Issues & Ideas

Issues & Ideas

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Issues & Ideas episodes

  • A trip to Arkansas results in an emotional conversation about racism in America
    When I stopped in to visit with Robin White, Superintendent at Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site , our conversation quickly led to tears. When I interviewed Ms. White a couple years ago , the focus was on the September 1957 events at Little Rock Central High, and lessons learned. On this visit, we changed the focus. I said, let’s talk about lessons learned, but more importantly, lessons not learned in the intervening six decades.
    24 min
  • The Whale Trail—from B.C. to Baja—great whale watching spots identified
    A conversation with Donna Sandstrom Executive Director of Seattle based The Whale Trail . The organization’s primary mission is identifying outstanding land based whale and orca viewing spots. More than 60 educational signs have been installed along the Pacific Coast from British Columbia through Southern California. The Whale Trail’s most recent installation project added informative signage along the California Central Coast . You are invited to subscribe to the Lowell Thomas award-winning NPR
    23 min
  • Los Osos artist Jay Bonestell brings his "magical realism" to SLO’s GALA Center
    Crissa Hewitt and Steven deLuque talk with self-taught Los Osos artist Jay Bonestell about his creative path and current body of work, which he calls "magical realism." Bonestell says of his paintings and sculptures, "I attempt to convey a wistful and parallel universe that is in the world but not of the world." Bonestell's work will show at the GALA Center in San Luis Obispo until March 11, 2017. There will be an artist's reception on Friday, February 3 from 6:00-9:00 p.m. at 1060 Palm Street
    30 min
  • January Detox Decisions!
    We all suffer in January from the over-consumption throughout the holidays. So, I go in search of the perfect quick-fix detox!! Do I find it? Find out!
    29 min
  • Locals organize sister event to upcoming Women's March on Washington
    On Issues & Ideas this week, we welcome three local women to the KCBX studio to talk about an upcoming event, an organized march in San Luis Obispo on January 21. Like hundreds of smaller marches around the country, the Women's March San Luis Obispo is a sister march to the Women's March on Washington, happening on the day after Donald Trump's inauguration as president. Hundreds of thousands of people - not just women - are planning on making the trip to the nation's capitol to rally for
    11 min
  • Central Coast AVA: The bubbly list, Salinas to Santa Barbara
    "One of the things that Champagne did wrong when they started putting out their marketing," says Jenna Congdon, the manager of The Station wine bar in San Luis Obispo, "is that they really put it out there as a special occasion wine." That marketing message has worked better than those 19th century French producers could ever have imagined. More than a century later we still think of sparkling wine as reserved for special occasions like weddings, but especially for Christmas and New Year's when
    23 min
  • Playing with Persimmons
    It’s December, and persimmons are plentiful! Father Ian Delinger is Playing with Persimmons to discover useful ways to manage a backyard full of fruit. Anyone with a persimmon tree will be pleased with the plethora of peculiar yet palatable persimmon ideas!
    30 min

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"Issues and Ideas" is a weekly magazine program exploring news, arts, and culture in California and on the Central Coast.Regular audio segments are produced by the following contributors:People and…