During the month of September, KALW’s Bay Made is presenting “The Kitchen Sisters Audio Festival,” a month of episodes from our series Lost & Found Sound, Hidden Kitchens, Hidden World of Girls, The Keepers, and beyond. Tune in live at 11:30am Monday through Thursday, Sept 2 – Sept 26, or listen on KALW.org.

During production of our Keepers series, chronicling activist archivists, rogue librarians and keepers of the culture and free flow of information, we received this message on the Keepers Hotline from LadyBee, Archivist & Art Collection Manager at Burning Man: “Hello Kitchen Sisters, I am a rogue archivist, the archivist for Burning Man. Come to Burning Man headquarters and I’ll show you the collection. Cheers.” How do you archive an event when one of it’s driving principles is “leave no trace,” where The Burning Man is in fact burned? What is being kept and who is keeping it? We journey into the archives of this legendary gathering to find out.

In honor of the Olympics in Paris and the eyes of the world being on France and the astounding contribution of the French to the culture and art of the world, we reprise our story Archive Fever: Henri Langlois and the founding and history of The Cinematheque Francaise. Featuring Francis Ford Coppola, Wim Wenders, Tom Luddy, Lotte Eisner, Simone Signoret, Agnes Varda, Costa-Gavras, Barbet Schroeder and more.

San Francisco has declared July 15 as Linda Ronstadt Day, in honor of the 78th birthday of this legendary singer. In her honor, we present this story about her memoir Feels Like Home: A Song for the Sonoran Borderlands, a musical, historical, edible memoir that spans the story of five generations of Linda’s Mexican American German family, from the Sonoran desert in Mexico to the Ronstadt family hardware store in Tucson to the road that led Linda to LA and musical stardom.

Deep thanks to all of you who support the work of The Kitchen Sisters. Without your collaboration and contributions, our stories, internship, and mentoring program would not be possible.