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n. (plural of crosscurrent English)
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Crosscurrents is a half-hour evening newsmagazine from KALW Public Radio in San Francisco. The show launched on August 4, 2008, and is co-hosted by Holly Kernan and Hana Baba. Crosscurrents is a continuation of KALW's Public Interest Reporting project, which began in 2003 with the stated goal of promoting in-depth, local, not-for-profit reporting at a time of media consolidation and cutbacks.
Members of the Crosscurrents team have won awards including the Society of Professional Journalists Northern California Award for Best Explanatory Journalism in Broadcast, and the 2008 RTNDA Regional Edward R. Murrow Award for Continuing Coverage.
Crosscurrents is broadcast Monday through Thursday from 5:00 to 5:30 p.m. on 91.7 FM in the San Francisco Bay Area, and streams live. The show is also available as a podcast via the program's website.
Crosscurrents is funded through a combination of grants and listener contributions to KALW.
Crosscurrents is an album by American jazz pianist Bill Evans, recorded in early 1977 and released in 1978 on Fantasy as F 9568. Along with Evans' trio of Eddie Gómez and Eliot Zigmund, Lee Konitz and Warne Marsh guest on alto and tenor saxophone respectively.
Crosscurrents may refer to:
- CrossCurrents, a journal published by John Wiley & Sons
- Crosscurrents (radio program), a newsmagazine from KALW-FM Public Radio in San Francisco
- Crosscurrents (album), a 1977 album by American jazz pianist Bill Evans
- Crosscurrents (Lennie Tristano album), a 1949 [1972] album by American jazz pianist Lennie Tristano
- Cross Currents (album), a 1989 album by American musician Richard Souther
- Cross Currents (film), a 1935 British film
- Cross Currents, a 1987 album by Eliane Elias
Crosscurrents is an album by jazz pianist Lennie Tristano. It was recorded in 1949 and released by Capitol in 1972. The album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2013.
Usage examples of "crosscurrents".
Swirling winds, still fighting crosscurrents of shifting air streams, buffeted her first from one direction and then another.
Tara moved gracefully toward the table, unaware of the crosscurrents pulling at Ty.
Reflecting these crosscurrents, in March 1997, Secretary of State Albright delivered a speech on Iraq at Georgetown University.
Raymond Horgan, he exhibited monumental strength in reforming the office and especially in loosening the grip of the Police Force, with its political crosscurrents, over prosecutions.
The wind was stronger here, with a tangle of eddies and crosscurrents that seemed determined to knock her off her feet.
It was an amazing feat, but in that swirling sea with its crosscurrents he brought her in so the bow kissed the concrete with a touch as light as a feather.