Symphony Plays Music From NFL Films, Set to Football Highlight Reels
Football and music have always gone together. But how about football and classical music? To celebrate Sunday's Super Bowl 50 in Santa Clara, the San Francisco Symphony played two concerts this week featuring music written for TV specials and documentaries about the NFL. The goal is to attract new, younger audiences to the symphony.
California's Secretary of State Shares His Personal Story as a Porter Ranch Refugee
Thousands of residents are still displaced from the community of Porter Ranch in L.A.'s San Fernando Valley as methane continues to spew from a massive natural gas leak. This week, L.A. County filed criminal charges against the Southern California Gas Company. Attorney General Kamala Harris added yet another lawsuit, alleging health and safety violations. She says the leak harms all of California by spiking greenhouse gas emissions. We talk with one of those displaced from Porter Ranch, California's Secretary of State Alex Padilla.
In One Central Valley Park, Graffiti is No Crime
Very few public places in California allow graffiti on their walls. But there's one wall a quarter mile long where graffiti is perfectly legal -- at a park in Fresno. About 80 artists from across California aimed their spray cans at the wall recently, as a tribute to their crew's founder.
An 'Unauthorized Diary' of Silicon Valley, From Its Underside
You probably think of Silicon Valley as a land of tech moguls and quick fortunes. But a new book of essays is challenging readers to see another side of California's iconic boomtown, through the eyes of its factory workers, ice cream cart pushers and metal scrappers. Even a swimming pool installer who predicts who's going to strike it rich based on the size of their backyard pool. It's called "DeBug: Voices from the Underside of Silicon Valley." We talk with Liz Gonzales, editor with DeBug, a San Jose-based community journalism group, and Anthony King, who contributed one of the book's essays.
New S.F. Chinatown Restaurants Bring Big Changes, Revive Traditions
Monday officially marks Chinese Lunar New Year -- and it's the Year of the Monkey. San Francisco, home to California's oldest Chinatown, is celebrating all month long. Some of the city's historic banquet halls, though, won't be hosting traditional New Year parties. They've closed their doors. We hear about two Bay Area chefs trying to resurrect Chinatown's high-end dining with a modern twist.