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Nutcracker
Santa Rosa Dance Theater
December 15th, 16th, & 17th, 2017

Swirling snowflakes. Brave toy soldiers. Dancing dolls. Whether you are seeing it again or for the very first time, The

The Occupation of the American Mind
The Arlene Francis Center
Thursday, November 9th, 2017 @ 7:00 pm

North Coast Coalition for Palestine (NCCP) presents The Occupation of the American Mind.

This

There’s a certain segment of the “thea-tuh” community that turns its collective nose up at the mere mention of a mainstream, commercially-successful playwright. One of my most vivid college memories is

The Odd Couple
Cinnabar Theater
March 31st – April 23rd, 2017

If the mess in his apartment is any indication, it’s no wonder that Oscar Madison’s wife has left him. Enter

The Odd Couple
Cinnabar Theater
March 31st – April 23rd, 2017

If the mess in his apartment is any indication, it’s no wonder that Oscar Madison’s wife has left him. Enter

E-cigarette use has skyrocketed among teens, with one infour high school students nationwide saying they vaped in the last month. Last spring, San Francisco’s board ofsupervisors considered a measure to ban

One of the oddest plays I’ve seen in a while, Will Eno’s The Realistic Joneses isn’t particularly real in its examination of two suburban couples who share the same surname.

The Revolution Will be Sung ~ Music and Social Movements, Part 2
Peace and Justice Center of Sonoma County
Monday, November 6th, 2017 @ 7:00 pm

Presented by:
David Walls, Ph.D.

“That’s so meta” is a phrase you hear bandied about a lot these days. It’s usually used to describe a reference by someone about themselves. Metatheatre is a style of play

The Revolutionists
6th Street Playhouse
March 15^th – April 7^th, 2019

Four badass women rewrite history!

An activist playwright, a selfless assassin, a Caribbean spy, and former queen Marie Antoinette fight

The Right Story at the Right Time, by Marianna deCroes
Occidental Center for the Arts
Sunday, September 24th, 2017 @ 2:00 pm

Occidental Center for the Arts is thrilled to host

Hear directly from a dedicated AIDS activist on the realities of living with and advocating for those with HIV in Sonoma County, and a public health nurse who breaks down the trends and how to stay healthy.

Go behind the scenes of the Monte Rio Revival to hear from the people using art and history to envision the future of this iconic West Sonoma County community.

 

 

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The Santa Rosa City Schools Board is deciding today whether to make ethnic studies a requirement for graduation. Omar Medina is a board director and has long been an advocate

The Santaland Diaries
Left Edge Theater
December 8th – 23nd, 2017

A comedy by David Sedaris
Directed by Argo Thompson

David Yen is back as Crumpet the Elf for his tenth

The Sebastopol Community Band
Sebastopol Center for the Arts
Saturday, June 9th, 2018 @ 7:30 pm

The Sebastopol Community Band consists of 25 members and is a local delight. This concert

The Sonoma County Neighborhood Food Network
Redwood Empire Food Bank
Ongoing

The Sonoma County Neighborhood Food

It is better, they say, to give than to receive.

That must be why so many groups gather so often to give so many awards to so many people

The Sound of Music Sing-Along!
6th Street Playhouse
June 2nd & 3rd, 2018 @ 2:00 pm

Let’s start at the very beginning (a very good pace to start)…

The Sing-a-Long-a Sound

Episode 3 examines how losing everything — or packing and preparing to lose it all — affects the spirit and identities of individuals, families and the community. In this episode, host Nick Vides looks at what it means in the long term for people whose identities are shaken, and we ask what it means for Sonoma County when we’re not only known for our wine and our coastline, but for our wildfires.

The Spirit of Us: A Musical History from Africa to Hip Hop
Museums of Sonoma County
Saturday, February 23rd, 2019 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm

The Museum of Sonoma County

Governor Gavin Newsom signed legislation last week to prevent what some warned would be a  tidal wave of evictions due to the coronavirus. Cal Matter’s housing reporter Matt Levin published an article on the new law. It's titled “How Renters, Landlordsand Banks fared in the eviction compromise.” KRCB’s Adia White spoke with him about the state law and how it will work with Sonoma County’s local eviction ordinance. 

 

 

 

 

 

We provide local news updates on The North Bay Report Tuesday-Friday at 6:45, 8:45 a.m., and 5:30 p.m. on KRCB radio 91 and 90.9. Here's our North Bay Report episode for Thursday, September 10. Subscribe to The North Bay Report podcast to listen on the go.   

 

The Sugar Bean Sisters
Spreckels Theatre Company
March 17th – April 9th, 2017

This Southern Gothic comedy by Nathan Sanders tells a quirky story of romance, murder and alien abduction

Director Ann Shin started out wanting to make a documentaryabout female spies. But the film she ended up making, wasn’t

Israeli Film Festival 2019
Rialto Cinemas
March 5th – 26th, 2019

Welcome to the 4th JCC Sonoma County Israeli Film Festival! Every year the JFF reviews a large number of great

The Fourth Industrial Revolution.Heard of it? Maybe not, but I guarantee, you’re living in it.

Technology and artificialintelligence, genomics and blockchains infiltrate our banking and economicsystems, transportation,

So, what’s former Spreckels Performing Arts Center Manager Gene Abravaya been doing since his retirement to the Arizona desert?

“Well”, he told me in a recent interview, “I’ve been enjoying

Playwright Ayad Akhtar burst on the theatrical scene in 2013 with Disgraced, a searing drama about identity politics and Islamophobia which earned him the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. In 2016, Marin

The Women’s Balcony – JCC Israeli Film Festival
Rialto Cinemas
Tuesday, March 7th, 2017

The opening film of the festival – this is a rousing, good-hearted tale about women speaking truth

The World Goes Round
Cinnabar Theater
December 13 – January 5, 2020

Razzle-dazzle, show-stopping, famous melodies, hilariouslyrics, and

It’s awards season, and everyone’s talking about who got nominated and who didn’t. And no, I’m not talking about the Oscars. Last week, the San Francisco Bay Area Theater Critics

At a time when occupational safety regulations are being loosened and funding for the agencies responsible for their enforcement being reduced, it’s good to be reminded how those safeguards came to

Thicker Than Smoke: An Evening of Community Storytelling
Weill Hall – Green Music Center
August 3rd & 4th, 2018

Friday, August 3rd, 2018 @ 7:30 pm
An Evening of Community

Serendipity. Fate. Chance. Destiny. Karma. Fortune. Kismet.

Call it what ever you like, but playwright Steven Dietz (Becky’s New Car) doesn’t believe in it so much so that his play This

Mouthful reaches back into the archives for an interview with Anne Zimmerman, author of “An Extravagant Hunger: The Passionate Years of MFK Fisher.” (Originally aired: April 10m, 2011)

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Oil makes the world go round and geologist Thomas E. Cochrane delivers candid and lively remembrances of his life and experience in the American petroleum industry in Tornadoes, Rattlesnakes & Oil,

Word By Word: Conversations With Writers host, Gil Mansergh welcomes Thonie Hevron, Sandy Baker and Alexis Fajardo, three talented local writers involved in From Pen to Published, the Redwood Writers Eighth

This week on Mouthful, a team of three articulate womenexplore Great Women Spirits, a new project from the

Mouthful explores Three Sisters, a project that involves five high school gardens and beans, squash and corn, the three sisters they are growing. A tasting from the gardens is coming up

Two years ago today, the Tubbs fire swept through Santa Rosaand destroyed more than 5,000 homes overnight. One year and one month later,the Camp Fire leveled an entire town, surpassing the

When pot was used in secret, the pungent smoke was often agiveaway. Today, the odor is an issue again. This time, it’s the skunky smellof growing cannabis.

It’s all about water.

Suzanne Lang talks with author, photographer, and conservationist Tim Palmer on his book Seek Higher Ground, the Natural Solution to our Urgent Flooding Crisis. Tim explores the legacy of flooding in America and the climatic, economic, and ecological realities of our rivers and communities.

 

Also featured is another visit with Julene Bair whose memoir is The Ogallala Road, a Story of Love, Family, and the Fight to Keep the Great Plains from Running Dry.

It’s A Novel Idea with Suzanne Lang!

 

In a film now available on the web and through KQED’s series Truly, CA, Eva Rendle explores the aftermath

Timothy Page, co-founder of F. E. E. D. Sonoma and long-time purveyor of goodness joins Mouthful host Michele Anna Jordan to talk about the company he founded. F. E. E. D.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tiny Houses For Humanity
Gaia’s Garden
Saturday, July 8th, 2017 @ 5:00 pm

Gaias Garden is hosting a benefit for Tiny Houses for Humanity, an organization founded to provide affordable housing

To Kill a Mockingbird
6^th Street Playhouse
April 26^th – May 19^th, 2019

A timely reminder about moral courage.

Few perspectives on American society have been as perceptive, or as poignant,