
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Jul 18, 2019 |
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What’s the Best Way to Get Rid of Your Old Clothes?
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Jul 11, 2019 |
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Yes, Your ‘Tropical’ Mai Tai Was Invented Here in Oakland
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Jul 04, 2019 |
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Lightning Round: Dead Whales, Expensive Gas and ‘Earthquake Weather’
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Jun 22, 2019 |
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California Sounds: What’s It Like to Navigate the Bay Area While Blind?
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Jun 20, 2019 |
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Marin Was Once Armed With Nuclear Missiles, Luckily They Were Never Deployed
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Jun 13, 2019 |
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Why Are There So Many Crows in the Bay Area?
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Jun 06, 2019 |
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Why Wild Turkeys Love the Bay Area’s Suburbs
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May 23, 2019 |
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The Not-So-Crystal Clean History of San Francisco’s Drinking Water
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May 16, 2019 |
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How Old Oakland’s Historic Buildings Survived Decay (and Demolition)
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May 09, 2019 |
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Meet Charley Parkhurst: The Gold Rush’s Fearless, Gender Non-Conforming Stagecoach Driver
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Apr 25, 2019 |
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From Arks to Anchor-Outs: The History of Waterfront Living on Richardson Bay
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Apr 18, 2019 |
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The Flying Aircraft Carrier That Once Called Moffett Field Home
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Apr 11, 2019 |
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Why is Piedmont a Separate City From Oakland?
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Apr 04, 2019 |
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Lightning Round: Where Kids Live, Palo Alto’s Two Downtowns and S.F.’s Weeping Women
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Mar 28, 2019 |
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Yabba Dabba Don’t? A Trip Inside the (Now) Controversial Flintstone House
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Mar 21, 2019 |
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How Bill Graham’s Nazi Escape Might Explain His Fillmore Apples
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Mar 14, 2019 |
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Know, Know, Know Your Boats, Drifting Through the Bay
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Mar 07, 2019 |
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This Pricey San Francisco Cocktail Was a Gold Rush Knockout
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Feb 28, 2019 |
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Are There Dinosaur Bones in UC Berkeley’s Campanile?
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Feb 21, 2019 |
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Is There a San Francisco Accent?
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Jan 24, 2019 |
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Mile Rocks: A Bay Area Lighthouse Unlike Any Other
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Jan 18, 2019 |
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From Aviators to Apps: The Evolution of Traffic Data
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Jan 17, 2019 |
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When Recycling Pays the Bills … and When It Doesn’t
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Jan 10, 2019 |
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Lightning Round: Brisbane’s Stars, Millbrae’s Sweet Smells and Red Rock Island
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Dec 21, 2018 |
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Stew on This: Cioppino Comes From San Francisco, Not Italy
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Dec 20, 2018 |
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How SantaCon Got Its Start in San Francisco Counterculture
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Dec 06, 2018 |
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Bike Theft: How It Works, and What Police Are Doing in San Francisco
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Nov 29, 2018 |
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Why Are San Francisco Houses So Close Together?
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Nov 22, 2018 |
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‘Frisco’: It’s Not Just for Tourists
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Nov 15, 2018 |
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There Were Once More Than 425 Shellmounds in the Bay Area. Where Did They Go?
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Nov 08, 2018 |
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Who Invented the Martini? A Bay Area Story, With a Twist
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Nov 03, 2018 |
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Why Is Part of Alameda Island in San Francisco?
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Nov 01, 2018 |
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Ghost of a Legend: How a San Francisco Civil Rights Icon Was Made a Monster
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Oct 25, 2018 |
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The San Francisco Origins of Green Goddess Dressing
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Oct 18, 2018 |
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Black Power, the 1968 Olympics and the San Jose State Students Who Shook the World
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Oct 18, 2018 |
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Should Californians Allow Rent Control to Expand? Proposition 10, Explained
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Oct 12, 2018 |
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Voting on EMT Breaks, Children’s Hospitals and Dialysis Profits. Propositions 4, 8 and 11 Explained
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Oct 11, 2018 |
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Should California Expand Tax Breaks for Older Homeowners? Propositions 5, 1 and 2, Explained
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Oct 10, 2018 |
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Voting on Daylight Saving Time, Animal Confinement and Water. Propositions 3, 7 and 12, Explained
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Oct 09, 2018 |
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What If Californians Repealed the Gas Tax? Proposition 6, Explained
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Oct 08, 2018 |
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This Is Only a Test: San Francisco’s Tuesday Noon Siren
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Oct 04, 2018 |
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S.F. School Lottery: Time For It To Go?
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Sep 27, 2018 |
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How the San Francisco School Lottery Works, And How It Doesn’t
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Sep 27, 2018 |
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The Story Behind Belmont’s Painted Fire Hydrants
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Sep 20, 2018 |
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Could Creating One Bay Area City Solve the Housing Crisis?
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Sep 13, 2018 |
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How Do You Define the ‘Bay Area’?
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Sep 06, 2018 |
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The Mystery of the ‘East Bay Walls’
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Aug 30, 2018 |
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Who’s Behind the Knitted Animals in San Francisco’s Civic Center?
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Aug 23, 2018 |
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Palms, Prophecy … and Permits? How Fortunetelling Works in the Bay
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Aug 22, 2018 |
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Is Ultimate Frisbee the Golf of Silicon Valley?
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Aug 16, 2018 |
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Why So Windy? Why So Foggy? And What’s With Karl?
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Jul 26, 2018 |
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Why Is Lane Splitting Only Legal in California? And Is it Safe?
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Jul 19, 2018 |
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Hetch Hetchy Water’s Epic Journey, From Mountains to Tap
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Jul 12, 2018 |
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Cracking the Bizarre Urban Legend of Alameda’s Little People Houses
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Jul 05, 2018 |
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Is Rent Control Working and Should We Have More or Less of It?
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Jun 28, 2018 |
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The Origins of Bay Area Place Names
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Jun 21, 2018 |
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The Forgotten Men of the Point Reyes Life Saving Service
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Jun 14, 2018 |
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The Serpent Statue in San Jose That People Think Is Something Else
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Jun 07, 2018 |
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Are There Really More Dogs Than Children in S.F.?
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May 24, 2018 |
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Spinning Rims, Spinning Cars: the History of the Oakland Sideshow
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May 17, 2018 |
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This S.F. Fortress Is Full of Money That Will Never Be Spent
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May 10, 2018 |
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Why Hasn’t the Tenderloin Gentrified Like the Rest of San Francisco?
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May 03, 2018 |
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Does Anyone Play Polo at the Golden Gate Park Polo Field Anymore?
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Apr 26, 2018 |
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420 Started in the Bay Area. Meet the Guys Who Invented It
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Apr 19, 2018 |
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Have Ride-Hailing Apps Made Traffic Worse?
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Apr 12, 2018 |
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Oil Beneath San Mateo County? You Betcha
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Apr 05, 2018 |
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How Worried Should You Be About Shark Attacks on the California Coast?
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Mar 29, 2018 |
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Name That Team! How the Sharks and the Golden State Warriors Got Their Names
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Mar 22, 2018 |
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How Oakland Became a Gnome-Man’s Land
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Mar 15, 2018 |
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Why Are People Convinced This California Ghost Town Is Cursed?
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Mar 08, 2018 |
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America’s Emperor, San Francisco’s Treasure: Who Was Emperor Norton?
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Mar 01, 2018 |
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The Sculpture Wonderland That Once Delighted I-80 Drivers
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Feb 22, 2018 |
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Car Break-Ins Are Up in San Francisco. What’s Being Done?
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Feb 15, 2018 |
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San Francisco Was Once Aglow With Neon
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Feb 08, 2018 |
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Eucalyptus: How California’s Most Hated Tree Took Root
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Feb 01, 2018 |
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The Beautiful Bay Bridge Frank Lloyd Wright Never Got to Build
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Jan 25, 2018 |
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Unwrapping the Bay Area Origins of the Fortune Cookie
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Jan 18, 2018 |
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Why a Tire Shop Built ‘The City’s Biggest Fortune Cookie’
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Jan 18, 2018 |
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How Joseph Eichler Introduced Stylish Housing for the Masses
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Jan 03, 2018 |
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Everything You Want to Know About Legal Weed in California
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Dec 21, 2017 |
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What Are Those Weird, Pink Ponds in San Francisco Bay?
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Dec 14, 2017 |
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Is the Castro Getting Less Gay?
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Dec 06, 2017 |
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Can You Go To Jail For Picking California’s State Flower?
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Nov 30, 2017 |
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The Buried Ships of San Francisco
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Nov 23, 2017 |
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The True History of Irish Coffee and Its San Francisco Origins
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Nov 16, 2017 |
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Why Are There Rainbows on the Tunnel Between S.F. and Marin? (Plus Bonus Anniversary Questions)
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Nov 09, 2017 |
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Bay Curious Lightning Round: Inspiration for AT-ATs, the ‘Tenderloin’ and Popeye’s Voice
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Nov 09, 2017 |
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El Camino Not-So-Real: The True Story of the ‘Ancient Road’
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Nov 02, 2017 |
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Why Are There So Many Dead People in Colma? And So Few in San Francisco?
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Oct 26, 2017 |
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Wildfires: You’ve Got Questions, We’ve Got Answers
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Oct 20, 2017 |
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What are the Mysterious Brick Circles in San Francisco Intersections?
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Oct 12, 2017 |
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How San Francisco’s Drag Royalty Does Good, While Looking Fierce
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Oct 05, 2017 |
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Their Country Hated Them, But They Fought for It Anyway
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Sep 28, 2017 |
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Quake Prep: BART’s Tunnel Plan and the Muni Bus That Could Save You
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Sep 21, 2017 |
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History of the Berkeley Pier: A Ferry Tale
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Sep 14, 2017 |
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Parking After the Street Sweeper Passes: Legal or Not?
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Aug 31, 2017 |
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The History of Nudity in San Francisco Uncovered
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Aug 24, 2017 |
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Rusty Navy: The Bay Area’s ‘Mothball Fleet’ Enters a New Era
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Aug 17, 2017 |
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What Gets Shipped Through the Port of Oakland?
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Aug 10, 2017 |
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Mountain Lions: Real Threat to Bay Area Hikers?
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Aug 03, 2017 |
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The Mesmerizing Machine That Makes Your Golden Gate Bridge Drive Less Terrifying
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Jul 27, 2017 |
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The Island Ghost Town in the Middle of San Francisco Bay
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Jul 20, 2017 |
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What Is the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum and Why Is It in San Jose?
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Jul 13, 2017 |
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Why the ‘O’ in San Francisco’s Airport Code, SFO?
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Jun 29, 2017 |
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Living Without a Home in San Francisco: 3 stories and 4 questions
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Jun 22, 2017 |
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Homelessness: You’ve Got Questions, We’ve Got Answers
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Jun 22, 2017 |
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What Would Really Happen if a Tsunami Hit the Bay Area?
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Jun 15, 2017 |
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What’s With the Bison in Golden Gate Park?
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Jun 08, 2017 |
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What Dinosaurs Roamed the Bay Area?
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Jun 01, 2017 |
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You Live in S.F. and Your Home Was Built in 1906: True or False?
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May 25, 2017 |
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Are Plastic Bag Bans Actually Helping the Environment?
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May 18, 2017 |
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Can’t Get That Camping Spot? It Could Be Bots
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May 11, 2017 |
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It’s-It! The San Francisco Treat That Sparked a Cult Following
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May 04, 2017 |
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Who’s Behind the Colorful Lights at San Francisco City Hall?
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Apr 27, 2017 |
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What Makes San Francisco Sourdough Unique?
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Apr 20, 2017 |
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Why Do Giants Fans Hate the Wave? Oakland Started It.
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Apr 13, 2017 |
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These Colorful Dots Are For Your Health
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Apr 06, 2017 |
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It’s a Mushroom Bonanza This Year! What’s the Deal?
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Mar 30, 2017 |
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What Would It Take to Make Lake Merritt Swimmable?
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Mar 23, 2017 |
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What’s That Thing Off 280? The Flintstone House
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Mar 16, 2017 |
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How Does Rain Create More Potholes?
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Mar 09, 2017 |
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Why Do Some Hate the Nickname ‘Frisco’?
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Mar 02, 2017 |
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This Lumberjack Frat Once Had the Coolest Clubhouse in S.F.
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Feb 23, 2017 |
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Why is Marin County So White?
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Feb 16, 2017 |
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How Many Are Being Displaced by Gentrification in Oakland?
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Feb 09, 2017 |
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Why Does San Jose Have So Many Urban Islands?
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Feb 02, 2017 |
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For Sale: San Francisco Air
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Jan 26, 2017 |
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Is Air Quality in the Bay Area Getting Worse?
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Jan 26, 2017 |
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Ode to the Foghorn: The Sound of the Sea
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Jan 19, 2017 |
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For Whom The Foghorn Blows
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Jan 19, 2017 |
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Why Aren’t There Any Strip Clubs in the East Bay?
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Jan 12, 2017 |
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Sutro Tower: The Origins of an ‘Eyesore’
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Jan 05, 2017 |
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Does San Jose Deserve the Nickname ‘Man Jose’?
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Dec 29, 2016 |
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There’s a Secret Message to Decode in San Jose
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Dec 28, 2016 |
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How Much Truth Is There to Those ‘Speed Enforced by Aircraft’ Signs?
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Dec 22, 2016 |
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What Happens to San Francisco’s Recycling Once It Leaves the Curb?
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Dec 15, 2016 |
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Did the Emptying of Mental Hospitals Contribute to Homelessness?
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Dec 08, 2016 |
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Where Did the Wild Parrots of San Francisco Come From?
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Nov 24, 2016 |
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Where Did The Word ‘Hella’ Come From?
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Nov 17, 2016 |
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The Origins of ‘Hella’
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Nov 17, 2016 |
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Why Are BART Trains So Loud?
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Nov 10, 2016 |
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Why Are Ships Buried Under San Francisco?
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Nov 04, 2016 |
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Welcome to the Bay Curious Podcast
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Nov 02, 2016 |