This week’s show is Outside the Box. We’ll find out about a new strategy for reversing high diabetes rates among Latino seniors—dance class. We’ll meet street performers whose work life is anything but mundane. We’ll also meet grilled cheese masters who are more cordon bleu than corner deli. You’ll hear from pit bull owners who say their dogs should be loved, not feared. And we have a story about an outdoor art piece that liberates the secrets of libraries, and we’ll talk to a guy whose career plan is to not to work one job, but fifty.

The producer of today’s show was Jude Joffe-Block. Our executive producer was Ben Manilla. The assistant producer was Karen Weise. The anchors were Linsay Rousseau Burnett and Nicholas Kusnetz. The engineer was Vianna Davila. The webmaster is Ian Sherr.

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Music from this show includes:

“Lazaro y Su Microfono” performed by Eddie Palmieri
“Habana del Este” performed by the Afro Cuban All Stars
“Candela” performed by Buena Vista Social Club
“Golden Brown” performed by the Stranglers
“I Wanna Be Your Dog” performed by The Stooges
“Express Yourself” performed by Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band
“Mr. Outsider” performed by Aceyalone
“Virtuozitati” performed by Marian Mexicanu

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Diabetes in the District

Diabetes has hit the Mission District hard. The population there is almost twice as likely to be hospitalized for the chronic disease than other San Franciscans. Now, a new health program is addressing the problem at its root.

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Twice a month, Mission Neighborhood Health Center teams up with the Oberlin Dance Collective for “Bailamos,” a 30 minute wellness class taught by Humu Yansane incorporating yoga and salsa dancing.

The goal, says Yansane, is “to release stress, enourage blood circulation, body awareness and stress relief techniques for MNHC health population who suffer from diabetes, stroke, heart disease and high
blood pressure.”

photo by Madeline Bair

photo by Madeline Bair

photo by Madeline Bair

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Santa Cruz Street Performers

Since UC Santa Cruz opened in 1965, the college town on the coast ninety minutes south of Berkeley has been a place for free public expression. Elizabeth Shemaria takes us there to experience today’s street performance scene.

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For more information about The Great Morgani, please visit thegreatmorgani.com
For more information about Tom Noddy and his bubble magic, please visit, ttomnoddy.com
For more information and The Abbott’s, please visit, playingbyear.com

Kyle and Luke Abbott

Luke and Papa Abbott

Nessie and her Beard

Nessie and her Beard

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Cheese Lovers Unite at Dolores Park Grill-Off

Do you think you cook a mean grilled cheese? How about asking a few hundred avid fans what they think? On February 21, bold grillers congregated in San Francisco for the Second Annual NorCal Grilled Cheese Invitational contest. Nicholas Kusnetz has the report.

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First to the festival website: http://grilledcheeseinvitational.com
And to the documentary site: http://www.breadbuttercheesevictory.com/

A burnt pan and scraps are all that are left of this sandwich

Michael Davidson and Grandma’s Revenge

A lucky cheese lover earns the right to judge a sandwich

Grillers prepare to compete in Dolores Park

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Pit Bull Redemption?

Pit bulls have a pretty scary reputation. But some fans want to change that. Jude Joffe-Block has this report.

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Uba, one of the rescued pit bulls from Michael Vick’s dogfighting bust, with his new owner, Letti De Little.

Pit bull training class at the Berkeley Aquatic Park

For more information on Bad Rap, visit http://www.badrap.org/rescue/

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Bluerain

San Francisco’s Mission District is known for its many colorful murals, and, recently, thousands of blue lights lit up the side of a nondescript four-story building. Bluerain became an unexpected landmark in a central corridor of the neighborhood. Angela Kilduff brought back this report.

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