North Gate Radio

November 11th, 2009

The Underground

This week’s theme is the underground. We will take you six feet deep with celebrities of yesteryear and the people who just can’t let them go. We’ll also hear about efforts to ease the environmental cost of funerals. And we’ll follow an underground band that plays on street corners around San Francisco.


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Segments From This Show:

Spending the Day with Hollywood’s Dead

Los Angeles is a city that shamelessly worships celebrities. There are maps that meticulously detail where stars live, where they eat and where they shop. (more…)

The Ferocious Few

The Ferocious Few is a local underground rock duo. They play day and night, on street corners, outside big concerts — basically anywhere they might be heard. (more…)

Commentary by Japhet Weeks

Reporter Japhet Weeks never thought he’d lose sleep over the state of America’s sewers. Then an infrastructure project funded by federal stimulus money broke ground right outside his window. (more…)

Green Funerals

Many associate the underground with death. And these days, people are rethinking the environmental impact of death and dying. Reporter Clayton Trosclair takes us to a green funeral fair (more…)

One-on-One Conversation with Mark Goodwin

There may be far fewer kinds of dinosaurs than we once thought. Scientists digging deep underground have discovered that what they originally thought were three different species, (more…)