Podcast

So, what’s former Spreckels Performing Arts Center Manager Gene Abravaya been doing since his retirement to the Arizona desert?

“Well”, he told me in a recent interview, “I’ve been enjoying

Playwright Ayad Akhtar burst on the theatrical scene in 2013 with Disgraced, a searing drama about identity politics and Islamophobia which earned him the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. In 2016, Marin

The Women’s Balcony – JCC Israeli Film Festival
Rialto Cinemas
Tuesday, March 7th, 2017

The opening film of the festival – this is a rousing, good-hearted tale about women speaking truth

The World Goes Round
Cinnabar Theater
December 13 – January 5, 2020

Razzle-dazzle, show-stopping, famous melodies, hilariouslyrics, and

It’s awards season, and everyone’s talking about who got nominated and who didn’t. And no, I’m not talking about the Oscars. Last week, the San Francisco Bay Area Theater Critics

At a time when occupational safety regulations are being loosened and funding for the agencies responsible for their enforcement being reduced, it’s good to be reminded how those safeguards came to

Thicker Than Smoke: An Evening of Community Storytelling
Weill Hall – Green Music Center
August 3rd & 4th, 2018

Friday, August 3rd, 2018 @ 7:30 pm
An Evening of Community

Serendipity. Fate. Chance. Destiny. Karma. Fortune. Kismet.

Call it what ever you like, but playwright Steven Dietz (Becky’s New Car) doesn’t believe in it so much so that his play This

Mouthful reaches back into the archives for an interview with Anne Zimmerman, author of “An Extravagant Hunger: The Passionate Years of MFK Fisher.” (Originally aired: April 10m, 2011)

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Oil makes the world go round and geologist Thomas E. Cochrane delivers candid and lively remembrances of his life and experience in the American petroleum industry in Tornadoes, Rattlesnakes & Oil,

Word By Word: Conversations With Writers host, Gil Mansergh welcomes Thonie Hevron, Sandy Baker and Alexis Fajardo, three talented local writers involved in From Pen to Published, the Redwood Writers Eighth

This week on Mouthful, a team of three articulate womenexplore Great Women Spirits, a new project from the

Mouthful explores Three Sisters, a project that involves five high school gardens and beans, squash and corn, the three sisters they are growing. A tasting from the gardens is coming up

Two years ago today, the Tubbs fire swept through Santa Rosaand destroyed more than 5,000 homes overnight. One year and one month later,the Camp Fire leveled an entire town, surpassing the

When pot was used in secret, the pungent smoke was often agiveaway. Today, the odor is an issue again. This time, it’s the skunky smellof growing cannabis.

It’s all about water.

Suzanne Lang talks with author, photographer, and conservationist Tim Palmer on his book Seek Higher Ground, the Natural Solution to our Urgent Flooding Crisis. Tim explores the legacy of flooding in America and the climatic, economic, and ecological realities of our rivers and communities.

 

Also featured is another visit with Julene Bair whose memoir is The Ogallala Road, a Story of Love, Family, and the Fight to Keep the Great Plains from Running Dry.

It’s A Novel Idea with Suzanne Lang!

 

In a film now available on the web and through KQED’s series Truly, CA, Eva Rendle explores the aftermath

Timothy Page, co-founder of F. E. E. D. Sonoma and long-time purveyor of goodness joins Mouthful host Michele Anna Jordan to talk about the company he founded. F. E. E. D.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tiny Houses For Humanity
Gaia’s Garden
Saturday, July 8th, 2017 @ 5:00 pm

Gaias Garden is hosting a benefit for Tiny Houses for Humanity, an organization founded to provide affordable housing

To Kill a Mockingbird
6^th Street Playhouse
April 26^th – May 19^th, 2019

A timely reminder about moral courage.

Few perspectives on American society have been as perceptive, or as poignant,

The theatrical treatments of two great American novels come alive on North Bay stages with mixed results in productions running through May 19.

6^th Street Playhouse is presenting Christopher Sergel’s adaptation

This week on Mouthful – Todd Knoll, executive chef of Jordan Winery, talks about harvest lunches, Halloween parties, making salt from seawater and more.

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Tom West of Sebastopol’s Wine Emporium visits Mouthful in this archive show from March 2014.

Host: Michele Anna Jordan.

Podcast: Play

‘Tis the time for “Best of …” lists, so in the spirit of my illustrious predecessor and with a nod to the substantial differences in mounting a musical versus a play,

It’s said that musicals are the bread and butter of community theatre, so here’s a list of the North Bay productions I toasted this past year. Here are my top torn

Chronic Catastrophe is a four-episode podcast about the impacts of cumulative climate change-induced disasters on our minds, bodies and spirits. Ultimately, we ask the question: Is it worth the risk to our mental and physical health, and to our psyches, to continue to live in a place where disaster is unrelenting? Over the past four years, Sonoma County has seen a 100-year flood, a historic drought and six major wildfires that have killed 114 people, destroyed more than 18,000 buildings, caused more than half the county to evacuate their homes, and subjected us to months of bad air days and routine power shut-offs.

Firefighters miraculously saved Healdsburg and Windsor fromthe Kincade Fire. While they are always there to help prevent the loss of life,who is there to protect them?

Several state billscould help improve firefighters’ mental health.

California’s fire season is becoming longer and moredevastating. This is taking a toll on firefighters’ health. In yesterday’sNorth Bay Report, we

Transcendence Theatre Company’s Broadway Under the Stars
Jack London State Historic Park
2019 Season

This award-winning series of Broadway-inspired concerts and performances in Sonoma’s Wine Country features incredible talent from the

Transcendence’s Broadway Holiday Spectacular
Luther Burbank Center for the Arts
December 6 – 8, 2019
Napa Valley Performing Arts

A very special episode of Mouthful: this week, as Traverso’s market celebrates what would have been Rico Traverso’s hundredth birthday, Mouthful joins in, with a rebroadcast of a 1998 interview with

A very special episode of Mouthful: this week, as Traverso’s market celebrates what would have been Rico Traverso’s hundredth birthday, Mouthful joins in, with a rebroadcast of a 1998 interview with

Book Launch: Julianne Skai Arbor “TreeGirl – Intimate Encounters with Wild Nature”
Occidental Center for the Arts
Sunday, January 15th, 2017 @ 12:00pm

In her new book, TreeGirl: Intimate Encounters with

Book Launch: Julianne Skai Arbor “TreeGirl – Intimate Encounters with Wild Nature”
Occidental Center for the Arts
Sunday, January 15th, 2017 @ 12:00pm

In her new book, TreeGirl: Intimate Encounters with

Trinidad Escobar and Maia Kobabe are two talented artists and writers with MA degrees in “Comics” from the California College of Arts, who create distinctively different comic books and graphic novels.

Helen’s Crusade – Trula M. Calle’s Book Launch
Occidental Center for the Arts
Sunday, October 13, 2019 @ 3:00 pm

Twelve schools in Sonoma County have submitted applications for waivers to start in-person learning. County Health Officer Dr. Sundari Mase is reviewing the waivers and expects to have a determination by the end of the week.  KRCB’s Adia White reports.

 

 

 

Twisted Christmas Live!
Spreckels Performing Arts Center
Sunday, December 9th, 2018 @ 7:00 pm

David Templeton’s Twisted Christmas Live! Is back again… And weirder than ever.

Enjoy an evening of offbeat

On this final week of this last month of the decade, webring you two favorite conversations of this past year. Both

Two Lions Band
Sebastopol Center for the Arts
Friday, May 5th, 2017 @ 7:30pm

Once Upon a time… The Two Lions band was created to showcase the music of Mitchel Slade.

The pain of losing a loved one doesn’t ever go away. It justchanges and becomes a part of daily

I don’t know anyone who attends theatre to reinforce their belief that life is simply a series of travails to be endured until the sweet release of death, but if you’re

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If your taste in musicals runs to the light, bouncy, and life-affirming, you might want to take a pass on

Urinetown: The Musical
Spreckels Theater Company
February 14 – March 1, 2020

In response

Ustad Shaffaat Khan & East Meets West
Paul Mahder Gallery
Wednesday, November 7th, 2018 @ 7:30 pm

Brave New Music will present the world-renowned Indian classical musician Ustad Shafaat Khan at

History, culture, and strong women are at the core of the two novels: The History Makers by Val Bodurtha and The Ballet Lover by Barbara Baer. You’ll want to remember these