Steve Kushman

  Last weekend was the 77th Anniversary celebration of KPFA-FM. A screening of a documentary film was shown to a packed house at the Alameda Theatre followed by the after-party at Radio Central with well over 150 visitors thoroughly enjoying food…

CHRS   Our Sound Bites series continued last Saturday and congratulations go out to all our future broadcast/podcast stars. It was great fun seeing our young participants step up to the microphone and record public service announcements for the California Historical…

  --  DONATION PROCEDURE  -- FROM THE CURATOR Maureen Bourbin    Dear Members, Happy March! Spring is fast approaching and we’re doing a little spring cleaning of some of our procedures as we progress toward a productive year for the…

  -- NEW EXHIBIT -- HONORING WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH By Curator Maureen Bourbin Women’s History Month began in Sonoma, California in 1978 to coincide with International Woman’s Day on March 8. The movement grew, and in 1987, the United States Congress…

  -- CHRS LIVING HISTORIES -- GUEST SPEAKER SERIES PRESENTS ASK 'DR. HIP' Dr. Eugene Schoenfeld Join us for a conversation with Dr. Eugene Schoenfeld, better known to generations of Bay Area listeners as Dr. Hip. In the late 1960s…

-- TERRIFIC NEWS -- GOLDEN STAR RADIO NEON SIGN RESTORATION PROJECT IN PROGRESS! ANONYMOUS CHRS DONOR STEPS UP TO MAKE IT HAPPEN! Please meet the Tong Family, who was broadcasting Cantonese to the Asian community in San Francisco's Chinatown, before…

From Kim Brickman: Last Saturday, Radio Central played host to the first ever collaboration between ourselves and Bay Area Derby (B.A.D.). Our own Violet Becerra (AKA Hellacious) and several of her fellow skaters turned the CHRS parking lot into a…

Sam’s Birthdays March 6, 1946. That was the day that my voice was first thrust on the world  –  crying, cranky and loud. It seems that being a personality on TV and radio was always my destiny, from that noisy…