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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!

Swallow
Main Stage West
January 11th – 27th, 2019

A California Premiere by Stef Smith.

Stef Smith’s Swallow is a play about three women dealing with psychological trauma and striving

An Evening with Swami Beyondananda
Laguna de Santa Rosa
Saturday, November 4th, 2017 @ 7:00 pm

Join “cosmic comic” Swami Beyondananda for an evening of heart-opening laughter, and mind-expanding comedy, and

Tamed and Untamed, Close Encounters with the Animal Kind. Suzanne Lang talks with two of the world’s most celebrated animal writers, Sy Montgomery and Elizabeth Marshall Thomas. They have collaborated on

 

 

 

More than just adoption, explore the vital services that strengthen the bond between pets and their families in Sonoma County. 

 

 

 

Tapas 13th New Short Play Festival
Pegasus Theater Company
September 13 – 28, 2019

Six dynamite plays performed by six terrific actresses. That’swhat the 13th annual

Tapas Short Play Festival 2018
Pegasus Theater Company
September 21st – October 7th, 2018

What do the following have in common: a dedicated but woefully underpaid community college professor; a

In recent years, when you entered the Spreckels Performing Arts Center’s Codding Theater you found yourself in an undersea world, or on the deck of the Titanic, or in Philadelphia’s Independence

Task Force on the Americas Annual Dinner
Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Marin
Saturday September 21, 2019 @ 5:30 pm

Our guest

Taste & Toast
L’chaim Harvest Celebration
Shone Farm
Sunday, September 8, 2019 @ 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Mouthful welcomes Doug Swett and Liza Hinman of the once and future Taverna Santi. The Geyserville restaurant closed late last year and will reopen April 2010, next door to Traverso’s, on

Hummingbird in Underworld, Teaching in a Men’s Prison ispoet Deborah Tobola’s memoir of working in

Kids are back in school now. But in at least one district,the teachers’ union is still battling over salaries and benefits, asadministrators offer what amounts to a pay cut.

The

The start of the school year can bring excitement oranxiety. On the North

Telegraph Quartet
Paul Mahder Gallery
Wednesday, March 14th, 2018 @ 7:00 pm

Brave New Music will host the San Francisco-based Telegraph Quarter on its chamber music series, now in its fifth

Ask anyone under fifty years of age who Rosemary Clooney is and they’re likely to respond “George Clooney’s wife?” They’d be in the ballpark (she was his aunt) but what they

For the past four hundred years, the groundbreaking Italian artist, Caravaggio, has challenged, intrigued, and transformed us. Suzanne Lang talks with Terence Ward on his book that combines memoir, history, biography, and journalism, The Guardian of Mercy: How an Extraordinary Painting by Caravaggio Changed an Ordinary Life.

 

Suzanne also talks with author Eugenio Volpe on his post-modern novel I, Caravaggio, that depicts the artist’s phychological unraveling while evolving his art and arising as a super star.

It’s A Novel Idea. Streaming and podcasting at krcb.org. 

 

Mouthful welcomes chef Terrell Bernier of New Orleans and Alan Linsley of Nonesuch school to discuss “Remembering Hurricane Katrina,” a benefit coming up on August 29.

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Suzanne Lang talks with author Terri Lewis on her historical novel set in the early 13^th century in England, when King John abducts and marries  the eleven year old Isabelle d’Angoulême to be his queen. The story, featuring a love triangle,  is based on facts: Behold the Bird in Flight, a Novel of an Abducted Queen.

 

Also featured is Janet Constantino talking about her novel spanning Sicily and San Francisco with lots of good food and wine in between. Becoming Mariella: a Novel is the story of a young person’s quest for fulfillment and independence.

It’s A Novel Idea, Sunday, March 30^th at 10am PT. Streaming and podcasting at KRCB.org. 

 

In a disaster we all have our jobs to do. There are firefighters, doctors,  construction workers and there are journalists. Tess Vigeland, former host of public radio’s “Market Place”, decided what

 

 

 

 

We go above and below, at every depth. Tessa Hill joins Suzanne Lang in conversation on At Every Depth, Our Growing Knowledge of the Changing Oceans, the book she wrote with science writer Eric Simons that takes readers from the shore to the ocean depths, from the tropics to polar regions, and introduces us to people who are working hard to save our oceans and the habitats that host so much life.

 

 

 

Also featured is a conversation with Marianna Leuschel and Josie Iselin, co-directors of Above/Below, an ocean literacy campaign that has created a webstory, The Mysterious World of Bull Kelp, online at https://bullkelp.info.

 

It's A Novel Idea with Suzanne M. Lang. Streaming and podcasting at KRCB.org. 

 

 

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Suzanne M. Lang talks with Thais Nye Derich about her path of self-examination and learning to discover that she, like many other women, was a victim of the medical establishment that

Thalea String Quartet
Community Church of Sebastopol
Saturday, February 17th, 2018 @ 7:30 pm

Redwood Arts presents the Thalea String Quartet in the Community Church of
Sebastopol on Saturday,

Thalea String Quartet
Paul Mahder Gallery
Wednesday, October 25th, 2017 @ 7:00 pm

Thalea String Quartet opens the 5th season of the Brave New Music concert series in Healdsburg, CA.

On November 20th, 1969, American Indian activists traveledto Alcatraz to begin an occupation of the prison island. It lasted 19

The 45th Gravenstein Apple Fair
Ragle Ranch Regional Park
August 11th & 12th, 2018 @ 10:00 am – 6:00 pm

Join us for a weekend of old-fashioned fun under the

The Adams Family: America’s First Dynasty
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI)
Berger Center, Oakmont
Monday, April 9th – Monday, May 14th, 2018

The Adamses are America’s longest and most influential dynasty,

The credits for the Spreckels Theater Company production of The Addams Family, running now through October 28, notes that the musical is “based on characters created by Charles Addams.” It is

Mouthful welcomes Victoria Wise, returning for a second visit, this time to discuss her wonderful book The Armenian Table.

Armenian cuisine is flavorful and robust, with lamb, yogurt, pomegranate,
artichokes, lemon

The Barber of Seville
Cinnabar Theater
June 7^th – 23^rd, 2019

Rossini’s laugh-out-loud romantic comedy has beenentertaining audiences for more than 200 years with its outrageous stage anticsand vocal acrobatics. Donald

Before attempting to explain what Conor McPherson’s The Birds is, running now at Sebastopol’s Main Stage West, best make it clear what it isn’t. It is not a stage adaptation of

The Birds
Main Stage West
April 7th – 23rd, 2017

The Birds is boldly adapted by Conor McPherson in a gripping, unsettling, and moving look at human relationships in the face

The Bob O’Klock Variety Hour
Raven Theater Healdsburg
Friday, May 12th & Saturday, May 13th, 2017 @ 8:00pm

90(ish) entertaining minutes! 14 faaabulous acts! 1 heckava good time!

Join us as

The Bodega Seafood, Art & Wine Festival
Watts Ranch
August 25th & 26th, 2018 @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm

The Bodega Seafood, Art & Wine Festival is a wonderful, wild

Hosted by Lauren Spates, episode 2 looks at the impact of more-fierce fire and flood on our immune system, our lungs and our brain. We talk to scientists, doctors and other experts who say it’s misleading to think that you’re safe from the effects of wildfire smoke if you live far away, because smoke knows no boundaries. It’s also misleading to think that once the smoke is gone, you’re safe, because invisible toxic particles are left behind. We ask what exactly happens when we — and our children — inhale wildfire smoke and carbon dioxide, and what can we do to protect ourselves?

The Book Club Play
6^th Street Playhouse
August 23 – September 15, 2019

An endearing comedy about five very different