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If Kindles and electronic readers take over, what will happen to our beautiful old books, wonders Susan Swartz.

Creating fuel from tiny aquatic plants? It’s already happening - on a small, experimental scale - in Santa Rosa.

At Santa Rosa’s Regional sewer plant, ponds covered with fast-growing aquatic plants are being used to help clean toxins and pollutants out of the water as part of the wastewater treatment process. But there’s another, very different benefit those plants can offer as well.

We've got pictures and more on this story on the North Bay Report newsblog at KRCB.org. You can also follow the North Bay Report on Twitter @KRCBNews.

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Russian River Chamber Music Presents Lincoln Trio

Friday - February 10, 2012 - 7:30 PM
Healdsburg Community Church - 1100 University Street Healdsburg, CA 95448
Free admission

The Lincoln Trio, ensemble-in-residence at the Music Institute of Chicago and past winter of the Masterplayers International Competition (Venice, Italy), is known for their polished presentations of well-known chamber works as well as its ability to forge new paths with contemporary repertoire. This season they will perform throughout the U.S. as well as in Germany and the Far East.

For more information: (707) 524-8700
http://www.russianriverchambermusic.org

Host Charles Sepos chats first with pianist Elena Ulyanova. They talk about her performance of Rachmaninoff's "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini" with American Philharmonic - Sonoma County, Sunday afternoon at Wells Fargo Center.

Next, actors Zachary Hasbany and Vanessa Begley preview "Oklahoma," February 9th through 19th at Person Theater, Sonoma State University.

Finally, jazz vocalist Bonnie Brooks talks about her Valentine Cabaret, February 12th at Occidental Center for the Arts.

ALEXANDER STRING QUARTET - #2 (Program #10)

SRJC Chamber Concerts, October, 2008
- BEETHOVEN - Quartet in F Major Op. 18, No. 1

Russian River Chamber Music, April, 2009
- LOU HARRISON - Quartet Set
- BRAHMS - Quartet No. 2 in A Minor Op. 51/2
- BRAHMS (Encore) Liebeslieder Waltz, Op. 52, No. 6 (arr. String Quartet)

From their Recording:
- BEETHOVEN - Quartet No. 59, No. 2, Finale
Alexander String Quartet, Foghorn Classics CD, 2009
www.asq4.com

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 through best-of-class and top medal winners, including an astonishingly good merlot.

Musician and author of the Evan Horne jazz mysteries - including Bird Lives, Looking for Chet Baker, and his latest novel, Fade to Blue, is in conversation with Larry Slater, Sonoma County’s Jazz MD and long-time host of KRCB’s Jazz Connections.

Novelist Stacy Carlson talks with Suzanne Lang about Stacy’s book Among the Wonderful, her novel inspired by PT Barnum and the cultural shifts playing out in 19th Century New York City.

Wanting to Be Jackie Kennedy. Elizabeth Kern and Rosemary Manchester talk about family life in a Polish area of 1960’s Chicago. Ellie Manikowski becomes a young woman in this nostalgic coming of age story.

Author Barbara Quick provides her review of Solace by Belinda McKeon.

Born in Belgrade, and honoring her grandfather’s dying wish that she write using his last name, Tea Obreht's debut novel, The Tiger’s Wife, won Britain's Orange Broadband Prize for 2011. Set in a fictional country, Tea describes her book as "a family saga featuring a female narrator and the relationship with her physician grandfather - and death - after all those wars in the Balkans." Originally excerpted in the New Yorker, The Tiger’s Wife quickly topped the bestseller lists.

"A gifted American poet with an unusually international sensibility." This is how Edward Hirsch describes Alissa Valles, a poet who was born in Amsterdam, grew up in the U.S. and the Netherlands and studied in London, Poland, Russia and the U.S. Tonight Valles reads from her collection, Orphan Fire, poems that explore the way a soul navigates the temporary dwelling in the body. Organized as a triptych, Orphan Fire is structured around the journey from entry to death. "Valles' poems refuse to be extinguished, they glow, they illuminate the fringes of our fear and celebrate our courage and frailty as we grope in the dusk searching for ways to be more human." - Jimmy Santiago Baca.

Also, Katherine Hastings speaks with Sonoma County's seventh Poet Laureate, Bill Vartnaw. Born and raised in Petaluma, Vartnaw is the founder of Taurean Horn Press and has published 14 books since 1974, including his own In Concern for Angels (1984). Vartnaw earned his MA in Poetics from New College of California. His work has appeared in various literary magazines.

Finally, a number of Sonoma County residents read some of their favorite humorous verse. Perhaps a little Ogden Nash, a little Wendy Cope.

CONFESSIONS OF A RAMBLER is an interview with Tom Paley, founding member of The New Lost City Ramblers, one of the first urban old-time Southern string bands (founded in 1958). Paley was a guest on The Fiddling Zone on October 13, 2008, while he was on tour on the West Coast. He talks about the early days of the Ramblers, his years in Sweden, and his current band in London, England. He also plays some great old time tunes on guitar, banjo and fiddle. Interview by Gus Garelick.