Podcasts about north bay bohemian

On episode 173 of March Forth with Mike Bauman, Mike chats with Jay Williz of BLVKOUT! Hailing from Santa Rosa, California, BLVKOUT is a genre-defying band that draws influence from the likes of Memphis May Fire, Bring Me The Horizon, Bad Omens, and Spiritbox, while also mixing in pop influences. In a short period of time, BLVKOUT has already made noise in the punk and metal communities. After racking up over 50,000 streams in their debut year, BLVKOUT was named "Best Punk Band of 2024" and "Best Metal Band of 2024" by The North Bay Bohemian. Additionally, frontman Jay Williz - who has an extensive catalog as a rapper - took home "Best Hip Hop Artist of 2024" after the release of his introspective rap album Exhume:Rebirth. On April 18th, BLVKOUT released their explosive new single entitled "Save Yourself," which they worked on with audio engineer/producer/songwriter Nick Miller. In this episode, Jay talks with Mike about how he got into music, his early influences as a rapper, his struggles that eventually led to his sobriety, his rap return after a five-year hiatus with Exhume:Rebirth, how MGK's Tickets To My Downfall album opened the door for him to pop punk, getting into metalcore and heavier music, what's on the horizon for BLVKOUT, and more. This episode also features the aforementioned "Save Yourself" from BLVKOUT, available where you get your music! Follow BLVKOUT on Instagram @blvkoutband. Follow Jay on Instagram @jay.blvk. Follow Mike on Instagram @marchforthpod. To stay up-to-date on the podcast and learn more about Mike, visit https://linktr.ee/marchforthpod. If you or someone you know needs mental health resources, please visit the following links: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us; https://988lifeline.org/ Thanks for listening! If ya dug the show, like it, share it, tell a friend, subscribe, and above all, keep the faith and be kind to one another.

In this interview, I speak with Diane about her expertise in sex therapy, and her American Association of Sexual Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT) certification. She discusses sex therapy, couples therapy with sex issues, and she discusses the PLISSIT model, which describes various levels of intervention, which include Permission, Limited Information, Specific Suggestions and Intensive Therapy. She discusses her eclectic approach, which is grounded in a Humanistic perspective, helping clients accept themselves and address shame. She explains that sexual relationships are complex involving how each partner feels about each other, the challenges people experience in their life, and their different stages in their relationships. She discusses her blog article, “To the Wife Upset About Her Husband's Porn Viewing: An Open Letter From a Sex Therapist”, and how she addresses how porn is symbolic and is a “fantasy” and what we can learn from this about our partner. She explains how she often sees men who come in by themselves, because they're partner is upset with them about their pornography use, and how this often suggests an Identified Patient perspective, and missing the couple dynamics and how the couple can heal and improve their relationship together. We also discuss the conflict between being respectful of women, but then also, for heterosexual men particularly, to also be enjoying pornography and objectification of women. She discussed perpetrator fear and how it become more pronounced after the #MeToo movement, and how a number of clients came to work with her to discuss their past sexual encounters. She discusses consent and what that means and looks like in sexual encounters and relational sexual relationships. Diane Gleim, LMFT is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and AASECT Certified Sex Therapist and Supervisor practicing online throughout California and in-person in Santa Rosa, California. As the first Certified Sex Therapist in Sonoma County, Diane treats the many diverse issues related to sexual identity, sexual expression, sexual behavior, and sexual relationships. Her clients include everyone with a sexual concern: individuals and couples ages 18-85, and the LGBTQ+, kinky, and poly populations. In addition to her private practice, Diane's work also includes providing trainings and consultations on sex therapy; writing the blog "Underneath the Sheets" on Psychology Today's website; and supervising sex-therapists-in-training. She has been quoted in various press and a guest on podcasts. Diane has been voted Sonoma County's Best Sex Therapist by the readers of the North Bay Bohemian five times.

On today's show, Eleanor and Mickey speak with two veteran investigative journalists, both on the issue of Israeli influence in U.S. media and society. In the first segment, James Bamford speaks about Project Butterfly, a multimillion-dollar campaign begun in 2015 to undermine pro-Palestinian advocacy in the U.S., especially on campuses. He asks why U.S. law enforcement has never investigated Israeli agents connected with Project Butterfly, the 2020 Trump campaign, and other domestic activities. Next, Peter Byrne discusses his article written on assignment for the North Bay Bohemian, which the Bohemian then declined to publish. Byrne believes this happened because his article was about a protest against the Israeli massacres in Gaza. He also speaks more generally about Israeli efforts to tilt U.S. public discourse about the Middle East.   The post Israeli Involvement in Undermining U.S. Advocacy in Support of Palestinians appeared first on KPFA.

Taste of Sonoma Report: While The Drive is on Summer vacation, here is our report on the 2023 Taste of Sonoma, produced in collaboration with our friends at Sonoma County Vintners.  On Saturday, June 24, Sonoma County Vintners put on Taste of Sonoma at the Kendall-Jackson Estate. On Saturday, June 24, Sonoma County Vintners held this year's edition of Taste of Sonoma at the Kendall-Jackson Estate. We collected comments from several people including guests, exhibitors and representatives of local charities, for this 5-minute audio report from the event. Thanks to Michael Haney and Barbara Cox of Sonoma County Vintners, Cathy Ratto, Steve Jaxon and Dan Berger, Linda Real and the North Bay Bohemian, Kristin Coughtry from St Francis Winery, Cristina from Benicia, Dani Logue from the Charles M. Schultz Sonoma County Airport, Matt Ward of Pride Mountain Vineyards, Sonia Byck-Barwick and Social Advocates for Youth, Shayna and Redwood Empire Food Bank and Margie Pettibone and Catholic Charities. Thanks also to Noël Coward, Patricia Routledge and Vince Guaraldi, for their bit of fair use musical accompaniment. Taste of Sonoma is always one of Sonoma County's most highly anticipated events of the year. Every year it features wines from about one hundred local wineries, along with several various food trucks. The event includes walk-around wine tasting, guided wine seminars, garden tours, a beer garden, premium wine experiences and the themed lounges. The event attracts a crowd of folks who appreciate the best of what Sonoma County produces. With access to more than 60 wine varietals and 19 unique growing areas, Sonoma County's remarkable winemakers craft world-class wines for every palate. The next Taste of Sonoma is on June 22, 2024.

We talk with editor Daedalus Howell (also a filmmaker, writer, actor, and conceptual artist) to talk about the state of so-called "underground" newspapers.

Sonoma County has 63 000 acres of vineyards and produces on order of 200 000 000 bottles of wine a year. The wine industry is huge part of our exporting and tourist economies and a large part of the experience of living here. Which is why I am excited to host our first industry expert.In her twenty years in the Wine Industries of Italy, Spain, and Sonoma County, Brooke Herron has had a dozen roles, from wine pourer to e-commerce consultant to wine judge - most recently with the SF Chronicles Annual, which is the biggest survey of North American wines. As Sonoma County's most prominent wine journalist she has written for the likes of Decanter, The SOMM journal, Sonoma Magazine, The North Bay Bohemian, Fodor's, and Italy Magazine. Brooke talks breaking into wine journalism, judging, tasting, the romance of wine, wine as a model of connoisseurship,  Sonoma county's 19 grape growing regions, the branding of Sonoma County as Wine Country, reactions against that, problems the industry has engendered, and the major trends and changes the industry faces heading into an uncertain future.WEBSITES: https://muckrack.com/brooke-herron-1https://www.instagram.com/winewalksandlanguageimmersion/https://www.linkedin.com/in/herronbrooke/

Timo Marshall from Spirit Works Distillery joins Harry Duke on Brew Ha Ha today in the KSRO studios. Spirit Works Distillery is coming into its tenth year. Based in the Barlow, they are a small family run operation, “grain to glass.” They have a Spirit Club too. They are perhaps best known for their Sloe Gin and their Bourbon has won several awards recently, including a "Best Of" from the North Bay Bohemian.  In 2020 they won Distillery of the Year, which was “hugely flattering” but there was no celebration due to the pandemic. The award focusses on how the distillery operates and their general philosophy as well as quality of product. They received by a Zoom conference. For him and his wife Ashby, the head distiller, they felt like it was a real career milestone. Timo was born in Britian and became interested in spirits early on. His grandmother taught him how to make sloe gin. He was fascinated by having to forage for Sloe berries and by learning the local traditions. He is proud to be making Sloe gin in the old traditional way. The Sloe berry grows on the blackthorn bush that was planted as a hedgerow in England for centuries because it's thorny and protects the fields. In the late Autumn it produced very tart sour berries. Slider is Cider with Sloe berries. The British nation owes a debt to whoever first put Sloe berries into gin. Their Sloe Gin is far less sugary than the English one. They wanted to create one that is “...very fruit forward, with sour tart plummy flavors, a cranberry, citrussy flavor, very special.” In the UK some people drink it neat after dinner, and in the US it is a cocktail ingredient, anywhere its flavor is desired, such as in a Manhattan. People can add a dash to some sparkling wine to make a kind of Sloe Royale. It's also nice with ice. The tasting room open Wednesday through Sunday in the Barlow in Sebastopol. Their tasting room staff is friendly and a visit is an educational experience. There is a window into the production space, for all to see. The still is a large copper structure that is beautiful to see. Part of making Sloe Gin is making regular gin, which in turn requires pure spirits so they do it all. Timo calls it a “grain to glass” facility. They bring in whole grain, wheat from the Sacramento area, which they mill and mash then distill. They also make a Bourbon whiskey, called Four-Grain Straight Bourbon Whiskey. It is a true California made Bourbon. That has to be at least 51% corn, then wheat and rye and topped off with some malted barley. Then it is stored in American oak barrels. American White Oak is what gives the vanillas and butterscotch flavors to American whiskey. They use 53-gallon barrels, a normal standard size. Herlinda Heras calls in from Italy, where it is 2:20 AM, and she is there to be a judge in the Italian national beer competition called Birra dell'Anno (“Beer of the Year”). Herlinda was in Italy two years ago just before the pandemic. She is visiting friends here and there, then she will go to Rimini, on the coast near Bologna, for the beer convention. She will be back soon with beers to share.

Should a political lobbyist and real estate investor also be the owner of a major regional newspaper that happens to have bought up the most of the competition? Northern California's Sonoma County provides a case study: lobbyist/investor Darius Anderson is also a principal owner of the county's largest and primary daily newspaper for all of Northern California (and most of its other print media too). Today's guests are longtime independent, investigative reporters Will Carruthers and Peter Byrne. They return to the program to discuss their recent reporting which further examines some of Anderson's ethically-questionable activities, and why the people of the area are likely to be kept uninformed about them. Then Peter Byrne stays for the second half of the program, and explains the now-widespread and dubious practice of "native advertising:” advertisements in the format of news stories, sometimes written by the newspaper's own reporters, thereby pulling down the traditional 'firewall' between the editorial and business sides of journalism. Notes: Will Carruthers is a staff reporter for the North Bay Bohemian and Pacific Sun weekly newspapers, serving Northern California's Marin, Sonoma, and Napa counties. He has two recent articles on Darius Anderson's dealings involving a local rail agency; they can be read here. Peter Byrne is an investigative journalist who has written on a wide array of topics, from science and medicine to public finance. Byrne's work can be found here.

Today's guests say that the National Park Service is betraying its mission at California's Point Reyes National Seashore by favoring legacy cattle ranches and dairies over preservation of the land and the survival of the native Tule Elk. Peter Byrne and Will Carruthers also present examples of the local ranch and dairy businesses wielding undue influence in the region's  politics, and corrupting a local land-preservation nonprofit. They add that only the presence of an independent weekly newspaper has enabled the public to be aware of these problems.   Notes:   Peter Byrne is an investigative journalist who has written on a wide array of topics, from science and medicine to public finance. His article “Apocalypse Cow” can be read at www.pacificsun.com. All of Byrne's work can be found at www.PeterByrne.info Will Carruthers is the staff reporter for the Pacific Sun and North Bay Bohemian weekly newspapers, serving California's Marin, Sonoma and Napa counties.

This week’s revolutionary is Lorelle Saxena. Lorelle is a doctor of Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine and the founder of The Saxena Clinic. She’s been voted "Best Acupuncturist in Sonoma County" five years in a row in the North Bay Bohemian's annual Reader Poll. While she treats a variety of patients, her work specializes in trauma and anxiety. Lorelle enjoys writing, bicycling and spending time with her husband and their young son. She also prides herself in being a very nice person (most of the time).Lorelle joins us to discuss her story; her experience growing up in Hawaii and how that shaped her view of race in America. She then takes us on a journey through the 12 years she spent living in New York City - where she first felt the parallelism of race, professionally transitioned from music to medicine and, through acupuncture, found her happiness and fulfillment. In the midst of her creating safe spaces for her clients and being a nice person, Lorelle is also a force to be reckoned with. She talks to us about the issues that are important to her, how she advocates for those struggling with their body image (encouraging us to feel good over being skinny) and provides us with some tips on nutrition and wellness, along with advice about healing.Some Questions I Ask:Where did Lorelle grow up? (1:13)What are some philosophies of Chinese Nutritional Therapy? (21:43)About the intersectionality and challenges that arise with navigating the world as women, and the correlation with physical symptoms? (41:31)What advice can Lorelle offer to someone who wants to be like her? (56:24)What does Lorelle think are the most important issues for us to focus on? (1:10:12)In This Episode, You Will Learn:How Lorelle went from music to acupuncture and medicine (16:43)When acupuncture is the most ideal to use (32:52)How acupuncture school supported Lorelle in finding her voice, leaving an abusive relationship and her journey to happiness (50:09 )How Lorelle built an intentional business that is feminist, navigating the world and contributing to it (1:07:36 )Host: Jillian FosterGuest: Lorelle SaxenaResources:The Saxena Clinic - WebsiteThe Saxena Clinic - TwitterLorelle Saxena - InstagramLorelle Saxena - Facebook See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Today on Brew Ha Ha our guests from Barrel Brothers brewing Company. are Wesley Deal, a founder and brewmaster of Barrel Brothers. We also have Barrel Brothers account rep Tom and JJ from Becoming Independent, who will describe their new collaboration. Wesley Deal is a founder and brewmaster of Barrel Brothers Brewing Company. Tony is an account rep. Wes tells how his brother Daniel and father-in-law Tom got started with a home brew kit and formed a brewing partnership. He also did the UC Davis brewing program. Barrel Brothers Brewing Company was founded in 2015. They are located in Windsor with a taproom, but they are mostly production focussed. They do live music and food trucks every Friday. Becoming Independent, a local organization that helps people with any kind of developmental disabilities. JJ explains their connection to Barrel Brothers is that they are the sole concessionaire on the local Smart Train, providing food and beverage service and they have collaborated on a Barrel Brothers beer that they serve on the train. Steve mentions the cover story on the North Bay Bohemian this week is about the creative graphic artwork associated with the craft brewing movement. The IPA that Barrel Brothers has made to help Becoming Independent is for sale on the Smart Train and other places. Mark says it’s an IPA more towards a pale ale. They took their hazy IPA recipe and fermented it with California ale yeast. Classic West Coast IPAs are usually clear, a little bitter, dryer. Hazy IPAs are usually more full bodied and tend more toward tropical hops flavors. This uses three kinds of hops, El Dorado, Brew One (both more tropical) and Cascade, a traditional. They did this to appeal to a wide range of palettes and Mark thinks it's a success. Becoming Independent also sponsors art programs and their art is on this label. “They made the beer in the spirit of the art piece.” Becoming Independent was founded in 1967 by a group of parents that got together to take care of their families’ needs. They run a professional arts program and train individuals for jobs based on the individual’s goals. Steve Jaxon has been a big supporter of Becoming Independent for 30 years in Sonoma County. JJ describes how the Barrel Brothers and Becoming Independent collaboration evolved. He worked with the Barrel Brothers to get their beer on sale on the Smart Train for one month, then it was renewed, then they decided to brew the special beer.

This edition of Daedalus Howell’s Night School of the Mind, is brought to you by Quantum Deadline, "...a noirish, sci-fi-lite detective story with a heap of self-parody that's by turns poignant, witty and comic..." says the North Bay Bohemian. And I agree because I wrote it and you can get it on Amazon right now in ebook and paperback. Remember when the entertainment industry was pushing the term “transmedia?” Yeah, neither do I but I do know what it means, because all I really need to know I learned on Wikipedia. Transmedia storytelling “is the technique of telling a single story or story experience across multiple platforms and formats using current digital technologies.” The entry was first created in 2015, back before the prefix “trans” took on the cultural heft of gender issues and the term “media” became a rapidly deflating political football. Plus, “transmedia” always sounded like one of those meaningless corporate constructions like “multichannel” or “accountability.” So, how do we refer to the technique of telling a single story or story experience across multiple platforms? Richard Wagner used the term Gesamtkunstwerk but the scope of media at the time didn’t reach beyond 15 hours of the Ring Cycle. Besides, gesamtkunstwerk sounds like something to say after a sneeze. I bring this up because I've been creating an immersive transmedia experience within a self-consistent fictional universe. Think Tolkien's Middle Earth or that galaxy far, far away. Or the Marvel Cinematic Universe, or even the the Dublin of James Joyce's Ulysses, or the intertextuality of Kurt Vonnegut’s Midwest and you get the idea. In my case, the scope is narrowed to my own particular take on Petaluma, CA, where I grew up and, 20 years later, repatriated. I realize that sounds like the premise of a terrible TV show wherein the protagonist lives in the big city, gets knocked on his ass, and returns to small-town Americana and reconnects with old friends, lost loves, and forgotten dreams — and maybe even himself. That’s not my story. The fictional Lumaville is a sort of psychic space laid over the topography of the places that have long haunted me. It operates as a kind of imagined parallel universe inhabited by a protagonist who is, likewise, a parallel version of its author. But with a far darker world view. I like to put it like this: “I create autobiographical fictions that draw on my experiences as a small town reporter – but with more drinking, danger and death. They’re semantically-engineered to make you feel better than I do. And, let me tell you, I feel just fucking great.” Conceptually, I consider the endeavor literary performance art and I'll swear up and down that it's a true story if asked. Because, depending on your brand of quantum physics, it is – somewhere. In a way, creating this fictional, alternate universe isn't an act of fiction so much as reporting the history of another reality – one that I call the Lumaverse. This is the context in which I wrote my genre novel experiment Quantum Deadline as well as the screenplay for Pill Head, our upcoming feature film in which a pill-addicted young woman undergoes an experimental sleep treatment and awakes wayyy later to find she's on the verge of a psychic breakthrough ...or psychotic breakdown. “But, Mr. Howell,” you ask, “Besides your obsession with prescription drugs and inability mature beyond the environs of your youth, why do this all this work in different media? Is it just massive ADD?” Good question. This is how I got started... Read the rest at DaedalusHowell.com.

The Handoff… DAVID: The art of theater and the inevitability of change - they’ve gone together from the beginning of, well, of theater. And I’m not talking about the pocket change that most theater artists earn for their work, or the mundane kinds of change - like ‘scenery changes’ and ‘quick changes in the dressing room. The art form itself has changed over the centuries, from a single bard standing in the square reciting an epic poem, to Greek choruses expounding exposition, to men playing women, to women playing men, to men writing plays in which people drop F-bombs, to women writing plays in which women talk to each other about something other than men. The audience changes too, mostly by turning gray, but sometimes by turning the tables on the theater establishment and demanding something new. And, inevitably, those of us who give our opinions on the art of theater, we change too. And that’s good, because new voices and new ideas always serve to keep things interesting and fresh. Which is a long, theatrical way of saying that after nearly ten years of contributing my thoughts - and my voice - to this weekly ‘Second Row Center’ radio segment, it’s time for me to make a change, and as such, this will be my last time appearing on the radio in this particular format. Why the change? Main reason – I’ve taken a position as the Community Editor with the Petaluma Argus Courier, and the new gig will be taking up a great deal of my time. I will continue as the theater reviewer of the North Bay Bohemian, however, so I will stay in the role of North Bay theater critic, in print, if not on KRCB. Which brings me to Harry Duke, who will be taking over this segment, beginning . . . well, beginning right now. Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr. Harry Duke. HARRY: Thank you, David. We’ll now take a short pause while the listeners say “Who?” Well, I am Harry Duke. I’m a twenty-five-year resident of Sonoma County, a graduate of Sonoma State University’s Theatre Arts program, an actor, a director, an educator, one of the founders of the Marquee Theatre Journalists Awards, the Chief Information Officer of the San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle and a member of the American Theatre Critics Association. I’ve been performing on North Bay stages since the last century and reviewing theatre as far back as my days on my New Jersey high school newspaper. I love theatre. Whether onstage or in the audience, theatre has always been the place I have been most content. We are fortunate to have an abundance of it in this area. With so many choices and limited time or resources, how does one go about deciding what to see? That’s where a critic can be of assistance. I’ll share my thoughts and opinions with you about productions in the North Bay and beyond. The foundation of those thoughts will be my education, my experience, and my love of the art of theatre. I’d rather give you a reason to go see something than to not go see something but, like a baseball umpire, I just call ‘em like I see ‘em. Thanks to my colleague David Templeton and to the folks at KRCB for allowing me to add my voice to the Radio 91 airwaves. So, until next week, I’m Harry Duke… DAVID: And I WAS David Templeton, Second Row Center . . . HARRY: … for KRCB.

This week it is Branden discussing space station microbes, yogurt liqueur, music for wine, kimchi contamination and taste perception. Show notes: [Space Station Live: Microbiome Experiment YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN_JUv2wTY8) Does space travel effect the human microbiome? NASA is running experiments to find out. [Would You Try Yogurt Liqueur? Serious Eats](http://drinks.seriouseats.com/2013/06/bols-yogurt-liqueur-review.html) Smells like yogurt and tastes like booze. [SHED Fermentation Bar North Bay Bohemian](http://www.bohemian.com/northbay/shed-fermentation-bar/Content?oid=2438277) Kombucha straight from the tap. Music for vines claimed to improve wine production - The West Australian German wine maker plays music for his fermenting grapes in an attempt to make fuller bodied wines. [Maybe that fermentation ain’t working so well; 1,642 sickened; outbreak of E. coli O169 in schoolchildren associated with consumption of kimchi, Korea, 2012 barfblog](http://barfblog.com/2013/06/maybe-that-fermentation-aint-working-so-well-1642-sickened-outbreak-of-e-coli-o169-in-schoolchildren-associated-with-consumption-of-kimchi-korea-2012/) E. Coli in Korean kimchi? [Outbreak of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli O169 enteritis in schoolchildren associated with consumption of kimchi, Republic of Korea, 2012 Cambridge Journals Online](http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=8944818) Journal article of Korean kimchi outbreak. [The taste of cutlery: how the taste of food is affected by the weight, size, shape, and colour of the cutlery used to eat it Flavour Journal PDF](http://www.flavourjournal.com/content/pdf/2044-7248-2-21.pdf) Food tastes different depending on what utensil is used to eat it. Rate us on iTunes. Thanks for your support! Send your feedback to podcast@fermup.com or connect with us on Twitter, Facebook or Google+.