
Suzanne Lang talks with prize-winning journalist Mary Jo McConahay on her book Playing God, American Catholic Bishops and the Far Right, which reveals the big money, unholy alliances, and far right agendas held by a faction of American Catholic Bishops.
Suzanne also talks with Kate McElwee, Executive Director of the Women’s Ordination Conference, a grassroots-driven movement that promotes activism and dialogue to call for women's ordination and gender equity in the Roman Catholic Church.

Mary Page Marlowe
Roustabout Theater
March 13 – 29, 2020
Roustabout’s Professional Ensemble presents the Bay
The Apprentice Program of
Roustabout Theater presents
Disney’s Mary Poppins
July 13 & 14, 2018 @ 7:30PM
July 14 & 15, 2018 @ 3:00PM
Disney’s Mary Poppins is the magical family-friendly
This week, Mouthful welcomes back Mary Risley of San Francisco’s sweetest little cooking school, Tante Marie’s. Chef Risley first appeared on Mouthful during its first year, back in 1996. Much has
David Templeton’s “Mary Shelley’s Body”
A Free Night of Theater
Spreckels Performing Arts Center
Saturday, June 16th, 2018 @ 7:00 pm
On June 16, 1816, in the early hours of the
Mary Shelley’s Body
Main Stage West
October 13th – 29th, 2017
A World Premiere by David Templeton.
Mary Shelley awakes in a graveyard to discover she has died. During one harrowing
“Am I supposed to be retelling my creature’s story or confessing my own?” – so asks Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly, author of Frankenstein and the protagonist in Petaluma playwright (and former Second
Gil Mansergh hosts a very tasty Word By Word conversation this month. Tasty, because it features an insider’s look at the newly released Mary’s Italian Family Cookbook.
This book is testament
Gil Mansergh hosts a very tasty Word By Word conversation this month. Tasty, because it features an insider’s look at the newly released Mary’s Italian Family Cookbook.
This book is testament

Plays and films set during World War I are few and farbetween, at least

What happens in our youth ripples through our entire lives. Authors Marylee MacDonald and Elisa Stancil Levine join Suzanne M. Lang in conversation on their memoirs of resilience and courage.
Stancil Levine’s This or Something Better, a Memoir of Resilience starts with the firestorm of 2017 that had her fleeing Sonoma Mountain and takes us to her troubled youth along the American River.

This week, master baker Craig Ponsford returns to Mouthful to talk about his
This week on Mouthful, Mat and Barb Gustafson of Paul Mathew Vineyards talk viognier, gewürztraminer and pinot, pinot, pinot, all while pouring samples of their spectacular wines.
Mouthful, Smart Talk About
Matthew Carson has transformed a Sebastopol dive bar into Mother’s Ruin, a sassy lounge, complete with velvet couches, handcrafted cocktails and an impression array of gin. Joining in the conversation is
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uzanne Lang talks with Matthew Ferrence, who ran for the Pennsylvania State Legislature (and lost) in a gerrymandered red area that is deemed “un-winnable” by Democrats. He tells his story in I Hate it Here, Please Vote for Me: Essays on Rural Political Decay.
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Also featured is Suzanne’s conversation with award winning librarian and free speech advocate Amanda Jones, who has been the target of a nasty campaign of harassment from the far right in her home state of Louisiana. Her memoir is That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America.
It’s A Novel Idea on KRCB FM 104.9. streaming and podcasting at krcb.org.
To honor Adam Johnson’s Pulitzer for his novel The Orphan Master’s Son, KRCB-FM’s Word By Word is reprising the conversation with Gil Mansergh which was originally broadcast April 4th 2012.
To honor Adam Johnson’s Pulitzer for his novel The Orphan Master’s Son, KRCB-FM’s Word By Word is reprising the conversation with Gil Mansergh which was originally broadcast April 4th 2012.
He was elected to the city council at 32. Four years later, he’s the mayor of Windsor, and one of the younger elected officials in Sonoma County.
Next in our

While shelter in place orders do not apply to going to thegrocery store, you
While the election won’t officially be certified until December, preliminary results have come in for Sonoma County and show Measure P has passed. It will give more funding to the County's law enforcement watchdog agency - called the Independent Office of Law Enforcement Review and Outreach, or IOLERO. To learn more about what the passage of this measure means, KRCB News Director Adia White spoke with former IOLERO director and Measure P proponent, Jerry Threet yesterday.
Sonoma County’s Independent Office of Law Enforcement Review and Outreach, or IOLERO, is charged with auditing misconduct cases and improving the community’s trust in law enforcement. But some say it doesn’t have enough funding to do its job. That’s where Measure P comes in. If passed, the measure would secure more independence and funding for the office. KRCB’s Adia White spoke with the former director, Jerry Threet, about what the office does and why he believes it needs more funding.
This week we’ve been talking with the new representatives elected to city council. One of them is businessman Eddie Alvarez who will be the first representative for District 1 and the second Latino council member. KRCB News Director recently spoke with Alvarez to learn more about his priorities.
(Image: Businessman and new councilmember Eddie Alvarez. Credit: City of Santa Rosa)
The start of the new year means a new mayor for the City of Healdsburg. Vice Mayor Leah Gold was selected to take the reins from David Hagele in a unanimous vote by the city council mid-December. She started her year-long term at the beginning of this month. KRCB’s Adia White spoke with her about what she hopes to accomplish.

The start of the new year means a new mayor for the City ofHealdsburg. Vice Mayor Leah Gold was selected
This year’s Miss Sonoma County is breaking new ground in more ways than one.
Miss Sonoma County 2019 was crowned on the second of March. She’s different from every other winner
Joy Ayodele emerged as a frontline activist for racial justice over the summer, organizing youth through her movement 'What We Are Fighting For'. She’s also on the student advisory board to pass ethnic studies courses now required for graduation in the Santa Rosa City Schools district. Ayodele spoke with KRCB's Camille Escovedo about why ethnic studies matter in the movement for racial justice.
As fire season becomes more severe every year, people need emergency information faster and throughout the night. That’s where Sarah Stierch steps in. She’s an independent journalist from Sonoma who communicates on Twitter about everything from evacuations to the status of homes after a fire. She spoke with Devin Katayama, host of KQED’s “The Bay,” last week, about using social media for fire reporting.New York Time’s bestselling author Meg Waite Clayton joins Suzanne M. Lang in conversation about The Race for Paris, Clayton’s compelling novel of women journalists on the front leading up to








Gil Mansergh welcomes Megan Miranda, the New York Times bestselling author of All the Missing Girls to Word By Word for a spirited conversation about Megan’s second novel of psychological suspense,
Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein
Raven Performing Arts Theater
June 28 – July 14, 2019

Frederick Frankenstein inherits his family’s
Mendocino County winemakers have a plan to improve notorietyfor the region’s wines.
Mendocino County vintners and grape growers are working tocraft a law requiring wine from the region to be

It’s a virtual Merman-palooza in the North Bay as twotheatre companies present ‘musical fables’ with Ethel Merman connections. SantaRosa’s 6th
Mouthful welcomes John McManus, president of the Golden Gate Salmon Association; Ted Wilson, founder of Fine & Rare/Metal & Match, and Michael Coats, media representative for the salmon association. The trio

Michael J. Twitty is a national treasure. His book The Cooking Gene won a James Beard Award for writing and as Book of the Year in 2018. His new book, Koshersoul, the second in a trilogy he has pledged, explores the critical aspects related to being of many tribes; Black, Gay, Southern, of slaves and slave owners, indigenous, Jewish... Join host Clark Wolf as he Zooms in with Twitty in advance of his visit to the Bay Area on August 15th.Author and independent historian Michael Morey’s book, Fagen: An African American Renegade in the Philippine-American War, unpacks American imperialism abroad, American racism at home, and the intersection that holds David Fagen,
Book Launch: Fagen, An African American Renegade in the Phillipine-American War
By author Michael Morey
Occidental Center for the Arts
Friday, February 15th, 2019 @ 7:00 pm
Please join us
Word By Word: Conversations With Writers host Gil Mansergh likes to present writers from different genres, today’s show features valuable insider perspectives on creating documentaries from filmmakers Michael Shapiro & Eric
Tonight, I will be my own guest. I do this every now and then. I’ll discuss farmers markets throughout Sonoma County, the garlic harvest, how to make your own pet food
This week, Michele Anna Jordan talks current events with longtime show engineer Mike Young.
Host: Michele Anna Jordan
Podcast: Play in
“Micrcosms: A Closer Look at Mushrooms and Lichens”
Painting by Lucy Martin
Laguna Environmental Center
May 7th – August 29th, 2018
Lucy Martin’s botanical paintings in gouache focus on the mysterious

Mike Hilber is challenging incumbent Lynda Hopkins for theDistrict 5 seat on the Sonoma County Board of
Million Dollar Quartet
Sixth Street Playhouse
February 22nd – March 17th, 2019
Four music legends, one amazing night.
The hit Broadway musical comes to 6th Street!
Starring cast members from
On December 4, 1956, a legendary jam session was held at rock and roll pioneer Sam Phillips’ Sun Records studio in Memphis, Tennessee. Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and
In the 2017 North Bay fires and the 2018 Camp Fire, three-quarters of the people who died were over the age of 65. In a KQED investigation called Older and Overlooked, reporters Molly Peterson and April Dembosky explore how to protect elderly people who live independently. We begin with April, in fire-prone Nevada County.

A dancer on Everest and a queen of high climbing mountaineers are featured. Suzanne Lang talks with Mimi Zieman, doctor and author of “The Post Roe Monologues” whose latest book is Tap Dancing on Everest —a Young Doctor’s Unlikely Adventure, a chronicle of her life and serving as the team doctor on a dicey ascent from Tibet up the east side of Mt. Everest.

Also featured is journalist Cathryn J. Prince, on her book Queen of the Mountaineers, the Trailblazing Life of Fanny Bullock Workman, a story of a remarkable woman, explorer and climber of high peaks in the Alps and the Himalaya at the turn of the Twentieth Century.
It’s a Novel Idea with Suzanne Lang, Sunday, April 21st at 10am PT. Streaming and podcasting at norcalpublicmedia.org.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday Celebration
Santa Rosa High School Auditorium
Sunday, January 15th, 2017 @ 6:30pm
This year’s theme is a quote from Dr. King, “Love is the only force
On Tuesday, November 10, the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors approved $5.5 million to expand the behavioral health crisis Mobile Support Team. With the additional funding, the team is now considering responding to some crises without assistance from law enforcement. It will also now service additional areas in North County. KRCB’s Adia White recently spoke with Karin Sellite, Client Care Manager for the Mobile Support Team, to learn more. Page 84 of 140
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