THE INTERSECTION
Exploring our changing cities. One street corner at a time. This season we are going to Burning Man. From KALW 91.7FM in San Francisco.
Find us online at www.theintersection.fm and on Twitter @IntersectionFM
- Update frequency
- every 12 days
- Average duration
- 22 minutes
- Episodes
- 38
- Years Active
- 2015 - 2025
S02 E06 - Is this Mountain View or Googleville?
Google accounts for 1 in 5 jobs and owns more land than anyone else. So, is Mountain View a new version of the old company town? In this episode we talk to locals, experts, journalists and officials …
S02 - HOLIDAY SPECIAL 02 - Marlena's at Hayes & Octavia (2013)
We'll head back to Googleville in the New Year. But first, THE INTERSECTION has a gift for you. It's the story of a San Francisco drag bar known for two things: owner Marlena (a.k.a. Gary) and her Ch…
S02 - HOLIDAY SPECIAL 01 - A Look Back at 3rd & Jerrold in Bayview
This week, while you're buzzing all over the country, THE INTERSECTION is digging into our archive and presenting the story of a corner that originally aired on KALW in 2014. It's about 3rd & Jerrold…
S02 E05 - Homeless in Googleville
Home, Sweet...RV? More than 100 Mountain View residents are living in their vehicles. Meet three of them, who are parked just steps away from our corner: a Google engineer in a deluxe RV parked on ca…
S02 E04 - The Sea Also Rises...in Googleville
Global warming may have some hyper-local consequences at our intersection. Journalist Kevin Stark writes about the impact of climate change on the San Francisco Bay, especially low-lying areas in Sil…
S02 E03 - Don't Call it a Trailer Park
It's Googleville's only housing. And it's a mobile home park built 50 years ago. Here, Googlers live alongside their blue-collar neighbors, new immigrants and seniors on fixed incomes. But when rent …
S02 E02 - Before it was Googleville
a.k.a. The twisted history of this corner.
Before it was Silicon Valley, this area was known as the Valley of Heart's Delight. The farms eventually gave way to nondescript office parks. And on this …
S02 E01- Getting to Googleville
We're spending this season at North Shoreline Boulevard and Space Park Way in the middle of Google's HQ in Mountain View. But first we have to get there. Over the course of this season, we'll break d…
PREVIEW - S02 - Welcome to Googleville
Googleville awaits. This season, we're heading to a corner in the middle of Google's headquarters in Silicon Valley: North Shoreline Blvd & Space Park Way. Starting November 7, we'll connect the dots…
SUMMER SPECIAL - Haight & Ashbury (1967)
Many assume the Summer of Love was the pinnacle of the Hippie movement. But the reality is a lot more complicated. KALW and THE INTERSECTION’s David Boyer dug into the archives of the 1960s and the m…
S01 E06 - Coda - Magic Wand
"What would you do with a magic wand on this corner?" In the last of episode of the season, we ask folks passing through Golden Gate Ave and Leavenworth in SF's Tenderloin to imagine what can be... W…
S01 E05 - Change
The G word. Gentrification. This week, we look at change on the corner of Golden Gate Avenue and Leavenworth Street in San Francisco's Tenderloin. And we hear why the Tenderloin will never be the nex…
S01 - Sound Portrait - Carolynn
Meet Carolynn, a 69-year-old, who is just one of the more than 4000 senior citizens living in the Tenderloin. We're met a lot of amazing people at the corner of Golden Gate and Leavenworth. Before we…
S01 E04 - Drugs
There's an open-air drug market on the corner. This episode of THE INTERSECTION looks at it from many different perspectives: the dealers, the police, the neighbors, the addicts. Find out why the dea…
S01 E03 - Labor
"It's the home of the American Dream...right here on the corner of Golden Gate and Leavenworth." The hospitality union has been here for 40 years. And in the poorest neighborhood in San Francisco, UN…
S01 E02 - Family
Most people don't think of kids when they think of San Francisco's Tenderloin. But there are more than 3000 children in the neighborhood. This episode of THE INTERSECTION explores what it's like to g…
S01 E01 - Home
Welcome to THE INTERSECTION and to the corner of Golden Gate Ave and Leavenworth St in the Tenderloin. While the neighborhood has the highest density of kids and seniors in San Francisco, it's associ…
PREVIEW - S01 - The Tenderloin
Check out a 3-minute teaser for THE INTERSECTION — a new podcast from David Boyer and KALW. The podcast launches Thursday, January 14. But you can subscribe now on iTunes at http://apple.co/1R6qNXL