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Celebrating Latinx Heritage Month at KQED

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KQED is proud to celebrate Latinx Heritage Month starting in mid-September. The special television programming lineup includes The Last Mambo, Kimball’s Milk Street Television, Cook’s Country and Pati’s Mexican Table.

Heritage Month Programming

A Tasty New Season of Check, Please! Bay Area

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KQED’s award-winning restaurant review program, Check, Please! Bay Area, returns with a lineup of five new episodes featuring delicious dining experiences from around the region. Each Thursday, host Leslie Sbrocco joins three local residents as they reveal their favorite places to go for a delectable meal. From a craft brew pub to an Arabic comfort food cafe to the country’s oldest cheese company, we have top picks and best bites from everyday viewers from the Bay! The feast of fun kicks off Thursday, September 7, at 7:30pm on KQED 9 or stream all episodes with the PBS App.

Where to Stream

Special thanks to the Check, Please! Bay Area sponsors:

Unforgotten Returns for Season 5

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The critically acclaimed cold-case drama Unforgotten is back for Season 5 as police officers Jessica James and Sunny Khan investigate the murder of a boy whose diary implicates four seemingly unconnected couples. Watch the first episode of the season on Sunday, September 3, at 9pm on KQED 9, or stream it on the PBS App or KQED Passport.

Where to Stream

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SFJAZZ

GRAMMY-nominated vocalist Lizz Wright kicks off SFJAZZ’s 2023-24 Season September 7-10, performing music from her forthcoming album "Shadows," which blends together jazz, blues, R&B, strings and soul. The concerts will also include a wide range of renditions of classic standards and covers, from Cole Porter to Candi Staton and more.

Learn more at sfjazz.org.

Walter Presents' Highlights Sisi: Austrian Empress

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Walter Presents' programs are a carefully curated selection of international dramas. If you’ve run out of English-language shows to binge, you’ll definitely find your new favorite program on Walter Presents. One of the best is Sisi: Austrian Empress – a lush historical drama about the rise of Empress Elisabeth of Austria. You can find all of Sisi: Austrian Empress on Passport now, and all of the amazing Walter Presents programs are available to Passport members on the PBS App.

Where to Stream

KQED Acquires the Snap Judgment and Spooked Podcasts

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KQED has acquired the popular award-winning public radio program and podcast series Snap Judgment and podcast series Spooked. The programs add to KQED’s growing list of top-rated nationally and locally focused podcasts and public radio programs that both inform and entertain listeners with fact-based journalism and evocative storytelling.

What We’re Listening to


Rightnowish Presents “Adorned” — The Art of Self Expression & Affirmation Since the beginning of time, people have found ways to express and celebrate themselves by making deliberate choices about how they show up in the world. The Rightnowish podcast explores rituals of adornment, including the ways we decorate ourselves and our living spaces. Each episode examines how these choices can energize, protect and convey our utmost desires and creativity.

The Bay’s (Overlooked) Contributions to Hip-Hop Hip-hop turned 50 years old in August, and it’s no secret that the Bay Area’s significant contributions to the genre get overlooked in its history book. To reset the record, Eric Arnold and Nastia Voynovskaya join The Bay podcast to talk about That’s My Word, KQED’s yearlong series dedicated to exploring the history of Bay Area hip-hop — and how our region has shaped its music and culture through the years.

Why San Francisco's Fillmore District Is No Longer the “Harlem of the West” In this episode of Bay Curious, originally aired in 2020, reporter Bianca Taylor explores the rise of the Fillmore as a cultural center for jazz and the “urban renewal” that ultimately changed the identity of the neighborhood, and forced out many of its residents.

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