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Meek and Marco: Skateboarding Then and Now
Skateboarding and Santa Cruz are often spoken in the same sentence. Since the 1970's Santa Cruz is not only recognized as a brand, but also for its rad skateboarders, surfers and punk rock music. This feature by Patrick Harte explores the contrasts in what it takes to...
State Parks Update
Public information office, Gabe McKenna from California State Parks Santa Cruz district gives an update on Covid, trail safety, illegal cannabis, and other issues effecting our parks.
Santa Cruz Rail and Trail Update
In this segment of Talk of the Bay, Rachel Anne Goodman talks with Sally Arnold, board chair of Friends of the Rail and Trail, a nonprofit advocating for public use of the recently acquired rail line in Santa Cruz County between Watsonville and Davenport. Their new...
Ride the Internal Waves of the Monterey Canyon
This week on Santa Cruz Naturalist we speak with Dr. Yui Takeshita, a scientist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. Dr. Takeshita explains how he uses chemistry to better understand the ocean and shares an interesting story about internal waves in the...
Are you ready to foster or adopt a cat or dog?
On Talk of the Bay, Annette Hogue of Four Paws to Love joins host Suki Wessling to talk about our local pet adoption ecosystem. Four Paws finds loving families to foster, and then searches for each animal's "forever home." They consider caring for animals an important...
A Local Response to High Tech Policing
In this Talk of the Bay episode, we hear from Congressman Jimmy Panetta about a new policing bill he co-sponsored that would reign in some practices and equipment available to police. In the second half, we hear from Tracy Rosenberg, Executive Director of the Media...
Jean Brocklebank – Don’t Bury Our Library
Jean Brocklebank, representing Don't Bury The Library, shares her view of the Santa Cruz downtown library project. See Dontburythelibrary.weebly.com Jayson Architecture proposal
Sustainability Now! Public Lands on Pacific’s Edge
Radio Show #21, June 13, 2020, with Jo Chamberlain, Executive Director of the Coastside Land Trust in Half Moon Bay. Jo is a graduate of College Eight (aka, Rachel Carson College) at UC Santa Cruz and was provost’s assistant there for several years during the past...
Lucid Dreaming Redux with David Jay Brown
We talk about ways to become lucid while dreaming, psychedelia, and the after life as well as visionary art. And we talked with callers about meditating in dreams and about how to keep yourself from losing track of reality while engaging in an intensive lucid dreaming...
Faith in the Time of Corona: Faith & The Police Chief
In the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic, the cruel murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis has sparked protests, violence, and discussions about policing and systemic racism across the country. Santa Cruz has experienced a variety of protests and calls for police to do a...