The Tower of Song Presents “Romantic Total Revolution, Part 2”
Update: The extended broadcast of Part 2 of the multi-part Orphic Essay-with-Soundtrack, “Romantic Total Revolution: the '60s Second American Revolution" (broadcast 9/ 8/25), is now available for listening on the “Archived Musical Essays” webpage, along with the...
FirstPersonSingular: Gretchen Gudenkauf – Gumba
Gretchen Gudenkauf remembers her beloved Gumba. Photo courtesy of The Silent Man.
Sustainability Now! Sunday, September 14: What’s Happening with Climate Law across the World, the United States and California? with Professor Alice Kaswan, USF School of Law
What's Happening with Climate Law across the World, the United States and California? with Professor Alice Kaswan, University of San Francisco School of Law What’s up with climate change and climate law? The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced that it...
Jean Pirano, The Hard Left(ist) Comes to Surf City
Jean Pirano (84) is a quiet, but consistent activist, a “slack-tivist,” as she says with a big smile. Pirano came to Santa Cruz in the late-1960’s, worked for the Grey Bears managing their warehouse, and became a card-carrying member of the Santa Cruz Communist...
FirstPersonSingular: Jason Scorse – Calling It What It Is
Jason Scorse says, "Let's call it what it is!" Photo courtesy of EduRaW.
September 9, 2025: Computer Man! Your Tech Questions Answered
Don’t stress about your tech, call the Computer Man on KSQD between 6-7pm PT each Tuesday: 831-900-5773 Write to Luigi@PleasurePointComputers.com Scams of the week! Topics covered: Scary tech coming out, Blocking Facebook, ChatGPT, Upgrade Windows 11 for $30, Email...
Heliopsychology with Annani Kelley
Do sunspots, solar flares, and geomagnetic activity affect our dreams? Our guest, Annani Kelly, is finishing her PhD research on a study involving 92 participants and over 4700 dream reports. Annani talks about some of the effects of solar activity on health which has...
The Ultimate Devil’s Bargain: Arrigo Boïto’s Mefistofele
A worldly scholar reaches old age realizing he has never experienced true love and beauty. Faust makes a deal with a halo-less angel. Monday Night at the Opera, 7 to 10 p.m., September 8, 2025.
FirstPersonSingular: Gilda Zelin – Birth
Gilda Zelin contemplates birth. Photo courtesy of Alexandro David.
Karen with a K: A Musical Temper Tantrum featuring Strange Bedfellows
Monday on Talk of the Bay we meet Laura February Strange and members of the cast of “Karen with a K: A musical temper tantrum." If you haven’t had the chance to experience this local garage-rock musical it’s coming around once more at the Kummbwa Jazz Center in...
Watsonville’s Whiskey Hill Farm Explored
In The Garden, KSQD's weekly garden show, airs a conversation from February 8, 2025, with Dave Blume of Whiskey Hill Experimental and Educational Farm. Dave's energy is infectious, and his nontraditional agricultural methods are jaw-dropping and inspirational; 9 to 10...
French composers … Charles Gounod et bien d’autres encore
Saturday, September 6, 2025 - 6 to 9 a.m.; Gounod's Second Symphony (Markeivitch/Berlin Phil), Ravel's Piano Trio (Kantorow/Rouvier/Muller), Adam's Giselle selections (Karajan/Berlin Phil), Ibert's Escales (Dutoit/Montreal Sym), Rameau's Dardanus selections (Nic...
A Hunger Strike to End Pesticides Near Watsonville Schools
This show broadcasted live on Labor Day of 2025, the first day of Omar Dieguez's 30-day hunger strike to end the spraying of pesticides near Watsonville area schools. MOT host Ami Chen Mills and Dieguez are joined by Providencia Martinez Alaniz, who also...
Assemblymember Pellerin Advocates for Suicide Awareness
When Gail Pellerin lost her husband to suicide, she knew she needed to learn more about the causes and prevention as part of her healing process. Now, she is advocating for awareness through a resolution declaring September Suicide Prevention Awareness Month. In...
UC Researchers and Public Service Workers Unionize
7,200 UC Research and Public Service Professionals Vote Yes to Form a Union They are the latest group of professional staff to join the UAW organizing movement Berkeley/Los Angeles, CA - Today, votes were tallied in a union election for 7,200 Research and Public...




















