kqed plans to screen more films for students at s-j-s-u. that's it for arts and entertainment back to you guys. thank you for that briana. yeah i'm excited for halloween... i think i might be superman. in just a few weeks ... yet another grocery store will try to find success in downtown san jose. brianna villobos shows us why supermarkets haven't found a good customer base in the neighborhoods around san jose state ... but that could be changing. ">>>with four new high rise residential buildings planned ... downtown san jose is rapidly expanding ... which means new residents will need more choices to buy their groceries. (rick jensen/downtown association) " in downtown san jose i think that the suppy of grocery stores is low compared to the demand so i think that big or small grocers is all good right now." to cater to an exptected influx of affluent downtown residents ... a new whole foods is scheduled to be built walking distance from the h-p pavillion and some students are excited. "i am really excited i am a whole foods type of person

you can find even more detail online at kqed's handy proposition guide. go to kqed.org/theweek for the link. normally, taxes and school budgets are pretty dry subjects but for my panelists today, who have been covering the firestorm over these measures or directly in the thick of it, nothing could be further from the truth. joining me now, arun ramanathan, jill tucker, education reporter for "the san francisco chroni e chronicle." louis freedberg and california senate pro temp darrell steinberg. welcome. arun, explain to me exactly what proposition 38 does. >> so, what we saw in the film was depressingly familiar. before i joined the education trust west, we're a statewide education civil rights organization, i was in san diego unified school district. so, you could see the budget cuts year and year rippling through our schools and our classrooms. and so, what's really at stake when we think about the future is not just our education system, not just our k-12 system, but the economy of our state and our state's future. what proposition 38 does is it reinv

you'll find a link there to kqed's proposition guide. please tune in next week at an in-depth look at what's in stake for school funding in the upcoming election. public radio's al ebson will guest host. i'll be back on november 2nd. i'm belva davis. thanks for watching. good night.

our report was produced by kqed san francisco. correspondent scott shafer narrates the story. >> maybe you've seen it. google's street view car singcros america. its detached mechanical eye recording every avenue. sometimes capturing us in its glare. you could see it as cool or intrusive. photographer doug rickard sees it as makings of art. >> all of these lines looking at the cameras, this especially here with this sort of tilt forward of the head, it just embeds into it a certain of sort of i guess almost mike music in a way. >> reporter: from his home studio outside sacramento rickard has traveled thousands of virtual miles combing the streets of america in search of images that resonate. >> i just start driving through looking for potential pictures. >> reporter: rickard remembers that first flash of inspiration. >> my wheels started turning. i was sitting there. i picked up my i-phone and i started taking a picture of the screen like this, sort of moving it around and moving the cursor and composing these scenes. >> reporter:

. >>> the following kqed production was produced in high definition. >> and their buns are something had yet to find anywhere else. >> and you can come to my house to dinner. >> breaded, fried, gooey, lovely. >> in the words of arnold schwarzenegger, i'll be back.

captioning sponsored by wpbt captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >>> the following kqedproduction was produced in high definition. >> and their buns are something i had yet to find anywhere else. >> and you can come to my house to dinner. >> breaded, fried, gooey, lovely. >> in the words of arnold schwarzenegger, i'll be back. >> you've heard of a connoisseur, i'm a common sewer. >> i may have to ward off some

captioning sponsored by wpbt captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >>> the following kqedproduction was produced in high definition. >> and their buns are something i had yet to find anywhere else.

tonight are barbara taylor, kcbs city hall reporter and scott shafer, host of the california report on kqed public radio. and carla marinucci, san francisco chronicle senior political writer. carla, there is so much going on in politics today. let's start with the vice presidential debate. people said they wanted action. what did they get? >> that's right. you could almost hear the cheers coming out of san francisco, the bars and so forth as it was going on this week. a slugfest, a political slugfest. this is what the democrats wanted to see. if joe biden had one job at this event, it was to pump up the base. he did that job this week after obama's disappointing debate. and we saw obama here this week. this was a very busy week in politics. and it is all about enthusiasm in the base in places like san francisco, northern california. if voters here on the democratic side are not enthusiastic about getting out there for obama, if he doesn't have -- if they don't have his back, he's got trouble in congressional races and fund-raising and everything else. an we saw his events in san francisco t

coproduction of kqed and cal players. i'm belva davis. thank you for watching. good night.