Sonoma County : A Community Portrait

A conversation with Serphina Palendech, three months into her tenure with The Sebastopol Center Of The Arts, which barely survived closure last year. She reads as manifestly the person for the job of transitioning the center, being a trained painter, veteran fundraiser and event organizer for the former SF AIDS Walk, and a successful serial entrepreneur - notably co-founding Hip Chicks organic pou...

Battling a cold, Supervisor Coursey kept our appointment for something that is supremely rare in American politics today. He had long format, open ended interview with the press, with no prearranged questions, and no holds barred. Listen and learn from a conversation both lofty and humble, adversarial and cooperative, as we attempt define and explore Supervisor Coursey's career in q and a, -...

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I had the sharp pleasure of sharing some slow time with Luz Navarrette in the bizzy run-up to the 23rd Annual Dia de los Muertos celebration on Santa Rosa's Courthouse Square. The two day observance, held every November 1st and 2nd, invites the entire community to participate in this centerpiece and altar of the Mexican culture of death and grieving. Strictly non-commercial and deeply reveren...

Miguel Elliott is a local visionary attempting to revive one our most ancient building practices cob construction ( similar to Adobe or Daub and Waddle ) to alleviate our environmental and housing crises in one beautiful and economical solution. Although we are stuck on one conventional material process of building ( that is expensive, unsustainable, and highly toxic when burned ), cob constructio...

[ interview starts at 3:50] An interview with the Editor of The Bohemian and The Pacific Sun Daedalus Howell in three parts! In the part first, Daedalus and Cincinnatus discuss his upcoming film shot entirely in Sonoma County, Wolf Story! It is a werewolf adventure romantic comedy that uses fiction and fantasy to impart grounded truths about life changes, identity and growing older. In the second...

Corporations are massive engines. And in the current economy they are massive engines of exploitation and ecological destruction. But could they be retooled as massive engines of ecological and societal healing. In his episode Matt Jorgensen talks about Stewardship Trusts. Within which the intention of corporations can be permanently and irrevocably rewritten - from profit maximization for a sole...

I could listen to Joe, rapt, for hours on end, as he speaks with one of the most beautiful and prized American accents - the Italian South Philly sound. Joe is an all around  host and entertainer, and together we tell three great strands of his story through the development of his three performance forms - drummer and conga player,  swing dancer, and background talent ( film extra ) in some of the...

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An interview with music scene MVP,  Doug "DJ" Jayne,  who five days a week hosts Mid-Day Music on KRCB, Sonoma County's NPR station. He draws from a deep crate knowledge gained pulling shifts in Sonoma County's best record store for over 40 years, The Last Record Store ( now renamed The Next Record Store in new partnership with his wife, son, and long term employee ). In this c...

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What follows is a single conversation with, Pomo, Wailaki, and Maidu indigenous educator and public health expert Rose Hammock on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (#MMIW). That phrase refers to both an epidemic and a movement that is at the forefront of the modern indigenous civil rights movement. For context we also discuss  the colonial history and colonial present of Sonoma County Californ...

Sonoma County has 63 000 acres of vineyards and produces on order of 200 000 000 bottles of wine a year. The wine industry is huge part of our exporting and tourist economies and a large part of the experience of living here. Which is why I am excited to host our first industry expert. In her twenty years in the Wine Industries of Italy, Spain, and Sonoma County, Brooke Herron has had a dozen role...

   In this, the fifteenth and last interview of the first season, I sit down with Gary Saperstein, head of development at Face to Face. Development is the work of raising money for a non-profit fighting a cause. And Face to Face is Sonoma County’s non-profit effort to end HIV / AIDS and bring comfort to those facing the affliction.    In this chat we go to the institutional origins of Face to Face...

Santa Rosa retailer Made Local Marketplace stands as a model for Sonoma County ... and for every county and city across US wishing to support and grow small businesses. This store is to be admired, studied, and duplicated. It is, simply, a marketplace and showroom for all the goods we make here. Across its art, craft, jewelry, food, clothing, and garden departments Owner Willow Fish Peterson has g...

   Sean Quan & Jenny Quan, who as partner and partner and man and wife, own and operate quick moving and adaptive SECOND STAFF - a restaurant pop-up here in Sonoma County. The ever changing set up allows them to test locations, dishes, save money, and incubate fun restaurant concepts such as Asian street food custom car nights and Michelin-technique discount small bites - with all ingredients...

Local bartender Danny Ojinaga began his career in the late 90's, pouring cheap shots at rowdy dives but grew and matured with the industry in the advent of the craft cocktail.  As the co-host of bar theory podcast he mapped the local industry of craft bars and distillers and bring that community together.  But all wasn't right with Danny, behind the tall dark masculine party persona he h...

Comfortably dressed Marta Koehne has stood as a pillar of the Sonoma County fashion scene for 40 years, nearly as long as the vintage business has existed. Most days you can find her in her store Hot Couture Vintage on Rail Road Square where she has collected one of the smartest sets of vintage clothing to be had in the whole North Bay. This despite rapid turn over of her stock and the ever turnin...

Why do people want to date* monsters? In this episode we talk to mother, author, herbalist, Aztec dancer, and Sonoman Scarlett West about sexy monsters, bad boys, romance, sexual fantasy, empowerment fantasy, and the rehabilitation of the reputation of this "woman's genre."  WEBSITES : https://scarlettwestwrites.com

Mya Constantino is currently a reporter and feature writer for The Press Democrat. We will talk about her experiences with The PD at a later date. For this episode we sat down to talk about her life and her passion project - which is a full expression of that life, "The Deep Take Project." It is a long format interview show like this one but audio and video. The theme and aim of her proj...