Get your summer reading list in order with a little help from KQED Forum:What Are You Reading This Summer? | KQEDwww.kqed.orgIt's Forum's annual summer book show. We'd like to hear your recommendations for a good book to throw in a beach bag, prop next to your fishing pole, or relax with in the shade of a tree. Whether your idea of a great summer read is 'Gone Girl' or 'War and Peace,' call or write with your picks.

Will new Converse and Levi's stores in SF attract coveted Millennial consumers?Will New Converse and Levi’s Stores in SF Attract Millennials the Brands Covet? : KQED Popblogs.kqed.orgWith Levi’s and Converse both soon finding homes near Market and Powell, their savvy advertisers are hoping to convince you just how cool the brands still are.

The art of vegetable carving from Bay Area Bites:Watch Master Fruit & Vegetable Carver Jimmy Zhang Make Melons Bloom and Carrots Fly : Bay Area Bitesblogs.kqed.orgWant to carve a rearing horse out of taro, tropical fish from carrots or a roaring dragon out of giant radishes? Watch Chef Jimmy Zhang, Master of the Chinese Art of Fruit and Vegetable carving in this video as he fashions an exquisite watermelon rose and shares the secrets of this ancient craft.

Get ready for Treasure Island Music Festival with this Noise Pop podcast:Treasure Island Music Festival 2013 Lineup | KQEDwww.kqed.orgListen to the Noise Pop Podcast previewing some of the acts that will be performing at the Treasure Island Music Festival including: Animal Collective, Disclosure, James Blake, Phantogram, Sleigh Bells and more.

Belva Davis and Nicole Atkinson Roach with their Emmys for their story about Maya Angelou!

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What are you reading this summer? Join the discussion on KQED Forum at 10am:What Are You Reading This Summer? | KQEDwww.kqed.orgIt's Forum's annual summer book show. We'd like to hear your recommendations for a good book to throw in a beach bag, prop next to your fishing pole, or relax with in the shade of a tree. Whether your idea of a great summer read is 'Gone Girl' or 'War and Peace,' call or write with your picks.

Looking back at the fight against Japanese relocation camps on KQED Forum at 9:30am:The Fight Against the Japanese Relocation Camps: 70 Years Later | KQEDwww.kqed.orgIn 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, authorizing the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans in what he called 'concentration camps.' A few Japanese Americans defied that order; one of them, Gordon Hirabayashi, broke curfew and refused to go to camp. He became th...

Win tickets to Hugh Maskela and Larry Willis at Yoshi’s Oakland! #giveawayWin Tickets to Hugh Maskela and Larry Willis at Yoshi’s Oakland | The Giveawayblogs.kqed.orgTwo-time Grammy awarded artist Hugh Masekela is Africa's most important jazz and world musician. His song called Bring Him Back Home became the anthem for

This summer we will be producing a documentary about Janis Joplin. We would love to talk with anyone who knew her. If you knew her or know someone who did, please leave us a comment or send email to becca at kqed dot org and a producer will be in touch. We'd also be interested in any amateur photos or footage of Janis you might like to share. If we use your images, you will get credit in the show.

Tomorrow on KQED Forum: Syria Dominates G-8, 9am; The Fight Against the Japanese Relocation Camps: 70 Years Later, 9:30am & Summer Reading, 10am.Forum | KQEDwww.kqed.orgKQED's live call-in program presents wide-ranging discussions of local, state, national and international issues, as well as in-depth interviews.

Congrats to all the 6 Northern California Emmy winners from KQED!The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences San Francisco/Northern California Chapteremmysf.tvEMMYSF

Tune in to Charlie Rose tonight for an exclusive interview with President Obama, 8pm on KQED World & 12am on KQED 9Charlie Rose - Homewww.charlierose.comAcclaimed interviewer and broadcast journalist Charlie Rose engages America's best thinkers, writers, politicians, athletes, entertainers, business leaders, scientists and other newsmakers in one-on-one interviews and roundtable discussions.

See Daniel Ellsberg discuss the NSA Leaks on This Week in Northern California:

Exclusive Radiolab tickets for KQED! November 12 at the Flint Center, and November 13 at Paramount, KQED welcomes Radiolab to the Bay Area. Cataclysmic destruction. Surprising survival. In this new live stage performance, Radiolab turns its gaze to the topic of endings, both blazingly fast and agonizingly slow. With their signature blend of storytelling, science, and music, hosts Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich romp through hundreds of millions of years of history to arrive at the end, again and again. Tickets now on sale atCode is RADIO. General on-sale begins at 10am June 19.

Want to win a 2013 Subaru Impreza Premium Sedan? Or a seven-night Canadian adventure for two? Look for your KQED Member Sweepstakes packet in the mail and send in the entry form! For official rules, entry details and prize descriptions, visit our website ator call 415-553-2150.

Get to know your local royal family:Keeping Up with the Coppolas: The Bay Area’s Royal Family : KQED Popblogs.kqed.orgBigger than an empire, the Coppola Family makes up a constellation of individuals united by blood, stardom, and canned wine.

Funny, dense, and often confusing world of the Chinese afterlife:No Game Over in Crowded Fire's Videogame Afterlife | KQEDwww.kqed.orgPlaying Dance Dance Revolution in the Chinese Land of the Dead is par for the course in Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig's play 410[GONE].

Wednesday 6/19, 3-10pm Bruce & Kim Bochy will host an event to raise funds for the SF Homeless Prenatal Program at Amici's East Coast Pizzeria's 2 SF locations. Great raffle prizes including Bruce's personal tickets for game vs. Red Sox, & 100% of Amici's sales go to HPP!. More info:

Go inside the lives of Humbolt's pot growers on KQED Forum at 10am:Inside the Lives of Humboldt's Pot Growers | KQEDwww.kqed.orgIn Humboldt County, marijuana supports everything from fire departments to schools. Some residents welcome the prospect of legalization. Others want to stick with the inflated profits of the black market. In 2010, journalist Emily Brady decided she would move to Humboldt and live among pot growers.…

New Yorker staff writer Jeffrey Toobin joins KQED Forum at 9am to discuss the big cases facing the Supreme Court:Jeffrey Toobin Previews Historic Supreme Court Rulings | KQEDwww.kqed.orgWithin the next few weeks, the U.S. Supreme Court is set to release several major decisions on a range of hot-button issues including same-sex marriage and the use of race in undergraduate admissions. New Yorker staff writer Jeffrey Toobin joins us to discuss the big cases facing the court, and his…

With condors on the brink, California considers a lead-bullet ban for hunters: KQED Science Radio, 8:33am.Listen Livewww.kqed.orgListen Live to KQED Public Radio 88.5 in San Francisco and 89.3 in Sacramento.

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