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Nearly four dozen local leaders will sleep on the street for a night later this month, simulating youth homelessness to help combat it.

The SAY Dream Center opened its doors last spring, and saw its beds for homeless youth filled immediately. Now they are staging an unusual pubic event to call attention to the needs they are working to serve.

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Politics is serious business. So Will Durst has made a career out of lampooning it.

Political issues and positions are of secondary interest to comedian Will Durst. He zeros in on their personalities and foibles to, in his words, “put the ‘mock’ in democracy.”

Will Durst brings his “Elect to Laugh 2016” show to the Cinnabar Theater in Petaluma on Sunday night at 7:30. He also talks more about it on the North Bay Report webpage at KRCB dot org/news. Hear this story on demand with our free KRCB mobile app. You can also find this and past stories on our new North Bay Report Facebook page. Comment, share and give us a like there. Follow the North Bay Report on Twitter @KRCBNews.

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By law, earthquake insurance is available for all California homeowners, but only 10% actually have it.

Notwithstanding the earthquake that struck downtown Napa a little more than 2 years ago, our state as a whole has been enjoying an overall lull in significant seismic activity. So the California Earthquake Authority is intensifying its calls for homeowners to take protective steps.

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Is it possible to drive an electric car all the way around the world?

For his summer vacation this year, Alan Soule took a trip around the world—literally—behind the wheel of his electric car.

Hear more about the international Electric Vehicle trek, and see some pictures from it, on our North Bay Report webpage at KRCB dot org/news. Hear this story on demand with our free KRCB mobile app. You can also find this and past stories on our new North Bay Report Facebook page. Comment, share and give us a like there. Follow the North Bay Report on Twitter @KRCBNews.

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The biological diversity of the Gardens on Alcatraz has been captured, beautifully, by the region’s botanical artists.

For a dozen years, volunteers have been working diligently to restore the historic gardens on Alcatraz Island. Now the results of those efforts have been documented in a series of details, full-color drawings by dozens of botanical artists.

The original art from the Alcatraz garden project is are currently on display at the Marin Art and Garden Center in Ross, through Nov. 13.You can see samples of these artworks, and hear more about how the project was begun, on the North Bay Report webpage at KRCB dot org/news. Hear this story on demand with our free KRCB mobile app. You can also find this and past stories on our new North Bay Report Facebook page. Comment, share and give us a like there. Follow the North Bay Report on Twitter @KRCBNews.

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Founding Beach Boy Mike Love offers an inside view of the group’s often discordant history in his new memoir, Good Vibrations.

It’s been half a century since the Beach Boys were at their peak in the 1960s, yet their music endures and surviving members of the band maintain a busy concert schedule. One of them is founding singer Mike Love, whose new autobiography charts the often rocky history inside the band.

Mike Love was at Copperfield’s books in Petaluma Monday at 7 pm, where he talked about his book with veteran music writer Joel Selvin. Love will return to Sonoma County on Nov 17 when the Beach Boys perform at the Luther Burbank Center in Santa Rosa.
We also have more from him on the North Bay Report webpage at KRCB dot org/news. Hear this story on demand with our free KRCB mobile app. You can also find this and past stories on our new North Bay Report Facebook page. Comment, share and give us a like there. Follow the North Bay Report on Twitter @KRCBNews.

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If it lives in our coastal waters, Sea Forager Kirk Lombard knows how to catch and cook it.

Our coast is home to dozens of varieties of strange, often elusive, sometimes slimy, yet almost always somehow edible sea life. Kirk Lombard knows where to find them, and what to do with them.

Kirk Lombard has also launched CSA-style fish-mongering service, Sea Forager Seafood, that he is currently juggling with an intermittent book tour, which brings him to book Passage in San Rafael on Saturday afternoon at 4 pm. We also have more from him on the North Bay Report webpage at KRCB dot org/news. Hear this story on demand with our free KRCB mobile app. You can also find this and past stories on our new North Bay Report Facebook page. Comment, share and give us a like there. Follow the North Bay Report on Twitter @KRCBNews.

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Telecom pioneer Don Green recounts his lively and compelling personal history in a new autobiography.

Eighty-five years in 400 pages—with plenty of pictures included. That’s what entrepreneur, philanthropist and music lover Don Green has packed into his newly public memoir.

A public book release celebration of Don Green’s autobiography, including a reading of excerpts, will be held Saturday at 2 pm at the Green Music Center. Proceeds from the sale of Defining Moments will benefit the Santa Rosa Youth Orchestra. For more, go to the North Bay Report webpage at KRCB dot org/news. Hear this story on demand with our free KRCB mobile app. You can also find this and past stories on our new North Bay Report Facebook page. Comment, share and give us a like there. Follow the North Bay Report on Twitter @KRCBNews.

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How about some locker room talk that emphasizes respect for women and girls? It’s already happening in some local schools.

A new, targeted effort to combat violence against women is taking hold in an important, if unexpected context: junior high and high school locker rooms.

The YWCA is hosting a screening of the documentary, Audrie and Daisy tomorrow night at 7 at the Rosy in downtown Santa Rosa. The film shows how teens and their families saw their lived upended as the result of some poor decision making on social media. The event, with a panel discussion after the film, is a benefit to support the Coaching Boys Into Men program in Sonoma County. For more, go to the North Bay Report webpage at KRCB dot org/news. Hear this story on demand with our free KRCB mobile app. You can also find this and past stories on our new North Bay Report Facebook page. Comment, share and give us a like there. Follow the North Bay Report on Twitter @KRCBNews.

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With three detailed alternatives now open to public review, plans for the Southeast Greenway in Santa Rosa are gradually moving ahead.

Eight years into the process of creating the proposed southeast Greenway in Santa Rosa, ideas for what it will actually look like are taking shape. An online survey, reviewing three possible alternatives, is underway.

For a link to the survey, and more about the process of planning the greenway, go to the North Bay Report webpage at KRCB dot org/news. Hear this story on demand with our free KRCB mobile app. You can also find this and past stories on our new North Bay Report Facebook page. Comment, share and give us a like there. Follow the North Bay Report on Twitter @KRCBNews.

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