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Salinas’ Western Stage: 50 years of building...

KSQD 90.7 FM Santa Cruz ·

2025/10/03

Monday on the Talk of the Bay host Christine Barrington takes us behind the curtain at Salinas’ Western Stage. Offering multiple productions each season, the Western Stage is a community-driven professional company that nurtures and develops local talent with a passion for the creative process and the desire for high-level artistic experiences. The Western’s Stage […]

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How Stories Shape Our Mental Health

KSQD 90.7 FM Santa Cruz ·

2025/10/01

Episode 83: Guest host Youssef Hassanein talks with therapist Lisa Slede and Harvard health communications expert Amanda Yarnell about how personal and cultural narratives can heal, connect, or mislead us. Amanda offers tips for navigating digital misinformation, and storyteller John A. Jacobs reflects on how creative expression has shaped his life. It leaves listeners with the question: What stories guide your life, and how might crafting them more intentionally support your well-being?

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Monterey Jazz Festival Memories

KSQD 90.7 FM Santa Cruz ·

2025/09/26

Each year KSQD stations its volunteers in a booth at the MJF where we get to meet lots of wonderful folks, and one character we bumped into was kind of special. Michael Downer has been attending the Monterey Jazz Fest for 60 years. I grabbed a moment with him while he sat with friends that […]

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Sustainability Now! Sunday, September 28th:...

KSQD 90.7 FM Santa Cruz ·

2025/09/25

Conserving California’s Lands and Coastal Waters: A Progress Report with Meghan Hertel, Deputy Secretary for Biodiversity and Habitat at the California Natural Resources Agency In October 2020, Governor Newsom issued Executive Order N-82-20 which establishes a state goal of conserving 30% of California’s lands and coastal waters by 2030 – known as 30×30. The 30×30 goal […]

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Sustainability Now! Sunday, September 14: What’s...

KSQD 90.7 FM Santa Cruz ·

2025/09/11

What’s Happening with Climate Law across the World, the United States and California? with Professor Alice Kaswan, University of San Francisco School of Law What’s up with climate change and climate law? The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced that it is going to cancel the “endangerment finding” of 2009 that provided the legal basis […]

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Watsonville’s Whiskey Hill Farm Explored

KSQD 90.7 FM Santa Cruz ·

2025/09/05

In The Garden, KSQD’s weekly garden show, airs a conversation from February 8, 2025, with Dave Blume of Whiskey Hill Experimental and Educational Farm. Dave’s energy is infectious, and his nontraditional agricultural methods are jaw-dropping and inspirational; 9 to 10 a.m., Saturday, September 6, 2025, Hosted by Steven E. Popp and Joe Truskot with Dr. […]

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A Hunger Strike to End Pesticides Near Watsonville...

KSQD 90.7 FM Santa Cruz ·

2025/09/05

This show broadcasted live on Labor Day of 2025, the first day of Omar Dieguez‘s 30-day hunger strike to end the spraying of pesticides near Watsonville area schools. MOT host Ami Chen Mills and Dieguez are joined by Providencia Martinez Alaniz, who also announced her hunger strike with Omar in this Moment of […]

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Facing Death: Living with Terminal Illness

KSQD 90.7 FM Santa Cruz ·

2025/09/03

Episode 82: Guest host Patrice Vecchione explores the mental health challenges of living with a terminal illness. Featuring the late Megan Myers’s moving story, insights from palliative care physician Dr. John Hausdorff, and reflections from Kevin Christine Kennedy, who is now nearing the end of her life. Together, they share how people face loss while also finding courage, hope, and meaning at life’s end. Find resources from this episode in the show notes.

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Sustainability Now! Sunday, August 31st: Save the...

KSQD 90.7 FM Santa Cruz ·

2025/08/28

Save the Valley Dragons! Restoring the Blunt-Notes Leopard Lizard to the San Joaquin Desert with Dr. Michael Telemeco & Dr. Michael Westphal On Sustainability Now! Sunday, August 31st, 5-6 PM Who knew there was a desert in the San Joaquin Valley inhabited by the “valley dragon,” aka, the “blunt-nosed leopard lizard.” The lizards have disappeared […]

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August 26, 2025: Computer Man! Your Tech Questions...

KSQD 90.7 FM Santa Cruz ·

2025/08/27

Don’t stress about your tech, call the Computer Man on KSQD between 6-7pm PT each Tuesday: 831-900-5773 Write to Luigi@PleasurePointComputers.com Scams of the week! Topics covered: Chrome VPN Extension malicious, DREAM hacking for advertising, Trump’s Fake iPhone is now Samsung S25, Help caller decide what new computer to get, Email questions and more!

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Calling All Earthworkers! Summer Music Sunset Songs...

KSQD 90.7 FM Santa Cruz ·

2025/08/26

This month DJ Dupsie brings back two former guests, Sheyna Burns and Christina Audas. Sheyna Burns dishes with us about the 1st Annual California Earthworkers Summit happening Sept. 11-12, 2025 at the University of California, Santa Cruz Center for Agroecology Farm. The California Earthworkers Summit, of which Sheyna is the Executive Director, “is an annual statewide gathering […]

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Local Rabbis Try to Get Arrested for Gaza

KSQD 90.7 FM Santa Cruz ·

2025/08/24

On Monday, August 11, roughly 18 San Francisco Bay Area rabbis and cantors sat down in the street after speaking in front of the barricaded Israeli Consulate building, in opposition to Netanyahu’s plan to re-occupy the Gaza Strip and to express dismay at the unrelieved starvation and suffering of the people of Gaza […]

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Immigration and the Apocalypse

KSQD 90.7 FM Santa Cruz ·

2025/08/23

How have Christians–going back to Columbus–used religion, and especially the Book of Revelation, to frame migration and immigration both by colonists (to justify colonization and genocide) and by subsequent U.S. political leaders to exclude others who were not white and European? How does this continue to this very day? In this episode, Ami Chen Mills […]

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August 19, 2025: Computer Man! Your Tech Questions...

KSQD 90.7 FM Santa Cruz ·

2025/08/20

Don’t stress about your tech, call the Computer Man on KSQD between 6-7pm PT each Tuesday: 831-900-5773 Write to Luigi@PleasurePointComputers.com Scams of the week! Topics covered: Follow the journey of one of our callers and their VPN issues, Email questions and more!

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August 12, 2025: Computer Man! Your Tech Questions...

KSQD 90.7 FM Santa Cruz ·

2025/08/13

Don’t stress about your tech, call the Computer Man on KSQD between 6-7pm PT each Tuesday: 831-900-5773 Write to Luigi@PleasurePointComputers.com Scams of the week! Topics covered: Flock License plate readers, Phone scams, Microsoft kills LensPDF scanner app, iPhone 17 event September 9th, Email questions and more!

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Nine miles of new trails open on August 16 at...

KSQD 90.7 FM Santa Cruz ·

2025/08/11

In square miles Santa Cruz County is the second smallest in California, but in hiking and mountain biking trail miles Santa Cruz County is a giant. And, this month these miles will increase in number due to a collaboration between the Bureau of Land Management, Santa Cruz Mountains Trail Stewardship, and the local community. After […]

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August 5, 2025: Computer Man! Your Tech Questions...

KSQD 90.7 FM Santa Cruz ·

2025/08/06

Don’t stress about your tech, call the Computer Man on KSQD between 6-7pm PT each Tuesday: 831-900-5773 Write to Luigi@PleasurePointComputers.com Scams of the week! Topics covered: Flock License Plate Readers (and how the SUCK), Bluetooth hacking, Windows Recall, IRS Direct File is GONE, Hear from our callers, Email questions and more!

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What a Week! Aug. 2, 2025 “NEWS TSUNAMI” Edition!

KSQD 90.7 FM Santa Cruz ·

2025/08/02

You can’t be well informed unless you are informed well! Join hosts Erik Nelson and Tony Russomanno as they unpack the week that was, on this Aug. 2, 2025 “NEWS TSUNAMI!” edition of What A Week! Christine Barrington is always adding to her list of resources for individual action in the time of Trump. […]

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Sunday Dinner: Spoken Word and Spontaneity: Self...

KSQD 90.7 FM Santa Cruz ·

2025/08/01

This month DJ Dupsie continues The Sunday Dinner Summer Music Series with local artists RicoR, Manny Florendo, and Roland Reyes. In between the songs played live in the studio, we reflect on the art of spoken word and the power of openness because the world has been so divided lately. RicoR, Manny, and Roland, have been spending so […]

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Sustainability Now! Sunday, August 3rd, 2024: After...

KSQD 90.7 FM Santa Cruz ·

2025/07/31

After the Floods–The Search for Resilience in Ellicott City with Professor Ken Conca, American University on Sustainability Now! Sunday, August 3, 5-6 PM on KSQD As the recent deadly floods in Central Texas remind us, Nature bats last. There seem to be a growing number of severe weather-related disasters that kill many people and lay […]

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