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‘Star Trek’ icon LeVar Burton isn’t done with podcasting just yet

The LeVar Burton Reads podcast will get second season, and perhaps many more.Image: John Salangsang/Variety/REX/Shutterstock LeVar Burton just can’t stop reading. The former Star Trek and Roots star just wrapped the first season of his weekly podcast, LeVar Burton Reads, where Burton lends his reassuring, emotive voice to various works of short-form fiction. The term “season” is a loose one — the books are a grab bag of authors...

How a pair of San Francisco Giants fans found love through podcasting and Twitter

June 1, 2012: A Giants game of historic proportion. Image: Daniel zarchy Not long after graduating from UC Santa Cruz in 2009, Daniel Zarchy found himself talking frequently with a friend about baseball. San Francisco Giants baseball, to be precise. “We would just talk about the Giants constantly,” Zarchy recalls. “In what, in hindsight, seems like a shocking act of arrogance on our part, we decided that maybe other...