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Daly City Is One of the Densest Cities in the Country. Why?
Daly City is only eight square miles, but it's one of the densest cities in the US. There are a few factors behind this, but one of the most interest…
5 years, 1 month ago
‘It’s Pure Energy’: How Hyphy Came to Define Bay Area Hip Hop
When it comes to cultural exports of the Bay Area, Hyphy is in a league of its own. The subgenre of hip hop has an up-tempo, hyperactive beat that ma…
5 years, 2 months ago
Who Were the First People to Live in the Bay Area?
Bay Curious listener Héctor Pérez has long wondered about the first people to call the Bay Area home. He wants to know what life was like for them an…
5 years, 2 months ago
What Questions Do You Have About the Drought?
This summer is shaping up to be really dry. Water officials around the Bay Area are asking people to conserve and wildfires are already burning throu…
5 years, 2 months ago
Trucks are Banned on Oakland’s I-580. These Sixth Graders Wondered Why
This week, we take on a question from the sixth graders at East Oakland's Life Academy of Health and Bioscience. Many of them live near Interstate 88…
5 years, 2 months ago
Lightning Round! The Bay Area's Arts Innovators
It’s arts appreciation week on Bay Curious! We take on questions about the tension between the creative freedom in the Bay vs commercial acclaim in t…
5 years, 3 months ago
San Jose Had 5 Chinatowns. Why Did They Vanish?
Most Bay Area residents know about the long established Chinatowns in San Francisco and Oakland, but did you know that San Jose used to have a Chinat…
5 years, 3 months ago
The Beautiful Bay Bridge Frank Lloyd Wright Never Got to Build
As soon as the Bay Bridge was completed in 1936, people wanted a second bridge. Even back then, traffic was terrible. Did you know the great American…
5 years, 3 months ago
Wait. There's A Volcano in the East Bay Hills?
If you head to Sibley Volcanic Regional Preserve above Oakland, you might wonder the same thing as Bay Curious listener Bourke MacDonald: How did a v…
5 years, 3 months ago
The True Story Behind the Myths and Mysteries of Searsville Lake
Bay Curious listener David Mattea grew up in foggy Daly City. He remembers his family driving down the Peninsula to get some sun at a man-made beach …
5 years, 4 months ago