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Krista Almanzan

Krista joined KAZU in 2007.  She is an award winning journalist with more than a decade of broadcast experience.  Her stories have won regional Edward R. Murrow Awards and honors from the Northern California Radio and Television News Directors Association.  Prior to working at KAZU, Krista reported in Sacramento for Capital Public Radio and at television stations in Iowa.  Like KAZU listeners, Krista appreciates the in-depth, long form stories that are unique to public radio. She's pleased to continue that tradition in the Monterey Bay Area.

Around the Nation
1:44 pm
Fri December 28, 2012

California Missions Undergo Upgrades To Resist Quakes

Credit Krista Almanzan for NPR
Scaffolding is seen at the basilica at a mission in Carmel, Calif., a sign of its multimillion-dollar seismic retrofit.
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Originally published on Fri December 28, 2012 2:06 pm

At California's nearly two dozen Spanish missions, conversion these days isn't just about religion; it's also about seismic retrofitting. That's because the missions — which date to the late 1700s, when Spain's king sent Franciscan missionaries to convert natives to Christianity — would not withstand a major earthquake.

At a mission in Carmel, a 220-year-old basilica is in the middle of an earthquake retrofit. Workers removed the structure's red tile roof and replaced it with scaffolding and a protective plastic.

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Music Interviews
1:38 pm
Wed July 25, 2012

The Practical Side Of The Great American Jam Band

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The Grateful Dead circa 1970. The band's members were quintessential rock hippies — but, a new exhibit reveals, savvy businessmen as well.
Credit Stanley Mouse and Alton Kelley / Rhino/UC Santa Cruz Grateful Dead Archive
A promotional poster for The Grateful Dead's 1970 album American Beauty.
Credit Krista Almanzan / KAZU
One of many pieces of elaborately decorated fan mail in the Grateful Dead Archive at Santa Cruz.
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Originally published on Wed July 25, 2012 4:29 pm

The Grateful Dead's eponymous live album started it all for Nicholas Meriwether.

It was 1985. He was studying history at Princeton and got hooked by psychedelic jams like "Wharf Rat." After his first concert, he knew: "I will spend the rest of my life thinking and studying this."

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