This week we remember two amusement parks that have etched themselves into the imaginations of generations of Bay Area residents: Idora Park in Oakland and San Francisco's Playland at the Beach.
This story was reported by Christopher Beale. Bay Curious is made by Olivia Allen-Price, Katrina Schwartz, Amanda Font and Brendan Willard. Our Social Video Intern is Darren Tu. Additional support from Kyana Moghadam, Jen Chien, Jasmine Garnett, Carly Severn, Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez, Jenny Pritchett and Holly Kernan.
After a $13B deal, NFL football begins on Amazon tonight, streaming exclusively for the 1st time ever - because football is the holy grail. The founder of Patagonia just gave away his $3B baby - the ultimate mission statement. And your weekend Amtrak right might get canceled because the Railroad strike reveals how much we rely on Railroads.
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In the ancient world, only seven metals were identified and named: gold, silver, iron, lead, copper, mercury, and tin.Â
Tin probably doesnât rank up there with the other metals in terms of how interestingnessâŠ.or usefulness. Nonetheless, tin was incredibly important to the ancient world and remains incredibly important today.Â
In fact, tin is probably playing a role in your life right now, and you donât even know it.
Learn more about the wonderful world of tin on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
In Earworm and Event: Music, Daydreams, and Other Imaginary Refrains (Duke UP, 2022) Eldritch Priest questions the nature of the imagination in contemporary culture through the phenomenon of the earworm: those reveries that hijack our attention, the shivers that run down our spines, and the songs that stick in our heads. Through a series of meditations on music, animal mentality, abstraction, and metaphor, Priest uses the earworm and the states of daydreaming, mind-wandering, and delusion it can produce to outline how music is something that is felt as thought rather than listened to. Priest presents Earworm and Event as a tĂȘte-bĂȘcheâtwo books bound together with each end meeting in the middle. Where Earworm theorizes the entanglement of thought and feeling, Event performs it. Throughout, Priest conceptualizes the earworm as an event that offers insight into not only the way human brains process musical experiences, but how abstractions and the imagination play key roles in the composition and expression of our contemporary social environments and more-than-human milieus. Unconventional and ambitious, Earworm and Event offers new ways to interrogate the convergence of thought, sound, and affect.
Nathan Smith is a PhD Student in Music Theory at Yale University (nathan.smith@yale.edu)
A violent ex-con forces his son to commit crimes in this unforgettable memoir about family and survival.
Growing up on the Navajo Indian Reservation, David Crow and his three siblings idolized their dad, a self-taught Cherokee who loved to tell his children about his World War II feats. But as time passed, David discovered the other side of Thurston Crow, the ex-con with his own code of ethics that justified cruelty, violence, liesâeven murder. Intimidating David with beatings, Thurston coerced his son into doing his criminal bidding. Davidâs mom, too mentally ill to care for her children, couldnât protect him.
Through sheer determination, David managed to get into college and achieve professional success. When he finally found the courage to refuse his fatherâs criminal demands, he unwittingly triggered a plot of revenge that would force him into a deadly showdown with Thurston Crow. David would have only twenty-four hours to outsmart his fatherâthe brilliant, psychotic man who bragged that the three years he spent in the notorious San Quentin State Prison had been the easiest time of his life.
Raw and palpable, The Pale-Faced Lie: A True Story (Sandra Jonas Publishing, 2019) is an inspirational story about the power of forgiveness and the strength of the human spirit.
David Crow spent his early years on the Navajo Indian Reservation in Arizona and New Mexico. Through grit, resilience, and a thirst for learning, he managed to escape his abusive childhood, graduate from college, and build a successful lobbying firm in Washington, DC. Today, David is a sought-after speaker, giving talks to various businesses and trade organizations around the world. Throughout the years, he has mentored over 200 college interns, performed pro bono service for the charitable organization Save the Children, and participated in the Big Brothers Big Sisters program. An advocate for women, he donates a percentage of his royalties from The Pale-Faced Lie to Barrett House, a homeless shelter for women in Albuquerque. David and his wife, Patty, live in the suburbs of DC. Visit him at davidcrowauthor.com, on Facebook @authordavidcrow, on Twitter @author_crow, and on Instagram @dravidcrowauthor.
Daniel Moran earned his B.A. and M.A. in English from Rutgers University and his Ph.D. in History from Drew University. The author of Creating Flannery OâConnor: Her Critics, Her Publishers, Her Readers, he teaches research and writing at Rutgers and co-hosts the podcast Fifteen-Minute Film Fanatics, found at https://fifteenminutefilm.podb... and on Twitter @15MinFilm.
A listener noticed her garden didnât seem to have as many bees as usual buzzing about this summer. She wondered if the population in Illinois was on the decline. Curious City reporter Adriana Cardona- Maguigad finds out how the bees are doing and why experts are worried about the bees.
The news to know for Thursday, September 15th, 2022!
Weâll tell you how a looming railroad strike is already impacting Americans even before the deadline for a deal is here, and what was thought to be a package explosion at a university may have actually been a hoax.
Also, former R&B star R. Kelly has been convicted again.
Plus: a first for Thursday Night Football, what a new study found about your daily multi-vitamin, and why Patagoniaâs founder says heâs giving away his entire company in an unprecedented business moveâŠ
