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Go behind the scenes at the Sonoma County Hot Air Balloon Classic with pilots and volunteers to see what it takes to launch a hot air balloon and organize the yearly festival.

Families united by tragedy demonstrated in Oakland today. They sought improvements in mental health care at the headquarters of Kaiser Permanente.

Today on Morning Edition you heard from Song and David

Tom Scott of Oliver’s Markets gives a behind-the-scene look at what it takes to support local farmers and other producers in a classic supermarket context.

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How will the quarter-cent sales tax be used to support critical child mental health services and childcare initiatives?

Surprise Party
Raven Performing Arts Theater
March 14th – 23rd, 2019

World Premiere of this play by local author, Ron Nash.

It’s 1943, World War II, and bigotry and racism

Over the past two weeks, art lovers have been visitingstudios throughout Sonoma County. Art Trails – which organizes the visits —was about to start two years ago, when the Tubbs fire

Word By Word Host Gil Mansergh has a conversation with the celebrated writer, teacher, and Tiny Lights Journal editor and publisher, Susan Bono as she shares some of her personal narratives

Seaweed. It plays a vital role in ocean ecology, and also in our health and diet, and in our local and global economies. Seaweed Chronicles: A World at the Water’s Edge

Suzanne Lang talks with award winning author of books for kids and adults, Susan Muaddi Darraj, whose novel is BEHIND YOU IS THE SEA. This story of diaspora, of people living in a Palestinian American community in Baltimore, is an immigrant tale of generations.

 

Rex Ogle also joins Suzanne and talks about his latest memoir geared toward young adults, ROAD HOME. At seventeen, he was kicked out of the house for being gay and for a time lived on the streets of New Orleans. The story is hard, yet full of self-compassion.

It’s A Novel Idea. Every first, third, and fifth Sunday at 10:00 am PT. Streaming at krcb.org. 

Since Valentine’s Day is fast approaching, KRCB-FM’s Word By Word: Conversations With Writers host Gil Mansergh invited the North Bay thearapist and bestselling author Susan Pease Gadoua and award-winning journalist Vicki

Historical fiction radiates into the present with two novels featured on A Novel Idea. Join Suzanne M. Lang in conversations with Susan Sherman on her novel about mystics and Marie Curie,

Recently, host Clark Wolf had the pleasure of moderating a panel at the Sustainability Enterprise Conference held nearby, in Rhonert Park’s favorite gathering spot, Sally Tomatoes. The panel was called Strengthening the North-Bay-Food-System in a Changing-ClimateStrengthening the North-Bay-Food-System in a Changing-Climate.

Speakers included.

Brittany Jensen, Executive Director, Goldridge Resource Conservation District, 

Elizabeth Kaiser, Owner, Singing Frogs Farm, 

Genevieve Taylor, Senior Facilitator, Ag Innovations

Joseph Button, VP Sustainability and Strategic Impact, Straus Family Creamery 

Listen in to a lightly edited recording of that lively and important conversation with some very smart, informed and hard working individuals.

Also in this episode, a chat in our studios with Michelle Marquis, host of new show on KRCB, "The 707." She talks about her episode focusing on reducing waste, a surprisingly fascinating addition to the Sustainability exploration in the episode.  

Word By Word host Gil Mansergh has a spirited conversation with two multi-talented women who worked full time when they wrote their novels about women escaping abusive relationships. Electrical Engineer Suzanna

Suzanne Grady, director of Petaluma Bounty, talks about their upcoming benefit and explores the organization’s 11 years of working to abolish food insecurity in and around Petaluma, with a bountiful production

Mothers always take their children somewhere in life and on the planet.

Dena Moes traveled with

White people kill black people. Despite Emancipation, despite the Civil Rights movement of now over fifty years ago, white people

Author Kent Wong's memoir, Swimming to Freedom -My Escape from China and the Cultural Revolution, an Untold Story is a riveting tale of his life in China as a boy during the Cultural Revolution. Wong joined the dissident underground and became one of the half million other Chinese who braved the waters of the South China Sea, escaping to Hong Kong, then under British rule. Join Suzanne Lang in conversation with Kent Wong. 

 

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