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In this interview, Stacy McMillan and Athena Hurd joined me for a chat about this innovative program to give money directly to worthy charity projects and nonprofits. http://www.100wwc.org/ Next meeting:June 12, 2024 6:30 – 7:30 pm Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History 705 Front St Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Collective action ~ Empowering community. […]

Rachel Anne Goodman interviews classical musician and composer, Peter Blanchette. Peter plays one of only four arch guitars in the world, an instrument he invented, which is a combination of classical guitar and lute. Blanchette is one of the world’s experts on the instrument, having played his brand of Renaissance and Baroque music in concert […]

  Steven Gonzalez Monserrate is a postdoctoral researcher at the Fixing Futures Research Training Group at Goethe University. He received his PhD in the History, Anthropology, Science, Technology & Society (HASTS) program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His current book project, Cloud Ecologies, is an environmental ethnography of data centers in New England, Arizona, Puerto Rico, and Singapore. A graphical preview of […]

  Sarah Gilman studied studio art and biology in college and wasn’t quite satisfied with either. The art world looked hermetic, sealed off in cities away from the landscapes that she loved. And the science world felt binding, too, with its sprint to publish clunky treatises for an audience of other scientists. Writing, though, stole […]

Five talented musicians sing in honor of the great Pete Seeger to preview their upcoming concert. On June 9th at 3 pm musicians Emma’s Revolution (Sandy O and Pat Humphries, Bob Reid and Judi Jaeger and Aileen Vance will convene a sing-a-long concert in honor of Pete Seeger at the Kuumbwa Jazz Center in Santa […]

  Christina Baal-Owens is Executive Director of Public Wise, a voting rights organization that works to secure a government that reflects the will and protects the rights of the people. She brings nearly two decades of experience in electoral and legislative campaigns, advocacy, government, and non-profit management. A social worker by trade who started her […]

Santa Cruz has a powerful activist history, and one of the most impressive outcomes for our county emerged from the Women’s Health Collective of the early 70’s. Monday, on the Talk of the Bay, two of the collective’s founding mother’s–Coleen Douglas and Jane Reyes– join host, Christine Barrington, and  share about the feminist vision that […]

Rachel Anne Goodman speaks with Richard Ginell author of a book about the famed sixties trio, The Limeliters. The book, Makin’ A Joyful Noise, the Lives and Times of the (Slightly) Fabulous Limeliters explores the meteoric rise of the band and their role in shaping the music of that era. The interview includes a musical […]

Cabrillo student Steven Rodrigues asked people how rising gas prices were influencing their driving habits. Here’s what they had to say.

  On May 4th, 1970, Ohio National Guard troops opened fire on unarmed Kent State students protesting the war in Vietnam, killing 4 students and wounding 9 others. Local author Lois Van Buren was there. Having spent the last 45 years in Santa Cruz, raising a family, running a business, and working as an educator, […]