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Sunday Dinner: This One’s for Marcy
This One's for Marcy In this very special episode of The Sunday Dinner, DJ Dupsie dedicates some music and stories to his mother who hosted her own radio show in northeast Ohio back in the early 1990's! And as always, if you want to hear more of DJ Dupsie and his...
All About Sea Otters with PK Hattis
With recent reemergence of otter 841, the surfboard swiping sea critter raised in captivity, I'll be facilitating a panel conversation that includes several sea otter experts and the local photographer whose fateful photos went viral about a year ago. Otter 841 first...
Bahia Brunelle – Inclusion
Bahia Brunelle shares her vision of inclusion.
What’s Left of the Left? (Part 2)
“What’s Left of the Santa Cruz Left?” We continue our deep dive into this city’s ongoing growth machine and its economic and social collateral damage. Is all this growth good for Santa Cruz? And what about this “SoLa” plan, South of Laurel? It’s slated to bring some...
Talk of the Bay: KSQD Celebrates with Santa Cruz Pride!
June is Pride month across the nation and Santa Cruz set off the celebrations with their joyous parade on June 2. KSQD was there and captured the voices and spirit of one of longest-running Pride parades in the state. On this day people came in all their playful...
Take the scaffolding down: Mothering neuroatypical adults
What happens when your children don't meet society's expectations for development and behavior? Rebecca and Wendy agreed to an interview for last month's "Motherhood in the 21st Century" episode, but as soon as we began to talk, it was clear that their perspectives as...
How changing land use patterns can reduce housing costs and municipal budgets and make transit viable – a conversation with Eric Lombardo
Eric Lombardo is a conservationist and housing and transit advocate. He is interested in how land use affects everything we do, from where we live to how we move. He works as Policy Manager at the Land Trust of Santa Cruz County, but appears on Talk of the Bay...
Local farmer and educator David Shaw on building connections through permaculture and the Right Livelihood Center
David Shaw is a whole systems designer, naturalist, farmer, educator, and musician. His focus is building connections – with ourselves, with each other, and with nature. David founded Santa Cruz Permaculture, a company dedicated to amplifying regenerative land...
What’s Left of the Left? (Part 1)
Talk of the Bay host Chris Krohn leads a discussion that centers around all those tall buildings going up in downtown Santa Cruz. Are they affordable? Who will live in them, locals or out of towners? And, are we seeing the end of a once great funky beach town,...
Meals On Wheels Salinas Valley – Regina Gage
Regina Gage of Meals On Wheels of Salinas Valley shares with host Mathilde Rand a wealth of informative and fun facts about the multi-layered work of her organization. Phone: 831-758-6325 Website: mowsalinas.org Email Regina: reginag@mowsalinas.org