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.

Thinking in Your Sleep with Nicoline Isema

by Katherine Bell | Apr 18, 2022 | Advice / Call-in, All Talk, Education, Science, The Dream Journal, Wellness

Want to bypass your standard train of thought and get unstuck? Sleep on it! We talk about how dreaming is a kind of supercharged brainstorming with today's guest Nicoline Douwes Isema who calls her work Thinking in Your Sleep. We start by talking about how when we are...

Olga Cossi – Shrimp Wiggle

by Mathilde Rand and Laurie Corn | Apr 18, 2022 | All Talk, Arts & Culture, First Person Singular

With a full lunch crowd at the cafe, Olga Cossi, morning chef, gets herself in hot water. Produced by Laurie Corn.

KSQD Transmitter Update

by Rachel Goodman | Apr 17, 2022 | Station News, Updates

Thanks to our engineers Sandy Stone and Brant Harrett, K-squid is back to full power with our new transmitter. A few days before our pledge drive was set to begin, our transmitter took ill with a technical problem and became inoperable. Thanks to some fast thinking on...

BRCA genes and new diagnostics for breast cancer and the importance of Vitamin K

by Eliza James | Apr 17, 2022 | Advice / Call-in, All Talk, Ask Dr. Dawn, Program

Strategies for vaccine development to deal with successive variants of SARS-CoV-2 virus. A study links vaping with diabetes. All about the BRCA gene mutations and new techniques to diagnose breast cancer. The importance of the variations of vitamin K. Should I worry...

Let’s Green Ca with Heidi Harmon

by goodnewssantacruz | Apr 16, 2022 | All Talk, Education, Good News Santa Cruz, Politics, Science, Wellness

On Thursday April 14 Pauline Seales interviewed Heidi Harmon, Senior Public Affairs Director, Let's Green CA! And former Mayor of San Luis Obbispo. Heidi described her current role at Let's Green Ca promoting the Romero Bill SB1230. This bill will cut greenhouse gas...

Skunk Weed History with Richard Stockton

by Rachel Goodman | Apr 15, 2022 | All Talk, Business, Local, Rachel Anne Goodman, Science, Talk of the Bay, Wellness

Comedian turned horticulturalist Richard Stockton shares his story about germinating original pot seeds from a cache that had been frozen since the 1970s and the wave of interest it has generated in growers and pot enthusiasts.

Santa Cruz Early Rock History with Jack Bowers

by Rachel Goodman | Apr 15, 2022 | All Music, All Talk, Arts & Culture, Local, Popular, Rachel Anne Goodman, Talk of the Bay

Jack Bowers is a pianist/keyboardist and songwriter and member of the seminal 60's rock band, Oganookie. In this interview, he tells some juicy stories about the founding of the band and the early rock scene in Santa Cruz in the 60s and 70s.

Jeri Bodemar – Clouds

by Mathilde Rand and Laurie Corn | Apr 14, 2022 | All Talk, Arts & Culture, First Person Singular, Outdoors, Program

Jeri Bodemar, an artist, gets her inspiration from looking up

Author Jonathan Katz on Gangsters of Capitalism – a little-known history

by Len Beyea | Apr 13, 2022 | All Talk, Len Beyea, Politics, Talk of the Bay

Jonathan Myerson Katz , author of Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America’s Empire, received the James Foley/Medill Medal for Courage in Journalism for reporting from Haiti. His first book, The Big Truck That...