This Week: Jacinta Vlach
Original air date: February 2010. Produced by Spark for This Week in Northern California.
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Watch us on Comcast channels 29 & 76, Astound channels 29 & 30, and AT&T channel 99.
KQED Spark - Anna Von Mertens
Spark explores the method and meaning behind Anna Von Mertens's quilts that are covered with as many as 100,000 handsewn stitches. Original air date: May 2004. For more information, go to: http://www.kqed.org/arts/programs/spark/profile.jsp?essid=4163Download the corresponding educator guide for classroom activity ideas and further information about this subject at: http://www.kqed.org/assets/pdf/arts/programs/spark/219.pdf
This Week: Oakland Mayor Jean Quan
Scott Shafer talks with Oakland Mayor Jean Quan. Her first year in office has been a turbulent one, with the challenges of the Occupy Oakland movement, the city budget, job cuts due to the loss of state redevelopment funding, and a recall effort.
This Week: News Panel for January 27, 2012
California's sweeping new auto emission regulations, requiring that 15 percent of new cars sold in the state by 2025 produce little or no smog, could reshape the entire American automobile industry. The city of Richmond wins the intense competition by half a dozen Bay Area cities to be the coveted site of the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab's second campus. The 49ers stadium project in Santa Clara hits another snag with a petition drive to put it back on the ballot before voters, a week after the team loses its chance to be in the Super Bowl. Guests:Paul Rogers, San Jose Mercury NewsAmy Standen, KQED's QUESTC.W. Nevius, San Francisco Chronicle
This is Us #404
Becca and the This is Us crew visit Happy Hollow Park and Zoo in San Jose. Happy Hollow celebrates it's 50th Anniversary and open the park to our cameras and give us a behind the scenes tour. In this episode we introduce three local community leaders, Sal Khan, who's transforming education with YouTube videos, Sylvia McLaughlin, who was at the forefront of Saving The San Francisco Bay from landfill and Nell Newman, who's Newman's Own Organics company has given more than $20 million to charities.
KQED Spark - Ken Goldberg
Spark meets Ken Goldberg who conducts whimsical experiments in human behavior to explore the artistic possibilities of the Web. Original air date: March 2004. For more information, go to: http://www.kqed.org/arts/programs/spark/profile.jsp?essid=4536Download the corresponding educator guide for classroom activity ideas and further information about this subject at: http://www.kqed.org/assets/pdf/arts/programs/spark/210.pdf
Liberty Ship Café in Richmond, Ca
Liberty Ship Café, a new workers’ cooperative in Richmond, Ca.
South Indian Dance with Bharatanatyam Dancer Pallavi Sriram
is program is co-presented with Pallavita ( http://pallavita.org/ )
BMOC Mic Check. January 14th, 2012
Shot by Sean Shavers & Paul Billingsley Interviews by Donny Lumpkins & Sean Shavers Edit by Paul Billingsley
