Christina speaks with Starhawk, activist, feminist, a founder of the goddess centered pagan community “Reclaiming” and co/author of 13 books including “Dreaming the Dark,” “The Spiral Dance” and “The Fifth Sacred Thing.”  She holds Earth Activists Trainings rooted in permaculture in Sonoma County, California.  She will be speaking at a fundraiser for EAT November 1, … Continued


Blues By The Bay

A Fond Farewell to Fats Domino

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This week’s episode of Blues By The Bay honors the late Fats Domino. Host Tom Mazzolini takes listeners on an intimate journey through Fats’ life and career with rare tales and a vast aray of his greatest hits.


Rickey Vincent will host the 32nd Annual ALL BOOTSY SHOW featuring the music of William “Bootsy” Collins. The bass player, writer, producer and singer with James Brown, George Clinton’s Parliament-Funkadelic and Bootsy’s Rubber Band along with dozens of collaborations across the spectrum of music has been a cornerstone of Funk History from the beginnings. This … Continued


It’s Bootsy Baby…

This Friday October 27, Funk Historian Rickey Vincent shares his exclusive interview with The Number One Funketeer of all Time, Bootsy Collins. Bootsy will debut cuts from his new album “World Wide Funk” and shares intimate details of the behind the scenes process of making this newest piece of joyful funk.


An interview on the ground in Puerto Rico with Vanessa Bohn.We’ll dive into the work of SOA watch and talk about US intervention in Latin America as well as the militarization of the border. You’ll also hear about Cuéntamelo is a collection of oral histories and illustrations from LGBT Latinx immigrants who arrived in the States … Continued


This morning we speak with Joseph Trevithick, freelance journalist currently writing for Time Inc.’s The War Zone and former analyst with GlobalSecurity.org. He speaks with UpFront about the American military involvement in Niger. His focus is in tracking U.S. military operations around the world, particularly in Africa. Joseph broke the news that private contractors with Berry Aviation … Continued


Jenna & the Charmers and Dirk Hamilton: Back-to-back live studio concerts on The Hear and Now, 10 p.m., Thursday, October 26

It’s an in-studio live-concert double-header as Jenna Mammina and her pop band, The Charmers, perform in the KPFA studio at 10 p.m., and dynamic veteran singer-songwriter Dirk Hamilton commands the mic at 11 p.m., with Tony Ferro engineering. Both acts will preview their upcoming shows in Berkeley: Jenna & the Charmers at the Freight & … Continued