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Fair housing laws can mandate change. But they must alsotake into account historic discrimination in real estate and banking, and

It’s become an annual Mouthful tradition: On the last Friday of January, we welcome the president and vice president of the Atlantic Seaboard Wine Association. This year, we taste our way

Mouthful welcomes guests from the Atlantic Seaboard Wine Association for our annual tasting of wines from the other coast.

Host: Michele Anna Jordan

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Mouthful welcomes Carl Brandhorst and Dave Barber of the Atlantic Seaboard Wine Association. This is the third year that Mouthful has explored wines from the other coast, which has a thriving

President Carl Brandhorst and Vice-President David Barber of the Atlantic Seaboard Wine Association return for a second year to taste white wines from the other coast. Joining in the fun is

This week, Mouthful welcomes the return of the gentlemen from Atlantic Seaboard Wine Association for their six year! This time, they bring a tasting of eight wines from Virginia, with suggested

There’s a new director of the watchdog office responsible for auditing the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Department.

IOLERO – The Independent Office of Law Enforcement and Outreach – was created in the

The Sonoma County Sheriff’s Department has a new independent auditor, responsible for reviewing misconduct records.

We’re continuing our conversation with Karlene Navarro – the new director of Sonoma County’s Independent Office

Ransom Stephens captured his readers’ attentions with sex, drugs, quantum physics and artificial intelligence in his bestselling first novel The God Patent. Now, in his latest book The Sensory Deception, the

ReInvention! Amy Edwards does it, again and again. FromAustin, Texas, Edwards is a musician, hosts

Ibram X. Kendi, won the National Book Award in 2016 for Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive

Joan Frank is simply a master of language and expression, and she has two new books to prove it:

a novel, Juniper Street, 

and a book of essays, Late Work, a Literary Autobiography of Love, Loss, and What I Was Reading. 

Joan joins Suzanne Lang in a freewheeling conversation on her work and the writer’s life.

It's A Novel Idea every first and fifth Sunday at 10am on KRCB 104.9.

With Christmas over, your thoughts may be turning to how youcan be a better

Award-winning author L. Annette Binder has created a moving and intimate portrait of an ordinary German family affected by war in the waning days of WWII, with characters that will break your heart and stay with you long beyond finishing the book. This is a universal story of the human cost of war. Binder joins Suzanne M. Lang in conversation on A Novel Idea.

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)

Book Launch: Andrea Granahan’s ‘Backstories from the West Edge’
Occidental Center for the Arts
Friday, March 9th, 2018 @ 7:00 pm

Please join us as we celebrate Andrea Granahan’s latest book

Bakersfield Mist
Left Edge Theatre
November 17th – December 2nd, 2017

A comedy by Stephen Sachs.

A down-on-her luck bartender buys a painting for a few bucks at a local thrift

In 1992, a retired truck driver named Teri Horton paid five dollars for a painting from a southern California thrift store to give as a gag gift to a friend. An

This week, Mouthful welcomes guests from a North Bay treasure, the Bale Grist Mill, one of the last remaining water-powered mills, open to visitors now only on weekend. We’ll talk about

You’ve probably heard that California’s largest utility, PG&E, is planning to file for bankruptcy.

Four banks agreed yesterday to provide about $5.5 billion dollars to PG&E, to ease the utility’s way

Barbara L. Baer, publisher of Floreant Press and author of two previous novels joins Suzanne M. Lang in conversation on her latest book set in the south of India, The Last

Suzanne M. Lang welcomes Barbara L. Baer in conversation on her latest novel, The Ice Palace Waltz, the multi-generational

This moment in history, in culture, in our election cycle demands truth and craves heroes. We cover both with Suzanne Lang on KRCB’s A Novel Idea.

#Me Too has been building

It’s been said that the only two things guaranteed to survive the Apocalypse are cockroaches and Cher. Playwright Matt Lyle would like to add one more thing to that list –

Tenants of the Barlow in Sebastopol

February’s storm brought massive flooding to the Barlow inSebastopol. Some flooded out tenants have now filed suit against the owner ofthe outdoor market. KRCB’s Steve Mencher talked with Sonoma West Times

February’s storm brought massive flooding to the Barlow inSebastopol. Some flooded out tenants have now filed suit against the owner ofthe outdoor market. KRCB’s Steve Mencher talked with Sonoma West Times

Bastille Day at OCA!
Occidental Center for the Arts
Saturday, July 14th, 2018 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm

Come to the OCA Cabaret and enjoy our classy celebration of this

“Jukebox” musicalstend to use really flimsy connecting material to string together the musicalhits of an artist or genre in the creation of a show. Beautiful: The CaroleKing Musical, running now through

If you haven’t had a chance in the last 104 years to check out the Mountain Play, now’s as good a time as any. This year brings an enjoyable production of

Beauty from the Ashes
Occidental Center for the Arts
Sunday, January 21st, 2018 @ 4:00 pm

A Benefit Featuring Kayleen Asbo, Bonnie Brooks & Larry Robinson

OCA is pleased to present

Middle-aged angst takes center stage at the Sonoma Community Center as Becky’s New Car pulls into Sonoma Arts Live. Steven Dietz’s bittersweet comedy runs through June 25.

Becky Foster has reached

Mouthful explores Sonoma County bees, what they’ve been through with the fires and what they and their keepers need to make it through to spring. Bees are an essential element of

Before Fire Strikes: How to Prepare Your Home & Create a Resilient Rural Landscape
Shone Farm
Friday, August 24th , 2018 @ 9:00 am – 4:30 pm

Are you

Ever wonder how vape oil or cannabis candies are made? Onthe North Bay Report, we take a tour inside one of the nation’s largestcannabis manufacturing facilities.

One of the nation’s largest

Ever wonder how vape oil or cannabis candies are made? Onthe North Bay Report, we take a tour inside one of the nation’s largestcannabis manufacturing facilities.

One of the nation’s largest

Regulations in the marijuana industry are constantlychanging both in California and in Sonoma County. But despite the

Regulations in the marijuana industry are constantlychanging both in California and in Sonoma County. But despite the

Rare book dealer Ben Kinmont returns to talk about his new retail space in The Barlow and multiple food projects at SF MOMA and several other locations. Kinmont specializes in gastronomic,

Artist and rare book dealer Ben Kinmont returns to Mouthful to talk about his upcoming Gastronomy List, his next catalog, and what we can learn from early writings on gastronomy and

Benefit Concert for Flat Broke Farm featuring Stax City
Redwood Cafe
Wednesday, October 30, 2019 @ 8:00 pm – 10:30 pm

Two California writers who both had long non-literary careers before publishing these heralded first works join Suzanne M. Lang in conversation on this episode of A Novel Idea. Barbara Ridley’s When

Word By Word: Conversations With Writers host, Gil Mansergh is pleased to welcome the return of

Between Riverside and Crazy
Left Edge Theater
October 18^th – November 10, 2019

Winner of the 2015 Pulitzer