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Retailers hope for hordes of shoppers on Black Friday, the traditional day of buying fever after Thanksgiving. In this hour, we focus on what appeals to tweens and teens and why and how they buy.

Retailers hope for hordes of shoppers on Black Friday, the traditional day of buying fever after Thanksgiving. In this hour, we focus on what appeals to tweens and teens and why and how they buy.

What's the one place you would take a visitor to show off the Bay Area? We talk with Bay Area fun-finders about the best siteswalks, museums and more.

What's the one place you would take a visitor to show off the Bay Area? We talk with Bay Area fun-finders about the best siteswalks, museums and more.

Adam Phillips joins us in studio to discuss his new book, "On Kindness."

Author James McManus joins us to discuss his new book, "Cowboys Full: The Story of Poker."

City Arts & Lectures has donated over 28 years of its guest interto the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley. The digital audio archives of more than 1,300 programs will be made available at UC Berkeley libraries and online campus terminals. We talk to ...

Yesterday President Obama, meeting with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, said "the relationship between the United States and India will be one of the defining partnerships of the 21st century." Closer to home, a recently released study by the Bay ...

Philippines President Gloria Arroyo has declared a state of emergency in two southern provinces after the death toll from election-related violence more than doubled to 46 on Tuesday. We'll get an update on the situation.

John McMurtrie, book editor for the San Francisco Chronicle, and host Michael Krasny elicit listener recommendations of the best books for that elusive quiet moment during the flurry of this year's holiday season.

The four-month-old California state budget is already out of balance by at least $6.3 billion, according to the nonpartisan California Legislative Analyst. This hour, we take up California's fiscal outlook.

For his new book about the "Ed Sullivan Show," former San Francisco Chronicle columnist Gerald Nachman interviewed more than 60 artists who performed on the program including Carol Burnett, Jackie Mason and Alan King. Nachman joins us to discuss the show ...

The Senate faces a crucial vote on Saturday to decide whether it will move the health care bill forward to a floor debate. We get an update on the developments and discuss the next steps.

A state program that has invested billions to shrink class sizes is coming apart, and the number of kids in many California classrooms is at the highest level in more than a decade. That's according to a new investigation by California Watch, a project ...

Voters will go to the polls next year to elect a new governor, as well as to determine the political fate of the state's junior senator, Barbara Boxer. A year out, there's already a lot of action in the races. We take stock of the political jockeying and ...

In response to the UC Regents' vote to raise tuition by 32 percent, a group of UC Berkeley students has taken over Wheeler Hall and barricaded themselves from police in protest. We get an update on the situation. Then, drivers on seven Bay Area bridges ...

Author and journalist Michael Specter believes that public fear and skepticism of technological developments -- from vaccines to genetically modified foods to synthetic biology -- threaten to undermine scientific progress. He joins us in studio to ...

New Yorker staff writer Hendrik Hertzberg joins us in studio to discuss his new book, "!OBAMANOS!- The Birth of a New Political Era."

In her new book "The Lacuna," bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver crafts a complex piece of historical fiction spanning three decades of Mexican and American history. Chronicling everything from the lives of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera in 1930s Mexico ...