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  • CASA Training Opportunities – June 26, 2018

    Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA)
    Ongoing Training Opportunities
    July 19th – 26th, 2018

    A Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) reports to a Case Supervisor, and is responsible to the

  • CASA Volunteer Programs – July 11, 2017

    Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA)
    Sonoma County
    Ongoing volunteer opportunities

    The Sonoma County Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) Program is committed to serving abused and neglected children coming before the Juvenile

  • Casual conversation with Anthony Garcia – May 27, 2018

    Host Michele Anna Jordan chats with Anthony Garcia.

    Mouthful, Smart Talk About Food, Wine, & Farming with host Michele Anna Jordan.

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  • Cat Cora, Iron Chef – October 11, 2015

    You might remember the jump-rope rhyme “Rich man, poor man beggar man thief, doctor lawyer, indian chief” and regular listeners to Word By Word: Conversations With Writers know that host Gil

  • Celebrate Foster Care in Sonoma County – May 23, 2017

    Celebrate Foster Care in Sonoma County
    Old Courthouse Square, Santa Rosa
    Thursday, May 25th, 2017 @ 5:00pm

    The Sonoma County Coalition for Foster Youth is a collaborative group of youth

  • Celebrate New Year’s Eve w/ The Pulsators – December 20, 2018

    Celebrate New Year’s Eve w/ The Pulsators & Special Guests
    Redwood Cafe Presents
    Monday, December 31st, 2018 @ 8:30 pm

    Redwood Cafe is hosting the NYE concert benefitting the Peace and

  • Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with Culann’s Hounds (Aired: March 11, 2020)

    For 20 years, Culann’s Hounds has been delivering highenergy Celtic music from America to Europe. With 5 albums

  • Celebrating 50 years of Farm Trails in conversation with Carmen Snyder, Wendy Krupnick, and Alan Siegle on Savoring Sonoma: The Hour (Airing: April 9, 2023)

    Carmen SnyderFarm Trails celebrates 50 years of supporting farmers and all of us who benefit from the bounty of Sonoma County. March 27th is the official date, so the night before was the perfect time to gather and share histories, memories, and plans for this year's Gravenstein Apple Fair, coming up in August.
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     Listen in to host Clark Wolf in conversation with Sonoma County Farm Trails Executive Director Carmen Snyder. They are joined by farmers Wendy Krupnick and Alan Siegle. Pies will be baked! 
     
    You can also hear this show on KRCB 104.9, Sunday April 9, 2023 at 6:00 pm.
     
  • Celebrating Easter with Veronica Bowers & Dominique Cortara on Mouthful (Aired: April 12, 2020)

    Mouthful celebrates Easter with Veronica Bowers of Native Songbird Care and Conservation, and Dominique Cortara of Tom and Dom’s Drive-Thru, a weekly farm and pastry pick-up at

  • Celebrating M.F.K.Fisher with Kennedy Golden, Alex Wright, and Luke Barr on Savoring Sonoma: The Hour

    Fisher 3up It’s an episode all about the late, world renown author and long time Glen Ellen resident M.F.K. Fisher in honor of her recent birthday on July 3rd. It would have been her 117th. Join host Clark Wolf as he speaks with Fisher’s daughter Kennedy Golden, grandson Alex Wright and Grand Nephew Luke Barr about the history and legacy of the much beloved writer. They speak about this year’s Sixth Annual M.F.K. Fisher Emerging Writers Contest. More information is at mfkfisher.com
     
    Savoring Sonoma: The Hour, 2nd and 4th Saturday at 5:00am and 2nd and 4thSunday at 10:00am on KRCB 104.9 - Nor Cal Public Media.
  • Celebrating Year of the Pig with Nancy Wang – February 10, 2019

    Nancy Wang returns to talk about the Year of the Pig and its celebration, taking place on Saturday, February 23, in Santa Rosa. It’s Lunar New Year, Sunday at 6 p.m.

  • Census Workers Face Shorter Time Frame For 2020 Count (Aired: September 8, 2020)

    2020 census questionnaireCensus workers now have less than a month to ensure everyone gets counted. The census bureau announced in early August that the previous deadline of Oct. 31 would be pushed up to September 30, leaving little time for community outreach. Community Action Partnership is leading the effort in Sonoma County.  KRCB’s Adia White spoke with Director of Community Engagement, Vince Harper, about how the new timeline is affecting their work. 
     
     
     
     
     
     
    (Image: The 2020 census. Credit: wikimedia commons)
     
     
     
  • CEO Discusses Racism and Starting a Sonoma County Business (Aired: August 11, 2020)

    Every Monday, the Community Action Partnership of Sonoma County hosts a community conversation on race. On July 27, the conversation focused on the experience of local Black business owners and influences.

  • Ceres Community Project – April 2, 2019

    Ceres Community Project
    Ongoing Volunteer Opportunities

    Ceres Community Project supports primarily low-income people struggling because of a serious health challenge with free and low-cost, home-delivered, nourishing organic meals, nutrition education and

  • Ceres Community Project (Aired: December 19, 2019)

    Ceres supports primarily low-income people strugglingbecause of a serious health challenge with free and low-cost, home-delivered,nourishing organic meals, nutrition education

  • Ceres Community Project (Aired: December 27, 2019)

    Ceres supports primarily low-income people strugglingbecause of a serious health challenge with free and low-cost, home-delivered,nourishing organic meals, nutrition education

  • Chana Porter on A Novel Idea (Aired: August 2, 2020)

    Risky authors play with form and defy easy description, and this is the case with two authors who through their radical storytelling

  • Changes in Math Education Cause Anxiety Among Parents – August 27, 2019

    Changes in how math is taught can prove challenging forparents trying to help their kids

  • Charles Markee & Waights Taylor – August 21, 2016

    Charles Markee & Waights Taylor This month’s Word By Word guests have written novels set in distinctive times and places. As he did in his first detective novel, Kiss of Salvation,

  • Charlie Swanson

    Charlie Swanson is a Santa Rosa native and Sonoma State University graduate who has spent the last 15 years writing and reporting on all things arts and culture. He is currently the Arts Editor with the North Bay Bohemian alternative weekly, where he spotlights local artists, musicians, filmmakers and other creatives in the North Bay.

  • Charmian Kittredge London Biographer Iris Jamahl Dunkle on A Novel Idea (Aired: October 4, 2020)

    CLK2CLK bookCharmian Kittredge London was a great American writer, Jack London’s second wife, and is the subject of Iris Jamahl Dunkle’s biography Charmian Kittredge London -Trailblazer, Author, Adventurer. Iris joins Suzanne M. Lang in conversation, telling the story of the bold and somewhat misunderstood life of Charmian.

    A Novel Idea airs on the first and fifth Sundays of every month at 10:00 am on KRCB-FM Radio 91 / streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org /Download the FREE KRCB mobile app @ iTunes & Google Play!

    (Photos: Courtesy of the author)

     

     

     

     

  • Chautauqua Revue – July 25, 2017

    Chautauqua Revue
    Occidental Arts & Ecology Center
    September 14th – 26th, 2017 at 7:30pm

    Come and be part of this 15th annual extravaganza of community celebration. With elements of storytelling, vaudeville,

  • Chautauqua Revue at Occidental Center for the Arts (Aired: August 5, 2019)

    Chautauqua Revue
    Occidental Center for the Arts
    September 4 – 7, 2019 @ 7:30 pm

    Come and be part

  • Cheese! – June 30, 2013

    Mouthful talks cheese with Omar Mueller of the new Freestone Artisan Cheese shop and Seana Doughty of Bleating Heart Cheese. Doughty is also the president of the California Artisan Cheese Guild,

  • Cheeses of France – October 7, 2012

    Mouthful explores the cheeses of France, with a cheese tasting and, of course, du vin!

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  • Chef Dan Kedan on Savoring Sonoma: The Hour (Aired: December 10, 2023)

    dk farm 385x385This Sunday evening host Clark Wolf welcomes Chef and Culinary Instructor Dan Kedan who, with his wife Marianna Gardenhire, owned the beloved Backyard restaurant in Forestville for nearly a decade. These days he is a tenured professor at the Culinary Institute of America at the St. Helena Greystone property and working on local and national programs on sustainability and true farm to table practices. 
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
  • Chef Douglas Keane on Savoring Sonoma: The Hour

    KeaneLEVERAGE This episode of Savoring Sonoma: The Hour presents a deep and powerful - sometimes funny - conversation with chef Douglas Keane centered on his new book Culinary Leverage: A Journey Through the Heat. Through extreme challenges, both emotional and professional, Keane remains determined and extremely human as he develops as a chef and as a person, pulling no punches when relating his own and others’ foibles and successes . It’s a story of family (including dogs), mentors, knocks and dreams, resulting in a new construct for a business many celebrate but don’t really understand.
  • Chef Douglas Keane on Savoring Sonoma: The Hour (Aired: August 28, 2022)

    Keane 21617756 nFor more than a decade, chef Douglas Keene has been working to reopen his award-winning restaurant Cyrus in the heart of the Alexander Valley. He’s a Best Chef California James Beard Award and Top Chef Masters winner who is unafraid of making chicken wings at a casino or burgers at a grill. As he steps back into the spotlight for the rebirth of the first restaurant in Sonoma County to garner a pair of Michelin stars host Clark Wolf talks to Keene about his Midwestern roots, cooking in top kitchens in Manhattan, discovering Sonoma County and a whole lot more on Savoring Sonoma, the Hour.
     
  • Chef Evelyn Cheatham – May 6, 2012

    Chef Evelyn Cheatham, founder and executive director of Santa Rosa’s Worth Our Weight Culinary Apprenticeship Program, returns to Mouthful to talk about upcoming events and the extraordinary year WOW has had

  • Chef Matthew Paille – February 25, 2018

    Chef Matthew Paille, a third generation Sonoman, talks about his 2018 food and wine pairing column that benefits fire relief, and shares delicious snips and nibbles.

    Mouthful, Smart Talk About Food,

  • Chef proprietor and motelier Liza Hinman on Savoring Sonoma (Aired: May 14, 2021)

    Hinman ecThis week on Savoring Sonoma – on Mother’s Day - we had the great pleasure of speaking with an extremely talented and accomplished chef who also happens to be the mother of three.
    Liza Hinman is the chef proprietor of Spinster Sisters, as well as a motelier co-owner of the Astro Motel, in the SOFA (South of A) arts district of Santa Rosa.
    We heard about her fascinating trajectory from the kitchens of Gourmet Magazine to some of the country’s best restaurants, to her own stoves here in Sonoma County. It was an inspiring and uplifting story of tenacity and talent. 
     
    Savoring Sonoma: The Hour is heard on the second and fourth Sundays of the month on KRCB 104.9, Sonoma County's NPR station.
     
     
     
    (Photo credit: Erik Castro)
  • Chef Rogelio Garcia on Savoring Sonoma: The Hour

     

    rogelio aura Rogelio Garcia is the star chef, and Executive Chef of the two restaurants at Calistoga’s Four Seasons Resort and Residences Napa Valley. One is an all day, indoor/outdoor sparkling perch called Truss. The other, sporting a Michelin Star, is called Auro.

     

     

  • Chef Tenney Flynn of GW Fins New Book and Latest Event on Mouthful – November 10, 2019

    This week, Mouthful welcomes Chef Tenney Flynn of GW Fins. He’s one of NewOrleans top fine-dining seafood restaurants. Tenny’s book, “The Deep End ofFlavor,” has just been published and was featured

  • Chef Tenney Flynn of GW Fins New Book and Latest Event on Mouthful (Aired: November 17, 2019)

    Thisweek, Mouthful welcomes Chef Tenney Flynn of GW Fins. He’s one of New Orleanstop fine-dining seafood restaurants. Tenny’s book,

  • Chef’s Holiday – January 3, 2010

    Mouthful returns to Yosemite, where the 25th annual Chef’s Holiday gets underway at the Ahwahnee Hotel in a few days. Kathy Langley of the Ahwahnee, chef Ken Frank of Napa’s La

  • Chef’s Holiday – January 3, 2010

    Mouthful returns to Yosemite, where the 25th annual Chef’s Holiday gets underway at the Ahwahnee Hotel in a few days. Kathy Langley of the Ahwahnee, chef Ken Frank of Napa’s La

  • Cheryl Krauter & Rachel Michelberg on A Novel Idea (Aired: June 6, 2021)

    CK Picture1CK Picture2Sometimes we move through life and are blindsided by catastrophe, and each individual’s response is unique and their own. No roadmaps, but there are touchstones along the way.

    Suzanne Lang talks with two authors who recount their journeys of shock and loss with candor, humor, and compassion.

     

     

     

    RM portrt Picture4RM book Picture3Cheryl Krauter’s husband died one night within the span of 5 minutes, leaving her stunned. Odyssey of Ashes, A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Letting Go is her story of moving with and through significant loss.

    Rachel Michelberg’s candid and gripping memoir, Crash, How I became a Reluctant Caregiver is her story of her husband suffering a traumatic brain injury in a plane crash, and the difficult decisions she made with regard to his care and her family life.

     

  • Chinese New Year Celebration – February 14, 2017

    Chinese New Year Celebration
    Santa Rosa Veterans Memorial Hall
    Saturday, February 18th, 2017 @ 5:00pm

    Happy Lunar New Year! Join the Redwood Empire Chinese Association in celebrating the Year of the

  • Chris Sawyer – June 18, 2017

    Chris Sawyer, sommelier and partner in the new Gravenstein Grill, talks about his new endeavor and guides us through a tasting of three beautiful rosé wines, perfect for warm summer nights

  • Chris Smith and Phil Rosenthal on Savoring Sonoma: The Hour

    smith pdTwo great story tellers are welcomed to Savoring Sonoma in this week’s episode. First it’s long time Press Democrat Columnist Chris Smith, talking about everything from multigenerational farm families to chatting up an emerging local food star called Guy Fieri long before the world knew his name.
     
    phil bowlThen it’s a long distance chat with a master chronicler who travels the world in search of the very best bites, folks and cultures. It’s Phil Rosenthal, now in his 7th season of Somebody Feed Phil on Netflix. Host Clark Wolf will have the pleasure of moderating an appearance with the food phemom on the stage of the Luther Burbank Center for the Arts on June 6th.  Join us for this preview and some charming, heartwarming chat.
     
     
  • Chris Webster and Nina Gerber

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    Good friends of KRCB - Nina Gerber and Chris Webster performing live at HopMonk in Sebastopol on this episode of Live From The Abbey.
     
     
     
  • Christie Nelson & Jeb Harrison – June 17, 2018

    Word By Word: Conversations With Writers host Gil Mansergh’s June conversation is with two multi-talented Marin County novelists: Christie Nelson, and her latest historical novel, Beautiful Illusion: Treasure Island, 1939 a

  • Christine Walker and Reyna Marder Gentin on A Novel Idea

    Walkerbook Christine Walker joins Suzanne Lang in conversation on her century spanning novel, Tap Dancing at the Bluebird.

    GentinbookAlso featured is Reyna Marder Gentin on her book Jessica Harmon Has Stepped Away, a mother/daughter story including literary prizes, road trips, and ultimately, independence.

    It’s A Novel Idea, every first, third, and fifth Saturday mornings at 5:00 am and Sunday mornings at 10:00 am.

    Streaming and podcasting at krcb.org.

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  • Christopher Herrera of Deep Roots Farm on Savoring Sonoma: The Hour (Aired: December 24, 2023)

    herrera picChristopher Herrera is a seventh generation Sonoma County farmer who learned a great deal of what he knows about farming, not from his parents but from YouTube! What he learned and the methods he employs are both completely modern and extremely ancient. The amount he and his brother Andrew, with the help of family and friends, has accomplished on the new property they’re working since February of this year is significant. Their Deep Roots Farm is by the side of our County’s third busiest road, where folks can see it and find it and come shop and support it. This modern model of next generation family farming, so crucial to our future, is the center of this conversation with host Clark Wolf.
     
     
  • Christopher Sawyer – June 19, 2016

    This week, Mouthful welcomes sommelier and wine entertainer/educator Christopher Sawyer for a freewheeling exploration of all things wine, surely the first of many appearances he’ll make on the show.

    Host: Michele

  • Christopher Silva – October 16, 2016

    This week, Christopher Silva of St. Francis Winery returns to share three current releases and Debra Eagle of B. R. Cohn Winery and Olive Oil Company talks about the upcoming Extra

  • Christopher Silva, Mary Wang – February 14, 2016

    Christopher Silva, president and CEO of St. Francis Winery, talks about the Santa Rosa Junior College Food & Wine Classic and Mary Wang, president of the Redwood Empire Chinese Association, offers

  • Christy Warren and Susan Farren on A Novel Idea (Aired: July 2, 2023)

    flashpoint image002photohead image001Fire Captain Christy Warren was born to deal with crisis situations and rescuing others. She was tough and decisive under pressure, but when she started experiencing uncontrollable emotional distress, she turned on herself in self-destructive ways and struggled for her own survival. Christy tells her story in Flash Point, a Firefighters Journey through PTSD.

     

    Farren image003We also feature Susan Farren, founder and Executive Director of First Responders Resiliency, Inc., an organization that takes a proactive and science-based approach to address the effects of trauma and stress faced by first responders and their families. 

     

  • Chuck Collins and Katrin Ciaffa on A Novel Idea (Aired: July 30, 2023)

    Altar bookchuck picLong time activist for economic and environmental justice, Chuck Collins, brings us his provocative novel of the near future, Altar to an Erupting Sun, which opens with a woman strapping a bomb to herself to blow up an oil executive.
     
     
     
     
     
     
    hanneloreberlin bokAlso featured is Hannelore Krollpfeiffer’s book, We Lived in Berlin, a Story about the End of the War, finally translated into English from the original German by our guest Katrin Ciaffa. It is an undistorted look at the realities of two young women during the final days of WWII.  
     
     
     
     
    It’s a Novel Idea with Suzanne Lang, every first, third, and fifth Sundays at 10:00 am on 104.9 FM in Sonoma County and streaming at krcb.org.
     
     
  • Church & State, Time Stands Still – September 26, 2018

    Last year, Healdsburg’s Raven Players surprised this critic with a very interesting production of Quiara Alegría Hudes “Water by the Spoonful”. The play, which tells parallel stories of the tribulations of

 

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