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Guests and host Leslie Sbrocco tape the sixth episode of Season 8 of Check, Please! Bay Area at KQED.

Through the looking glass As a pioneer of virtual reality research, author and futurist Jaron Lanier is an expert on technology's impact on society.

Many Filipinos have considered South of Market in San Francisco home for more than a hundred years.

Guests and host Leslie Sbrocco tape the fourth episode of Season 8 of Check, Please! Bay Area at KQED.

From Union Bank: In celebration of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, Union Bank partnered with KQED to honor four extraordinary individuals - which included a man from Piedmont - as local heroes.

You may have already heard about San Francisco author Caroline Paul's new book Lost Cat on a recent episode of KQED's Forum .

Ah, the life of a high school girl. Remember what that was like? So many things to think about.

PBS and KQED , the Bay Area's public media outlet, are teaming up to create a new TV series combining the proven popularity of " Antiques Roadshow " with the ongoing interest in family history.

You can watch individual restaurant segments as well as view the entire episode online .

You've gotta love this familiar, whiskey-hued voice as it greets KQED listeners on lazy Sunday afternoons with, "Welcome to City Arts and Lectures , a season of talks and on-stage conversations recorded before a live theater audience in San Francisco.

Sarah Polley, a.k.a. Ramona Quimby /Oscar-nominated director/our Canadian girlfriend, stopped by the KQED studios for an episode of Forum and we just couldn't let her slip away without asking her a few questions.

Notes to self after watching this week's videos: Never get sent to death row in Yemen, try eating lettuce during a Syrian firefight to calm the nerves, and always nibble sparingly at the brownie when covering a medical marijuana event.

A reporter with a beat in the seedy dealings of medical marijuana found himself swallowing a bitter pill as he accidentally got a taste of his own medicine and was forced to re-evaluate his notions of the pot world.

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