Special Broadcast
Inside OFF: the Old Friends Festival – December 1, 2011
Steve Horowitz, Pamela Z, Steve Adams, Dan Plonsey, and Marc Weinstein join host Derk Richardson to talk about the fertile and vibrant creative music scene that thrived in such venues as Beanbender’s and Olive Oil’s in the ’90s. And they’ll play music and preview what’s in store as the Berkeley Arts Festival 2011 presents the … Continued
Cover to Cover with Jack Foley – November 30, 2011
Today’s show features University of Nevada historian John J. Curry, author of “The Transformation of Muslim Mystical Thought in the Ottoman Empire.” Curry discusses, among other things, the problematical rise of Sufism: his study tracks the evolution of the Halvetî order from its modest origins in medieval Azerbaijan to the emergence of the influential Sa’bâniyye, … Continued
How Feminist Is the Occupy Movement? – November 28, 2011
Occupy: A New World or Patriarchy as Usual? Kate Raphael sits down with Cyn, Kaitlyn and Frank of Occupy Oakland’s Feminist And Queers Against Capitalism and Shaista Husain of Occupy Wall Street’s Safer Spaces and Immigrant Justice Working Groups. We discuss whether large-scale consensus process is truly empowering for women, people of color and trans … Continued