Taking it to the Streets – March 8, 2007
This week on the show, our reporters hit the streets of the East Bay in search of the wide range of activities you can do with pavement underfoot, from swinging swords to peddling popsicles.
In Oakland, reporter John Peabody braves thunder and hail to watch the glass fly with a man who calls himself the city’s best recycler.
Host April Dembosky talks with UC Irvine political science professor Claire Kim about tension between Asian Americans and African Americans in the wake of a column in San Francisco publication AsianWeek titled “Why I Hate Blacks.”
Zachary Slobig reports from the secret parking lot where a group of proletariat polo players hit the pavement for a friendly, high-scoring game of bike polo, while explaining why they prefer wheels to horseshoes.
Reporter Angelica Marin walks along with the paleteros — ice cream sellers — of Oakland, and finds these hard-working immigrant vendors are sometimes targets of violence.
Josh Chin dodges wooden sword swipes underneath the Rockridge BART station with a king named Uther, and reports on a chivalrous form of modern combat.
And host Eric Simons sits down with Lawrence Hall of Science deputy director Susan Gregory, who chats about the influence of Ernest Lawrence, and what it’s like to hold a Nobel Prize.
This week’s show was produced by Abigail Curtis, and the assistant producer was Fulvio Paolocci. Charla Bear and Amy Jeffries were the studio engineers and Bob Butler is the faculty advisor. Theme music by Raw Deluxe. (Website: rawdeluxemusic.com)
North Gate Radio March 8, 2007
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