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DECEMBER 31, 2011
A Favorite from the Archives - Show 938
Enjoy this special broadcast; a collection of highlights from 2011... HAPPY NEW YEAR!
MYTHBUSTERS
ADAM SAVAGE & JAMIE HYNEMAN
from MythBusters, the beloved science entertainment TV program that tests the validity of rumors, myths, movie scenes, adages, Internet videos and news stories. From October 8 at the WIX lounge in SF.
Author
SARA WHEELER
author of The Magnetic North: Notes from the Arctic Circle. From March 19 at Revival in Berkeley.
Author
JONATHAN EVISON
author of critically acclaimed novel West of Here, set in the fictional town of Port Bonita, on Washington’s rugged Pacific coast. From July 30 on Lopez Island, WA
Musicians
MARK PHILLIPS & IIIrd GENERATION BLUEGRASS BAND
award-winning, hard-driving traditional bluegrass and bluegrass-gospel music out of Norman, Oklahoma. From July 23 in Etna, CA.
Musicians
RUBBER SOULDIERS
David Gans and the Rowan Brothers bring us their improvisational approach to the music of the Beatles. From June 25 at the SF Ferry Building.
Author
ANTHONY HOROWITZ
screenwriter of acclaimed British World War II detective television series Foyle's War, and author of the bestselling Alex Rider children's series, with the final installment, Scorpia Rising. From March 26 at Revival in Berkeley.
DECEMBER 24, 2011
Live from the Freight & Salvage - Show 937
Join us for a very jolly Holiday show from the Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse at 2020 Addison St in Downtown Berkeley!
Naturalist
CLAIRE PEASLEE
our house naturalist, just back from adventures in the Mojave, with a very funny field report..
Musicians
TIN CUP SERENADE
set the holiday mood, like the soundtrack to a Mad Men Christmas special.
And just added...
ELAYNE BOOSLER
the comedienne and activist, in town to headline the 19th annual Kung Pao Kosher Comedy show; Jewish Comedy on Christmas at a Chinese Restaurant!
DECEMBER 10, 2011
Live from Goldman Theater, Brower C. Berkeley-Show 935
From the Goldman Theater at the David Brower Center, 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley SEDGE THOMSON welcomes:
Author
THOMAS STEINBECK
the author of Down to a Soundless Sea and In the Shadow of the Cypress presents an enthralling new piece of historical fiction: The Silver Lotus.
Author
SUSAN SNYDER
editor of Beyond Words: 200 years of Illustrated Diaries, which was just chosen as Oprah's Book of the Week.
Photographer
DAVID LIITTSCHWAGER
contributing photographer to National Geographic magazine, whose current show One Cubic Foot is now up at the David Brower Center Gallery. author of ten books of poetry, including The Strange Hours Travelers
Poet
AUGUST KLEINZAHLER
author of ten books of poetry, including The Strange Hours Travelers Keep, who is writing for Liittschwager's next book of photos, due out in the new year.
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DECEMBER 17, 2011
Live from the David Brower Center, Berkeley - Show 936
From the Goldman Theater at the David Brower Center, 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley
SEDGE THOMSON welcomes:
Author
BARRY EISLER
international thriller writer and creator of the John Rain Series, here with his latest action-packed adventure, The Detachment.
Author
BRANDI LYNN RYDER
brings us her haunting and sophisticated debut novel, In Malice, Quite Close, in which priceless art and unspeakable desires converge.
Earth Island's
KEVIN CONNELLY
Associate Director of Earth Island Institute and Producer of Earth Island Presents Speaker Series.
Musicians
ARANN HARRIS & THE FARM BAND
Sonoma County's pesticide-free string band, stopping by before their Holiday Hoehown, Sunday at the Mystic Theater in Petaluma.
Musicians
THE DUFAY COLLECTIVE
San early-music ensemble from the United Kingdom, specializing in Medieval and Renaissance music.
DECEMBER 3, 2011
Live from Goldman Theater, Brower C. Berkeley-Show 934
From the the Goldman Theater at the Brower Center, 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley
SEDGE THOMSON welcomes:
Author
IAN W. TOLL
acclaimed author of Six Frigates and now Pacific Crucible; War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942.
Filmmakers
JASON COHN & BILL JERSEY
with the documentary Eames; The Architect and the Painter, opening December 2nd at the Balboa in San Francisco.
Filmmakers
AMY GLAZER, HEATHER GORDON & BRUCE FOWLER
director, star (Miss Marin County) and composer (trombone player for Frank Zappa & arranger of Hanz Zimmer's scores) of Seducing Charlie Barker, opening December 2nd..jpg)
