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04/18/2025

In this show, engineer Sandy Stone and board chair Rachel Anne Goodman reminisce about the circuitous route that KSQD's founders took in getting on the air.
Here is something I wrote up trying to capture a lot of the milestones. …

04/17/2025

Update: The extended version of the Gypsy Scholar’s 10th and final installment of the Orphic Essay-with-Soundtrack series, “The Troubadours & The Beloved: The Religion of Love/Amor,” broadcast on April 14, is now available for listening on the “Archived Musical Essays” …

04/17/2025

In this special, more personal program, Ami Chen Mills interviews her colleague, author and psychologist Dr. George Pranksy–who, with her late father, Dr. Roger Mills–helped to bring an "innate mental health" psychology, based on the spiritual insights of a ninth-grade …

04/16/2025

Alan Ritch enjoys two processions on Good Friday when he was in Italy.

04/15/2025

Laurie Corn asks, "When is a grandma not a grandma?"

04/15/2025

Bestselling author of Palo Alto Malcom Harris is just now releasing his new book, What’s Left: Three Paths Through the Planetary Crisis. This joint program for the Moment of Truth show and Talk of the Bay features Harris in conversation …

04/15/2025

Don’t stress about your tech, call the Computer Man on KSQD between 6-7pm PT each Tuesday: 831-900-5773
Write to Luigi@PleasurePointComputers.com
Topics covered: Tech tips and tricks, Windows 10 end of life, Instagram EDITS, Email questions and more!

04/15/2025

It’s no secret that Santa Cruz County loves its weed. Take a trip to UCSC’s campus on April 20th and you’ll get a sense of what I mean.
But despite the community enthusiasm for the flowering herb, the industry has …

04/15/2025

Aloha kakou, hello everybody! Wednesdays from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM join your host, Cousin Norm, for some Timeless Hawaiian Music where he plays the new songs, the old songs and everything else in between. Feel the Hawaiian breezes as …

04/14/2025

What kind of dream adventure do you want? Our "People of the Dream" guests, Bill St. Cyr and Sue Scavo, talk about how you can have a conversation with your dreams instead of trying to figure them out. Trauma puts …

04/14/2025

Long-time music director Herbert Blomstedt leads the orchestra and chorus in this Grammy-winning performance of Johannes Brahms' A German Requiem. Don't miss the power and artistry evident in this marvellous work; 7 to 10 p.m., Monday, April 14, 2025.

04/13/2025

Tune in at 12 AM, April 14th, and hear the Gypsy Scholar present the 10th and final installment of the Orphic Essay-with-Soundtrack series, “The Troubadours & The Beloved: The Religion of Love/Amor.”
Be sure to check out the fantabulous “The …

04/13/2025

Monday on Talk of the Bay, Christine Barrington goes Behind the Mic with the hosts of the creative and evisceratingly funny political romp, What a Week!
Every Saturday at 11am Erik Nelson and Tony Russomanno take on the local and …

04/12/2025

You can’t be well informed unless you are informed well! Join hosts Erik Nelson and Tony Russomanno along with guest Chris Krohn as they unpack the week that was, on this April 12, 2025 PROFILES IN DISCOURAGE! edition of What …

04/12/2025

Every Sunday morning from 9-11am, join host Nicholas Mitchell for Classical Foglift. For over 40 years Nicholas has been a local DJ broadcasting over the Santa Cruz airwaves various classical programs with a mission to not only delight the ear …

04/11/2025

O Canada! on Music of the Masters features great orchestras from Toronto, Montreal, Calgary and Vancouver and great artists like John Vickers, Maureen Forrester, Gerald Finlay, Tracy Dahl, Shauna Rolston, Janina Fialkowsky, Glenn Gould, and the Canadian Brass playing music …

04/11/2025

Artistic Director for Santa Cruz Shakespeare, Charles Pasternak talks about the bard and how his plays always provide fresh insights, as the four-decade-old company readies for its new season in July.

04/10/2025

Impressions on a recent First Friday art walk in Santa Cruz, by Maury Burnett-Cavoto.

04/10/2025

Take the flight eclectic with host Louise Salazar on Skylarkin’ Fridays 1-3pm.
So many ways to listen! Tune your radio dial to 89.5, 89.7 in South Monterey Bay Area or 90.7 FM in Santa Cruz. Stream from anywhere in the …

04/10/2025

Titans of Industrial Agriculture
How a Few Giant Corporations Came to Dominate the Farm Sector and Why It Matters
With Professor Jennifer Clapp
 
Sustainability Now! Sunday, April 13th, 5-6 PM
Big agriculture is Big!  And it appears to be …