Talk of the Bay
Talk of the Bay is committed to covering political, social, and cultural topics from around the Monterey Bay. We focus on current events and people making news locally (from the central coast to Sacramento). We also consider national and international issues, their impact on the central coast, and local responses. We tackle perennial topics like housing, homelessness, transportation, education, and more from a new angle.
Future of Local Libraries
Susan Nemitz is the Executive Director of the Santa Cruz Public Library system. In this episode of Talk of the Bay, she talks about how the role of libraries in our modern world is changing. Will...
How can we encourage musicality in children?
Music is a gift that parents can give their children for free, a lasting way to amuse themselves and others, express themselves, and even improve their mental health. But how can we foster a sense...
Chef Andrea wants YOU to love zucchini
Chef Andrea Mollenauer doesn’t seem to do anything halfway. “I kind of have my fingers in every area of the food industry—and I love it!” Andrea is a caterer, owner of the Food Lounge (a...
Portrait of a (healing) Clown: Iman Lizarazu
In the profile of clown Iman Lizarazu, Cabrillo College intern Adrien Saso explores the universality of laughter and its potential to connect us beyond language or borders.
Host Bios
[Coming soon]
Airs Monday through Friday at 5:00 PM
NEXT SHOW
Monday, December 23 6:00am
HOSTED BY
Rachel Anne Goodman
Since 1980, Rachel has hosted radio shows on public stations around the U.S. where she interviewed many amazing figures. She is the producer of radio documentaries such as Southern Songbirds: The Women of Early Country and Old Time Music, A Labor of Love: Midwifery in the South, The Boomtown Chronicles, and Pastures of Plenty, a History of California Farmworkers. Ms. Goodman has a Peabody award for her work on The DNA Files for NPR. She currently teaches at Cabrillo College
in Aptos and at UC Santa Cruz.