Sarah Cahill–pianist, radio programmer, and new music impresario–visits The Hear and Now and talks with host Derk Richardson about her June 19 “Piano Party for Terry Riley at 80” and the June 21 annual Summer Solstice “Garden of Memory” walk-through concert at the Chapel of the Chimes in Oakland. A former KPFA programmer and current … Continued


Caroline welcomes Paul O’Brien, applied divination ally, author of “Great Decisions, Perfect Timing, cultivating intuitive intelligence,” an invaluable guiding contribution to the team of good-hearted beings, to be prolific and successful by their own definition. Paul O’Brien left an executive position in high-tech to invent a new category of multimedia software in 1989, which evolved … Continued


This episode features: “Noticias Sin Fronteras,” a news round-up from the Americas; a conversation with Cat Brooke about community organizing against police violence and the upcoming Mayor’s Conference; good advice on what to do if you are stopped by the police; a commentary on Local Latino cultural affairs including the appointment of Juan Felipe Herrera as … Continued


With Gerard Russell, former British and United Nations diplomat, Senior Fellow with the New America Foundation’s International Security Program and the Foreign Policy Center in London, and author of the book Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms: Journeys Into the Disappearing Religions of the Middle East. About the book: Despite its reputation for religious intolerance, the Middle … Continued


6/16/15 How Life Changes Itself

Jeffry Fawcett PhD discusses the ground breading work of geneticist Dr. James Shapiro, which reduces the importance of DNA in inherited characteristics in favor of a model that stresses the way cells adapt to the environment.