KVMR's Felton Pruitt talks with Nevada City Chamber of Commerce Executive Director, Stuart Baker.

KVMR’s Felton Pruitt speaks with Anni McCann about her role in A Thousand Kisses Deep. A show featuring solely Leonard Cohen songs with 14 local musicians. They perform at The Nevada Theatre on February 3rd and 4th. Your local news looks at California’s new state holiday - Lunar New Year and what the day means for  Jeannie Wood, a member of the Nevada County Arts Council’s board of directors and Executive Director of the Community Asian Theatre of the Sierra.  She reflects on the early Sierra Foothills Chinese pioneers and their  Lunar New Year rituals. And Sacramento Kings fans rejoice on The California Report.

KVMR's Felton Pruitt spoke with musician Anni McCann about her upcoming performance in One Thousand Kisses Deep: The Songs of Leonard Cohen, which is coming to the Nevada Theater on February 3rd and 4th. Among other things, they discuss past shows, local musical pros,' and the importance of rehearsals.

On Friday evening, the Tibetan Buddhist Monks of Gaden Shartse Monastery in India will begin their two and a half weeks of residency in Nevada County. Joseph Guida has the details. The California Report examines the crisis that ensued in Madera County when its only hospital went out of business—150,000 patients without local care. And, we’ve got your regional news and weather, topped off with an essay by Molly Fisk.

Molly Fisk writes, coaches, and teaches writing in California's Sierra Nevada foothills.

For over twenty years, Tibetan Buddhist monks have visited Nevada County. News Director Cláudio Mendonça spoke with Sierra Friends of Tibet founder, Joseph Guida, about their nearing annual return, which begins on January 20th and ends February 4th.

KVMR's Felton Pruitt spoke with Wild & Scenic Film Festival Operations Manager, Eric Dunn, about volunteer opportunities and perks surrounding this year's event, which takes place February 16th - 20th.

KVMR Science Correspondent Al Stahler speaks with author Sands Hall about her presentation, "The Ways of Fiction Are Devious Indeed," exploring the controversy surrounding Wallace Stegner‘s use of the life and writing of Mary Hallock Foote in his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, “Angle of Repose.” Hall’s talk is 7pm Thursday at Sierra Presbyterian Church in Nevada City. Then Syd Brown with The Sierra Gold Parks Foundation stops by for an update on western Nevada County’s three state parks. Your local news looks into the death of  Nevada County Jail inmate Amy Wayne Morris who was found unconscious in her cell Tuesday and later pronounced dead at Sierra Memorial Hospital.
And the California Report has reactions to Monday’s  horrific Tulare county mass murder.