January 3, 1998

From 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! .

• Omar Sosa and John Santos, featuring music from their latest recordings "Nfume - For the Unseen" and "Omar Omar".
• Monologist Spalding Gray.
• Slack guitar music from George Kuo, Martin Pahinui, Dennis Kamakahi, and David Kamakahi.
• Pianist Daniell Revenaugh.
• Kevin Kelly, editor of "Wired".
• Travel tips from Karl and Carl.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill

February 07th

From the Cowell Theater 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! .

• The King's Singers, performing selections from their "Spirit Voices" and "Madrigal Mystery Tour".
• Guitarist Peppino D'Agostino, performing selections from his "Venus Over Venice" and "Close to the Heart" recordings..
• Jeffery Masson, author of "Dogs Never Lie About Love", "When Elephants Weep", and "Against Therapy".
• Blues singer Woody Mann, performing selections from his "Heading Uptown" recording.
• Radio improvisation from True Fiction Magazine.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill

February 21st

From The Great American Music Hall 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! .

• Singer-songwriter Loudon Wainwright III, deaturing music from his latest recording "Little Ship".
• Dean Koontz, author of "Fear Nothng" and "Intensity".
• Dmitri and Ivan of The Flying Karamazov Brothers.
• Ian McEwan, author of "Enduring Love", "The Innocent", and "Black Dogs".
• The naturalist perspective from Claire Peaslee.
• Radio improvisation from True Fiction Magazine.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill

March 21st

From the Cowell Theater 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! .

• Ramblin' Jack Elliott, featuring songs from his recording "Friends of Mind".
• Nuala O'Faolain, author of "Are You Somebody: The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman".
• Singer-songwriter Lisbeth Scott, featuring songs from her recording "Climb".
• Gail Tsukiyama, author of "Night of Many Dreams".
• The naturalist perspective from Claire Peaslee.
• Radio improvisation from True Fiction Magazine.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

March 28th

From the Cowell Theater 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! .

• Joe Quirk, author of "The Ultimate Rush".
• Rigo Star, jazz guitarist.
• Edward Ball, author of "Slaves in the Family".
• Guitarists Steve Erquiaga and Antonio Calegero.
• Klezmer mutations from Kavka.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill

April 04th

From the Cowell Theater 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! .

• Linda Tillery & The Cultural Heritage Choir.
• Oud master, Hamza el Din.
• Bart Schneider, author of "Blue Bossa".
• Performance troupe, Culture Clash.
• Karen Elisabeth Gordon, author of "Torn Wings and Faux Pas".
• A view from the studio of artist Meredith Tromble.
• Gini Wilson, as the house pianist.

April 11th

From the Cowell Theater 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! .

• Isabel Allende, author of "Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses".
• Charles Corn, author of "The Scents of Eden: A Narrative of the Spice Trade".
• Ledward Ka'apana, slack key guitar virtuoso.
• Paniolos, Hawaiian musical cowboys.
• Sedge draws out the taciturn Anne Lamott.
• Gini Wilson, as the house pianist.

May 16th

From the Exploratorium which you can hear here. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! , as well as a RealVideo stream  at the Exploratorium's WEB site.

• Nik Phelps and The Sprocket Ensemble, exploring ideas in animation with live jazz.
• Ved Mehta, memoirist and contributor to the New Yorker.
• A cappella by SoVoSó.
• Paul Doherty, Exploratorium Senior Scientist.
• Roxanne Swentzell, Pueblo traditional sculptor.
• The Bad Girls of Science, exploring gender issues.
• Travel tips from Karl and Carl.
• Mike Greensill, as the house piano player.

May 23rd

From the Exploratorium which you can hear here. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! , as well as a RealVideo stream  at the Exploratorium's WEB site.

• Alison Gopnik, discussing childhood memories.
• Art Shimamura, discussing aging memories.
• Didgeridoo master Stephen Kent.
• Josh Kornbluth, as Ben Franklin.
• The Unnamed Quartet, remembering music by Puccini..
• Mike Greensill, as the house piano player.

May 30th

From The Redwood 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! .

• Chanteuse extrordinaire Wesla Whitfield and Mike Greensill, masters of the great American song book.
• Actor Peter Coyote, author of "Sleeping Where I Fall".
• Anne Lamott, author of "Bird by Bird" and "Operating Instructions", and "Crooked Little Heart".
• The Jumping Buddha Ensemble.
• Radio improvisation from True Fiction Magazine.
• The naturalist perspective from Claire Peaslee.
• Hyperventilation by Ben Franklin, as portrayed by Josh Kornbluth.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

June 06th

From the Cowell Theater 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! .

• The highest-paid poet (by the line) in the world, humorist Calvin Trillin, author of "Family Man".
• Actor Joe Morton, the brother from outer space.
• Geneen Roth, author of "When You Eat at the Refrigerator, Pull Up a Chair".
• Czech bluegrass band Druha Trava, featuring their latest recordings "Revival" and "Starodavny Svet".
• Pianist Omar Sosa and percussionist John Santos, featuring their latest recording "Nfumbe - For The Unseen".
• Hyperventilation by Josh Kornbluth.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

June 13th

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! .

• Mare Winningham and her band, whose current CD is "Lonesomers".
• Surrealist Nicholas Baker, author of "The Everlasting Story of Nory".
• A cappella from The House Jacks.
• Storyteller Peter Beagle, author of "The Last Unicorn" and "The Rhinoceros Who Quoted Nietzsche".
• Josh Kornbluth, as Ben Franklin.
• Gini Wilson, as the house pianist.

June 20th

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

• David Sedaris, author of "Naked" and "The Santa Land Diaries".
• Roy Blount Jr., author of "Be Sweet", "Camels Are Easy", and "Comedy's Hard".
• Singer-songwriter Joe Ely and his Band, whose current CD is "Twistin' in the Wind".
• Guitarist Henri Dikongué with Manual Wadji on percussion.
• Privite eye Jason Wechter, with clues for The Great San Francisco Treasure Hunt.
• Josh Kornbluth, as Ben Franklin.
• Gini Wilson, as the house pianist.

July 04th

From the SkyDeck at the Embarcadero Center 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! .

• Box Set, San Francisco's original acoustic rock duo.
• Jeff Greenwald, author of "The Size of the World" and "Shopping for Buddhas".
• James Lee Burke, author of "Cadillac Jukebox", and "Black Cheery Blues".
• The naturalist perspective from Claire Peaslee.
• Hyperventilation by Josh Kornbluth.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

July 18th (recorded in Dawson City July 15th)

From the Palace Grand Theater in Dawson City, Yukon Territory, Canada. .

• Bruce Cockburn, great Canadian singer-songwriter.
• Private eye John Straley, author of "Death and the Language of Happiness".
• Lenny and the Lapstrakes, acoustic folk out of Whitehorse, YT.
• Steve Taylor, chief of Tron'dek Hwech'in, Han Nation.
• Historian Michael Gates.
• Aedes Sheer, rogue veterinarian.
• Annie Avery as the house pianist.

July 25th (recorded July 17th in Skagway)

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! .

• The Black Irish Band sings songs from the top of the goldrush pops.
• Jeff Brady, publisher of Skagway News.
• Columnist Heather Lende.
• Richard Dick, Tlingit story teller and carver.
• Singer/songwriter, Eric Allen.
• Chris Ishee as the house pianist.

AUGUST 1st (recorded July 20th in Whitehorse)

Live show from the T&M Hotel in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada. .

• Yukon News gardening columnist John Harmon.
• Ottowa singer/songwriter, Lynn Miles.
• Grandma Suzy, Tlingit stand-up comic. (Portrayed by Sharon Shorty)
• Matthew Lien, activist and songwriter (The Caribou Commons Project).
• Peter Long, editor of "The Whole Lost Moose Catalog".
• Jim Robb, collector of individuality, author of "The Colourful 5%".
• Jay Burr as the house tuba player.

AUGUST 8th (recorded July 24th in Skagway)

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! .

• Kim Rogers, singer/songwriter from Whitehorse. Her current CD is Canyon City.
• Maynard Egan, Inupik explorer of culture.
• Buckwheat Donahue, howler, folk singer, and Skagway fixture.
• Cynde Adams, Dyea to Dawson competitor and adventurer.
• Nancy Nash, classical pianist.
• Chris Ishee, as the house pianist.

AUGUST 15th (recorded July 25th on the train)

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

• Railroad man J.D. True, author of "It Happened On The White Pass".
• Railroad songs from Steve Hites.
• Cynthia Brackett Driscoll, author of "One Woman's Gold Rush".
• The naturalist perspective from Claire Peaslee.
• The Train Band, featuring Len Feldman on concertina, and Tom Haywood on fiddle.
• Locomotive #73, as the house train.

AUGUST 22nd (recorded August 1st in Skagway)

Live show from the Gold Pan Theater in Skagway, Alaska..

• imogen Heap, pianist/singer evoking the passion of luminaries such as Patti Smth and Kate Bush.
• Stuart Cohen, author of "Invisible World".
• The Reverend Neil Down, blues band.
• Debbie Sanders, National Park Service Curator.
• Chris Ishee, as the house pianist.

AUGUST 29th (recorded August 3rd in Haines)

Live show from the Chilkat Center, Haines, Alaska, in conjunction with the Native People's Festival. .

• Jerry Alfred, Selkirk First Nation rock fusion from Whitehorse.
• Bunny Swan, Athabascan singer/songwriter.
• Wayne Price, Tlingit master carver.
• Nora Marks Dauenhauser, Tlingit poet.
• Gei Sun Dancers, Tlingit elders.
• Students from the Chilkoot Culture Camp.
• Nancy Nash, as the pianist.

SEPTEMBER 5th (recorded August 5th)

Live show from the Southeast Alaska State Fair 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! .

• Pianist/Guitarist George Winston.
• Author and columnist, Heather Lende.
• The Photon Band, new wave bluegrass.
• Lunchmeat and the Pimentos.
• Margaret Piggott, author, kayaker, and physical therapist.
• Nick Jans, author of "Last Light Breaking" and "A Place Beyond".
• Bassist Dave Riemer.
• Nancy Nash, as the pianist.

see DECEMBER 24th (recorded August 07th)

Live to tape special Christmas show recorded at the Red Onion bar and brothel in Skagway, Alaska. .

• Buckwheat Donahue.
• Author and columnist, Heather Lende.
• Paul Lukas.
• Bad Backs.
• Carol Olivia.
• Jan Wrentmore.
• Other surprise guests.

SEPTEMBER 12th (recorded August 08th)

Live show from the Gold Pan Theater in Skagway, Alaska. .

• Bluegrass legend Peter Rowan.
• Folksinger Buddy Tabor.
• Writer and poet, Sheila Nickerson.
• Dave Smith, author, naturalist, and bear specialist.
• Columnist Heather Lende.
• Cellist Dave Austin, playing the music of Charlie Chaplin with Donna Austin on piano.
• Canadian country western singers, Art Johns and Kevin Barr.
• Chris Ishee, as the house pianist.

SEPTEMBER 19th (recorded August 9th)

Live show on board the M/V Malaspina ferry, en route from Haines, Alaska to Juneau, Alaska. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! .

• African Rain, a drumming ensemble.
• Folksinger Buddy Tabor.
• Singer-songwriter Burl Sheldon.
• Columnist Heather Lende.
• Singer-songwriter Lesley Rostron of The Truffles.
• Captain Bob Doll, chief of the Alaska Marine Highway System.
• Captain Mark Sundt, of the M/V Malaspina.
• Nancy Nash, as the ship's pianist.

October 03rd

From the Exploratorium which you can hear here., as well as a RealVideo stream  at the Exploratorium's WEB site.

• Ethan Canin, author of "For Kings and Planets".
• Exploratorium artist Brenda Hutchinson.
• Michael Dibdin, author of the Aurelio Zen mysteries.
• Cajun accordion dynamo Geno Delafose.
• Singer-songwriter Deborah Pardes.
• Paula West, singing the standards.
• Radio improvisation from True Fiction Magazine.
• Mike Greensill, as the house piano player.

October 10th

From the Exploratorium which you can hear here. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! , as well as a RealVideo stream  from the Exploratorium's WEB site.

• Singer-songwriter John Gorka.
• Bert Grant, founder of Grant's Brewery and author of "The Ale Master".
• A cappella by SoVoSó.
• Michael Köepf, author of "The Fisherman's Son".
• Singer-songwriter Deborah Pardes.
• From the Exploratorium, Melissa Alexander.
• A view from the studio of artist Meredith Tromble.
• Radio improvisation from True Fiction Magazine.
• Gini Wilson, as the house pianist.

October 17th

Live show from 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! .

• Walter Mosley, author of "The Blue Light" and "Devil in a Blue Dress".
• James Houston, author of "The Last Paradise" and "In the Ring of Fire".
• Music from Red Meat, featuring their latest recording "Meet Red Meat".
• The naturalist perspective from Claire Peaslee.
• Radio improvisation from True Fiction Magazine.
• Gini Wilson, as the house pianist.

October 24th

From the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. The Kiriyama Foundation Pacific Rim Book Prize were awarded during this broadcast. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! . A review of this event titled "Day in the life of Pacific grim" is posted on the SF Gate WEB site.

• Gail Tsukiyama, author of "Night of Many Dreams: The Samurai's Garden", and Chair of the Kiriyama Jury.
• Ruth Ozeki, author of "My Year of Meats".
• Folk singer, Loudon Wainwright III.
• Kerri Sakamoto, author of "The Electric Field".
• Didgeridoo master Stephen Kent.
• Ha Jin, author of "Under the Red Flag".
• Yoko Woodson, Japanese Art Curator of the Asian Art Museum.
• Drumming by the San Francisco Taiko Dojo.

October 31st

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! .

• The legendary Steve Allen, author of "Dumbth".
• Tom Standage, author of "The Victorian Internet" about how the telegraph affected the culture of the times..
• Brazilian guitarist Paolo Bellanati.
• Radio improvisation from True Fiction Magazine.
• Gini Wilson, as the house pianist.

November 07th

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! .

• Robert MacNeil, author of "Breaking News".
• A cappella from The Nylons.
• Jay McInerney, author of "Bright Lights, Big City".
• Guitarist Danny Heines, with Michael Manring on bass.
• Actor Malachy McCourt, author of "A Monk Swimming" about his life in New York in the fifties and sixties as an actor, bartender, alcoholic, and gold smuggler.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

November 14th

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! .

• Singer and artist, Tony Bennett, author of "Good Life; The Autobiography Of Tony Bennett".
• Adam Hochschild, author of "King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa", about the Belgian plundering of the Congo in the 1880's.
• Singer-songwriter Gunnar Madsen.
• Peter Delacorte, author of "Time on My Hands", about traveling in time to change the future by derailing Ronald Reagan's acting career.
• Mark Lanegan and his band.
• The Chookasian Ensemble, performing Armenian folk music.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

November 21st

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! .

• Marion Woodman, co-author of "The Maiden King".
• Acoustic Guitar Summit, a group from Portland.
• Wes "Scoop" Nisker, author of "Buddha's Nature: Evolution as a Practical Guide to Enlightenment".
• Toas Pueblo percussionist Benito Concha, with Aztec flutist Matzalt Galindo.
• Civic crusader Ellie Lammer.
• A visit from Josh Kornbluth.
• Travel tips from Karl and Carl.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

November 28th

From the Great American Music Hall 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 chef Ron Siegel of Charles Nob Hill, who battled Iron Chef Hiroyuki Sakai in the "Lobster Confront".
• A cappella from The Bobs.
• Surfer Daniel Duane, author of "Looking for Mo".
• Barry Humphries (a.k.a., Dame Edna Everage).
• imogen Heap, pianist/singer evoking the passion of luminaries such as Patti Smth and Kate Bush.
• The naturalist perspective from Claire Peaslee.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

December 05th

From the Exploratorium which you can hear here. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! , as well as a RealVideo stream  at the Exploratorium's WEB site.

• The Canadian Brass Ensemble.
• Essayist Lawrence Weschler, author of "A Wanderer In The Perfect City: Selected Passion Pieces".
• Lynda Williams, the Physics Chanteuse.
• Canadian singer-singwriter-guitarist Stephen Fearing.
• Memory expert Jonathan Schooler.
• Kevin Kelly, editor of Wired magazine.
• Mike Lips on the theremin.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

December 12th

From the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) 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! .

• The song stylings of Wesla Whitfield.
• Multi-ethnic humor from Culture Clash.
• The Christmas Jug Band.
• Whitney Chadwick, author of "Mirror Images: Women, Surrrealism, and Self-Representation".
• A view from the studio of artist Meredith Tromble.
• David Ross, director of SFMOMA.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

December 19th

From the SkyDeck at the Embarcadero Center 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! .

• The Sonos Handbell Quartet.
• Ben Fong-Torres, author of "The Hits Just Keep On Coming" on the history of top-40 radio, with Gerald Nachman, author of "Raised on Radio" on radio's golden age.
• Klezmer-esque jazz from Kaila Flexer and Next Village (formerly Third Ear).
• Philip Fradkin, author of "Magnitude 8: Earthquakes and Life Along The San Andreas Fault".
• Naomi Epel, discussing her new writer's tool "The Observation Deck".
• Travel tips from Karl and Carl.
• Santa Josh Kornbluth.
• Music from piano player Michael Greensill.

December 26th

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! .

• Jane Smiley, Pulitzer Prize winning author of "A Thousand Acres" and "The All-True Travels And Adventures Of Lidie Newton".
• The performance group Word For Word who will be performing excerpts from Dylan Thomas' "A Child's Christmas in Wales" and Grace Paley's "The Loudest Voice".
• Leslie Jonath, discussing food and celebrations.
• Radio improvisation from True Fiction Magazine.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill, with Ken Miller on bass.

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.

January 8,2000

Sixth Anniversary show from The Plush Room in San Francisco. We awarded our annual "Order of the Smoked Salmon" awards during this show. The kitchen gadget featured on this show was provided by Sur la Table. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! .

• Ramblin' Jack Elliot, legendary troubadour and cowboy poet.
• Irene Farerra, Venezuelan singer and guitarist featuring her latest recording "Soy de Ti".
• Sedge draws out the taciturn Anne Lamott.
• A view from the studio of artist Meredith Tromble.
• Radio improvisation from True Fiction Magazine.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.
• Other surprise guests, audience true stories, and guess the gadget.

January 15th

Live show from The Julia Morgan Center for the Arts in Berkeley. The kitchen gadget featured on this show was provided by Sur la Table. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! .

• Singer Paula West and her band.
• Gail Tsukiyama, author of "The Language of Threads".
• Classical pianist Gwendolyn Mok playing the music of Ravel.
• Singer-songwriter and etch-a-sketch artist Michael McNevin.
• Gray Brechin, author of "Imperial San Francisco: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin".
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill
• Other surprise guests, audience true stories, and guess the gadget.

January 22nd

Live show from The Freight and Salvage Coffee House in Berkeley. The kitchen gadget featured on this show was provided by Sur la Table. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! .

• Singer-songwriter Deborah Pardes and her new band Gene Pool.
• Austin Lounge Lizards.
• Peter Nichols author of "Voyage to the North Star" and "Sea Change".
• Singer-songwriter and Etch-a-Sketch artist Michael McNevin.
• Hyperventilation by Josh Kornbluth, as he picks up his smoked salmon that's been sitting in Sedge's freezer since last summer's Alaska tour.
• Gini Wilson as the house pianist.
• Other surprise guests, audience true stories, and guess the gadget.

March 11th

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

• Performance by Culture Clash.
• Korean poet Myung Mi Kim, author of "Dura", "The Bounty", and "Under Flag" .
• Irish singer-songwriter Luka Bloom.
• Poet vincent tripi, author of "Tribe: Meditations of a Haiku Poet".
• The San Francisco Bach Choir, performing selections from Handel's Messiah.
• Museum curator Linda Choy.
• Steven Baily, as the house organist.

March 18th

Live show from The Julia Morgan Center for the Arts 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 guitarist Del Rey, featuring her latest recording "X-Rey Guitar".
• Patrick McCabe, author of "Mondo Desperado: A Serial Novel".
• Mr. Whitekeys, author of "Elvis Presley's Pharmacist Was My Sunday School Teacher" and "Mr. Whitekeys' Alaska Bizarre". Mr. Whitekeys hosted our 1997 show in Anchorage, as his Fly-By-Night Club.
• Donald Antrim, author of "The Verificationist" and "The Hundred Brothers".
• The Westwind International Folk Ensemble, performing traditional music from the United States, Bulgaria, and Georgia.
• Radio improvisation from True Fiction Magazine.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill

March 25th

Live show from The Julia Morgan Center for the Arts. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! .

• Pianist Omar Sosa.
• David Knowles, author of "The Third Eye" and "Secrets of the Camera Obscura".
• Singer Kevin Merritt.
• Oakley Hall, author of "Ambrose Bierce And The Queen Of Spades", a mystery set in 1880's San Francisco.
• Hyperventilation by Josh Kornbluth, plus a scene from his monologue "Mathematics of Change".
• Gini Wilson, as the house pianist.

April 01st

Live show from The Exploratorium. This show (audio and video  is available as a Show Archive thanks to The Exploratorium.

• BettyAnn Kevles, author of "Naked to the Bone: Medical Imaging in the Twentieth Century".
• Singer-songwriter Gunnar Madsen.
• Sculptor and performance artist Scott Serrano, as Wilson Quain is a character he plays who is a resurrected 19th century anatomist who practices the art of self-dissection.
• +4db, a cappella jazz.
• Travel tips from Karl and Carl.
• The naturalist perspective from Claire Peaslee.
• Gini Wilson, as the house pianist.

April 08th

Live show from the Plush Room. 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.
• Jane Smiley, author of "Horse Heaven", "The Sagas of Icelanders" and "The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton.
• Monologist, Charlie Varon, featuring his solo show "The People's Violin".
• Cabaret singer Faith Winthrop.
• Eric Hansen, author of "Orchid Fever: A Horticultural Tale of Love, Lust, and Lunacy".
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill

April 15th

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

• The Holy Modal Rounders.
• Rhiannon Paine, author of "Too Late For The Festival: An American Salary-Woman in Japan".
• The Wyrd Sisters, a Canadian female folk trio.
• Victoria Cass, author of "Dangerous Women: Warriors, Grannies and Geishas of the Ming".
• Persis M. Karim, editor of "A World Between: Poems, Short Stories and Essays by Iranian-Americans".
• Doryun Chong, Asian Art Museum curator on the current Japanese Basket exhibition.

April 22

Live Earth Day 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! .

• Julia Butterfly Hill, tree-sitter and author of "The Legacy of Luna".
• The Turtle Island String Quartet.
• Scottish percussionist Evelyn Glennie.
• Singer-songwriter and funnyman Roy Zimmerman.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill

April 29

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! .

• Folk trio Rebecca Riots.
• Edna O'Brien, author of "Wild Decembers".
• Actor Tanya Shaffer, performing an excerpt from her show "Let My Enemy Live Long".
• Diane Johnson, author of "Le Mariage".
• Gini Wilson, as the house pianist.

May 06

Live show in conjunction with "Stomp!" at the Marines Memorial Theater 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! .

• Performers from "Stomp", including original cast member Fraser Morrison and Luke Cresswell, co-creator of "Stomp".
• Singer-songwriter Karen Savõca with Pete Heitzman.
• Walker Rebecca Solnit, author of "Wanderlust: A History of Walking".
• Brian Malow, comedian and on-line talk-show host.
• Gini Wilson, as the house pianist.

May 13

Live show from the Plush Room. 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 universe, The Bobs.
• Whitbread award winning author Rose Tremain, author of ("Music & Silence" and "Restoration".
• Cabaret singer Bobbe Norris, with pianist Larry Dunlap.
• Whitbread award winning author Jim Crace, author of "Being Dead".
• Vikram Seth, author of "An Equal Music" and "Suitable Boy".
• Gini Wilson, as the house pianist.

June 03

Live show from the Plush Room, in conjunction with the West Coast Cabaret Convention. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! .

• Rita Moreno, the only person who has won an Oscar, an Emmy, a Tony and a Grammy.
• Rhys Bowen, author of the Constable Evans mystery series "Evan and Elle" and "Evan Help Us".
• Singer Karen Akers, whose recording include "Under Paris Skies" and "In A Very Unusual Way", accompanied by pianist Don Rebic.
• Singer Ruth Hastings, with pianist Barry Lloyd.
• Singer Jeff Harnar.
• Radio improvisation from True Fiction Magazine.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

June 10

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! .

• British comedian Eddie Izzard.
• Edmund White, author of "The Married Man".
• Percussionist John Santos with Machete Ensemble.
• Singer-songwriter Slaid Cleaves.
• SFMOMA Director David Ross.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

June 17

Live show from The Way Things Work Theater, on the second floor of Metreon 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! .

• Author and commentator David Sedaris.
• Surf music from a beach band called Jumbo Shrimp, featuring Klaus Flouride and East Bay Ray.
• Thomas Sanchez, author of "The Day Of The Bees" and "Zoot-Suit Murders".
• Singer-songwriter and humorist Roy Zimmerman.
• Bob Carillo, curator of the surf art show at Yerba Buena Center.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

June 24

Live show from The Dance Palace at Point Reyes Station. 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.
• Blues singer Angela Strehli (CDs: Deja Blue; Blonde and Blue), who will perform with Mark Naftalin (of the "Blues Power Hour" radio show).
• Jazz drummer This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Mary Watkins, and Cindy Browne, featuring music from "Song For My Mother".
• Hart Rouge, Canadian musical traditionalists.
• The naturalist perspective from Claire Peaslee.
• Gini Wilson, as the house pianist.

July 08

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! . This show was featured on Bay Area Backroads' video  segment Bay Area radio history . You may wish to read the transcript.

• Duck's Breath Mystery Theater.
• Vagabond Lovers (a.k.a. The Naked Barbies), featuring music from their recording "When I Was You".
• Erik Tarloff, author of "Face Time and "The Man Who Wrote The Book".
• Silent film expert, Frank Buxton.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

July 15

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

• Chanteuse Wesla Whitfield, withMike Greensill on piano.
• Singer-songwriter destined for fame and fortune, Deborah Pardes and founder of The SIBL Project.
• Julia Butterfly Hill, tree-sitter and author of "The Legacy of Luna".
• Actor Ethan Sandler, appearing in the show "Fully Committed" about a restaurant reservationist.
• Virtual journalist Orville Schell (as portrayed by Sedge Thomson), author of "Virtual Tibet: Searching for Shangri-La from the Himalayas to Hollywood".
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

July 22

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

• Actress Shirley MacLaine, author of "The Camino: A Journey of the Spirit", "My Lucky Stars: A Hollywood Memoir", and "Out On A Limb.
• The a cappella group m-pact, featuring recordings "It's All About Harmony" and "2".
• Singer Jacqui Naylor.
• Members of the San Francisco Sinfonietta Chamber Chorus.
• Author Sylvia Brownrigg.
• Travel tips from Karl and Carl.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

July 29

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! .

• The band Box Set in their acoustic duo configuration, featuring music from their recordings "Lemonade", "Thread", and "Live Duo".
• Former geisha Liza Dalby, author of "geisha" and "The Tale of Murasaki".
• Journalist Benedict le Vay, author of "Eccentric Britain".
• Comedy from Killing My Lobster.
• Senagalese musicians Touré Touré.

August 05

Live show from the Curry Village Amphitheater in Yosemite Valley. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! . This show was underwritten in part by Gorp.com.

• Jesse Colin Young and Sons.
• Cartoonist Phil Frank, creator of "Farley".
• Ross Hanna and Liz Hanna, descendants of John Muir.
• Ranger Kate McCurdy, National Park Service bear expert.
• Tom Bopp, master of Yosemite songs.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

August 12

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

This was Bear Bait's (a.k.a., Ian Gerrard) last show as our Producer. He and Suzanne are getting married over Labor Day. They are registered at Sur la Table.

• Folk legend Rosalie Sorrels, featuring her recording "No Closing Chord: The Songs of Malvina Reynolds".
• Singer Ann Wilson from the bands Heart and The Lovemongers.
• Members of Woman's Will, a Shakespeare troupe presenting scenes from "Measure For Measure".
• Kelly Joe Phelps, featuring music from "Shine Eyed Mr. Zen" and "Roll Away The Stone".
• Sedge draws out the taciturn Anne Lamott.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

September 23

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

• Singer Paula West.
• Blues man Alvin Youngblood Hart and his band.
• Colleen McCullough, author of "Morgan's Run", "The Thornbirds", and "Tim".
• Ken Waldman, Alaska's fiddling poet, with fiddler Ray Bierl.
• Eric Comstock, jazz singer and roconteur.
• Klaus Schöning, curator of the Studio of Acoustic Art and WDR radio producer.
• Travel tips from Karl and Carl.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

September 30

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

• Cintra Wilson, columnist, playwright, and author of "A Massive Swelling".
• Didgeridu master Stephen Kent.
• Ursula LeGuin, author of "The Telling" and "The Left Hand of Darkness".
• The naturalist perspective from Claire Peaslee.
• Gini Wilson as the house pianist.

October 07

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! .

• Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Chabon, author of "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay: A Novel" and "Wonder Boys".
• Classic folk quartet, The Limeliters.
• Kazuo Ishiguro, author of "When We Were Orphans" and "The Remains Of The Day".
• Jazz with Will Bernard and Motherbug.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

October 14

Live show from the multi-media The Way Things Work theater at in San Francisco. This show is available as a .

• Cartoonist Lynda Barry, author of "The Greatest of Marlys".
• Animated short features with live musical accompaniment by Nik Phelps and The Sprocket Ensemble.
• Raconteur Don Bachardy, author of "Stars in my Eyes".
• Music from Swing Fever.
• Travel tips from Karl and Carl.
• Gini Wilson as the house pianist.

October 21

Live show from The Eureka Theatre, featuring the awarding of the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! .

• Adam Gopnik, author of "From Paris to the Moon".
• Musical duets by Bob Brozman & Takashi Hirayasu, featuring music from their recording "Jin Jin / Firefly".
• Translator Howard Goldblatt.
• Gamelan ensemble Pusaka Sunda.
• Author Douglas Hofstadter, author of "Gödel Escher Bach".
• Chirgilchin, a Tuvan throat singing quartet.
• Radio improvisation from True Fiction Magazine, back from their triumphant European tour..
• J. Raoul Brody as the house pianist.

October 21

Live show from the Eureka Theatre, featuring the awarding of the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! .

• Adam Gopnik, author of "From Paris to the Moon".
• Musical duets by Bob Brozman & Takashi Hirayasu, featuring music from their recording "Jin Jin / Firefly".
• Translator Howard Goldblatt.
• Gamelan ensemble Pusaka Sunda.
• Author Douglas Hofstadter, author of "Gödel Escher Bach".
• Chirgilchin, a Tuvan throat singing quartet.
• Radio improvisation from True Fiction Magazine, back from their triumphant European tour..
• J. Raoul Brody as the house pianist.

October 28 

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! .

• Singer/songwriter Lucy Kaplansky.
• Brad Newsham, author of "Take Me With You: A Round the World Journey to Invite a Stranger Home".
• The Austin Lounge Lizards, featuring music from "Never An Adult Moment".
• Christopher Shaw, author of "Sacred Monkey River: A Canoe Trip With the Gods".
• Tango No. 9 - Quartet.
• Sedge draws out the taciturn Anne Lamott.
• J. Raoul Brody as the house pianist.

November 04

Live show from the multi-media The Way Things Work theater at 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!.

• Jane Hamilton, author of "Disobedience: A Novel" and "The Book of Ruth".
• Blues musician Eric Bibb.
• Film critic Mick LaSalle, author of "Complicated Women: Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood".
• Cabaret Singer, Karen Mason, with pianist James Followell.
• Mona Simpson, author of "Off Keck Road", "Anywhere but Here", and "A Regular Guy".
• Radio improvisation from True Fiction Magazine.
• Gini "The Duchess" Wilson as the house pianist.

November 11

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! .

• Jeanette Winterson, author of "The Powerbook" and "Sexing the Cherry".
• Music from Big Lou, featuring music from "Big Lou's Polka Casserole".
• Playwright Eve Ensler, author of "The Vagina Monologues".
• The Acoustic Guitar Summit.
• Barry Paris, author of "Louise Brooks: A Biography".
• SFMOMA Curator Rachel Teagle.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

November 18

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

• Chanteuse Wesla Whitfield, withMike Greensill on piano.
• David Bodanis, author of "E=MC2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation".
• Habit Koité will play with his band Bamada.
• Actor Ron Campbell, from the one man show "R. Buckminster Fuller; The History (and Mystery) of the Universe".
• Singer-songwriter Jane Voss, accompanied by Hoyle Osborne on piano, Jim Rothermel on woodwinds and the great Steven Strauss on string bass .
• Legion curator Karen Brewer.
• The naturalist perspective from Claire Peaslee.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

November 25

Live show from the Eureka Theatre 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! .

• The magical horror of Penn and Teller.
• The Bobs, a cappella wonders of the western world, featuring their new recording "Coaster".
• Roy Parvis, author of "In The Snow Forest".
• Blues man Rusty Zinn, featuring his recording "The Chill".
• Cast members of 42nd Street Moon, with songs from "I Married an Angel".
• The San Francisco Gay & Lesbian Freedom Band Flute Trio.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

December 02

Live show from the Eureka Theatre 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! .

• Caleb Carr, author of "Killing Time" and "The Alienist".
• Blues man Roy Gaines featuring work from his recording "I've Got The T-Bone Walker Blues".
• Barry Lopez, author of "Arctic Dreams" and "Light Action in the Caribbean".
• Radio improvisation from True Fiction Magazine.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

December 09

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! .

• The Magnolia Sisters, a Cajun quartet, featuring their recordings "Chers Amis" and "Prends Courage".
• Tata Monk, featuring Alex De Grassi and Quique Cruz.
• John Turner, author of "Leeteg of Tahiti".
• Audience member Elliot Franklin.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

December 16

Live show from the Eureka Theatre 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! .

• Maria Muldaur, currently appearing at Teatro Zinzanni.
• Sonos Handbell Ensemble.
• Peter Booth Wiley, author of "National Trust Guide to San Francisco".
• Singer-songwriter Maia Sharp, featuring tunes from "The Santa Sessions" recording.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

December 23

Live show from the multi-media The Way Things Work theater 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.
• Matthew Gollub, author of the childrens book "The Jazz Fly".
• Jane Harper-Haines, author of "Cold River Spirits: A Story of an Athabascan-Irish Family in Twentieth Century Atlas".
• Blues singer E.C. Scott, featuring her latest recording "Masterpiece".
• Hyperventilation by Santa Josh Kornbluth, whose film "Haiku Tunnel" was just accepted by the Sundance Film Festival, which takes place January 18-28.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

December 30

Live show from The Asian Art Museum in Golden Gate Park, including a bell ringing ceremony with the 16th century Japanese bell. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! .

• Cabaret and Broadway singer Barbara Cook, accompanied by Wally Harper.
• Susan Rabin and the Sinners, featuring music from their recording "Stairway to Paradise".
• Celtic band Broceliande.
• Art collector, the Reverend Richard Fabian, of the Thunder and Rain exhibit.
• Radio improvisation from True Fiction Magazine.
• J. Raoul Brody as the house pianist.

January 6th, 2001

Live seventh anniversary show from the Plush Room. 

• Chanteuse Wesla Whitfield, with Mike Greensill on piano.
• The Tim Hockenberry Band.
• Sedge draws out the taciturn Anne Lamott.
• Travel tips from Karl and Carl.
• Radio improvisation from True Fiction Magazine.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

January 13

Live show from The Freight and Salvage Coffee House. 

• Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers.
• Rebecca Solnit & Susan Schwartzenberg, author an photographer of "Hollow City: Gentrification and The Eviction of Urban Culture".
• A cappella from Street Sounds.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

January 20

Live show from the Plush Room, featuring an audience inauguration quiz. The Mike Greensill Trio, with Ken Miller on bass and Gary Foster on saxophone.

• Singer/songwriter Chris Smither, featuring music from his latest recording "Live As I'll Ever Be".
• Scott Phillips, author of "The Ice Harvest".
• The Hillbillies from Mars.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

January 27

Live show from the The Way Things Work multimedia theater. 

• Guitarist Adrian Legg, one of the best finger pickers and a wonderful wit, featurning his multimedia short "Speakers' Corner".
• Poet Gretel Erlich, author of "John Muir: Nature's Visionary".
• Paula West, celebrating the great American songs.
• Anita Shreve, author of "The Pilot's Wife".
• Travel tips from Karl and Carl.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

February 03

Live show from the Plush Room.

Poet and playwright Michael McClure, with composer Terry Riley.

• Comedian Richard Lewis, author of "The Other Great Depression".
• Slack-key guitarist Led Kaapana.
• Thomas Perry, author of "Death Benefits".
• Comedian Geoff Bolt.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

March 10

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! .

• Amitav Ghosh, author of "The Glass Palace".
• Singer/songwriter Susan Werner, featuring songs from her latest recording "Last of the Good Straight Girls".
• Patrick McCabe author of "Emerald Germs of Ireland".
• A cappella from m-pact.
• The naturalist perspective from Claire Peaslee.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

March 17

Live show from the The Way Things Work Multimedia Theater. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! .

• Marilyn Yalom, author of "A History of the Wife", accompanied by her husband Irvin Yalom.
• Music from Jack West & Curvature.
• Bart Schneider, author of "Secret Love".
• Burhan Öçal, Turkish duet.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

March 24

Live show from the Plush Room in the York Hotel 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! .

• Irish memoirist and humorist Nuala O'Faolain, author of "My Dream of You".
• Crushing Spiral Ensemble, featuring Matt Small on bass.
• Rita Mae Brown, author of "Claws and Effect".
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

March 31

Live show from the Plush Room in the York Hotel 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! .

• A cappella from SoVoSó.
• Acoustic guitarists Antonio Calogero and Peppino d'Agostino, featuring music from "Glimpse of Times Past" and "Venus Over Venus".
• Cabaret singer Jacqui Naylor.
• Hyperventilation by monologist and screenwriter Josh Kornbluth, back from the Sundance Film Festival.
• Music from pianist Gini Wilson.

April 07

Live show from the Plush Room in the York Hotel 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! .

• Tango No. 9 with J. Raoul Brody, piano, Catharine Clune, violin, Greg Stephens, trombone, & Odile Lavault, bandoneon.
• Irish fiddler Kevin Burke.
• 3-part harmony song about Dining and Lust from This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
• Reginia Williams, author of "Eye to Eye: My Life as a Spy".
• Radio improvisation from True Fiction Magazine.
• Other surprise guests and audience true stories.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

April 14

Live show from the Plush Room in the York Hotel 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! .

• Chanteuse Wesla Whitfield, with Mike Greensill on piano.
• Maureen Draper, author of "Nature Of Music: Beauty, Sound And Healing".
• Pianist Aglika Angelova.
• Sylvia Brownrigg, author of "Pages for You".
• Radio improvisation from True Fiction Magazine.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

April 21

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! .

• Sharon Isbin, 2001 Grammy winner for guitar.
• Anna Deveare Smith, playwright of "Twilight: Los Angeles 1992"
• Tibetan songwriter Techung.
• Author Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, author of "Sister of My Heart".
• Museum Director David Ross.
• Sedge draws out the taciturn Anne Lamott, author of "Bird by Bird", "Operating Instructions", and "Crooked Little Heart", with gospel singer De George Hines.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

May 05

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! .

• The Baroness of Holland Park P.D. James, author of the Inspector Adam Dalgliesh stories and "Death in Holy Orders".
• Renowned Scottish fiddler Alasdair Fraser, accompanied by Judy Thomson on piano.
• Doris Haddock, author of "Granny D: Walking Across America in My 90th Year".
• Radio improvisation from True Fiction Magazine.
• Music from pianist Gini Wilson.

May 12

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! .

• Wavy Gravy, founder of Camp Winnarainbow.
• Columnist Adair Lara, author of "Hold Me Close, Let Me Go".
• Acoustic Guitar Summit quartet.
• Janis Newman, author of "The Russian Word for Snow: An Adoption Story".
• Actress and playwright, Claudia Shear.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

May 19

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! .

• Blues/gospel group The Blind Boys of Alabama, featuring music from their recording "Spirit of the Century".
• Ethan Canin, author of "Carry Me Across the Water".
• Ariel Dorfman, author of "Blake Therapy - Terapia", "Death and the Maiden", "Heading South", and "Looking North: A Bilingual Journey".
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

June 02

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

• Celtic band Brocelïande.
• Sandra Tsing Loh, author of "A Year in Provence Van Nuys".
• Vaudeville & cabaret duo, Meg MacKay and Billy Philadelphia.
• Dr. Oscar London, W.B.D., author of "From Voodoo to Viagra, The Magic of Medicine, 37 Uplifting Essays from a Doctor's Bag of Tricks".
• Radio improvisation from True Fiction Magazine.
• Music from pianist Gini Wilson.

June 09

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

• Irvine Welsh, author of "Glue" and "Trainspotting".
• John Nichols, author of "The Voice of the Butterfly" and "The Milagro Beanfield War".
• James Houston, author of "Snow Mountain Passage" a novel retelling of the Donner Party.
• Julian Gough, author of "Juno and Juliet".
• The naturalist perspective from Claire Peaslee.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

June 16

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

• Wendy Wasserstein, Pulitzer Prize winning playwright of "The Heidi Chronicles" and author of "Shiksa Goddess, or How I Spent My Forties".
• Bluegrass music from The Waybacks.
• Peter Nichols, author of "A Voyage for Madmen".
• Maestro Tom Torriglia of The Squeegees.
• Travel tips from Karl and Carl.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

June 23

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! .

• Poet Diane di Prima, author of "Recollections of My Life as a Woman: The New York Years".
• Singer/songwriter Jesse DeNatale and Band.
• Myla Goldberg, author of "Bee Season".
• Ebullient nuevo flamenco guitar from Sergio Lara and Joe Reyes.
• Laura Glen Louis, author of "Talking in the Dark".
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

June 30

Live show from the Kate Wolf Memorial Music Festival in Laytonville. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! .

• Wavy Gravy, founder of Camp Winnarainbow.
• Rosalie Sorrels and U. Utah Phillips, with Mark Ross.
• Arlo Guthrie and Ramblin' Jack Elliot.
• A surprise visit from Alisa Fineman.
• Nina Gerber on guitar.
• Paul Kamm and Eleanore MacDonald.

July 07

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

• Blues diva Lady Bianca, featuring tunes from her latest recording Rollin'.
• Ayelet Waldman, author of "The Big Nap: A Mommy-Track Mystery".
• Silent film expert, Frank Buxton.
• Cabaret singer Andrea Marcovicci, accompanied by Shelly Markham.
• Cast members of the Berkeley Repertory Theater's The Laramie Project.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

July 14

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! .

• Walter Mosley, author of "Fearless Jones", set in L.A. during the 50s.
• An audio tour of an imagined California timescape with Ray's Vast Basement, featuring music from "On The Banks of Time".
• The sliding guitar notes of The Waikiki Steel Works.
• Joseph Di Prisco, author of "Confessions of Brother Eli".
• Hyperventilation by monologist and movie star Josh Kornbluth.
• Music from pianist Gini Wilson.

July 21

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! .

• Dave Eggers, author of the nationally acclaimed, bittersweet novel/memoir "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius", editor of the genre-bending McSweeney's Press, and current Bay Area resident.
• Band Lo'Jo draws from their roots as French street performers influenced by North African music.
• Zadie Smith, author of "White Teeth", which tells a tale of multiethnic modern London through the unlikely camaraderie of two families.
• Carl Sonny Leyland bangs out his boogie woogie, blues, and ragtime piano tunes.
• Illusionist extraordinaire Reed Kirk Rahlman, of The Great Nickelodeon Show at the Rafael Film Center, with musical accompaniment by Nik Phelps. Live commentary by Henry Thomson and Jack Holman.
• A song from Merle Kessler and J. Raoul Brody.
• Karl and Carl read their fan mail.
• Music from pianist Gini Wilson.

August 04

Live show from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art for the Ansel Adams retrospective. This show is available as a .

• Bill Turnage of the Ansel Adams Foundation.
• Animated short features with live musical accompaniment by Nik Phelps and The Sprocket Ensemble. Brooke Keesling's "Boobie Girl", done in the style of Rocky and Bulwinkle's fractured fairy tails, and narated by June Foray, just won the Student Academy Award for animation. Nina Paley's "Fetch" is about to be shown at the KROK Animation Festival in the Ukraine.
• Bill Irwin, creator and star of ACT's "Fool Moon".
• The Red Clay Ramblers, a bluegrass jug band bound to get your fingers snapping and heels tappin', also appearing in ACT's "Fool Moon.
• A song from And They're Cops, featuring Merle Kessler and J. Raoul Brody.
• Travel tips from Karl and Carl, who can be seen live at the Raven Theater in Healdsburg on August 25th.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

August 25

Live Kitchen Show from Chez Panisse. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! .

This show was underwritten in part by  "Delicato Vineyards"

• Chef Alice Waters, along with the chefs and staff of Chez Panisse.
• Marion Cunningham, author of the "Fannie Farmer Cookbook".
• Dario Cecchini, world-class butcher from Panzano, Italy.
• Faith Willinger, outspoken activist in the European slow food movement.
• Tom Luddy, film producer, Berkeley resident, and cultural critic at large.
• Corby Kummer, of Atlantic Monthly, who is one of most widely read and appreciated food writers in the country.
• Peter Sellars, iconoclastic opera director and longtime Chez Panisse diner.
• Charles Shere, Alice's original partner at Chez Panisse.
• Michael Wild, restaurateur and chef at Bay Wolf.
• Joy Carlin, actress and director of Fanny.
• Journalist and rancher Orville Schell.
• Odile LaVault, as the house accordionist.

September 01

Live show from The Julia Morgan Center for the Arts. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! .

• Actress Rita Moreno, who won an Oscar for her portrayal of Anita in "West Side Story", then went on to win the Tony, Emmy, and Grammy awards, for her work on stage and screen, thus becoming the only woman to receive all four awards.
• Mark Wing-Davey, director of "36 VIEWS", opening at the Berkeley Rep in September. Mark portrayed Zaphod Beeblebrox, President of the Galaxy, in the BBC production of Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy".
• Tango No. 9, Argentine dance music to stir the soul.
• Kent Nerburn, author of "Road Angels", a Northern California road-trip novel in the tradition of Kerouac and "Blue Highways".
• Shotgun Players and Word for Word open a window into their show "Winesburg Ohio: Tales of the Grotesques", haunting stories from small town America.
• Music from pianist Gini Wilson.

September 15

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

• Josh Kornbluth, former New Yorker, whose film "Haiku Tunnel" was to premiere last Tuesday evening.
• The Snake Trio, a refreshing dose of high-tempo Latin Jazz.
• Susan Griffin, renowned poet and author of "The Book of the Courtesans".
• Darryl Purpose is a singer/songwriter who looks as menacing as a night-club bouncer, but plays his guitar like an angel.
• Reverend Billy (a.k.a. Bill Talen), now a resident in New York, whose performance pieces of sermons and prayers about our culture have attracted a cult and activist following. Bill was unable to travel to our show from New York, but he was able to FAX us an essay entitled "Rescue Me" that he wanted to present concerning the events of the week. Sedge read this during the show.
• Two Americas , an inspirational song from Mitchell Holman.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

September 22

Live show from The Julia Morgan Center for the Arts. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! . View this show's poster.

• Garrison Keillor, author of "Lake Wobegon Summer 1956" and host of public radio's A Prairie Home Companion.
• Paula West, celebrating the great American songs.
• Soaring surf sounds from Pollo Del Mar.
• Douglas Coupland, author of "Generation X", "Microserfs" and most recently "All Families are Psychotic".
• Josh Kornbluth, whose film "Haiku Tunnel" opened last week.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

September 29

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! .

• Nancy Milford, biographer and author of "Savage Beauty" and "Zelda".
• The Nigerian Brothers, bringing us traditional West African folk music, including percussion and guitar stylings, "palm-wine" tunes, and high-life songs.
• Susan Griffin, renowned poet and author of "The Book of the Courtesans".
• Blues roots piano by Caroline Dahl.
• Gary Frank, owner of The Booksmith, discussing the changes in book buying during the recent weeks,
• Travel tips from Karl and Carl.
• Josh Kornbluth, whose film "Haiku Tunnel" was the cover story in this week's Palo Alto Weekly.
• Music from pianist Gini Wilson.

October 06

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

Satellite broadcasting was disrupted at about 11:10 (in San Francisco) during Sedge's interview with Will Durst. Contrary to various suggestions made by a few callers to radio stations of censorship, the disruption was due to natural recurring semi-annual solar flare activity. This disruption lasted for just a few minutes. Which few minutes was determined by your location. For more information on recurring solar outages, visit the PanAMSat site, or call you local affiliate station. The entire show, without disruption, is available in our ShowArchive archive.

• Sara Paretsky, author of "Total Recall", featuring her detective V.I. Warshawski.
• International Guitar Night, four world class, stylistically diverse guitarists play everything from Flamenco to American roots.
• San Francisco comedian Will Durst.
• Micheline Marcom, suthor of "Three Apples Fell From Heaven".
• Glen David Gold, author of "Carter Beats the Devil".
• Music from pianist Gini Wilson.

October 13

Live show from the Caffé Trieste, with broadcast underwritten in part by Torani Italian Syrups. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! .

• Papa Gianni Giotta and Mama Ida Giotta served as espresso's West Coast ambassador when they founded Caffé Trieste in 1956, and were the first to use traditional Italian brewing techniques in San Francisco.
• Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, founder of City Lights bookstore, original publisher of "Howl", and San Francisco's first poet laureate.
• The Caffé Trieste Band, featuring members of the Giotta family.
• Novelist Herb Gold.
• Photojournalist Jimo Perini.
• Musical combo Mattinata di Matteo.
• Bill Talen, (a.k.a. Reverend Billy) now a resident in New York, whose performance pieces of sermons and prayers about our culture have attracted a cult and activist following.
• Kristen Jensen, author of "The History of Caffé Trieste".

October 18

Live show from The Kharma Café, on Granville Island in Vancouver British Columbia Canada. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! .

• Sir Ranulph Fiennes, one of the world's great explorers, he's chronicled his expeditions in "The Secret Hunters", "The Home of the Blizzard", "Atlantis of the Sands", and many others.
• David Rakoff, the funniest American writer who's really Canadian. Contributor to "Harper's" and "This American Life", and author of "Fraud".
• Canadian comic Irwin Barker.
• Granville Island artists Murry Barber and David New-Small.
• Music from Amir Koushkani and Sal Ferreras.

October 20

Live show from Canada, the country known for its mountains, salmon, and arbitrary immigration laws, at the Vancouver International Writer's Festival, from the Arts Club Granville Island Stage, featuring the announcement of the prestigious Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! .

Read the announcement from the San Francisco Chronicle Datebook.

• Kevin Chong's first novel, "Baroque-A-Nova", explores a suburban landscape of teenage lust, broken families, and one eighteen-year-old's desperate wish to get out of town.
• Madeleine Thien's debut collection of short stories, "Simple Recipes" has been earning rave reviews since its publication earlier this year.
• Karen Tei Yamashita is a winner of the American Book Award, whose latest book, "Circle K Cycles", explores such issues as labor, nationalism, and cultural diaspora.
• Dennis Bock's first book, the critically acclaimed "Olympia", was nominated for the City of Toronto Book Award. His new book, "The Ash Garden," features a complex narrative that spans fifty years and three continents.
• ASZA, Vancouver's world-renowned world music band.

November 03

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

• Naomi Wolf, passionate and powerful cultural critic, and author of "The Beauty Myth" and "The Beauty Myth" and "(misconceptions): Truth, Lies and the > Unexpected on the Journey".
• Comedian and activist, Kate Clinton, who always finds that effecting change is always better attempted after two vodka gimlets and power nap.
• Adventurer and author Gretel Ehrlich, tells why she has been drawn to the icy coastline of Greenland in "This Cold Heaven : Seven Seasons in Greenland".
• Alaskan fiddler Ken Waldman.
• Author Richard Mosher.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.
• Other surprise guests and Audience True Stories.

November 24

Special Thanksgiving show from The Legion of Honor Museum. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! .

• Box Set, San Francisco's original acoustic rock duo celebrates 10 years of music.
• Elizabeth Rosner, Berkeley-based author of "The Speed of Light", the story of three people coming to terms with past tragedies, and reconnecting with the world around them.
• Latin virtuoso flautist Viviana Guzmán.
• Andrew Sean Greer, author of "The Path of Minor Planets".
• Debra Evans, Art Curator from The Legion of Honor Museum, discusses the museum's current exhibition Artists' Books in the Modern Era: 1870-2000, including works by Picasso, Matisse, and others.
• Travel tips from Karl and Carl.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill, with accompaniment by Nik Phelps on horns.

December 01

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! .

• Johnny A., former session guitar player sets lays down some smooth rock tracks on his first solo album, "Sometime Tuesday Morning".
• Geoffrey Nunberg, NPR's Fresh Air commentator, and author of "The Way We Talk Now".
• The Christmas Revels, with stories and music from their "Christmas in an Irish Castle" production. .
• Brian Ascalon Roley, author of "American Son". With a hard-edged purity, this California author tells of two Filipino brothers coming of age in suburbia. "American Son" was short-listed for t he 2001 Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize.
• Jerry Stahl, author of "Plainclothes Naked".
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

December 15

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! .

• The return of The Christmas Jug Band.
• Edmund Morris, author of "Dutch" and "Theodore Rex", the soon to be released, two volume biography of Theodore Roosevelt. Morris' controversial biographies often employ imaginative literary approaches to the lives of his subjects.
• Jazz singer Elaine Lucia.
• Matthew Iribarne, author of "Astronauts and Other Stories".
• Radio improvisation from True Fiction Magazine.
• Music from pianist Gini Wilson.

December 22

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

• Patrick Landeza, featuring Hawaiian slack-key guitar songs from his album "Christmas to Me".
• Word for Word players present a dramatic interpretation of Edgar Allen Poe's poem "The Bells", drawn from their December show "Scattering Poems All Through The Night".
• Sister Mary Margaret from "Late Night Catechism".
• Tamim Ansary, a writer of Afghan and American descent.
• Movie star Josh Kornbluth, as the Red-Diapered Santa.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

December 29

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

• Chanteuse Wesla Whitfield, with Mike Greensill on piano.
• Monologist Spalding Gray discusses life and his presentation of "Swimming to Cambodia" at the ACT.
• Acclaimed songwriter and guitarist Kathy Kallick, accompanied only by the always-amazing guitarist Nina Gerber.
• Sheldon Greene, author of "Burnt Umber".
• Former Rolling Stone columnist Greil Marcus, and author of "Double Trouble: Bill Clinton and Elvis Presley".
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

January 05

8th Anniversary Show from the Plush Room. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office!

• Ramblin' Jack Elliot, legendary troubadour and cowboy poet.
• Legendary Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek, author of "The Poet in Exile".
• Modern-day muckraking journalist Christopher Hitchens, author of "Letters to a Young Contrarian" and "The Trial of Henry Kissinger".
• The naturalist perspective from Claire Peaslee.
• Radio improvisation from True Fiction Magazine.
• Travel tips from Karl and Carl.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

January 12

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!.

• Lily Tomlin, prolific and outrageous comedienne, talks about her one-woman show, "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe".
• Michael Franti and Spearhead present their powerful blend of social activism and soul music. Their CD is "Stay Human".
• Rebecca Walker, author of "Black, White and Jewish", a memoir in which this daughter of a famous black mother and Jewish father attempts to define herself as an individual, not as a symbol.
• Masterful multi-instrumentalist Uri Caine.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

January 26

Live show at the Lucie Stern Community Center in Palo Alto. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office!. Our show is the cover article in the 2002 January 25 issue of the Palo Alto Weekly. The San Jose Mercury News previewed trhe show on 2002 January 25 and reviewed the show on 2002 January 27.

• Steve Wozniak, Inventor of the Apple Computer.
• Carl Hiaasen, author of "Basket Case" and other darkly humorous novels of the south.
• Eric Schlosser, author of the eye opening expose "Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal".
• Peter Hessler, author of "River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze", which chronicles the author's time in the Peace Corps, won the 2001 Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize for nonfiction.
• The Wicked Tinkers, high energy Celtic music.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

February 02

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!

• Calvin Trillin, prolific poet, columnist, and novelist tells us about his latest fictional account of New York City: "Tepper Isn't Going Out".
• Paula West, one of San Francisco's jazz favorites, and singer with the innate ability to bring alive both the classics and new tunes, appearing with her jazz trio.
• Richard N. Bolles, author of the perennial best-selling job-hunting book, "What Color is Your Parachute?" .
• Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir.
• Elisabeth Sussman, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's Guest Curator for the Eva Hesse retrospective exhibition.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

February 09

Live show from the Raven Theater in Healdsburg, California. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! . This show benefited theHealdsburg Performing Arts Theater

• Carl Djerassi, novelist, playwright, National Medal of Science Winner, and inventor of the birth control pill, whose recent book "This Man's Pill" reflects on the 50 years since its invention.
• Zydeco Flames, the West Coast's premier zydeco band, prepare us for Mardi Gras.
• Alexandra Fuller, author of "Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood".
• Shana Morrison, who got her start singing with father Van's band, combines Irish folk, r&b, country, and jazz.
• Poet Armando Garcia-Davila, Healdsburg's Literary Laureate 2001--2002, and author of "At the Edge of the River - Al Lado del Rio".
• Travel tips from Karl and Carl.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

February 16

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

• Culture Clash, celebrating their 17th year anniversary as America's leading comedy performance troupe at the Berkeley Repertory Theater through March 03.
• Nuala O'Faolain, author of "My Dream of You", the story of two women whose parallel lives of longing are separated by 150 years.
• Wild Blue, playing sounds from the blue grass of Marin County.
• Robert Mailer Anderson, author of "Boonville", about a young, modern couple forced to reevaluate their lives amidst the misfits and burnouts of Boonville, California.
• Private eye Jayson Wechter, presenting a clue for The Chinese New Year's Treasure Hunt.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

February 23

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!.

• The Bobs, the world's greatest a cappella art band.
• Cynthia Heimel, author of the classic bestseller "Sex Tips for Girls", dishes out more rants and raves on feminism, triumphs, and food in "Advanced Sex Tips for Girls: This Time It's Personal".
• Phenomenal forward looking music from Jack West and Curvature.
• Ronald J. White, Jr., author of (the book, not the speech itself) "Lincoln's Greatest Speech: The Second Inaugural". Delivered in 1865, as the Civil War seemed near conclusion, the issues of war and reconciliation presented in this speech, and related events, are especially relevant to us now.
• Hyperventilation by Josh Kornbluth.
• Music from pianist Gini Wilson.

March 09

Live show from the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office!

• Joe Bragdon, a Cannery Row worker in the 1930s, and friend to Doc Ricketts and the other denizens of John Steinbeck's Monterey novels.
• Arthur Godfrey, Monterey based singer songwriter, and 2001 John Lennon Songwriting Contest Grand Prize Winner.
• Cork Marcheschi, artist of neon, glass, and electricity, talks about his contributions to the aquarium's upcoming exhibition, "Jellies: Living Art".
• Blues from The Blue Tones.
• Randy Kochevar, deep sea biologist.

March 16

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

• Orquesta la Moderna Tradición, dedicated to the performance of classic Cuban dance music.
• Robert Cohen, author of "Inspired Sleep", a novel that, through the ordeals of a sleep-deprived working mother of two, examines our national love affair with pharmaceuticals, and the true meaning of dreams.
• Culann's Hounds, traditional Irish music celebrating Saint Patrick's Day.
• Krista Davis, curator of "Dreaming with Open Eyes: Dada and Surrealist Art".
• Rick Brooks, an adept folk and blues instrumentalist.
• Music from pianist Gini Wilson.

March 23

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

• George Kahumoku Jr., Hawaiian slack-key guitar master.
• Alan Lightman, author of "Diagnosis".
• The Radiators, New Orleans' premier roots-rock band.
• Neal Pollack, author of "The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature". Billing himself as "The Greatest Living American Writer", claiming past Pulitzers and American Book Awards, this spoof artist extraordinaire got his start writing for McSweeney's Press.
• Radio improvisation from True Fiction Magazine.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

March 30

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!.

• Singer/songwriter Country Joe McDonald, singing songs by Woody Guthrie.
• Elizabeth Partridge, author of "This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie".
• Music from Darol Anger and Mike Marshall, fiddle and guitar legends.
• Jacob Needleman, distinguished philosopher and author of "American Soul: Rediscovering the Wisdom of the Founding Fathers".
• Yellowman Group, Japanese Improv Comedy straight from Tokyo.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

April 13

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

• Daniel Lenihan surfaces from the Bay for just long enough to be interviewed about his book "Submerged: Adventures of America's Most Elite Underwater Archeology Team". Lenihan was founder and leader of the National Park Service's Submerged Cultural Resource Unit, which explored the USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor, Civil War wrecks, and flooded prehistoric ruins.
• Renowned Scottish fiddle player Alasdair Fraser, director of The San Francisco Scottish Fiddlers and Skyedance.
• Bharati Mukherjee, author of "Desirable Daughters", the story of three Indian sisters, raised at the highest rung of Brahmin culture, and their interactions and collisions with their new lives in America.
• Radio improvisation from True Fiction Magazine.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

April 20

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!.

• Roger Ebert, America's most trusted movie critic, visits us to talk about his book "The Great Movies", a film by film analysis of the best 100 titles ever.
• Wavy Gravy, founder of Camp Winnarainbow.
• Will Durst, San Francisco's premier political comedian and troublemaker.
• Dave Eggers, Ann Cummins, and friends discuss "McSweeney's 7", the latest quarterly literary publication by the consistently adventurous and offbeat McSweeney's Press.
• Rockabilly and swing from Jinx Jones and the Kingtones.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

May 11

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

• Al Franken, Emmy-winning head writer for Saturday Night Live, creator and actor behind Stuart Smalley, and author of "Oh! The Things I Know".
• Rockin' blues from Little Charlie and the Nightcats.
• Todd Shimoda and L.J.C. Shimoda, the author and illustrator, respectively, of "The Fourth Treasure," which traces a love story of between a thoroughly modern Japanese-American neuroscience student and a Japanese calligraphy teacher.
• From their show "Made for the Movies: A Hollywood Songbook", Bill Henderson, Eric Comstock, and Dena DeRose, drawing tunes from the Golden Age of Hollywood.
• Radio improvisation from True Fiction Magazine.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

May 18

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!.

• David Masiel, former Alaskan longshoreman, marine dispatcher, and author of "2182 kHz", a gripping search-and-rescue story set in the awe-inspiring Arctic.
• J.L. Stiles, acoustic guitar and blues singer who has settled down in San Francisco after growing his musical roots in New Orleans.
• Julia Whitty, ecologist, National Geographic producer, and author of the enchanting collection of short stories "A Tortoise for the Queen of Tonga".
• Y'all, a guitar and ukulele duo straddling the line between kitsch and old-fashioned country reverence.
• Travel tips from Karl and Carl.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

June 01

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!.

• Riders of the Purple Sage. In the days before West Coast Live, these radio and Western Music pioneers broadcast their music coast-to-coast on a weekly show from KDKA Pittsburg beginning in 1936.
• Lynn Schooler, author of "The Blue Bear: A True Story of Friendship, Tragedy, and Survival in the Alaska Wilderness".
• Jim Nichols, guitar soloist who plays bebop, jazz, and Chet Atkins style finglepicking classics.
• Elizabeth Gilbert, author of the "The Last American Man" the fascinating true story of Eustace Conway, who left his comfortable suburban home at age seventeen and has survived off the land in North America ever since.
• White Noise Radio Theater, inspired by old-time radio theater, televangelism, high-volume FM DJs, and other audio oddities.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

June 08

Live show from the BayWolf Restaurant, celebrating great food, and marking Oakland's 150th anniversary. View the show poster   for this special event. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office!.

• Jon Carroll, Bay Area newspaper columnist and East Bay resident.
• Rupert Garcia, accomplished East Bay artist and graphic designer.
• William Wong, a native of Oakland's Chinatown, Oakland Tribune Metro columnist from 1988-96, and author of the recent memoir "Yellow Journalist".
• Michael Roth, President of Oakland's California College of Arts and Crafts, one of the nation's premier arts colleges.
• Stephanie Benavidez, Supervising Naturalist at the Lake Merritt Wildlife Refuge. For 20 years she has been maintaining the lake, the oldest bird refuge in the country, and Oakland's recreational center.
• Rick Moss, Executive Director of Oakland's African American Library and Museum.
• Dr. Michael LeNoir, a practicing pediatrician and allergist in Oakland. Dr. LeNoir is the director of the Ethnic Health America Network, a series of radio and TV broadcasts that focuses on health and healthcare in American minority populations.
• Ishmael Reed, one of the country's pre-eminent African American literary figures, and author of the novels "Mumbo Jumbo" and "Flight to Canada", and founder of "Konch" magazine.
• Painter Squeak Carnwath.
• Janet Holmgren, President of Mills College.
• Gospel musicians, The Sons of the Soul Revivers.
• Jenna Mammina has been performing and recording music in Oakland for nearly a decade. Her latest album, "Meant to Be", reflects Jenna's command of a vast range of styles, from Jazz, to Swing, to Rock.
• Michael Wild, BayWolf Restaurant founder and Executive Chef.
• BayWolf Restaurant chefs Louis Le Gassic, Nathan Peterson, and Earl Darny.

June 15

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

• Oscar Hijuelos, the first Hispanic author to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, his most recent novel is "Simple Habana Melody".
• Singer-songwriter and etch-a-sketch artist Michael McNevin.
• Paul Collins, author of "Banvard's Folly: Thirteen Tales of People Who Didn't Change the World".
• Oak, Ash & Thorn, a cappella trio with a British Isles flavor.
• Kasper Hauser, comedic all-clown theater.
• Music from pianist Gini Wilson.

June 29

Live show from this year's Kate Wolf Memorial Music Festival in Laytonville, California. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office!.

• Wavy Gravy, founder of Camp Winnarainbow.
• U. Utah Phillips, story teller, union organizer, rail rider, and songsmith.
• Rosalie Sorrels (a.k.a. Rosa Bizarrio, the famous outlaw Queen).
• Bruce Cockburn, one of North America's great songwriters.
• Greg Brown, one of America's best loved folk and blues musicians.
• Earth First activist, Darryl Cherney.
• Sarah Elizabeth Campbell with Nina Gerber.
• The Waybacks, performers of a bluegrass offshoot self-described as "crabgrass", as the house band.

July 13

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

• Margaret Cho, San Francisco's native comedic daughter.
• Deborah Pardes, musician and founder of the Song Inspired By Literature Project (SIBL), connecting musicians and authors to the cause of adult literacy.
• Ann Packer, author of "The Dive from Clausen's Pier".
• The Baguette Quartet, playing Parisian café music of the 1940's and celebrating Bastille Day.
• Radio improvisation from True Fiction Magazine.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

July 20

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!.

• Alice Waters, founder of Chez Panisse, and most recently author of "Chez Panisse Fruit" will visit with farmers from the Berkeley Farmers Market to savor the best of the summer's peaches, strawberries, and plums.
• Adrian Legg, one of the world's great fingerstyle guitarists.
• Timothy Taylor, author of "Stanley Park", the story of a Vancouver restaurateur.
• The Waifs, with sister singers Donna and Vickie Simpson: tough enough to play mining camps as teens in their native Australia, sweet enough to sing beautiful harmonies.
• Bob Cannard, one of California's most vehement advocates for sensible, environmentally responsible, and spiritually fulfilling farming.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

August 06

Live show from the Cecil Sharpe House in London, England. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office!

• Michael Frayn, whose plays include the internationally acclaimed "Noises Off", "Copenhagen", and "Spies".
• Graham Swift, who critics have likened Swift's powerful stories of the English Fens to Faulkner's South. His novels include "Waterland" and the Booker Prize winning "Last Orders".
• Pete Cooper, a lifelong student of the English fiddle tradition. With cellist Richard Bolton.
• News Revue, since 1984, this current-events comedy troupe has performed at London's Canal Cafe.
• Licence to Ceilidh, energetic traditional music of the Gaelic "ceilidh" or "gathering".

August 08

Live show from the Cecil Sharpe House in London, England.

• Geoff Nicholson, novelist whose darkly comic works include "Bedlam Burning" and "Bleeding London".
• Jenny Diski, whose past novels have taken readers to Antarctica and the Holy Land; her latest, "Stranger on a Train" moves us by rail though America's familiar yet unknown landscapes.
• Antonio Forcione, a perennial favorite at the Edinburgh Festivals, where he was heralded as "the Jimi Hendrix of the acoustic guitar".
• Alan Bennett, England's best-loved playwright.
• Alan Jenkins, Poet and Times Literary Supplement editor.
• Nikki Yeoh, pianist and composer

August 10

Compilation show from the 2002 Edinburgh Book, International, and Fringe Festivals. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office!

• Ian Rankin, whose John Rebus detective novels conjure Edinburgh's reserved Patrician center, violent streets and seamy vices. His latest is "Begars Banquet".
• Ali Smith, Scottish author of "Hotel World" and other novels.
• Dan Gunn, Edinburgh native and author of "Almost You" and "Wool-gathering or How I Ended Analysis".
• Will Durst, San Francisco comedian and Edinburgh Festival regular, who we caught up with at the Festivals.
• and the rain spilling on our yurt roof at the Festival.

August 31

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

• Dennis McNally, publicist and historian to The Grateful Dead for over 20 years, discussing his unique "A Long Strange Trip : The Inside History of the Grateful Dead".
• Gregg's Eggs, dynamic improvisational rock band in the tradition of the Dead.
• Word for Word, a program of Z Space, which began as their education and outreach wing but quickly became a popular mainstage event as well, performing segments from "Stories by Tobias Wolf" and today's New York Times.
• Sandra Reaves-Phillips, "Bold and Brassy" blues diva who has been thrilling audiences at Teatro Zinzanni.
• Radio improvisation from True Fiction Magazine.
• Music from pianist Gini Wilson.

September 07

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!.

• Poet and playwright Michael McClure. His latest collection of poems is "Plum Stories".
• Pianist and composer Omar Sosa, accompanied by percussionist Gustavo Ovalles.
• James Gavin, author of "Deep in a Dream: The Long Night of Chet Baker", a biography of the jazz trumpet legend.
• Wesla Whitfield and Mike Greensill, with Dean Reilly on bass, performing music by legendary horn player Chet Baker and others.
• White Noise Radio Theatre, inspired by old-time radio theater, televangelism, high-volume FM DJs, and other audio oddities.
• Hyperventilation by movie star Josh Kornbluth.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

September 14

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

• Quartet San Francisco, featuring Jeremy Cohen on violin, stirring string music and tangos.
• Julie Wilson, a cabaret legend who has starred in Broadway and London productions of South Pacific, Kiss Me Kate, and many others.
• Olivia Judson, author of "Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation".
• The naturalist perspective from Claire Peaslee.
• Travel tips from Karl and Carl.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

September 21

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

• Anne Lamott, author "Blue Shoe", of "Bird by Bird", "Operating Instructions", and "Crooked Little Heart".
• Broceliande performing Celtic music from the British isles and the Medieval and Renaissance music of the European courts, castles, and countrysides.
• Pat Henry, the first American woman to sail around the world alone, offers a fascinating account of her eight-year voyage in "By the Grace of the Sea".
• Chuck Palahnuik, dating back to his daring debut novel, "Fight Club" and now with "Lullaby", Palahnuik has shown himself to be one of today's most fiercely imaginative writers.
• Radio improvisation from True Fiction Magazine.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

September 28

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!.

• Salman Rushdie, a novelist known for his energy and strong social commentary in works such as "The Satanic Verses" joins us to talk about a collection of his most recent nonfiction, "Step Across this Line".
• John McCutcheon, a songwriting activist in the tradition of Pete Seeger and folk music icon in his own right celebrates the release of his 26th album: "The Greatest Story Never Told".
• Alan Furst, author most recently of "Blood of Victory", a political thriller that examines the West's competition for Middle-Eastern oil prior to World War II.
• Charlie Varon, with the BBC News.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

October 05

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!.

• Jim Lehrer, author of "No Certain Rest" and host of The Newshour, with Jim Lehrer.
• Richie Havens' deep, soulful voice and hopeful lyrics have elevated audiences at the original Woodstock, Bill Clinton's Inaugural Ball, and numerous other venues during his four decade career.
• The Sam Pond Brigade perform made-for-radio comedy.
• Alice Sebold, author of the best-selling novel "The Lovely Bones", accompanied by her husband author Glen David Gold.
• Blues guitarist Joe Bonamassa.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

October 12

Live show from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, on the opening day of "Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting" exhibition. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office!

• Michael Chabon, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Bay Area author of "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay" whose baseball-inspired novel for young readers is "Summerland".
• Box Set, San Francisco's homegrown acoustic guitar duo, with the grittiest and foggiest lyrics around, and some of the best harmonies as well.
• Robert Storr and Madeleine Grynztejn, Exhibition Curators for "Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting".
• Neal Benezra, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Director.
• Guitarist Mike Keneally, accompanied by Bryan Beller on acoustic bass guitar.
• Travel tips from Karl and Carl.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

October 19

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!.

• Carol Channing, one of America's most beloved theater and Hollywood legends, star of Broadway's "Hello Dolly", talks about her very first memoir "Just Lucky I Guess".
• Maxine Hong Kingston, author of "To Be the Poet".
• Laurie Lewis and Nina Gerber, one of traditional Americana music's most talented performers with one of the best guitar accompanists.
• Tim O'Brien, author of "July, July", "The Things They Carried", and other novels.
• Charlie Varon, performing "Play by Play"-the story of a single at-bat by a Giants' fielder--from his "Soup of The Day" show at the Marsh Theater.
• Mark Stenzler (a.k.a., Dr. Whoop), from Blues Zeppelin alternative radio in Zurich.
• Music from pianist Gini Wilson.

October 26

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!.

• Juanita Ulloa and Mariachi Picante, a female pioneer in the traditionally male-dominated world of Mexican mariachi and ranchero music. This Bay Area musician has been nominated for 3 Latin Grammy awards this year for music she writes and produces.
• Arthur Blaustein, former advisor to President Bill Clinton. His book "Make a Difference - Your Guide to Volunteering and Community Service" was given to the entire 2002 graduating class of UC Berkeley.
• Eddie from Ohio, too energetic to be labeled just "folk", and not angry enough to be pegged "alternative". Eddie from Ohio continues to defy description with their unique blend of vocals and acoustic instrumentation.
• Susan Orlean, New Yorker staff writer, seeker of the extraordinary in the ordinary, and author of "The Orchid Thief" and "The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup".
• Music from pianist Gini Wilson.

November 02

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!.

• Cast member from "Stomp!, the smash San Francisco show that makes instruments of brooms, matchbooks, and of course work boots."
• Adam Johnson, author of "Emporium".
• Wake the Dead, the hot Northern California septet whose blending of Celtic traditional music and the songs of the Grateful Dead delights adventurous music lovers throughout North America.
• Murray Silverstein and Barbara Winslow, practicing architects and authors of "Patterns of Home : The Ten Essentials of Enduring Design" remind us how to feather our nests for the winter.
• J. Raoul Brody on house piano.

November 09

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!.

• The Persuasions, fondly named the "Godfathers of A cappella". This group has been touring together for 40 years and has just released "Sing the Beatles".
• The Kensington Ladies' Erotica Society, is back in the bedroom, with a follow-up to their 1984 genre-bending bestseller "Ladies Own Erotica". Now in their 60s, the Ladies have written "Sex, Death, and Other Distractions".
• The Duo-Tones, unplugged surf rock.
• Fred Raker, creator and star of the one-man comedy "It Could Have Been a Wonderful Life".
• J. Raoul Brody on house piano.

November 23

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!.

• The Del Sol String Quartet and composer Gabriela Lena Frank. Frank's works are inspired by "The Music of the Americas" and include "Leyendas, An Andean Walkabout".
• Lawrence Lessig, one of the country's foremost authorities on the internet and intellectual property, advisor to the Federal Goverment in its case against Microsoft, and author of "The Future of Ideas: the fate of the commons in a connected world".
• The Bluegrass Intentions, performing bluegrass the old-fashioned way, with tunes from their new album "Old as Dirt".
• Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Tony and OBIE award winner, and creator and star of ACT's "Lackawanna Blues".
• Rev. Billy, of the Church of Stop Shopping.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill's right hand and Gini Wilson's left hand.

November 30

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

• Daniel Ellsberg, author of "Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers". Ellsberg made headlines around the world, when in 1971, he released "The Pentagon Papers" to The New York Times and Washington Post, which would forever change Americans' relationship with their elected officials.
• Roy Rogers and Norton Buffalo, this classic stripped-down acoustic guitar and harmonica blues duo is back with another album, "The Roots of our Nature".
• Daniel Mason, author of "The Piano Tuner", a story in the tradition of Conrad and Kipling, of a 19th century piano tuner sent to Burma to service a rare Erard instrument.
• The a cappella madness of The Bobs.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill, with Dean Reilly on bass.

December 07

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!.

• Martin Cruz Smith, author of numerous international thrillers, including "Gorky Park", visits just after the anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attacks, to introduce his new WWII novel, "December 6".
• The Christmas Jug Band, a Bay Area holiday tradition, play the music that Santa keeps in own sleigh CD player all night on the 25th.
• Holly Near, a vocalist, bandleader, and activist from Mendocino County, whose career has been defined by her passion for music and human dignity.
• Patrick Landeza, Hawaiian Slack-key guitarist.
• Leslie Jonath, author of "Christmas Trees: Fun and Festive Ideas".
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

December 14

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

• Sonos Handbell Ensemble, from deep booms to high, clear tones, this group draws every possible sonic combination from their dozens of bells, and have rightfully been called " America's premier handbell ensemble".
• Steven Anthony Jones, perennial favorite as Scrooge in American Conservatory Theater's "A Christmas Carol" and a core member of ACT's cast, gives us a miserly monologue and conversation.
• Leonard Pitt, photographer and author of "Paris Disparu" a collection of photographs and walks through Haussman's Paris.
• Paul LaFarge, author of "Haussman or the Distinction", the story of the man who reshaped Paris in the 19th century.
• George Kahumoku, Jr., slack-key guitarist.
• Radio improvisation from True Fiction Magazine.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

December 21

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!.

• Will Durst, San Francisco's comedian laureate.
• Tony Furtado, guitar and banjo virtuoso.
• Josh Kornbluth, as the Red-Diapered Santa.
• Chuck Prophet, a veteran of the San Francisco rock-and-roll scene, Chuck celebrates the holidays and his new album, "No Other Love".
• The naturalist perspective from Claire Peaslee.
• Travel tips from Karl and Carl.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

January 11, 2003

9th Anniversary 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!.

• Rondal Partridge, Photographer and author of "Quizzical Eye".
• Houston Jones powered by the mile-a-minute flatpicking of guitarist Glen "Houston" Pomianek and honky tonk vocals of Louisiana-born Travis Jones, this acoustic quartet plays the blues, cajun, rock, and jazz.
• Sedge draws out the taciturn Anne Lamott, author of "Bird by Bird", "Operating Instructions", and "Crooked Little Heart".
• White Noise Radio Theater, sketch artists from the San Francisco SketchFest.
• Travel tips from Karl and Carl.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

January 25

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!.

• A.S. Byatt, Booker Prize-winning author of "Possession" and her new novel "A Whistling Woman".
• Catie Curtis, a former Lilith Fair headliner dubbed a "folk-rock goddess" by The New Yorker. Curtis is looking forward to the release of her album "Acoustic Valentine".
• Brian Hall, author of "I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company: A Novel of Lewis and Clark", in which Hall tells the well-known story of the legendary explorers through the unfamiliar voices of Sacagawea, a French trapper, and others.
• Lou and Peter Berryman, folk music's funniest folks.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

February 01

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!.

• Peter Rowan and Friends, 2003 Grammy-nominated artist, and a major force behind the old-time music revival, performing in town at the San Francisco Bluegrass and Old-Time Festival.
• Sarah Jones. Driven by an astonishing array of accents and quick-change character shifts, Jones' riveting, socially conscious one-woman shows such as Surface Transit, Women Can't Wait and, her latest, Waking the American Dream, have taken the off-Broadway theater world by storm. Appearing live at CenterStage.
• The San Francisco Guitar Quartet.
• Holly Kreuter, photographer and author of "Drama in the Desert: The Sights and Sounds of Burning Man".
• John Weber, curator of the "Treasures of Modern Art: The Legacy of Phyllis Wattis at SFMOMA" exhibit, with art critic David Bonetti.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

February 08

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

• Po Bronson, a writer who captured the zeitgeist of the late '90s Bay Area with "The First $20 Million is Always the Hardest" finds there are new questions on people's minds in his new book of investigative reporting: "What Should I do with My Life?".
• Sonya Hunter, San Francisco based singer/songwriter, her Fall 2002 album is "Sun in Mind".
• William Gibson, the acclaimed author of "Neuromancer" has been called the Raymond Chandler of the digital age, noir master of the Web. His new book is "Pattern Recognition".
• Susan Kare, one of the first designers to work on the Apple Macintosh interface, she has designed some of the icons that we see every day, and continues to attempt to humanize cell phones, PDAs, and other baggage of our modern lives.
• Radio improvisation from True Fiction Magazine.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

February 15

Live Valentines Dayish 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! .

• Cast members from "How We First Met" a San Francisco improv comedy show that draws its shocking material from the real life romantic experiences of their audiences.
• Geoff Dyer, author of "Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It", a collection of 11 personal essays covering his travels around the globe, beginning in New Orleans when Dyer is in his late 20's and concludes in the Nevada desert some 20 years later.
• The Bluehouse, an Australian female folk rock voice-driven trio.
• Ross King is a new master of historical nonfiction, and author of "Brunelleschi's Dome" and now "Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling".
• A clue from the Chinese New Year Treasure Hunt.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

February 22

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!.

• Andro Linklater, author of "Measuring America - How an Untamed Wilderness Shaped the United States and Fulfilled the Promise of Democracy".
• A cappella from The Mighty Prince Singers/Talk of the Town.
• Terry Baum, star of "Waiting for the Podiatrist", accompanied by Scrumbly Koldewyn.
• Cascada de Flores, with music from their second album, Puente a la Mar, a sizzling exploration of the musical love story between Cuba and Mexico.
• Danyel Smith, Editor in Chief of Vibe magazine, and author of "More Like Wrestling".
• J. Raoul Brody on house piano.

March 01

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

• Pollo Del Mar, our favorite surf rock band.
• Greg Palast, author of "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy" and winner of the Financial Times David Thomas Prize and Nominated Business Journalist of the Year (UK)
• El Vez, the Mexican Elvis, performing a high octane blend of Mexican popular culture, Memphis kitsch and grass roots politics.
• Anne Taylor Fleming, author of "Marriage: a Duet" and "Motherhood Deferred: A Woman's Journey", and a regular on-camera essayist for The Newshour, with Jim Lehrer.
• Radio improvisation from True Fiction Magazine.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

March 08

Special live show from an undisclosed location celebrating International Women's Day. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! .

• Viviana Guzmán, flute virtuoso with piano accompaniment by This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
• Gurinder Chada, director of "Bend it Like Beckham", the opening film of San Francisco's Asian American Film Festival. "Bend it Like Beckham" tells the story of a teenage girl forced to choose between her dreams of soccer stardom and her traditional Sikh family in this rousing British comedy full of cultural mix and female kicks. With her will be husband and co-screenwriter, Paul Mayeda Burges.
• Deborah Pardes, singer songwriter and founder of Artists for Literacy, a program that among other endeavors, will be releasing a second CD of music performed by first-rate musicians, inspired by great writing.
• Lynn Freed, author of "House of Women".
• Blame Sally, juggling influences that range from flamenco to traditional folk, jazz to straight ahead rock, country to urban funk.
• Lisa Spector as the house pianist.

March 15

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!.

• Nuala O'Faolain, acclaimed Irish memoirist and author of "Are You Somebody" and "Almost There".
• The Black Brothers, Shay, Michael, and Martin from Ireland's renowned singing Black family perform traditional ballads and dance tunes, making use of tight harmonies and the fiddle, guitar, and mandolin.
• Poet Carolyn Forché, author of "Blue Hour".
• David Wilcox, prolific singer, songwriter, and non-stop performer.
• Arthur Scappaticci, the one man in "The Importance of Being Oscar" one-man show, which chronicles the life of the great Irish-born playwright from renown to ostracism.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

March 22

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

• Animated short features with live musical accompaniment by Nik Phelps and The Sprocket Ensemble.
• David Thomson, author of "The New Biographical Dictionary of Film", of which The New Republic wrote: "could be declared the best book on the movies ever written in English".
• Mark Cotta Vaz and Craig Barron, special effects wizards in their own right, and authors of "The Invisible Art: The Legends of Movie Matte Painting".
• Jeremy Larner, former presidential speech writer and Oscar winner for his 1972 screenplay, "The Candidate".
• Sedge draws out the taciturn Anne Lamott, author of "Bird by Bird", "Operating Instructions", and "Crooked Little Heart".
• Travel tips from Karl and Carl.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

March 29

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!.

• Paul Theroux, author of "Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China", "The Mosquito Coast", and his newest, "Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town".
• The Sisters Morales, San Antonio singer-songwriter sibling duo pull together various strands from the rich weave of cultures in their home state. The sisters repertoire runs the full Texas gamut from country to Mexican ranchera music, honky-tonk to sweet, thoughtful ballads.
• Marilyn Chase a longtime health and science correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, and author of "The Barbary Plague" the story of the bubonic plague in booming turn-of-the-century San Francisco.
• True Blue, together the three crucial elements of good bluegrass: instinctive harmonies, soul, and an organic rhythmic feel reminiscent of Flatt & Scruggs.
• Travel tips from Karl and Carl.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

April 12

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!.

• U. Utah Phillips, story teller, union organizer, rail rider, and songsmith.
• Paul Collins, author of "Banvard's Folly" and "Sixpence House: Lost In a Town of Books", plus his own series for McSweeney's Press.
• The Antonio Calogero Ensemble with fretless bassist Michael Manring; Grammy Nominee Paul McCandless, multi-instrumentalist from the legendary group Oregon; the eclectic percussion of Brian Rice; and Italian guitar master Antonio Calogero, hailed by the Los Angeles Times as an "evocative sound painter".
• Michael Marriner and Nathan Gebhard, who, just a few years ago, were college juniors asking like many others "what am I going to do with my life?". Unlike many others, they rented an RV, got a video camera, and traveled the country interviewing interesting and influential people about their lives. The result is the exhilarating book, "RoadTrip Nation: A Guide to Discovering Your Path in Life".
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

May 03

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

• James Tobin, two-time nominee for the Pulitzer Prize in journalism, and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for his first book, "Ernie Pyle's War". Tobin's new book is "To Conquer the Air: The Wright Brothers and the Great Race for Flight", published this year to coincide with the 100th anniversary of flight in America.
• Renowned Scottish fiddle player Alasdair Fraser and friends.
• Simon Winchester, author of the bestseller "The Professor and the Madman" and the just-published "Krakatoa - The Day the World Exploded".
• Radio improvisation from True Fiction Magazine.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

May 10

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

• Annie Somerville, Greens Executive Chef, author of the new "Everyday Greens: Home Cooking from Greens, the Celebrated Vegetarian Restaurant" and "Fields of Greens".
• Scoop Nisker, a voice of counterculture radio in the Bay Area for 35 years, originally as a KSAN DJ, he is a Buddhist teacher and writer whose latest book is the generational retrospective "The Big Bang, the Buddha, and the Baby Boom".
• Noah Levine, author of "Dharma Punx", in which he chronicles his own transformation from self-destructive punk rock rebel to Buddhist student, and the reasons he believes these two seemingly opposed worlds can coexist.
• Fenton Johnson, author of "Keeping Faith: A Skeptics Journey" who was raised with Christian Trappist monks in the American South, abandoned organized religion, then began to reexamine faith through the Zen Center.
• Norman Fischer, author of "Taking Our Places", is a Zen priest, teacher, poet, former abbot of San Francisco Zen Center, and founder of The Everyday Zen Foundation, an organization created to broaden the reach of engaged Buddhist practice.
• David Chadwick, author of "Crooked Cucumber".
• Wendy Johnson, organic gardener, fervent defender of the earth, and former head of the Zen Center's Green Gulch Farm.
• Artist Mayumi Oda.
• Cyril Pahinui whose spirit of aloha, musical intelligence, great ear, and killer chops make him one of Hawaii's most respected and beloved slack-key guitarists, and Patrick Landeza, one of the stars of a new generation of slack-key songwriters..
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

Our Greens broadcast has been made possible by the support of Harper San Francisco, publisher of the most significant books across the full spectrum of religion and spiritual literature.

May 17

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!.

• Eric Schlosser, chronicler of the bizarre underbelly of modern American culture, author of "Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All American Meal" and now "Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market".
• Shazia Mirza, Pakistani-British female comic, who answers the 10 questions you always wanted to know about Islam, but were too afraid to ask.
• Gary Shteyngart, author of “The Russian Debutante’s Handbook”, which charts a young and confused Russian immigrants’ exploration of American culture.
• Robin Flower and Libby McLaren, instrumentalists, vocalists and songwriters, who let their imaginations run wild by combining fiddle, piano, guitar, mandolin, banjo and accordion with soaring vocal harmonies.
• Sarah Jones, praised by the New York Times as a "high-voltage performance artist" this dynamic actor, poet, and spoken word performer delivers an astonishing array of accents and quick-change character shifts in "Surface Transit".
• Boris Akunin, author of "The Winter Queen".

May 24

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!. This show was reviewed in The Berkeley Voice on May 30th.

• Eoin Colfer this "uproariously funny" Irishman, and one of Sedge's favorite children's authors, unveils his new adventure book, "Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code", in which young criminal Artemis has found a way to construct a supercomputer, from fairy technology.
• Philosopher, Elaine Pagels, author of "Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas".
• Carol Hughes, author of "Jack Black and the Ship of Thieves".
• Improvisation by 3 For All, featuring Rafe Chase, Stephen Kearin, and Tim Orr.
• The naturalist perspective from Claire Peaslee.
• Music from pianist Gini Wilson, accompanied by Steve Heckman on saxophone.

May 31

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!.

• Calvin Trillin, the New Yorker mainstay offers his bi-coastal food criticism in "Feeding a Yen: Savoring Local Specialties from Kansas City to Cuzco".
• The Flying Other Brothers, with the legendary Pete Sears on keyboards.
• Sue Murphy, a great comedian, longtime San Franciscan now relocated to southern California, where the LA Times wrote of her: "an extremely likable performer with ... a high energy quotient and no qualms about acting silly".
• Violinist Carla Kihlstedt of Tin Hat Trio, with cellist Marika Hughes.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill

June 07

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

• Erica Jong who has examined the interplay of love, lust, and sex in her seven novels, including the landmark "Fear of Flying" introduces "Sappho's Leap".
• The Beth Custer Ensemble, a virtuoso jazz/funk/Latin/rock quartet.
• Gerald Nachman, author of "Seriously Funny".
• Songwriter Vienna Teng. A piano student since age 5, this singer songwriter always preferred improvisation and experimentation to the classical pieces she was supposed to learn. Her new album shows both technical mastery and an inventive restlessness.
• Radio improvisation from True Fiction Magazine.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill

June 14

Live show from the Freight and Salvage Coffee House, as part of the Freight and Salvage Coffee House's 35th Anniversary celebrations. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! .

• Singer/songwriter Country Joe McDonald, with Phil Marsh.
• Bill Amatneek, author of "Acoustic Stories: Playing Bass with Peter, Paul, & Mary, Jerry Garcia, Bill Monroe, and other Unamplified Tales".
• Cuban-born singer, percussionist, Yoruba priestess, and band leader Bobi Céspedes, and her band.
• Thomas Sanchez, author of "King Bongo" a tale of pre-Castro Cuba.
• Stand up comedy from two of the Four Stand Up Dads.

June 21

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

• Josh Kornbluth, opening his new monologue "Love and Taxes".
• Mary Roach, author of "Stiff: The Curious Life of Human Cadavers".
• "Country junk" singer Mark Insley and his band.
• Word for Word, a program of Z Space, performing excerpts of their new production "More Than Human", by Michael Chabon.
• The San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

June 23

Live show at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's Angus Bowmer Theatre in Ashland, Oregon. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! .

• Wesla Whitfield and Mike Greensill.
• Robin Goodrin Nordli, a core member of the Shakespeare Festival's cast, and creator of Bard Babes I Have Known, a one-woman show about her many Shakespeare roles.
• David Edgar, acclaimed British playwright whose world premiere two-play cycle, Continental Divide, opened the Shakespeare festival's 2003 season, and was co-produced with the Berkeley Repertory Theater.
• The Terra Nova Consort as well as being "one of the world's great rock n' roll renaissance bands", this group has provided the musical backdrop for visitors to the Shakespeare Festival, as the pre-theater Green Show, since 1988.
• Southern Oregon Repertory Singers performing the world premiere of "It Is My Soul" an original piece composed by the Shakespeare Festival's Music Director Todd Barton, inspired by "Romeo and Juliet".
• Travel tips from Karl and Carl.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

June 25

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

• Garrett Hongo, author of "A Memoir of Hawaii".
• David Jacobs Strain, a powerful acoustic blues talent whose feeling for the music belies his youth.
• John Daniel, poet and author whose many books have focused on the natural beauty of the Oregon wilderness, and earned him two Oregon Book Awards for Nonfiction.
• Gypsy Soul, whose guitar and voice harmonies create an unforgettable musical landscape that is as rootsy as it is atmospheric and haunting.
• Karl and Carl, frequent visitors to West Coast Live, who offer their confused and conflicting "Tips on Travel".

June 28

Live show from the Kate Wolf Memorial Music Festival. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office!.

• Wavy Gravy, founder of Camp Winnarainbow.
• Rosalie Sorrels (a.k.a. Rosa Bizarrio, the famous outlaw Queen).
• U. Utah Phillips, story teller, union organizer, rail rider, and songsmith.
• The Waifs, with sister singers Donna and Vickie Simpson: tough enough to play mining camps as teens in their native Australia, sweet enough to sing chillingly beautiful harmonies.
• Patty Larkin A singer songwriter whose music occupies the space where Bob Dylan melds with Me'Shell NdegéOcello, and where grief and strength merge into one.
• Norton Buffalo, one of the most versatile and talented harmonica players in music.
• The Cyrus Clarke Band, performing as our house band. Acoustic music veterans, including founding members of the Cache Valley Drifters.

August 02

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!.

• Attorney Bob Levin, author of "The Pirates and the Mouse", a look into Disney's war against the Counterculture.
• Acoustic music from Houston Jones.
• Firoozeh Dumas, Iranian born, American raised author of "Funny in Farsi".
• Pianist Wu Han ans celloist David Finckel from Music@Menlo.
• Private Eye Jayson Wechter with a clue for The Secrets of SoMa Treasure Hunt.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

August 09

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!.

• Ramblin' Jack Elliot, legendary folk troubadour, raconteur, and cowboy poet, who last week celebrated his 72nd birthday.
• The San Francisco Mime Troupe with selections from "Veronique of the Mounties - Operation Frozen Freedom".
• Kathi Kamen Goldmark, author of "And My Shoes Keep Walking Back to You", with her band Train Wreck.
• Regina Louise author of "Somebody's Someone".
• Michael Gulezian, solo acoustic guitarist.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

August 16

West Coast Live's 500th Broadcast!

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!.

• A cameo visit from Josh Kornbluth.
• World rhythm & soul vocal band SoVoSó.
• Adam Johnson, author of "Parasites Like Us".
• Commentary from Ian Shoales.
• Singer-songwriter Danny Barnes.
• Lauren Kessler, author of "Clever Girl: Elizabeth Bentley, the Spy Who Ushered in the McCarthy Era".
• Radio improvisation from True Fiction Magazine.
• Travel tips from Karl or Carl.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill and friends.

September 06

Live show from The Bayfront Theater. 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 "Rosie", "Joe Jones", "All New People", "Operating Instructions", "Word by Word", "Crooked Little Heart", "Hard Laughter", "Traveling Mercies", "Bird by Bird", and "Blue Shoe".
• David Gans, with music from his new DVD Live at the Powerhouse. David is also host of Grateful Dead Hour on public radio.
• Sedge riffs on taxes with Josh Kornbluth.
• Joelle Fraser, author of "The Territory of Men".
• Improvisation from 3 For All.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

September 13

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!.

• Jack Casady, the legendary bassist from Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna, with members of Box Set. Jack's band will be playing music from their new CD "Dream Factor".
• Diane Johnson, author of L'Affaire.
• Timothy Ferris, author of "Seeing in the Dark".
• The Waybacks, performers of a bluegrass offshoot self-described as "crabgrass".
• Tonal Chaos, improv vocals from the sublime to the surreal.
• J. Raoul Brody on house piano.

September 20

Live show from the Bay Wolf Restaurant in a special harvest show.. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office!.

• Bill Fujimoto, owner of Monterey Market/Foods. Bill took over from his father Tom, whose buying encouraged small growers in a 100 mile radius
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• Jim Clendenen, wine maker from Au Bon Climat, which started in the early 80's. Jim has a great memory for food, wine, and people. He remembers tastes from years ago.
• Tom Worthington, fishmonger from Monterey Fish, purveyor to best restaurants.
• Buddy Borne, from Port Arthur, Texas, and importer of saffron and vanilla spice trade from Spain to Madagascar and Tahiti.
• Christine Taylor, book designer and printer, who does menus of Wilstead & Taylor designers.
• Jim Reichardt, owner of Liberty Ranch Ducks, which makes use of space, feed, and cool ocean breezes outside of Petaluma on the way to Bodega Bay. Jim took over from older generations and improved the process of "growing ducks".
• Jim Lhassa-Karnack, supplier of spices and peppers.
• Rupert Garcia, renowned artist.
• Oakland based plumber and Irish boxing champion, Sean Collins.
• The naturalist perspective from Claire Peaslee
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September 27

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

• Historian, author, and musicologist, Don Edwards, Grammy nominee for High Lonesome Cowboy.
• Jhumpa Lahiri, author of "The Namesake", and 2000 Pulitzer Prize winner for "Interpreter of Maladies".
• Insight from Will Durst, San Francisco comedian and political observer.
• Marguerite Sprague, author of "Bodie's Gold".
• The musical duo, Robin Flower and Libby McLaren.
• Radio improvisation from True Fiction Magazine.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

October 4

Live show from the Bayfront Theater in Fort Mason in advance of the election.. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office!.

• Caroline Alexander, author of "The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty".
• Jeremy Larner, Eugene McCarthy speechwriter, Academy Award winner for "The Candidate"
• Jay Conrad Levinson, author of "Guerrilla Marketing for Free".
• Roy Zimmerman, singer/songwriter and one-time candidate for the Governor of California.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

October 11

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

• Women who make us laugh or cry and along the way to changing the world -- plus hip polka music and blues to groove to....
• The Guerrilla Girls, whose new book, "Bitches, Bimbos and Ballbreakers" takes on female stereotypes -- as "Frida Kahlo" and "Kathe Kollewitz" appear in gorilla masks and fishnet stockings to preserve their anonymity. They will also, I'm told, be bringing "Schwarzenegger Shields." Sly agit-prop at its most sublime and revealing....
• Ayelet Waldman, whose earlier detective novels have led to her novel "Daughter's Keeper" which reflect what she's seen as a former Federal public defender of the way mothers are treated.
• Susan Choi, whose new novel "American Woman," imagines life on the run for a newspaper heiress kidnapped by an impromptu revolutionary band....sounds like....
• Big Lou's Oktoberfest Polka Band, with horns and a cornucopic salute to the accordian
• A member of the New Century Chamber Orchestra, or at least an adjunct surprise
• The young marvel of a blues guitarist, David Jabob Strain
• And your audience true stories, with Mike Greensill at the piano

October 18

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

• J. Raoul Brody, piano
• Thompson String Ticklers Also appearing as The Bluegrass Intentions
• True Fiction Magazine Barbara Scott, Paul Killam, Regina Saisi, Diane Rachel, JRB, others
• Tonal Chaos A group that takes an idea and makes music inspired by their collaborative intuition
• Maxine Hong Kingston Her new book, "The Fifth Book of Peace," continues to examine the human condition, and the effects of the Berkeley/Oakland fire.
• Elizabeth Strommer & Alan Rifkin Two City Lights authors who bring and LA perspective to us "Joe's Word" and "Signal Hill" respectively.
• Arthur Blaustein His guide "Make a Difference" to volunteer action is taught in schools throughout the US. He asks questions that need answers from all of us. A Presidential advisor, but not to the current resident...

October 25

Classic show from the Legion of Honor, celebrating the re-opening of the Legion of Honor in November 1995. With Studs Terkel, Stuart Canin, others.. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office!.

November 1 - Bayfront Theater, Bldg. B, Ft. Mason, San Francisco

• Palm Wine Boys
• Don Lattin, author "Following Our Bliss" influences of the 60s
• UKE BOX - deux Ukeleles!
• Ethan Watters, with musician Larry Gallagher, author, "Urban Tribes" - a generation describes friendship
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• Bay Area Theater Sports improv
• Mike Greensill at the WCL piano

November 8 - Freight & Salvage - 1111 Addison St. Berkeley

• Chris Smither, blues guitarist & Peter Mulvey & David "Goody" Goodrich - WCL favorites
• Simon Winchester, author, "The Meaning of Everything" "Professor and The Madman"
• Merle (Ian Shoales) Kessler & J. Raoul Brody
• David Edgar, renowned British playwright, whose pair of political campaign plays, premiered at Ashland, and reshaped in view of events, for the Berkeley Rep
• Word for Word : Oil! (after Upton Sinclair)

November 15 - Freight & Salvage - 1111 Addison St.- Berkeley

• Ken Waldman, Alaska's fiddlin' poet
• Eric Alan, nature essayist, "Wild Grace: Nature as a Spiritual Path")
• Tom Tomorrow, cartoonist
• Gail Sheehy, author "Passages"
• Edmund White, author, "Fanny" "The Farewell Symphony " "The Married Man"
• Luce -- the Band

November 22 - Freight & Salvage - 1111 Addison St.- Berkeley

• The great Lady Bianca, piano and lusty blues singer
• Tobias Wolff, author, "Old School" "This Boy's Life" "The Barrack's Thief".
• George Daugherty, pianist & raconteur, "Bugs Bunny on Broadway," producer of "Sagwa" based on Amy Tan's books.
• Edward Docx, author, "The Calligrapher".
• Mike Greensill, piano playing raconteur

November 29 - Freight & Salvage - 1111 Addison St.- Berkeley

• Throwing Toasters
• Oakland Interfaith Gospel Chorus
• The BOBS!
• Paula Gunn Allen, author, "Pocahontas"

December 6 - Magic Theater -Bldg. D, Fort Mason San Francisco

• Dan Hicks and his Hot Licks!
• Sonos Handbell Ensemble!
• Edna O'Brien, novelist and playwright
• Pascal Khoo Thwe, author, "From the Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey" Kiriyama Award winner, account of a Padaung tribe member who through a chance encounter goes to Cambridge despite repression in his homeland.

December 13 - Magic Theater -Bldg. D, Fort Mason San Francisco

• Peter Schickele, aka PDQ Bach, host of "Schickele Mix"
• Amy Tan, author
• Suzy Thompson & her Genuine Friends
• Spider Saloff, jazz singer
• Mike Greensill, piano

December 20 - Live from Dance Palace, near downtown Pt. Reyes Station

• Solstice Show from the Country
• Claire Peaslee, PRBO naturalist, author Anne Lamott
• Paul Ray & Sherry Anderson, authors & proponents of the idea of Cultural Creatives, the group you may well be part of
• Goapele, the world music-jazz-rock sensation
• Billy Wilson's Christmas Skiffle Trio "yUKEtide"
• Jeff Golden, the George Clooney of Jefferson Public Radio, author of "Forest Blood"
• and more -- keep checking in, but reserve early, and enjoy a holiday feasting shopping in West Marin
• Mike Greensill, piano