Caroline welcomes one of her favorite humans, poetess Naomi Shihab Nye, whose latest book, I’ll ask you three times, are you OK? is an ode to cab drivers, the journey, the detour, the kinship gleaned from the stories we befoibled beings exchange, especially when traveling — and always – kindness. August 30, 2007
Caroline welcomes the return of Janine Benyus, natural sciences writer and author of Biomimicry. Janine’s work reminds us that for every toxic insult we humans have imposed upon our home planet, there is an ingenious reverent collaborative solution that makes us weep and bark with delight. (e.g. solar cells that mimic leaves, agriculture that models … Continued
Caroline hosts the fantabulous Karen Brown, with the Etsy World News that we shall co-weave. Mending the world, micro-Venusian economy of hand-made intimacy to rise from compost of hyper-yang infantile Mars-war based economies. “The resurrection of community spirit through shared traditions.” Karen Brown is an award-winning designer and creative director of the Center for Ecoliteracy. … Continued
Jeanne Sakata is the author of the play “Hold These Truths” at Theatreworks Lucie Stern Theatre in Palo Alto, July 11 – August 5, 2019. Jeanne Sakata is an actress who has appeared on several TV shows and films, and on stage at both ACT and Berkeley Rep. Hold These Truths is the true true story following Gordon Hirabayashi, a Japanese-American student who fought internment to a relocation camp during World War II.
We convene our radio council as the Moon begins its passage across the Sun, the darkening of the light, time of doorways opening between worlds. To avail ourselves of this opportune shape-shifting time, Caroline hosts G. Willow Wilson, author of the splendiferous Alif the Unseen, “every innovation begins with fantasy,” Arabian Nights, Jinn, computer code … Continued
Nancy MacLean, author of “Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America” in conversation with Richard Wolinsky. In this interview recorded October 20, 2017, she discusses the role of Buchanan and the Mont Pelerin Society in the underpinnings of this gradual take-over of the state and federal government, and what the goals are, according to her research.
KPFA theatre critic Richard Wolinsky reviews the James Lapine-Stephen Sondheim musical, “Sunday in the Park with George,” directed by Bill English, at San Francisco Playhouse through September 8, 2018
In this episode we talk to people across the country involved in the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee (IWOC), a part of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), one of the groups which has officially signed on to endorse the upcoming August 21st prison strike. IWOC was one of the organizations pivotal in supporting the … Continued
Emily Jeanne Brown plays a managing director of a private equity firm in Sarah Burgess’s play “Dry Powder,” now at Aurora Theatre through July 29. She is interviewed by KPFA associate theater critic C.S. Soong.
Harlan Ellison (1934-2018), in conversation with Richard Wolinsky and Richard A. Lupoff, recorded in San Francisco on September 15, 1997, while he was on tour for his collection, “Slippage.” Impossible to categorize, and sometimes impossible to be around, Harlan Ellison was an acclaimed short story writer known for his science fiction and fantasy, a novelist, an editor known for the classic Dangerous Visions anthologies, a television writer and consultant, a media gadfly, and one of the most steadfast promoters of reading and independent bookstores.
