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How to Bay Area is the show that teaches you how to get stuff done in the San Francisco Bay Area. Become a master of Bay Area living by joining KCBS Radio as we explore questions like “How to make it in the local music scene,” “How to catch Dungeness crab” and “How to help limit hunger.”

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Phynnecabulary

Poet residing in the SF Bay Area in the floufy pandemonium of errant ideas.

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Ella’s Voice

The official podcast of the Ella Baker Center, a nonprofit based in Oakland where everyday people organize every day to win change and build opportunities to make our communities safe, healthy and strong.

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Society & Culture

Check Your Shelf: The Oakland Public Library Podcast

Made possible by a Friends of the Oakland Public Library mini-grant, Check Your Shelf: The Oakland Public Library Podcast, invites listeners to take an inside look at OPL. Community Relations Librarian Amy Martin brings you inside the walls to get to know the library as a friend. The first season will feature six episodes diving

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WOKELAND

The podcast about Oakland. A sonic cultural ode. From the locals to the transplants, the deep East to the Lower Bottoms, and the kickback to the function. Each month, we’ll take a theme and dissect the different nuances of being Black in the Town from historical and current perspectives. Welcome to the land of the

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Congratulations Pine Tree

The Bay’s number one arts and culture podcast! with Kate Rhoades and Maysoun Wazwaz

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Meet The Brave

Emcee/Producer/Writer Mani Draper teamed up with his cousin and Writer – LG to create the Meet The Brave Podcast. The show captures the guys in an open space to work through thought, unfiltered dialogue, comedic banter, debate while offering their takes on current events….ultimately arriving at and exploring concepts ownership all the way around. This

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Outside Lands San Francisco

Nicole Meldahl and a rotating cast of hosts from the Western Neighborhoods Project (outsidelands.org) share San Francisco west side neighborhood history with humor, a real fact or two, and much-better-informed occasional guests.

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Victor Street Fiction

Victor Street Fiction is a collaboration between author, Adam Pettit, and musician, Aaron Collins. Every month, the duo release a hybrid of music and narrative, where, barring serials, each episode takes on its own genre and musical style.

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Stories from San Francisco and Beyond

Veteran radio reporter/storyteller Peter Finch and his friends hit the streets of the San Francisco Bay Area (and beyond) looking for interesting stories to tell.

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