Sonoma County : A Community Portrait

Sonoma County progressive, 40-something, mom, lunch lady ... and secret graffiti art legend! In this interview we sit down with super prolific street artist THE VELVELT BANDIT ! who's late meteoric rise in the scene has doubled as a public record of the events of the quarantine and Trump administration. Hear about her work and origins, the planning and execution of a tagging run, the rules of...

Each ten episode season of this podcast, the host Cincinnatus Hibbard issues one editorial piece and one gratitude piece, this first editorial enjoins Sonomans to continue the process of building bridges across generations and races in our community by meeting and making new friends. In addition to knitting our community more closely together, it would lessen political problems based in misunderst...

Each ten episode season of this podcast, the host Cincinnatus Hibbard issues one editorial piece and one gratitude piece. In this first gratitude piece, Cincinnatus observes a beautiful virtue in our character - that we're open and available to eachother - it's as if there are no strangers in our community. Enjoy!

Fine artist and career art curator Karen Gutfreund has organized over 40 art shows in social justice themes with a special emphasis in feminist art shows, exploring the latter to the depth of 25 different feminist themes. She most recently curated the feminist art show "Agency," at the Sonoma County Museum of Art in Santa Rosa. In this discussion Karen talks about art with impact, activi...

In this in-depth interview Cincinnatus converses with Ammon Jordon, who in the wave of Sonoma County activism that followed the killing of George Floyd brought forth an initiative to establish a local organic food production system in the yards and patios of Sonoma County homes. This not only addresses the food injustice that make healthy organics a privilege of the wealthy but the re-greening of...

From the early 1990's Phil Cole has held the beat for over 20 Sonoma County bands and projects spanning the entire So. Co. sound. For this episode we are following a special format, counting down 5 songs from 5 of Phil's past and current bands - Brothers Horse, Elephant, Sons of Doug, Derailed Freight Train and the Engineers, and Ditch Wolves. Interweaving these songs will be fun party b...

In this episode Cincinnatus sits downs with John Hibbard, a local Sonoma County naturalist who has made over 5000 documented and verified observations of over 2000 local species of plant, animal, and fungus on inaturalist, a crowd-sourced effort to document species diversity and distribution . We talk about observing nature, Sonoma County's most intact ecosystems, human impact,  the 120 known...

An in-depth interview with the incomparable director of Sonoma County GO LOCAL cooperative, Janeen Murray. GO LOCAL  organizes over 400 local businesses behind shared branding, messaging, advertising, a glossy mag and shop guide to deepen the culture of mutual support here in Sonoma County. Enjoy this introduction to this cooperative and the cause of local goods, services, and people. We have plac...