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  • A Night in Vienna – December 29, 2017

    A Night in Vienna – New Year’s Eve Ball
    Hermann Sons Hall
    December 31st, 2017 @ 8:30 pm

    The festive New Year’s Eve Ball, ”A Night in Vienna,” will transport you

  • A Night In Vienna – New Year’s Eve Ball – December 21, 2018

    A Night In Vienna – New Year’s Eve Ball
    Hermann Sons Hall
    Monday, December 31st, 2018 @ 8:30

    A magical New Year’s Eve Ball!

    Gourmet buffet style dinner with many

  • A Novel Idea Features Andrea Pitzer (Aired: May 30, 2021)

    pritzer dl2134iceboundThe year is 1597. The setting is the Upper Arctic. In search of a northeast passage to the Orient, Dutch cartographer William Barents and his crew become locked in ice and must wait out the months of polar night if they want to return to civilization. Suzanne Lang is in conversation with journalist and adventurer Andrea Pitzer on her account of this outrageous and harrowing journey in her book ICEBOUND, Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World. Pitzer’s previous work includes One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps, and The Secret History of Vladimir Nabokov. Join us Sunday, May 30th at 10am PT.

    A Novel Idea airs on the first and fifth Sundays of every month at 10:00 am on KRCB-FM Radio 91 / streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org /Download the FREE KRCB mobile app @ iTunes & Google Play!

    (Photos courtesy of the author) 

     

     

  • A Novel Idea Features Jonathan Taplin (Aired: July 4, 2021)

    thumbnail image003taplin image001“I believe in Rock-and-Roll, books, and movies to upset the world” says Jonathan Taplin author of The Magic Years, Scenes from a Rock-and-Roll Life. Taplin has been riding the waves of American art and culture for 50 years, from road manager for Dylan and the Band, to producing movies for Martin Scorsese and Wim Wenders, working in high finance, creating the first video-on-demand service in the 90’s, and heading up the Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism at USC. He’s got some great stories that he tells with wit, candor, and humility. Jonathan Taplin joins Suzanne Lang in conversation.

    A Novel Idea airs on the first and fifth Sundays of every month at 10:00 am on KRCB 104.9 – Sonoma County’s NPR station / streaming @ krcb.org/radio /Download the FREE KRCB mobile app @ iTunes & Google Play!

     

  • A Novel Idea goes Way out West (Aired: October 30, 2022)

    theresa image003queen image002Way out West.
     
    Biographer of scrappy women, Theresa Kaminski talks about her book Queen of the West, The Life and Times of Dale Evans.
     
     
     
    Lynn004dude image005Then, author and long-time archivist for the Levi Strauss Company, Lynn Downey, brings her book American Dude Ranch: A Touch of the Cowboy and the Thrill of the West. 
     
    A Novel Idea with Suzanne Lang, Sunday, October 30th at 10 a.m. KRCB 104.9, streaming at krcb.org.
     
     
     

  • A Perfect Ganesh – March 25, 2019

    A Perfect Ganesh
    Cinnabar Theater
    March 29th – April 14th, 2019

    The pilgrimage tradition is turned on its head when

  • A Pilgimage: Genevieve Willson Barnhart – October 31, 2018

    A Pilgrimage: The Sculpture & Photography of Genevieve Willson Barnhart
    Sebastopol Center for the Arts
    October 25th – December 2nd, 2018

    A rare retrospective exhibition by California artist Genevieve Willson

  • A Preview of the Upcoming Taste of Sonoma on Mouthful (Aired: August 25, 2019)

    It’s a full house on Mouthful, as winemakers, a chef, and theexecutive director of Sonoma

  • A Steady Rain – February 1, 2017

    A Steady Rain
    Main Stage West
    February 3rd – 19th, 2017

    Two police officers, who are life long friends, offer contrasting descriptions to Internal Affairs interrogators of their harrowing experience regarding

  • A Taste of the Wild – May 22, 2017

    A Taste of the Wild
    Jack London State Historic Park
    Friday, June 9th, 2017 @ 6:00pm

    A tasty evening of food and wine pairing in the historic Winery Ruins

    Inspired by

  • A Tribute to David Bromige – August 15, 2018

    A Tribute to David Bromige
    Sebastopol Center for the Arts
    Friday, August 17th, 2018

    The Sebastopol Center for the Arts presents a tribute evening for Sonoma County’s second Poet Laureate, David

  • A Trio of Voices: Poets Hottel, Meshulam and Emerson celebrate latest books – February 13, 2018

    A Trio of Voices: Poets Hottel, Meshulam and Emerson celebrate latest books
    Occidental Center for the Arts
    Sunday, February 18th, 2018 @ 2:00 pm

    Local poets (pictured from left to right)

  • A View From A Bridge (Aired: February 19, 2020)

    Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge, running now atSanta Rosa’s 6th Street Playhouse through February 23, may not behis

  • A View From the Bridge – March 17, 2017

    A View From The Bridge
    North Bay Stage Company
    March 17th – April 2nd, 2017

    Arthur Miller’s award-winning play A View From the Bridge comes to the LBC, produced by North

  • A Vintage Christmas – November 29, 2017

    A Vintage Christmas
    A Raven on the Road production
    December 1st – 10th, 2017 @ 8:00 pm

    Think of a cross between A Christmas Carol and It’s a Wonderful

  • Aaron P. Dworkin and Alicia M. Rodriguez on A Novel Idea

    Becoming who we are. Suzanne M. Lang talks with thought leader, McArthur Fellow, and founder of the Sphinx Project, Aaron P. Dworkin on his book “Lessons in Gratitude, a Memoir on Race, the Arts, and Mental Health”.

  • AB5 Sparks Controversy Among California’s Independent Contractors (Aired: March 3, 2020)

    For employers and independent contractors in California, AB5has sparked some confusion and controversy. The new gig worker law

  • Abby Geni, Lewis deSoto – April 3, 2016

    Big Nature, Big California

    The Farallon Islands, remote and mysterious, is the setting of Abby Geni’s novel of nature and mystery, The Lightkeepers. Abby talks with Suzanne about the book and

  • Accomplice – September 18, 2017

    Accomplice
    Raven Players Healdsburg
    September 22nd – October 8th, 2017

    This theatrical roller coaster will trigger screams of laughter. The story begins in Dartmoor, England at the weekend retreat of Derek

  • Activist Group Sues Sonoma County Over Incomplete Police Investigation Records – May 17, 2019

    A local activist group is suing Sonoma County over theinvestigation records in the Andy Lopez case.

    Under a state that took effect at the beginning of thisyear, law enforcement agencies

  • Activists Reach Agreement with Law Enforcement on Homeless Camp Clean-ups – August 13, 2019

    The Santa Rosa Police Department now must follow stricterguidelines when removing homeless encampments from public spaces.

    At the beginning of July, Activists reached an agreementwith the City of Santa Rosa

  • Adam Federman, Elaine Khosrova – May 6, 2018

    It’s all about food. Suzanne Lang talks with Adam Federman on his book Fasting and Feasting, the Life of Visionary Food Writer Patience Gray. Gray became somewhat of a cult figure

  • Adam Parks of Victorian Farmstead – March 3, 2019

    Tune in this Sunday evening at 6, when Mouthful welcomes a return visit by Adam Parks of Victorian Farmstead, whose tiny butcher shop is located within Community Market in Sebastopol. What is

  • Adapting Shelters For COVID-19 Adds Challenges During Glass Fire Evacuations (Aired: September 30, 2020)

    120292231 10221535233588440 4737789021382058313 oAs the Glass Fire moved quickly toward Santa Rosa Sunday night, residents living in the path of the fire had to move quickly to get out of harm’s way. But many who sought shelter at evacuation centers found themselves being moved from place to place that night as the fast-moving fire combined with the need to social distance during COVID-19 presented added challenges that the community hadn’t seen before with past blazes. KRCB’s Sarah Bohannon has more.

     

     

    As of Tuesday evening, LaBerge's neighborhood was downgraded to an evacuation warning. The interviews in this story were conducted by KQED’s Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez as part of a collaboration with the California News Hub.

    (Image: Elderly fire evacuees many from Spring Lake Village and Oakmont Gardens waiting to enter at the Veterans Memorial Auditorium. Credit: Erik Castro)

    We provide local news updates on The North Bay Report Tuesday-Friday at 6:45, 8:45 a.m., and 5:30 p.m. on KRCB radio 91 and 90.9. Here's our North Bay Report episode for Wednesday, September 30. Subscribe to The North Bay Report podcast to listen on the go.

  • Adopt-A-Play – April 28, 2017

    Adopt-A-Play Petaluma Radio Players
    Hotel Petaluma’s Goldman Ballroom
    Thursday, May 11th, 2017 @ 7:00pm

    In the past 24 months, the vintage and modern dramas, thrillers and comedies performed on stage and

  • After Miss Julie – February 13, 2019

    After Miss Julie
    Main Stage West
    February 14th – March 3rd, 2019

    After Miss Julie transposes August Strindberg’s 1888 play about sex and class to an English country house on the

  • After Miss Julie – February 27, 2019

    Sometimes the most interesting dramas are the simplest – a single set, a few characters, a conflict. “Naturalistic” plays, as they are sometimes referred, were the result of a late 19th

  • After NPR Promotes Our Podcast, We Rebroadcast Excerpts from Forgotten Civilians of Eglin Air Force Base – March 28, 2019

    This week, the NPR midday newsmagazine Here and Now featured our Environmental Justice podcast Living Downstream.

    They spotlighted reporter Jon Kalish’s story about civilian workers at Eglin Air Force Base in

  • Agrarian Games – August 9, 2018

    Agrarian Games
    Ragle Ranch Regional Park
    August 11th & 12th, 2018

    For its 5th year running, the illustrious Agrarian Games is making a big move… to the Gravenstein Apple Fair in

  • Agrarian Games 2017 – August 31, 2017

    Fourth Annual Agrarian Games
    Petaluma Fairgrounds
    Saturday, September 16th, 2017 @ 12:00 pm

    An interactive festival celebrating sustainable agriculture, local food and family farms!

    From wheelbarrow relays to watermelon seed-spitting, whether

  • Agrarian Games at Gravenstein Apple Fair (Aired: August 8, 2019)

    Agrarian Games
    Gravenstein Apple Fair
    August 17 & 18, 2019

    Whether you’re a farmer or an eater, a country bumpkin or a city-slicker, join us at the Ag Games Arena

  • Aladdin Benefit Concert – December 8, 2017

    Aladdin Benefit Concert
    6th Street Playhouse
    Monday, December 11th, 2017

    Fourteen performers will take the stage singing their favorite tunes from Broadway and beyond.

    Confirmed talent so far includes:

  • Albert Straus on Savoring Sonoma: The Hour

    19 05 15 Straus Creamery 2112Join host Clark Wolf as he speaks with this year’s Grand Award for Outstanding Leadership recipient for the Second Annual NorCal Public Media Food and Wine Awards.

    The event will be held on Saturday, March 30 at the Luther Burbank Center for the Arts.

    Albert Straus is an industry pioneer and founder of Straus Family Creamery, the first 100% certified organic creamery in the U.S., and he’s changing the landscape of dairy farming in this country. The Dairy (farm) was started by his father Bill in 1941 and in 1994 under Albert’s management, it became the first certified organic Dairy west of the Mississippi.

    Listen in to learn about his work, the challenges facing farms and creameries today, plans for the future and his deep and abiding love of really great ice cream.

  • Alegría De La Cruz Unanimous Choice of School Board for Third District Vacancy – April 23, 2019

    The Santa Rosa City Schools board selected a new trustee earlier this month to fill a vacancy caused when one of its members resigned.

    Chief Deputy Sonoma County Counsel Alegría De

  • Alegria De La Cruz Unanimous Choice of School Board for Third District Vacancy, Part Two – April 24, 2019

    People in our community meet the call of service in many ways – some in multiple ways. One mother, lawyer, and activist is now committing herself to improving local education.

    Yesterday,

  • Alexander McCall Smith – April 26, 2015

    Internationally beloved bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith calls his hour-long chat with Word By Word host Gil Mansergh “something quite extraordinary…a real conversation.” The creator of The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective

  • Alfred J. Lakritz, Katrin Ciaffa, and Peter Bromberg on A Novel Idea

    Stories from the devastating times in Europe during World War II,  —told to us by the people who lived through them, speak loudly to us in our current moment of brutal wars and  suffering people.

    Adieu coverAlfredLakritzSuzanne Lang talks with Alfred J. Lakritz on his book Adieu: A Memoir of Holocaust Survival. His warm and moving tale relates his separation from his parents, and then the many people and experiences that kept Alfred and his brother safe from the Nazis in occupied France, including stays on remote farms  and even in Lourdes. In 1950, at the age of 16, Alfred, miraculously reunited with his mother, emigrates to Oakland California where he learns English, and despite not having much formal education, excels in school, attends Berkeley and eventually becomes a successful lawyer in Los Angeles.  

    BerlinKatrin HanneloreAlso featured is Katrin Ciaffa, translator of Hannelore Krollpfeiffer’s autobiographical novel We Lived in Berlin: A Story About the End of the War. First published in German in 1947, re-issued in 2007, and now translated into English, it’s the story of two sisters in their early twenties making their way in Berlin near the end of the war, who live in a bombed out building amidst daily air raids. More concerned with the fate of their prized record collection and their romantic flings than the fact that their Jewish neighbors disappear overnight, they are not Nazi’s, they are skeptical, at times cynical, but they are utterly complacent. 

    peter brombergSuzanne also talks with Peter Bromberg, Associate Director of EveryLibrary (everylibrary.org), an organization that supports and defends libraries nationwide, including efforts against book banning and illicit political interference in public, school, and college libraries.

     
     

  • Alice Rothchild and Susan Muaddi Darraj on A Novel Idea

    InspiredAlice Rothchild 1363x1536Suzanne Lang talks with activist and author Alice Rothchild, whose own feminist enlightenment was gained by persevering through a male dominated medical field to become an OB/GYN who reshaped women’s health through her subsequent work. She tells her story, in  Inspired and Outraged, the Making of a Feminist Physician, a memoir in free verse.

    darraj behindyouistheseasusanMuaddiDarrajAlso featured is Susan Muaddi Darraj with her novel Behind You is the Sea, a story of the Palestinian diaspora set in a Palestinian American community in Baltimore.

    It’s A Novel Idea, Sunday January 19th at 10:00am PT. Streaming and podcasting at krcb.org. 

  • All About Fermentation – April 12, 2015

    This Sunday’s show is all about fermentation, with Shaun Pestell and Kevin Pestell–founders of Farm to Ferments, purveyors of fabulous locally made beverages, sauces, kimchee, sauerkraut and more, all using local

  • All Things Apples! – July 28, 2013

    Mouthful continues its look at apples, including the Gravenstein, which is just being harvested, and the upcoming Gravenstein apple fair. It’s all things apples.

    Podcast:

  • All Things kosher and delicious! – August 11, 2013

    Two special guests – Larry Carlin and Rabbi Stephanie Kramer – return to Mouthful to talk about the upcoming Jewish Food Festival. It’s all things kosher and delicious!

  • All Things Port – October 11, 2009

    In an archive presentation, Mouthful revisits Portugal with port master Rupert Symington.

    Podcast: Play in new window |

  • Allo Gilinsky, Plus Mark Green and Ron Karp of Food For Thought – June 30, 2019

    Allo Gilinksy of Craft Beer Concierge talks about his beer tasting and beer and cookie pairing. Plus, Mark Green and Ron Karp of Food For Thought discuss the non-profit’s evolving mission

  • Ally Venable and Little Mischief

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    Texan Singer Songwriter, Ally Venable and her band play rocking blues for an enthusiastic crowd in Hopmonk’s Abbey. Placer County group, Little Mischief, kick off the show with their mix of rock and soul.

  • Alter Theater’s Ghosts of Bogota (Aired: February 12, 2020)

    A vacant downtown San Rafael storefront is being haunted bythe Ghosts of Bogotá. They are characters in playwright Diana Burbano’s darklycomic autobiographical

  • Always… Patsy Cline – July 25, 2018

    Jukebox musicals have become the bread and butter for a lot of community theatre groups. Minimal casts, simple sets and the built-in audience that comes with a popular singer or musical

  • Amadeus – April 4, 2018

    In Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus, Count Franz Orsini-Rosenberg assesses Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro with the criticism that it has “too many notes.” Cinnabar Theater’s current production suffers from the opposite –

  • Amit Peled – February 6, 2019

    Amit Peled
    Occidental Center for the Arts
    Sunday, February 10th, 2019 @ 4:00 pm

    Israeli cellist Amit Peled is returning to Occidental! Kit Nuestadter, Redwood Arts founder, introduced to him to

  • Amy and Chris Ludwick; Paula Downing and Daniel Kedan – April 21, 2013

    Mouthful explores two topics, with Amy and Chris Ludwick of Grapevine Catering and Earth’s Bounty Fine Foods, who will be discussing their new project at the former Fresh market, and the

  • Amy Edelstein and Kathleen C. Stone on A Novel Idea (Aired: July 3, 2022)

    Amy image003zanskarbook image002Inner strength and agency over our lives is what we explore with Amy Edelstein, whose book is Adventure in Zanskar, a young woman’s solitary journey to reach physical and metaphysical heights, her story of solo trekking in one of the highest and remotest parts of northern India, the Zanskar Valley.
     
     
     
    Stone image004girlsbook image005We also talk with Kathleen C. Stone with her book They Called us Girls, Stories of Female Ambition from Suffrage to Mad Men. Sunday, July 3rd, 10am PT on KRCB Radio, 104.9 FM and streaming at krcb.org.
     
     
     
     

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