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Examining how California is responding to climate change.

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A window into health in California.

Weekend of November 24-26, 2006

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San Francisco Food Bank's Hunger 101

Food banks across the state will be distributing millions of pounds of food during the holiday season alone. The San Francisco Food Bank will give away 3 million pounds, much of it to people like those represented in its Hunger 101 program.

  • More: photo slideshow : see photos of the San Francisco Food Bank's Hunger 101 workshop
  • More: Hunger 101 : The online version of the San Francisco Food Bank's workshop.

Stew: A Different Kind of Singer-Songwriter

If the term "singer-songwriter" evokes visions of sensitive folkies strumming in cafes, you haven't met Mark Stewart, the musician better known as Stew. These days, Stew is in transition from rocker to theater star, and from the Bay Area to the Big Apple, giving the "songwriter" label an even more uncommon sound.Reporter: Colin Berry


Music Bridge #1: "Dark State of Mind" by Tuatara, from "Breaking the Ethers" (Epic)

Preserving a Rural Sierra Nevada (Part 2 of 3)

Travel any highway leading into the Sierra Nevada and you'll see sprawling subdivisions overtaking family farms and ranches. Houses and shopping malls sprout where vegetables grew and cattle used to graze. Earning a living in agriculture in the Sierra foothills means finding ways to make profitable connections with the millions of suburban residents living close by. One way is agricultural tourism.Reporter: Catherine Stifter

  • More: Saving the Sierra : a public media and citizen storytelling project documenting community efforts to conserve the environment, culture and economy of the Sierra Nevada

Cult Comedy Group Turns 40

This month, cult comedy group The Firesign Theatre turns 40. The Firesign got it's start on a Los Angeles radio station in 1966, and since then, the four-man group has continued its surreal, absurdist brand of comedy on albums, books, films and stage shows.Reporter: Steve Hochman


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