Pride Perspectives

Pride Perspectives features discussions of various aspects of the rich and vibrant Santa Cruz LGBTQ+ history. Created in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Santa Cruz Pride in 2025, we include conversations with guests about their experiences in being part of this history through stories of local people and events.

Practical Magic with Niki Jaimes

by Katherine Bell | Feb 12, 2024 | Advice / Call-in, All Talk, Education, Health & Wellness, Science, Science & Nature, Spirituality & Religion, The Dream Journal, Wellness

Dream yoga, dream tarot, and the creative life. How to live and embody the dream as a daily practice which helps with life and with death. Today's guest is Niki Jaimes, founder of the Rising Wolf Collective. We start by talking about dream yoga as a daily empowerment...

Jason Scorse – Do More

by Mathilde Rand and Laurie Corn | Feb 12, 2024 | All Talk, First Person Singular, Politics

Jason Scorse says, "Do more for the coming historic presidential election."

Capt. Pete Bethune: The Indiana Jones of Endangered Species

by Jill Cody | Feb 11, 2024 | All Talk, Be Bold America!, Education, Outdoors, Politics, Politics & Activism, Program, Topics: Evergreen

Capt. Pete Bethune: The Indiana Jones of Endangered Species Celebrating Be Bold America!’s 5th-year Anniversary! Back by popular demand! One of the most listened to “Be Bold America!” programs in five years. If you missed it, here is another chance! “Be Bold...

THE TOWER OF SONG PRESENTS ITS ANNUAL VALENTINE’S DAY PROGRAM

by Gypsy Scholar | Feb 11, 2024 | All Music

Tune in at 12 a.m., Monday, Feb. 12th, and hear the Gypsy Scholar present his annual Valentine's Day program, which kicks off the Orphic Essay-with-Soundtrack series "The Troubadours & The Beloved: The Religion of Love/Amor." This series explores the medieval...

Slug Stories: Personal Narratives from UCSC Students

by Rachel Goodman | Feb 10, 2024 | All Talk, Arts, Local, Rachel Anne Goodman, Talk of the Bay

In this episode, we hear three heartfelt stories of struggle and healing from freshmen at UCSC. Each fall quarter, UCSC students write and perform personal "Slug" stories in front of an audience of peers and faculty as part of John R. Lewis College's Social Justice...

Voices of Monterey Bay’s Claudia Melendez Talks Local Journalism

by Rachel Goodman | Feb 10, 2024 | All Talk, Local, Politics, Program, Rachel Anne Goodman, Talk of the Bay

Award-winning journalist Claudia Melendez Salinas has been writing in-depth articles about people at the margins who do not traditionally get covered by local or national daily papers. Voices of Monterey Bay is a passion project of local journalists Julie Reynolds,...

Local author Craig James packs dual hits with a provocative book on religion and a political thriller

by Len Beyea | Feb 8, 2024 | All Talk, Arts, Arts & Culture, Len Beyea, Local, Outdoors, Politics, Talk of the Bay

Craig James started his professional career as a Cabrillo College dropout at the age of seventeen. Four years as a sailing instructor, boatbuilder, machinist, and carpenter taught him the value of craftsmanship and what it means to have real responsibilities....

Thom Zajac reveals the fun and foibles of the longest-running (and original) all-comic newspaper, Santa Cruz Comic News

by Len Beyea | Feb 8, 2024 | All Talk, Arts & Culture, Business, Len Beyea, Local, Politics, Talk of the Bay

Thom Zajac began publishing the Santa Cruz Comic News in September of 1984. Now in its 40th year, each issue of the Comic News features well over 100 cartoons from the nation’s leading political cartoonists. The Comic News is the longest running cartoon...

Reflections on Resilience in Dark Times: Acoustic Episode

by Ami Chen Mills | Feb 8, 2024 | All Talk, Climate Change, Education, Moment of Truth, Politics, Politics & Activism, Program, Science & Nature, Spirituality & Religion, Topics: Evergreen, Wellness

In this special, "acoustic" episode, Moment of Truth host, activist and resiliency author Ami Chen Mills reflects on the current state of the world, including the coming US election season, the war in Israel, Gaza, the Occupied Territories, Lebanon and now the Red Sea...