KQED Perks Final Weeks of Summer Fun August 5–11 Gilroy Gardens Family Theme Park 3050 Hecker Pass Road, Gilroy 408.840.7100 gilroygardens.org
Show your KQED MemberCard for $20 off each adult general admission. At Gilroy Gardens you’ll find majestic circus trees, a Splash Garden where kids of all ages play, and much more, including more than 40 rides designed for toddlers to big kids. There’s even an authentic railroad.
August 12–18 (closed Tuesday) The Walt Disney Family Museum The Presidio of San Francisco 415.345.6800 waltdisney.org
Show your KQED MemberCard for one free youth (ages 6–17) admission with full price adult general admission. (Children 5 and under are always free.) Immerse yourself in the remarkable life story of Walt Disney through interactive galleries featuring films, music, artifacts and a spectacular model of Disneyland.
August 19–25 San Francisco Zoo On Sloat Boulevard at the Great Highway, next to the Pacific Ocean 415.753.7080 sfzoo.org
Show your KQED MemberCard for one free child admission with paying adult. Visit the zoo’s special traveling exhibit Travesía: Journey of the Gray Whale, a bilingual, multimedia show exploring the amazing migratory world of gray whales. On Saturday, August 24, come meet Curious George and the Man in the Yellow Hat.
KQED Member Days at Legion of Honor Join KQED at the Legion of Honor on Thursday, August 8, and Friday, August 9, for KQED Member Days. View the museum’s new exhibtion Impressionists on the Water, exploring the significant role sailing played in the art and lives of the impressionists and post-impressionists. More than 80 paintings and works offer diverse perspectives on the world of sailing as seen from the shoreline and floating studios directly on the water. Admission is free to KQED members who present a current KQED MemberCard and valid ID at the museum admission desk, for up to two tickets total. Tickets based on availability and are timed. More information: kqed.org/memberday.
Summer Discounts at SFJAZZ Center Join KQED at the new SFJAZZ Center for Summer Sessions, through August 25. KQED members can enjoy a 25 percent discount on tickets for Masters of the Piano week: John Beasley’s MONK’estra Big Band (8/22, 7:30pm); Eric Reed (pictured) and Benny Green (8/23, 7:30pm); Marcus Roberts (8/24, 7:30pm); and Stride Piano Summit with Dick Hyman, Mike Lipskin and Stephanie Trick (8/25, 7:30pm). Visit sfjazz.org and use the promo code KQED25 (case sensitive) to receive your discount.
Photos: (top to bottom) courtesy featured Summer Fun organizations; Gustave Caillebotte, Regatta at Argenteuil, 1893. Oil on canvas. Private collection, photograph ©Comité Caillebotte, Paris; courtesy SFJAZZ. (cover, page 3) courtesy Kevin Berne.
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“From KQED
Twenty years ago, Václav Havel was elected president of the Czech Republic and Ruth Bader Ginsburg was joining the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, DC. Closer to home, 1993 was the year Professor Michael Krasny joined KQED as the host of Forum. Since then, the awardwinning live call-in program has become the nation’s most-listened-to locally produced public radio talk show. This summer, Michael graciously took his turn as an interview subject. Unfortunately, live call-in wasn’t available. When you were interviewed in 1993 for KQED’s member magazine, you said, “My work in radio started out as a hobby. I’ve always seen myself as an academic, not a broadcaster.” Would you say the same thing today?
I think of myself primarily as a broadcaster and a professor now. But also as a writer. I don’t know which one has hegemony. You talk to a lot of people who hate their jobs or can’t find one thing that gives them pleasure or satisfaction or makes them feel they’re making a difference. These all do that for me. It’s a trinity.