The calm during the storm. All set up and ready for Sweethearts!
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We would like to thank everyone who attended Sweethearts of the Radio. Also our Sponsors: Cabaline, Station House Cafe, Ken and Sam Levin Window Cleaning and Cover Girls Uphostery. It was a lovely evening in the pouring rain! 
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Sweethearts was Sweet!
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It was a dark and rainy night. Sweethearts of the Radio (the 10th or 11th annual - still working that one out) took place on Saturday evening. The crowd was surrounded by the incredible music of the four musical acts as well as several bird houses that decorated the Dance Palace for their annual birdhouse show. It was a great show and KWMR is grateful for the support of local musicians. Local musicians were also grateful for community radio, at home and all over the country. Community radio supports this type of music, and other than live performances it is about the only place you can tune in and hear it. So folks, "turn your radio on" and don't forget to support your local station(s)!
Group encore - "Turn your radio on!"

Jacob Groopman & Melody Walker

Claudia Compazzo with Scott Nygaard

Tom Rozum & Laurie Lewis

The lovely T Sisters

T Sisters

Super Voluteers Kerry Livingson, Jennifer McFarland and Dusty McMurray

Program Highlights 

Wednesday, February 12

8-9:30 am "Swimming Upstream"  Amanda is joined by Marin County Free Library representatives Bonny White and Sarah Jones. What's up with the library survey? What is happening with One Book, One Marin? Tune in to find out. 

 

1-2 pm "Epicenter: West Marin Dairy Ranching." In 1904, Tobias Giacomini left Northern Italy and landed in Northern California with a dream of raising chickens and cows. Thirty-four years later his son Waldo moved his family to Point Reyes, where Waldo's son Bob was raised. In 1959, Bob purchased a dairy farm three miles north of his parent's farm with a dream of making cheese. Now, he and his four daughters have done just that.

 

Join host Marc Matheson in conversation with Bob Giacomini and daughter Lynn Giacomini Stray about growing up on, and operating, West Marin dairy ranches, cheese-making and Point Reyes culture.

 

2-4 pm "Classical Wednesday" with new host, Paul Smith.

 

4-5 pm "Youth DJ Project." A Valentine's theme on "Retro Rock Hour" with Devon McMorrow.

 

Friday, February 14

8-10 am "Barrio Vibes." Adrianna Lopez joins Solange Echeverria to talk about the expanded programs (like the shopping bus) from West Marin Senior Services en Espag�ol.

 

Heart 10 am "Turning Pages Special: Hungry Valentine, with Julia Child."

From Leet and Litwin. "The way to everyone's heart is through the kitchen," says Julia. And so here are a couple of love stories that have to do with love-and the kitchen. Laura Esquivel's Like Water for Chocolate tells its love story through recipes-recipes for ink, matches, sealing wax, and delicious things to eat. Judy Rodgers, chef-owner of the Zuni Cafe in San Francisco, takes us into her restaurant kitchen for a romantic recipe.

Edna O'Brien has a story about fixing a meal for an important guest. It turns out to be a story of 'doomed' love. Before performing the story, Edna O'Brien takes us to her mother's farmhouse kitchen in Ireland, with the Mrs. Beeton's cookery book always on the counter. Julia has quite a bit to say about Mrs. Beeton's classic book-its advice about what the cook does, and the second butler-and how the recipes relate to the dishes prepared in the story. The program has been made possible in part by a grant from the Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and the Culinary Arts.

 

12-12:30 pm "Open House." Katie Eberle hosts Sonoma romance novelist Pamela Aares. Before becoming an author, Pamela had a successful career as an award-winning writer, producer, and director of PBS documentaries as well as the NPR radio series New Voices. Her books include Love Bats Last, the first in a four-part series that incorporates anecdotes from her own experience marrying a professional baseball player. Join us for a Valentine's Day discussion of love, writing... and playing ball.

 

Saturday, February 15

11 am-12 pm "The Place We Live." This week's guest is Shoreline Unified School District's new superintendent, Thomas Stubbs. A sprawling district with elementary schools from Inverness to Bodega Bay and a high school in Tomales, Shoreline has a diverse student body and many needs and issues. Superintendent Stubbs is particularly interested in the integration of technology into education. He was formerly the superintendent and a principal at Howell Mountain Elementary School District in Napa Valley and principal at Horizons High School in Contra Costa County. He was also a vice principal and teacher at a high school in Sonoma County for many years. 

 

6-8 pm "The Celtic Universe" with guest host Ken Eichstaedt.

 

 

Sunday, February 16

9 am "Sunday Celebration of Gospel." Once a month, Marc Matheson hosts three hours of gospel and spiritual music from the African American tradition. This month, "Gospel" welcomes Vernon Bush, who has been singing gospel from the time he could walk. As the son of a prominent Baptist minister in New York City, he grew up in a church community and directed his first choir at the age of fifteen. Vernon is a singer, composer, musician, recording artist, and actor who works with choirs and aspiring singers of all ages.

 

LA Theatre Works 8-10 pm "L.A. Theatre Works: Design for Living" by No�l Coward.

Michael Hackett directs Hamish Linklater, Sarah Rafferty, Douglas Weston.

 

In this classic story from one of England's most celebrated playwrights Gilda, Otto, and Leo are three young expatriates entangled in a deeply symbiotic love affair. But as emotional allegiances shift continually among them, they learn that the only certainty they share is change itself. The broadcast includes a conversation with John Lahr, former Senior Drama Critic of The New Yorker.

 

Monday, February 17

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12-1 pm "The Farm & Foodshed Report." Robin Carpenter and Nicolette Hahn Niman co-host conversation with local ranchers and others about the impact of the massive beef recall from our only local slaughterhouse Rancho Feed in Petaluma. The result of this action by the USDA could be a significant blow to our local grass-fed beef suppliers.

 

1-2 pm "Special." Sadja Greenweed, M.D. and author of the novel, Changing the Rules, talks with Lyons Filmer.

 

6:30-8:30 pm "Release Me." Special Guest musician singer/songwriter Casey Frazier joins Amanda.

 

Wednesday, February 19

8:30 am "Swimming Upstream." Host Amanda Eichstaedt will conduct a series of informational interviews with local water district representatives, addressing the drought we are experiencing this year. Despite the recent rainfall, water rationing is still a distinct possibility if the north coast of California does not receive ample rainfall between now and May.

 

Today: Scott McMorrow from the Inverness Public Utility District, and Chris DeGabriele from the North Marin Water District.

 

Wednesday, February 26: Jennifer Blackman from the Bolinas Public Utility District ,and Ed Schmidt from the Stinson Beach County Water District.

 

Wednesday, March 5: A representative from the Marin Municipal Water District.

 

These interviews will be at 8:30 am.

 

More schedule information available at www.kwmr.org.


You can click HERE to get your tickets. This event is in Petaluma and is a benefit for KWMR. Should be a fun time!

Spotlight on "Pieces of Peace"

Submitted by Susan Santiago 

 

 

"I didn't want to change society. I wanted to give society a chance to determine if it should change itself." -Edward Snowden

 

Susan and Ed Santiago at KWMR Programmer Holiday Hohoho Down 
photo: Marc Matheson

 

While working on my Master's Degree in Negotiation and Dispute Resolution, I came up with the idea of a peace oriented program that could be approached from many angles. This might include a "blogster," a musician, an author, or any individual, organization, project, etc. that encourages peace and enriches the lives of others.

 

This idea manifested last March when my first Pieces of Peace show aired on KWMR. Soon, at the suggestion of community member, Mr. Murray Suid, I was able to facilitate a series of on-air dialogues with outstanding individuals who held diverse ideas on a West Marin issue. These ten people were willing to come together, connect, and share their stories in the spirit of promoting creative collaborations. I am continuously amazed and encouraged by these, as well as the entire plethora of "stars" who have, to date, graced the air-waves on my peace program. 

 

I am grateful to KWMR for giving me the opportunity to facilitate these sharing of stories and, thus, giving a voice to those interviewees who, in some way and to some degree, bring pieces of peace to others.


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Spotlight on Youth DJ
by Devon McMorrow
Tune in for Youth DJ Wednesday, February 12 at 4 pm
The Retro Rock Hour

Kissing has captivated artists, poets, and musicians since lovers first pressed their lips together. The earliest known reference to kissing is found in the Song of Songs (in the Old Testament):

May he kiss me with the kisses of his mouth!

For your love is better than wine.

 

The Romans, known for passing on information-such as plumbing, fire-fighting, and road building-were also important in sharing the tradition of kissing. They brought the idea to Europe and Africa.

Kissing is so important, it even has its own study: Philematology.

You can find examples of kisses in poetry:

Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score;

Then to that twenty, add a hundred more:

A thousand to that hundred: so kiss on,

To make that thousand up a million.

Treble that million, and when that is done,

Let's kiss afresh, as when we first begun. -Robert Herrick

 

Sculpture:

 

 

The Kiss by Rodin

 

Painting:

 

The Kiss by Klimt

...and in too many songs to count. Prince wants "your extra time and your kiss."  The Digital Underground can't tell you when they'll be around, but they do know one thing, "If you kiss me, then I'll kiss you back." Louis Jordon says, "When you press your lips to mine, 'twas then I understood. They taste like candy, brandy and wine, Peaches, bananas, and everything good." Cyndi Lauper's mother told her not to kiss on the first date, but she says, "This time when I see you, I ain't gonna wait!" And Peter Gabriel dares his girl to "Kiss that Frog" in order to find her prince. (Which brings us full circle from Prince to prince.)

And speaking of full circles, when you see X's and O's in a row, the X's are kisses and the O's are hugs.

XOX,

Devon

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