North Bay Report Podcast
From an unusual electronic instrument to the acoustic piano and back again, Marin composer and Musician Suzanne Ciani’s career has come full circle. Bolinas-based composer Suzanne Ciani has achieved success and earned five Grammy nominations for her New Age piano music – but her body of work goes far beyond that one category. Ciani was …
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Sonoma State’s new president, Judy Sasaki, introduced herself to the college’s students and faculty at the yearly convocation Monday morning. Dr. Judy Sasaki, the newly installed 7th president of Sonoma State University, greeted the campus community yesterday at the annual convocation, which marks the beginning of the new academic year. KRCB’s Bruce Robinson was there, …
Continue reading “New SSU President Opens the 2016 Academic Year – August 23rd, 2016”
Sea snails in tide pools may be a helpful indicator of the consequences of ocean acidification for lower forms of ocean fauna. Increasing acidity in the world’s oceans is affecting far more than coral reefs. A local researcher is studying how changing pH in seawater may alter the balance of life in tide pools along …
Continue reading “How Ocean Acidification Imperils the Lowly Sea Snail – August 22, 2016”
Cannabis is already big business in Sonoma County, so local officials are scrambling to enact needed regulations for it before the industry grows even bigger. With new legislation at last providing uniform statewide guidelines for medical marijuana in California, and the possibility of legalizing recreational use on the November ballot, cannabis is attaining new visibility …
Continue reading “How to Address the Impacts of Cannabis – August 19, 2016”
An important early member of KRCB’s growth and development passed away early this week. Dyan Ellis Foster was the first Volunteer Coordinator for Chanel 22 Public Television, but had moved on to other creative social and educational projects by the time Radio 91 signed on. One of those was the creation of an innovative charter …
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Petaluma’s World Centric receives recognition for its work to raise awareness of social and environmental issues. Find out why they do it on the next North Bay Report, airing at 6:18 and 8:18 am and 5:30 pm. Or find it online at krcb.org Most people recognize Petaluma based World Centric as a provider of compostable …
A Petaluma sculptor says the elaborate temple he builds are not works of art, but places for healing. Petaluma artist David Best began building temples almost by accident, first for Burning Man and now other places as well, as he seeks ways to expand their healing power into the world at large. There’s more on …
Continue reading “The Healing Power of Artful Temples – August 16, 2016”
Medusa, a fearsome figure from Greek mythology is about to make a return trip to Burning Man, after some retooling in Petaluma. From the neck up, she is 26 feet tall, with a head-full of fire-breathing snakes. It’s the Burning Man version of Medusa, the attention-commanding creation of Petaluma artist Kevin Clark. Bruce Robinson paid …
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Find out how educators are learning how to use mindfulness to change traumatic school climates. Toolbox, the Social and Emotional learning program that began in Sebastopol about a decade ago, is gaining more traction in the U.S. and worldwide. And educators near and far are hungry to bring it to their own classrooms. KRCB’s Tiffany …
Shakespeare with Writer’s block? That’s just the starting point for the playful new play, The Plot Against Shakespeare. One playwright David Beckman decided that his new play about Shakespeare would find the Bard suffering from writer’s block, it was up to the Santa Rosa writer to find his own words to tell that story. The …
Continue reading “Drafting “The Plot Against Shakespeare” – August 11, 2016”