1999

January 2nd, 1999

From the Florence Gould theater in The Legion of Honor museum in San Francisco. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! .

• Monologist Spalding Gray, discussing his new monologue "Morning, Noon and Night".
• Wes "Scoop" Nisker, author of "Buddha's Nature: Evolution as a Practical Guide to Enlightenment".
• Samba Ngo plays a very infectious type of African Soukous music. His music has been described as "cosmic-jazz-funk-African-interstellar-rock" and he is well known for his magical connection with his audiences.
• Liza Dalby, author of "Geisha".
• Wendy Dewitt and Blue Saloon, a blues band from Marin county.
• Sark, author of " The Bodacious Book of Succulence" and "Succulent Wild Woman".
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

January 09th

5th Anniversary From Enrico's Sidewalk Café in San Francisco. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! .

• Grammy Award winnin' Ramblin' Jack Elliott, one of the last singing cowboys who was actually a cowboy, with Rosalie Sorrels.
• Jazz singer Paula West, with Bill Douglas on bass.
• Erik Tarloff, author of "Face Time".
• Radio improvisation from True Fiction Magazine.
• The naturalist perspective from Claire Peaslee.
• Travel tips from Karl and Carl.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

January 23rd

The first of Sedge's renowned kitchen table shows. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! .

• Anne Lamott, live at the kitchen table and on tape with clips from previous shows.
• Terry Jones on tape.
• Dick Dale on tape.
• Hugh Masekela and Band on tape.
• Mare Winningham on tape.
• Mike Greensill on tape.
• Diane Hidy on tape.

January 30th

A highlight show from Sedge's kitchen table, in conversation with Ian McEwan. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! .

• Ian McEwan, Booker Prize winning author of "Amsterdam", "Enduring Love", and many other books.
• Jonathan Richman on tape.
• Lyle Lovett on tape.
• Dr. Jonathan Miller on tape.
• Diane Hidy on tape.
• Andy Forest on compact disk.

February 20th

A highlight show from Sedge's kitchen table, in conversation with Oscar Hijuelos, Pulitzer Prize winning author of "The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love". His current book is "Empress of the Splendor Season". Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! .

Sedge discussed the late Hopi elder Thomas Banyacya during the show. You may visit his website at http://www.alphacdc.com/banyacya/banyacya.html.

The show excerpts come from our show from February 01, 1997.

• Surf music from Pollo del Mar, who later reminisced this appearance on their WEB site.
• Tony Hillerman, author of "The Fallen Man".
• Brassworks 4, featuring their current CD "A Christmas Palette".
• Jim Paul, author of "The Rune Poem".
• Martin Simpson, featuring his CD "Band of Angels".
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

March 06th

From The Freight and Salvage Coffee House. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office!.

• Malachy McCourt, Irish raconteur, former barkeep, and author of "A Monk Swimming".
• Brother, an Australian Celtic band.
• Alan Gurganus, author of "The Last Living Confederate Widow Tells All" and his new book "Plays Well With Others".
• David Wilcox, singer-songwriter and guitarist featuring his latest recording "Underneath".
• Radio improvisation from True Fiction Magazine.
• Gini Wilson as the house pianist.

March 13th

From The Freight and Salvage Coffee House. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! .

• Robben Ford, blues guitarist with renowned jazz pianist Roger Kellaway and vocalist Anne Kerry Ford.
• Wendy Lesser, author of "The Amateur: An Independent Life of Letters".
• Opera director Peter Sellars.
• Theatre in the Rough, from Juneau.
• Michael Chabon, author of "The Mysteries of Pittsburg" and "Werewolves In Their Youth".
• Gini Wilson as the house pianist.

March 20th

From the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! .

• Michael McClure, poet from the beat generation, continuing his long-time collaboration with legendary Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek on piano.
• David Sedaris, commentator, periodic expatriate, and author of "Barrel Fever" and "Naked".
• Glenn McKay, an artist who created the liquid light displays at concerts in the sixties.
• Ruth Reichl, editor of "Gourmet" and author of "Tender At The Bone: Growing Up At The Table".
• Susan Werner, singer-songwriter featuring her latest CD called "Time Between Trains".
• David Ross - SFMOMA Director.
• Radio improvisation from True Fiction Magazine.
• Gini Wilson as the house pianist.

April 03rd

From the Oakland Museum of California. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! .

• Sedge draws out the taciturn Anne Lamott, author of "Traveling Mercies", "Rosie", and "Bird by Bird".
• Linda Tillery and the Cultural Heritage Choir.
• Smitty, a great east bay band, featuring their latest recording "Queen of the World".
• Artists William Wiley and Mary Webster, creators of the "What Is Art For" show.
• Dennis Power, the General Director of the Oakland Museum of California .
• Travel tips from Karl and Carl.
• A view from the studio of artist Meredith Tromble.
• Gini Wilson as the house pianist.

April 10th, 2001

From the Theater on the Square. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! .

• Radio lunacy of the Firesign Theater.
• The Nields Sisters, performing great folk rock.
• Lael Morgan, author of "Good Time Girls of the Alaska Gold Rush".
• Luis Bravo, creator and director of "Forever Tango", with musicians and dancers from the show.
• The naturalist perspective from Claire Peaslee.
• Gini Wilson as the house pianist.

April 17th

This was a special in-studio pledge-break show for our local affiliate KALW-FM. For true True Fiction Magazine fans, this pledge-break show is available as a .

• True Fiction Magazine doing live radio improvisation to titles provided by people pledging during the show.
• A view from the studio of artist Meredith Tromble.

April 24th

This was a special in-studio pledge-break show for our local affiliate KALW-FM. This pledge-break show is available as a .

• From the San Francisco Film Festival, Gemma Jones and Jeremy Northam, actors from David Mamet's new film "The Winslow Boy".
• Naomi Epel, author of "The Observation Deck".

May 01st

Live beat show from The Skydeck, on top of Embarcadero One in San Francisco. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! .

• Michael McClure, poet from the beat generation, with Rob Wasserman backing him up on the bass.
• Joan Jeanrenaud, the cellist from the Kronos Quartet.
• Larry Keenan, award-winning Bay Area photographer, and sculptor Amy Evans McClure, featured in the "Bad Company" retrospective art exhibit at The Skydeck.
• Deborah Swisher, actor and storyteller currently performing her solo show "Hundreds of Sisters and One Big Brother".
• A tribute to Duke Ellington, featuring Kathleen Perry and members of the David Hardiman San Francisco All Star Big Band.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

May 08th

From the Freight and Salvage Coffee House in Berkeley. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! .

• Kiriyama Foundation Pacific Rim Book Prize winner Ruth Ozeki, author of "My Year of Meats".
• Lizbeth Scott, singer-songwriter featuring her new recording "Sirens".
• Mystery writer Ed Goldberg, author of "Dead Air" .
• Selections from the musical revue "For Whom the Bridge Tolls" now playing at the Plush Room.
• Travel tips from Karl and Carl, court jesters to the jet set.
• Gini Wilson as the house pianist.

May 15th

From the Freight and Salvage Coffee House in Berkeley. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! .

• Blues harmonica legend, Charlie Musselwhite. His current release is "Continental Drifter".
• The Bobs, a cappella legends worth singing about.
• David Chadwick, author of "Crooked Cucumber: The Life and Zen Teaching of Shunryo Suzuki".
• Diane Highbridge is an Australian author whose book is called "In The Empire Of Dreams", a novel about the experiences of three anglo women living in Tokyo.
• The Todalo Shakers, jug band music for the 90's, Their current release is "4th Street Messaround".
• Gini Wilson as the house pianist.

May 29th

From Camp Curry, in Yosemite Valley at Yosemite National Park. This show commemorated the 100th year anniversary of Camp Curry. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! .

• Blues guitarist, Chris Smither.
• David Curry & John Curry, grandsons of the founder of Camp Curry.
• Pianist Tom Bopp, preserver of Yosemite's musical history.
• Park Service Ranger Yvonne Granger.
• Nic Fiore, renowned Yosemite ski instructor.
• Gerry Bloch, who climbed El Capitan at age 81, and his guide Mike Corbett.
• Songwriter, Harry "Mac" McMillen.
• Noreen Ross as Mrs. Jillson, Yosemite stand-up from the 1920's.
• Mother Curry's Irish Soda Bread recipe.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

June 05th

From the Freight and Salvage Coffee House in Berkeley. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! .

• Music from Moxy Früvous. Their current recording is "Thornhill".
• NPR commentator Bailey White, author of "Quite A Year For Plums" and "Mama Makes Up Her Mind".
• Blues from The Tommy Castro Band, featuring music from their latest recording "Right as Rain".
• Robert Girardi, author of "A Vaudeville of Devils", "Vaporetto 13", and "Madeleine's Ghost".
• Radio improvisation from True Fiction Magazine.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

June 12th

From Sedge's kitchen table. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! .

• Malachy McCourt, author of "A Monk Swimming".
• J.S.G. Boggs, the artist who draws his own money and then uses it to purchase things. He is the subject of Lawrence Weschler's new book.
• Journalist, Lawrence Weschler, author of "Boggs: A Comedy of Values".
• Chefs Lauren Lyle and Michael Wild, from the renowned Bay Wolf restaurant in Oakland.
• A view from the studio of artist Meredith Tromble.

June 26th

From the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! .

• Theater director Peter Sellars.
• The Nigerian Brothers, acoustic West African Highlife music.
• Video artist Bill Viola.
• The Merry Nibelungs, with selections from a 1904 burlesque operetta by Oscar Straus, a satire of the Ring Cycle.
• SFMOMA museum director David Ross.
• The naturalist perspective from Claire Peaslee, discussing glaciers as an art medium.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill

July 8th

From the Gold Pan Theater in Skagway, Alaska. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! .

• John Wesley Harding, the renowned singer-songwriter whose latest recording is "Trad Arr Jones".
• Chilkat Valley News columnist, Christian Science Monitor writer, and public radio commentator, Heather Lende.
• Dimitra Lavrakas, editor of the Skagway News.
• Hyperventilation by Josh Kornbluth, an urbanite out of his habitat.
• Chris Ishee, the hardest working man in Skagway showbiz and the Red Onion's house pianist.

July 9th

From the Gold Pan Theater in Skagway, Alaska. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! .

• John Wesley Harding, the renowned singer-songwriter whose latest recording is "Trad Arr Jones".
• Buckwheat Donahue, mountaineer, lover of poetry, and howler.
• Hyperventilation by Josh Kornbluth.
• Singer-songwriter Lahna Deering, guitar, with Andy Cremata, harmonica.
• Jeff Brady, channelling Stroller White.
• Chris Ishee, the hardest working man in Skagway showbiz and the Red Onion's house pianist.

July 10th

From aboard the White Pass & Yukon Route Railway enroute from Skagway to the Yukon. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! .

• John Wesley Harding, the renowned singer-songwriter whose latest recording is "Trad Arr Jones".
• Chief Andy Carvill, of the Carcross Tagish First Nation.
• Hyperventilation by Josh Kornbluth, now feeling part of the food chain.
• Canadian country western singers Art Johns and Kevin Barr (a.k.a., The Singing Grampas).
• From the White Pass & Yukon Route Railway, John E. Bush, Superintendent of Operations, Engineer Dave Hunz, Fireman Fred Beeks, and Conductor Brian Lafond, and Locomotive #73, as the house train.

July 13th

From in front of the Golden North Hotel in Skagway, Alaska. This show is available as a .

• Hyperventilation by Josh Kornbluth, moderated by too many malts.
• Steve Tada, violinist with the Juneau Symphony Orchestra, with Dale Wygant on accordion.
• Naturalist Richard Carstensen, who searches for monument trees in the Tongass National Forest.
• Chilkat Valley News columnist, Christian Science Monitor writer, and public radio commentator, Heather Lende.
• Michael Faubion, singer-songwriter from Bethel, Alaska.
• The Tuesday jam session from the Red Onion, featuring musicians from cruise ships and Chris Ishee, the hardest working man in Skagway showbiz and the Red Onion's house pianist.
• Plus visits from folks walking down Broadway, including Buckwheat Donahue, Jeff Brady, naturalists from the ship "The Yorktown Clipper", and tourists from far and near.

July 31st

From Sedge's kitchen table. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! .

• Tish Hinojosa, singer-songwriter whose latest album is called "Dreaming from the Labyrinth" which is Spanish is called "Sonar del Laberinto" and is released in both Spanish and English versions.
• Sylvia Brownrigg, author of "The Metaphysical Touch, Pages for You, and Ten Women Who Shook The World".
• Cara Black, author of "Murder in the Marais".

August 28th

From The Freight and Salvage Coffee House in Berkeley. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! .

• Rita Moreno, star of stage, screen and much more. The only woman to win an Oscar, a Tony, a Grammy and an Emmy (or two).
• Martin Cruz Smith, author of "Havana Bay", "Rose", and "Gorky Park".
• Singer-songwriter Jennifer Berezan, with Nina Gerber and Anthony Costello.
• The Baguette Quartet, bringing the world traditional Parisian café music.
• Film critic, Oscar London.
• Radio improvisation from True Fiction Magazine.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

September 10th

Live show from the National Park Service theater in Skagway, Alaska. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! .

• Singer-songwriter and Litlith Fair performer Deborah Pardes, whose recordings include "Strange Tattoo" and "Live in Concert".
• Interviews with runners participating in the 17th annual International Klondike Trail of '98 Road Relay, including Chilkat Valley News columnist, Christian Science Monitor writer, and public radio commentator, Heather Lende, Race Director Trevor Twardochleb, and Race Marshall John Spicer.
• Whitehorse musicians Kendall Sullivan and Joe Bishop.
• Whitehorse band This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
• Travel tips from Karl and Carl.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

September 11th

Live show from the Chilkat Center in Haines, Alaska. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! .

• Singer-songwriter and Litlith Fair performer Deborah Pardes, whose recordings include "Strange Tattoo" and "Live in Concert".
• Private eye and mystery writer John Straley, author of "The Angels Will Not Come" and " Death and the Language of Happiness".
• Mystery writer Sue Henry, author of "Deadfall".
• Klezmer music from Khazerayim, with Dr. Len Feldman and friends.
• Travel tips from Karl and Carl.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill, joined by Mitchell Holman, the bassist from musical groups "It's a Beautiful Day" and "Zensnap".

September 12th

Live show from the Mountain Market in Haines, Alaska. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! .

• Singer-songwriter and Litlith Fair performer Deborah Pardes, whose recordings include "Strange Tattoo" and "Live in Concert".
• Private eye and mystery writer John Straley, essay contributor to "Book of the Tongass".
• Haines writer This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., essay contributor to "Book of the Tongass".
• Mystery writer Slim Randalls, author of "Raven's Beard".
• Mystery writer Sue Henry, author of "Deadfall".
• Singer-songwriter Tom Begich, whose latest recording is "Hotel Metropol".
• Travel tips from Karl and Carl.
• Mitchell Holman, the bassist from music groups "It's a Beautiful Day" and "Zensnap".
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.
• Haines residents in search of good coffee.

September 13th

Live show from the Gold Pan Theater in Skagway, Alaska. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! .

• Birthday girl, singer-songwriter and Litlith Fair performer Deborah Pardes, whose recordings include "Strange Tattoo" and "Live in Concert".
• Fairbanks writer Sherry Simpson, author of "The Way Winter Comes".
• Juneau's Theatre in the Rough.
• Whitehorse band This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
• Singer-songwriter Len Oslund.
• Travel tips from Karl and Carl.
• Mitchell Holman, the bassist from music groups "It's a Beautiful Day" and "Zensnap".
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

October 02nd

Live show from The Freight and Salvage Coffee House. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! .

• Monty Python's Flying Circus member Eric Idle, wink, wink, nudge, nudge, know what I mean, say no more, and author of "The Road to Mars".
• Singer Paula West, and her jazz band.
• Simon Winchester, author of " The Professor and the Madman; A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary".
• Susan Minot, author of "Evening".
• Eliza Minot, author of "The Tiny One".
• Roddy Doyle, author of "A Star Called Henry", "The Snapper", "The Commitments" and "Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha".
• Gini Wilson, as the house pianist. Her latest recording is "Left Coast Local Time; THe Duches".

October 09th

Live show from Sedge's kitchen table. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! .

• Music from Trout Fishing in America.
• Artist and dancer Remy Charlip, author of children's books "Sleepytime Rhyme" and "Peanut Butter Party", joined by Gus Hardy.
• Gunnar Madsen, a former Bob with a new collection of children's songs called "Old Mr. Mackle Hackle".
• The naturalist perspective from Claire Peaslee, discussing adolescence in nature and other topics.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

October 16th

Live show from The Freight and Salvage Coffee House. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! .

• Thomas Keneally, author of "Schindler's List" and "The Great Shame; And the Triumph of the Irish in the English-Speaking World".
• Susan Faludi, author of "Stiffed - The Betrayal of the American Man" and also of "Backlash", one of the great topical books in the past decade.
• Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, author of "The Emperor's Embrace: Reflections on Animal Families and Fatherhood" and many others including "When Elephants Weep" and "The Assault on Truth".
• Music from Hot Club of Cowtown.
• Mark Kurlansky, author of "The Basque History of the World".
• Radio improvisation from True Fiction Magazine.
• Gini Wilson, as the house pianist. Her latest recordings are "Left Coast Local Time" and "The Duchess".

October 23rd

Live show from The Asian Art Museum, featuring the awarding of the Kiriyama Foundation Pacific Rim Book Prize. This show is available as a .

• Ch'ing-wen Cheng, author of "Three Legged Horse".
• Troung Tran, author of "The Book Of Perceptions" (photographs by Chung Hoang Chuong).
• Elizabeth Whelan Barber, author of "The Mummies of Urumchi" .
• Andrew X. Pham, author of "Catfish And Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam".
• Linda Spalding, co-author of "Riska: Memories of a Dayak Girlhood" by Riska Orpa.
• The return of Moxy Früvous.
• Krstina Yousa, the Asian Art Museun curator.
• Musician Cui Zunzhi, playing the rare Chinese Konghou harp, as house harpist for the day.

November 06th

Live show from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! .

• A cappella wonders of the mondern world, The Bobs.
• Michael Light, author of "Full Moon", a book of pictures from the Apollo missions, many of which are currently exhibited at SFMOMA.
• San Francisco Taiko Dojo drum troupe.
• Dava Sobel, author of "Longitude" and "Galileo's Daughter".
• SFMOMA director David Ross.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

November 13th

Live show from The Freight and Salvage Coffee House. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! .

• Actor Gene Hackman and underwater archaeologist Daniel Lenihan, authors of "Wake Of The Perdido Star".
• Isabel Allende, author of "Daughter Of Fortune".
• Don Walser, "The Pavarotti of the Plains" with good ol' down-home Texas music.
• Singer-songwriter Lucy Kaplansky, whose latest recording is "Ten Year Night".
• Irving Kaplansky, as the house pianist.

November 20th

Live show from The Plush Room in San Francisco. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! .

• Mickey Hart, percussionist from The Grateful Dead and author of "Spirit Into Sound: The Magic of Music", an original collection of quotes and commentary on the transformative power of music. also author of "Drumming at the Edge of Magic" and "Planet Drum".
• Music of the Great American Songbook from Wesla Whitfield & Mike Greensill.
• William Least Heat-Moon, author of "Blue Highways", "Prairie Earth", and "River Horse".
• Comedian Gregg Proops of "Whose Line Is It Anyway?".
• Judith Thurman, author of "Secrets of the Flesh : A Life of Colette" and winner of the National Book Award for her biography of Isak Dinesen "The Life of a Storyteller".

December 04th

Live show from The Plush Room in San Francisco. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! .

• San Francisco Klezmer Experience.
• Alison Gopnik, cognitive scientist and co-author of "The Scientist In The Crib: Minds, Brains, and How Children Learn".
• Clive Barker, author of "The Essential Clive Barker", "Imajica", and "The Thief of Always".
• Sax/Piano duo Ivan Rosenblum & Dale Wolferd.
• The naturalist perspective from Claire Peaslee.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

December 11th

Live show from The Freight and Salvage Coffee House in Berkeley. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! .

• Holiday surf music from Pollo Del Mar.
• Singer-songwriter Holly Near.
• Social commentator Ian Shoales, appearing with Merle Kessler.
• Sonos Handbell Quartet, with soprano Marcelle Dronkers.
• Bill Barich, author of "The Sporting Life".
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

December 18th

Live show from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! .

• Red-diapered Santa Josh Kornbluth.
• The Christmas Jug Band.
• Peter Rowan and the Rowan Brothers' Reggaebilly Christmas Band.
• Cliff Stoll, author of "High Tech Heretic".
• Radio improvisation from True Fiction Magazine.
• Aaron Betsky, SFMOMA curator of architecture, design, and digital projects.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

December 25th

On Christmas morning we present our holiday classic "A Skagway Christmas" from the Red Onion recorded on August 07, 1998 during the first hour of the broadcast, followed by highlights of shows from Decembers past. Great radio to unwrap to! Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! .

• Buckwheat Donahue.
• Paul Lukas.
• John Wesley Harding.
• Eileen Weiss.
• New Century Chamber Orchestra.
• Radio improvisation from True Fiction Magazine.
• Sedge draws out the taciturn Anne Lamott.
• Other surprise guests.