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The Poetry of a Classroom

Carol Smaldino | Posted 04.08.2012

Read More: Pacifica, Education, Poetry From a Hidden Classroom, Children, Wbai, Dennis Bernstein, School, Poetry, Education News
Carol Smaldino

This is not the pretty poetry that makes you smile knowingly at the talent of even the most impoverished lives made quaint. It's rather the gift to the reader of sad, tragic, even brutal information.

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Controversial Golf Course Moves One Step Closer To Shutting Down

Aaron Sankin | Posted 12.15.2011

Read More: Supervisor John Avalos, Sharp Park Golf Course, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Sharp Park Closure, Sharp Park, Pacifica, San Francisco Board of Supervisors, Sharp Park Shutdown, Red-Legged Tree Frog Habitat, San Francisco News

Pacifica's Sharp Park golf course may soon see its last birdie. Although, the park's frogs will probably be safe for a long time to come. In a 6-5 ...

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Small Earthquake Shakes San Francisco On Anniversary Of 1906 Disaster

AP | Posted 06.18.2011

Read More: Natural Disasters, California, Earthquakes, San Francisco Earthquake, Pacifica, Earthquake, 1906-San-Francisco-Earthquake, US-Geological-Survey, San Francisco, Usgs, Bill Delmonte, Green News

PACIFICA, Calif. -- A small earthquake centered near San Francisco rattled the area hours after a ceremony was held to mark the anniversary of the 190...

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Pacifica Sacks the KPFA Morning Show

Aaron Glantz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Non-Profits, Layoffs, Media, Kpfa, Pacifica, Media News
Aaron Glantz

Here's a tip. If your non-profit radio network is facing a financial crisis, it's best not to kill your most successful program. But that's exactly w...

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TED, Solar Power, Windpower, and All Things Amerikana: A Conversation with Thomas Dolby

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pacifica, Van Morrison, Al Gore, Natalie MacMaster, Houdini, Paul Simon, An Inconvenient Truth, Grace Jones, Trever Horn, Dolby's Cube, Bruce Wooley & the Camera Club, Gordon Brown, Stevie Wonder, Lene Lovich, Ted, Technology Education & Design, Mtv, Tracy Chapman, Frank Zappa, Bill Clinton, Dan Hicks, Guy Ritchie, Mike Shipley, Nokia, The Buggles, Theremin, George Clinton, Mark Knopfler, Grammy Awards, Roger Dean, Prefab Sprout, Regina Spektor, They Might Be Giants, Herbie Hancock, Danny Kleinman, Larry Klein, Dire Straits, Howard Jones, Natalie Merchant, Quentin Tarantino, Joni Mitchell, Def Leppard, Blade Runner, James Bond, Thomas Dolby, Silicon Valley, Foreignor, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

"Among other things I do," says the British musician, "I'm the music director of an organization called TED or Technology, Education and Design. That's an annual get together of people sort of figuring out how to save the planet."

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Towards A Just Communications System: Pacifica Radio and the Never-Ending Battle

Tracy Rosenberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kpfk, Pacifica, Media Justice, Wbai, Kpft, Community Radio, Interest, Radio, Media Reform, Wpfw, Alliance, Media, Communications, Public, Kpfa, Lpfm, Savekpfa, Independents for Community Radio, Icr, Save KPFA, Media News
Tracy Rosenberg

I often hear, as a Pacifica Foundation board member that terrestrial radio in general and Pacifica radio in particular, is irrelevant. I would make t...

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What DID They Mean by That? A Week of Truthiness and Media

Tracy Rosenberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Google, Polls, Verizon, Save KPFA, Gulf Oil Spill, Net Neutrality, Offshore Oil Drilling, Googlezon, Community Radio, Corporate Sellout, Corporate Greed, Pacifica, Oil, Bloomberg, Deepwater Horizon, Savekpfa, Save, Media News
Tracy Rosenberg

Ever had one of those weeks where the distance between what was said and what was done stretches way out into the blue yonder? In my job as director o...

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An Interview With Buffy Sainte-Marie, Plus Train and Digital 45 Updates

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chaka Khan, Columbia Records, Afrika Bambaataa & the Soul Sonic Force, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Scorr Underwood, The Doobie Brothers, Rickie Lee Jones, Seals & Crofts, Air America, Vanguard Records, Commander John Herrington, The Charlatans, Cash for Clunkers, Sesame Street, Woodstock, Vietnam War, The Cradleboard Teaching Project, Chumbawamba, Van Morrison, Phil Ochs, Third Eye Blind, Jimmy Stafford, Georgia Satellites, Eric Anderson, Rhino Entertainment, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Digital 45, Donovan, Marc Cohn, Judy Collins, Folk, First Nations, Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons, Train, Neil Diamond, Martin Terefe, Kellogg Foundation, Elvis Presley, Npr, Itunes, Rhino Records, David Lee Roth, Mr. Big, Pat Monahan, Nasa, Alannah Myles, Anita Baker, The Marcels, President Obama, The Highwaymen, Grateful Dead, Native Americans, Genesis, Keith Olbermann, Fred Neil, Glen Campbell, Harry Chapin, Joan Baez, Tom Rush, Joe Cocker, Foghat, Ford Foundation, Pacifica, Gordon Lightfoot, Entertainment News, Jennifer Warnes, Morrissey, Bobby Bare, Tommy James and the Shondells, Randy Travis, Jon Stewart, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

This being Woodstock Week, it seemed a perfect time to catch-up with this artist whose music influenced many of those who appeared at the culture-changing event.

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