2001

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.
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• 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.