Makin’ It
The producer of today's show was Karen Weise. Our executive producer was Ben Manilla. The assistant producer was Amanda Dyer. The anchors were Emma Brown and Noah Buhayar. The engineer was Rina Palta. The webmaster is Ian Sherr. Music from this show includes: "Meat is Murder" by The Smiths "Life's a messy business." That's the tagline for the soon-to-be released movie Sunshine Cleaning, a feel-good flick starring Amy Adams. She plays a sweet-faced single mom who mops up crime scenes in order to send her son to school. "I own my own crime scene cleanup service," she says. "We come into people's lives when they have experienced something profound, and sad, and we help." But not all crime-scene cleaners are quite so sensitive. Our Emma Brown learns that in the real world, it takes a different attitude to make the most of morbid situations. Download link: Here It's hard to call Neal Smither a media darling -- he's just so far from darling. But anyone with a microphone and a sense of humor appreciates Smither's straightforward approach to mixing death and capitalism. A documentary team just wrapped up months of shooting Smithers and his crime-scene cleaning colleagues for a TV series to be aired in the United Kingdom. And Smither is the subject of Mop Men, a book by Brit Alan Emmins that was recently released to positive reviews in the United States. Says Bucky Sinister of the New York Post, "Mop Men" is half true crime, half memoir. It's either the most emotionally involved crime book I've ever read, or the goriest memoir. For a look at crime scene cleaners in action, check out this clip from a 2006 documentary on the company. And if you're interested in starting your own business, you can find industry basics here. Good luck. Recently, employees at several Oakland businesses have been making it despite some setbacks. Several times now, they’ve arrived at work only to find that they can’t get in. Their locks have been glued shut and their windows broken. The vandals have yet to be caught, but businesses have a pretty good idea of who’s doing the damage. Amanda Dyer has the story. Download link: Here Allied Pringle Food Sales: For over three decades, small non-profit and government agencies have quietly helped millions of low-income families make their homes more energy efficient. Now, in this time of economic pain, these organizations are getting an unlikely boost—five billion dollars of federal stimulus funding. Reporter Karen Weise finds what how that money will be used. Download link: Here The City of Oakland has stumbled on a way to make big bucks out of cheap dates. In December, the city-owned Paramount Theatre revived a beloved tradition, called Movie Classics. On select Friday evenings, modern movie-goers can enjoy the same kind of entertainment the theatre offered when it opened 78 years ago, using a business model that has worked since the Great Depression. Download link: Here For more information on the Paramount's schedule of upcoming movie classics, visit their website: http://www.paramounttheatre.com/film.html Since 1961, the Allegro Music Store in Fremont has been a source for musical instruments, private lessons and repair services. But there was a time when the fate of the store looked shaky. Linsay Rousseau Burnett has this story. Download link: Here The Allegro Music Store in Fremont, CA has been in business since 1961. Take a tour through the store over the years and listen to what people have to say about it. To view the full VuVox presentation, go here Big companies and banks keep failing, but how are small businesses doing? Fernando Gallo sat down with David Charron from the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship to find out. Download link: Here Here are links to the websites of some of the companies that Charron's students have started: mojamix.com
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"Don't Stop Believin'" by Journey
"Can't Nobody Hold Me Down" by Puff Daddy
"Boy with a Coin" by Iron & Wine
"Faith" by George Michael
"Stand by Me" by Ben E. King
"Let it Be" by The Beatles
"Take the Long Way Home" by Supertramp
"You Can't Always Get What You Want" by The Rolling Stones
"Jamming" by Bob Marley & The Wailers
Banking on Death's Mess
The company's logo
East Bay businesses vandalized
Weatherization is an early test of Obama's stimulus strategy
Weatherizers use a blower door to force air into a house and measure how much leaks out.
Crowe reads the gages and determines that this home leaks the equivalent of having a three-foot square hole permanently in the side of the house.
Brett Crowe trains new hire Jesus Ruiz to track the energy leakage at an older home in Richmond.
Contra Costa County's agency expects it will need to purchase and outfit five new vans because of stimulus funding.
Movie Classics at Oakland's Paramount Theatre
Photo by Howard Hsu
Photo by Howard Hsu
Photo by Howard Hsu
Photo by Howard Hsu
Photo by Howard Hsu
Making it with Music
Allegro Music Store
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Owner Charlotte Jansky at the store
Allegro's checkout counter in the early 1970s.
Owner Charlotte Jansky and store manager Clarence Day talk to a guitar salesman at the Allegro store in the early 1970s
Clarence Berry shows Cheryl Slavazza and her daughter Alexandria the clarinet they will be taking home as part of Allegro's band instrument rental program.
Gabe Eaton is one of two instrument repair specialists at Allegro. He also plays alto saxophone with the Marcus Shelby Jazz Orchestra.
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