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Our guests today are WA indie rock duo Old Mervs, who are gearing up to release one of the most anticipated debut records of 2025. Their self-titled album drops next week on March 21st, a sprawling debut recorded with legendary Aussie producer Chris Collins (Royal Otis, Pacific Avenue). Blending Britpop, grunge, indie rock, and acoustic folk, the record showcases a beautifully textured collection of songs. In today's episode, we chat with Dave House and Henry Carrington-Jones about curating tracks from their entire band history to craft this cohesive and ambitious release. We explore the sonic experimentation that shaped standout tracks like Waiting, discuss working with Chris Collins, and look ahead to the massive tour they have in the coming months.Old Mervs: Instagram / Spotify Purchase Old Mervs and find the guys on tour here.Visit our official website here and follow us across our socials.

Our guests today are one of Australia's most exciting indie rock acts, The Rions. This four-piece band from Sydney's Northern Beaches has been on a meteoric rise since winning triple j Unearthed High in 2021. They've toured with big names like Lime Cordiale and Boy & Bear, and recently wrapped up a European tour with their friends Pacific Avenue. The band just released their highly anticipated second EP, Happiness In a Place It Shouldn't Be—a fantastic collection that blends elements of country and piano ballads with their signature indie rock sound. In today's episode, we chat with Noah and Harley about the new EP, their evolving sound, and how touring Europe compares to their love for regional Australia. We also take a look back at how the band's journey began when these high school friends first came together.The Rions: Instagram / Spotify Purchase Happiness In a Place It Shouldn't Be here and tour tickets hereVisit our official website here and follow us across our socials.

In 2010, Justin Maurer's band CLOROX GIRLS fell apart and he found himself living in his uncle's attic and working as a dental supply salesman in Long Beach, California. He was inspired after seeing James Carman's band IMAGES play a killer set at notorious longshoreman dive Harold's Place in San Pedro.  Harold's bartenders were known to deal trucker speed from behind the bar as well as brandish a sawed off shotgun if any of their patrons got out of line. Being the diviest of Pacific Avenue's drag of working class dive bars, they allowed locals to throw their own punk shows.  Justin made the pilgrimage across the Vincent Thomas Bridge to check out one of these shows and was blown away by IMAGES, a local band who took equal inspiration from late 70s LA punk as well as poppier UK punk like THE BUZZCOCKS.  The vocal harmonies were great and a particular lefty drummer who played his snare and floortom with his arms crossed - one James Carman - was singing lead vocals and backing vocals and harmonies in a way that caught Justin pleasantly off guard.  A few weeks later Justin bought a round of $1 beers for the IMAGES boys at Fern's, one of Long Beach's diviest on East 4th Street, but before taking their first sip they were chucked out by the doorman because every single member of IMAGES was all under 21.  Justin soon produced a music video for the boys (“Frustration”, directed by Vim Crony), and also asked James if he would be up for joining a new band.   Back in Long Beach, Justin and another new friend Cezar Mora, who had played in local bands THE SWITCHUPS and THE BAD MACHINE, were working on a project called LOS LONG BEACH BOYS, a Beach Boys cover band that sung in Spanish.  They hoped to rake in the big bucks at swap meets and lowrider car shows.  Translating and harmonizing an entire Beach Boys set in Spanish proved to be quite the challenge, and Justin and Cezar decided to write originals instead.   James invited his childhood friend Johnny Reyes to audition on bass at LA DRUGZ' first band practice at his parents' house in Carson.  The guys liked his yellow BUZZCOCKS t-shirt, his sense of humor and his mod hairstyle, so he was in.  They celebrated with homemade pancit and lumpia from James' mom. At practice, James mentioned that the best music was like a drug and the name LA DRUGS was pitched.  They looked it up and it seemed there was already a band called LA DRUGS from Boston. And they sucked. The boys decided to differentiate themselves by spelling it with a Z as an homage to THE PLUGZ.  LA DRUGZ began to gig around the South Bay, Orange County and Los Angeles playing spots like The Redwood, The Continental Room, Harold's, The Observatory, Alex's Bar and Vince Lombardi High School (VLHS). They recorded the OUTSIDE PLACE EP with Kid Kevin of CALIMUCHO  in San Pedro and approached Tim and Mark Janchar at HOVERCRAFT RECORDS in Portland, Oregon about releasing it.  The brothers dug it and said yes!  A westcoast tour was promptly arranged around the release of the record and would take the boys north to Sacramento, Oakland, San Francisco, Portland and Seattle.  In Seattle, Kurt Bloch of THE FASTBACKS joined them onstage for a raucous cover of “You're Gonna Miss Me” by 13th Floor Elevators.  The following year of 2015 took the boys out on the road with London's FAT WHITE FAMILY where they kicked off at storied L.A. Venue The Troubadour,  and toured all the way out to  Austin, Texas.  After ripping it up at the final show of their tour at The Chapel in San Francisco, both bands' vans were broken into at the Travel Lodge Motel on Market Street and Valencia where over $20K of gear was stolen along with both bands' suitcases of clothing.  FAT WHITE FAMILY flew back to the UK all wearing LA DRUGZ t-shirts which was the only clean item of clothing each member now owned.  The ALL BURNED DOWN EP was the followup and all things were quiet on the western front UNTIL NOW.   James Carman formed THE REFLECTORS,

Muhaan from Hey So Hungry joins the pod this week to chat about their new track 'Nocturnal', supporting Pacific Avenue and his thoughts on the current issues in our music scene!

This week, a Melbourne Rock n Roller…. Jacob Fitzgerald! He's had a recent support slot with UK outfit Sea Girls and is opening for Pacific Avenue in Sydney next month. Jacob takes us through his love of Bruce Springsteen, old school rock and his band, The Electric City. Find out about the labour of love that is living - and creating music - with lead guitarist, Rick Hollywood. PLUS His new track, Sophia, which drops on Valentine's Day. AND Jacob's Dream Gig Venue, The Heartbreaker Club. Find out why people will be breakin' hearts and wearing PJs whilst having a boogie to Jacob and Huey Lewis. 

Chris Sznewajs is the Managing Partner, Founder and Investment Committee Member of Pacific Avenue Capital Partners. Mr. Sznewajs is responsible for overseeing all aspects of the firm's investment activities along with chairing the Boards of the active portfolio companies. Prior to founding Pacific in 2018, Mr. Sznewajs served as a Principal with The Gores Group where he focused on investing in special situations and corporate carve-outs in the industrials sector. Mr. Sznewajs also was a Manager at Bain & Company in the restructuring and turnaround practice. Mr. Sznewajs graduated from Indiana University with a degree in Finance and Accounting. He has an MBA from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management and is also a Certified Public Accountant (CPA). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sey5_87-XWY

Join us on Triple M Homegrown as Matty O reconnects with Jimmy Vann from The Vanns, six months after their last chat on the album release day for 'Last Of Your Kind'. In this vibrant and engaging episode, we dive into the band's exhilarating journey, from playing massive festival gigs to their recent sell-out shows in Melbourne and Adelaide. Discover what makes The Vanns tick, and what fans can expect at their upcoming performances in Sydney, Perth, and Fremantle. Beyond the stage, Jimmy opens up about his passions outside music. Hear about his impressive feat in the Sydney Marathon alongside Oscar Dawson of Holy Holy, and his fun golf outings with Pacific Avenue. But that's not all – Jimmy teases what's next for The Vanns. From hints of a new album to a national tour, this episode is packed with insider info and heartfelt discussions. Whether you're a long-time fan or just discovering The Vanns, this episode offers a unique glimpse into the life of one of Australia's most exciting bands.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Join us on Triple M Homegrown as Matty O reconnects with Jimmy Vann from The Vanns, six months after their last chat on the album release day for 'Last Of Your Kind'. In this vibrant and engaging episode, we dive into the band's exhilarating journey, from playing massive festival gigs to their recent sell-out shows in Melbourne and Adelaide. Discover what makes The Vanns tick, and what fans can expect at their upcoming performances in Sydney, Perth, and Fremantle. Beyond the stage, Jimmy opens up about his passions outside music. Hear about his impressive feat in the Sydney Marathon alongside Oscar Dawson of Holy Holy, and his fun golf outings with Pacific Avenue. But that's not all – Jimmy teases what's next for The Vanns. From hints of a new album to a national tour, this episode is packed with insider info and heartfelt discussions. Whether you're a long-time fan or just discovering The Vanns, this episode offers a unique glimpse into the life of one of Australia's most exciting bands.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Great Escape 2023.... three days of great music and great company.... with tracks by... Germein, Pacific Avenue, Reb Fountain, Mestizo, Bibi Club, The Heavy Heavy, Prima Queen, Islet, The Oozes, Moon Matess, Marina [...] The post PCP#793… The Great Escape 2023… appeared first on Pete Cogle's Podcast Factory.

Max and Sam catch up with Cam from The Vanns to chat about six new rock tracks that you need to have in your playlists. Along the way, we try to give Vanns fans a group moniker, we discover some great South Coast artists, and we get an explainer on ⅞ time signatures.Connect with The Vanns on Instagram and Facebook, and listen to Ever, the latest single from their upcoming album "Last of Your Kind" on Spotify and Apple Music. New Music:Kill - Trophy EyesTake Aim - Frankie's WayStrawberry Daydream - Pacific AvenueAngry Catfish - Spici WaterNow Now - Chloe DaddEVER - The VannsDiscover more new music and hear your favourite artists with 78 Amped on Instagram, on Facebook.

Join Matty O on Triple M Homegrown as he sits down with Dom Littrich of Pacific Avenue to discuss their latest album 'Flowers'. Dom shares his unique insights into the inspirations and creative process behind the album, as one of the driving forces behind Pacific Avenue's signature sound. During the show, Dom talks about his experience working at The Grove Studios on The Central Coast in NSW, describing it as a "super magical place" that offers everything a musician could ever want. Tune in as we play 'Memory Lane', where Dom shares an unforgettable story about going on a silent retreat with Inspired Unemployed. Plus, you'll hear about Pacific Avenue's experience supporting Louis Tomlinson of One Direction, including a wild night out at a Perth nightclub that left Dom buzzing for weeks. But that's not all - Matty O and Dom also discuss Pacific Avenue's success in winning over British crowds, as well as playing a game of Write, Party, Dinner featuring iconic artists Powderfinger, Elton John, and The Beatles.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Join Matty O on Triple M Homegrown as he sits down with Dom Littrich of Pacific Avenue to discuss their latest album 'Flowers'. Dom shares his unique insights into the inspirations and creative process behind the album, as one of the driving forces behind Pacific Avenue's signature sound. During the show, Dom talks about his experience working at The Grove Studios on The Central Coast in NSW, describing it as a "super magical place" that offers everything a musician could ever want. Tune in as we play 'Memory Lane', where Dom shares an unforgettable story about going on a silent retreat with Inspired Unemployed. Plus, you'll hear about Pacific Avenue's experience supporting Louis Tomlinson of One Direction, including a wild night out at a Perth nightclub that left Dom buzzing for weeks. But that's not all - Matty O and Dom also discuss Pacific Avenue's success in winning over British crowds, as well as playing a game of Write, Party, Dinner featuring iconic artists Powderfinger, Elton John, and The Beatles.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Pacific Avenue Band live at the beautiful Seascape Resort

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Thursday night host Bec is joined by the lovely Dom from Kiama-based surf-rock outfit Pacific Avenue.  The pair chat about the band's forthcoming album titled 'Flowers' (out May 5), their signature sound and other inspirations.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

LIKEITORNOT is back for the first episode of 2023, with Chef Marshall, owner of A Pizza Little Italy, a brand new, New Haven Connecticut style pizzeria in downtown Tacoma off 9th & Pacific Avenue. He speaks on how he learned to cook from simply being in the kitchen with his mother, who learned how to cook from following recipes she cut out from The NY Times. I'm not gonna give away too much in this write up here but current & aspiring business owners should take heed on a lot of the tips Marshall shares in this episode from literal in the kitchen tips, to how to run a successful business. So tune in & share with your friends if you feel so inclined. And be on the lookout for the patio to open this summer! I appreciate all the continued support and hope you find this episode helpful & as entertaining as I did, LIKEITORNOT! And if you haven't been yet, make sure to put a trip to A Pizza Little Italy in your plans for the near future. Tell them Coach Pepperoni sent ya! And it's pronounced AH BEETZ!!! But you knew that.. 

Pacific Avenue is a four-piece alt rock band from Gerringong. In the last couple of years they have played support spots for some major artists including Tash Saltana, Louis Tomlinson, The Wombats and Ocean Alley just to name a few. This weekend, Pacific Avenue will play the second ever headline gig in the brand new band room at The Hamilton Station Hotel.

Matty and Chris Holland (our awesome Musical Director) touch on the best New Music from around the country featuring, Kingswood, Casey Barnes, The Superjesus, Pacific Avenue and more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Based in Naarm/Melbourne, The Velvet Club and their unforgettable stage presence have taken their live show from backyards to sharing stages across the country with the likes of Great Gable, The Rions, Pacific Avenue & DICE to name a few. Forming in 2018 through loose connections, the band kicked off their career with a gig in AJ's parents backyard & they haven't looked back, blossoming as friends and as a band. This episode I chat with The Velvet Club about their latest single 'Lose Track' & their upcoming EP. We discussed our mums (again), what goes on in their heads whilst theyre up on stage and hilarious plane stories.

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Let's welcome newcomers Pearl & The Oysters, who settled in Los Angeles in 2020 full of hope for the future of their band. Once here, they found themselves in a huge city-turned-ghost town, and their only avenue of escape was a mental one. “Pacific Avenue” is their way of sharing what they experienced.   

On this midweek show, Crystal chats with Julie Anderson about her campaign for Washington Secretary of State - why she decided to run, how partisanship affects the office, and the experience she brings to manage the Secretary of State's broad portfolio. With regard to managing elections, they discuss her plans to increase voter turnout, her stance and approach to local jurisdictions potentially adopting alternative systems such as ranked choice voting, and how to handle misinformation that creates mistrust in our elections. Crystal then gives Julie an opportunity to respond to the many attacks from her detractors before switching gears to dig into her thoughts on managing the state archives - both preserving historical records and ensuring that the Public Records Act is administered efficiently and effectively. As always, a full text transcript of the show is available below and at officialhacksandwonks.com.  Follow us on Twitter at @HacksWonks. Find the host, Crystal Fincher, on Twitter at @finchfrii and find Julie Anderson at @nonpartisansos.   Resources Campaign Website - Julie Anderson   Transcript   [00:00:00] Crystal Fincher: Welcome to Hacks & Wonks. I'm Crystal Fincher, and I'm a political consultant and your host. On this show, we talk with policy wonks and political hacks to gather insight into local politics and policy in Washington State through the lens of those doing the work with behind-the-scenes perspectives on what's happening, why it's happening, and what you can do about it. Full transcripts and resources referenced in the show are always available at officialhacksandwonks.com and in our episode notes. Well, I am very excited to be welcoming to the show - Julie Anderson, who is a candidate for Secretary of State, which is one of the most important and consequential offices in the state and going to be up for election on your November ballot. Welcome, Julie. [00:00:55] Julie Anderson: Thank you, Crystal - and thanks for acknowledging that the Secretary of State's office is really important. It's nice to meet somebody who's excited about picking leadership for the important office. That's - thank you. [00:01:07] Crystal Fincher: Absolutely. So what made you decide to run for Secretary of State? [00:01:12] Julie Anderson: Well, I certainly wasn't expecting to do this in 2022 - but definitely the importance of the office. I'm one of the end users of the office - the Secretary of State is my authorizing agency and leader for elections on the county level and also for document recording - so it's an important office to me and I know it's important to the other 38 counties as well. So when Kim picked up and left, I jumped right in. And I was also inspired to do it because I wanted, I saw this as an opportunity to make a shift in the office and run as a Nonpartisan and to hopefully create a little bit of an air bubble in the office and normalize the idea of hiring professional election administrators who aren't associated with the political party. So that's why I'm running. [00:02:10] Crystal Fincher: And that has been a difference this cycle that we've seen - just that people are not familiar with. This office has been held by a Republican for several years, the only statewide office that was previously held by a Republican. With the appointment of former Senator Hobbs to now being Secretary Hobbs, which - a lot of people were advocating for your appointment in that seat, citing your experience for that - but he is there and a Democrat. But you have decided to run as an Independent. Why do you think being Independent is so important to the office? And do you think that we've suffered from having it be a partisan office in the past? [00:02:53] Julie Anderson: One quick thing - I'm making a real point of calling myself Nonpartisan rather than Independent - because as you've noticed in Chris Vance's race, he calls himself an Independent and he has designs on creating an independent third party. I have no designs on creating a group or a party and - I don't have a group - so I am literally nonpartisan. Have we suffered by having partisans in that office before? I think that we've been really lucky with Sam Reed and Kim Wyman taking the job very seriously and performing the job in a nonpartisan fashion. I do think, however, that their party affiliation dragged some unnecessary drama into the office and made their work more difficult. It is a political office and so the opposing team is always looking for a way to knock you off at the end of your term, and is always positioning to put their best candidate forward doing that. So there's always a little jockeying around depriving the incumbent of oxygen and victories so that they're less credible whenever they run for re-election. And then in the electorate, there is also skepticism because we live in an increasingly hyper-polarized political environment, people are just naturally suspicious of somebody that holds a political party that they don't belong to. So those are two reasons why I think that partisanship in this job does not help or add value to the work. And I don't think that having a party affiliation does add value to the policy work or the operations of the office. [00:04:38] Crystal Fincher: Now you have talked a lot about the experience that you bring to this office should you be elected. Can you talk about what your experience has been as Pierce County Auditor and how you feel it's going to be beneficial as Secretary of State? [00:04:51] Julie Anderson: Sure. So for over 12 years - 13 in November - I've been the nonpartisan county auditor for Pierce County, which is our state's second largest county. Which means I've conducted hundreds of elections in Washington State and have also presided over a recording document program - making recording documents, preserving them, and making them accessible to the public - and then also business registry and licensing. So with that experience, I'm familiar from the bottom up with Washington State's votewa.gov election management system because my team was part of, really, building it along with other lead counties and obviously the Secretary of State's office. I sat on the Executive Steering Committee while that was under development and when it launched and went live in 2019. So having that background, I think helps, puts me in a position to better help the county auditors and the election administrators using that system. It also helps me to design and implement policy proposals for the Legislature to consider since I know how the system works. And it also puts me in a position for visioning how to modernize the office, what the needs are to go the next step, and where the gaps are. And when we're talking about elections - where the gaps are specifically - we don't have a lot of residual gains left to make in Washington State, but the ones that we do need to make are going to be the most difficult and challenging. And I think that's where experience matters. [00:06:33] Crystal Fincher: It absolutely matters - and it matters for more than just the elections too. The elections are certainly the most visible part of what the Secretary of State does, but it has such a broad portfolio of responsibilities. And just recapping those briefly for people who may be unfamiliar. In addition to supervising local elections, filing and verifying initiatives and referenda, and distributing the Voters' Pamphlets - also responsible for registering private corporations, limited partnerships and trademarks; registering individuals and organizations, and commercial fundraisers involved in charitable solicitations; administering the state's Address Confidentiality program, which is critically important for survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking - so very important too, public safety really - collecting and preserving the historical records of the state and making those records available for research; coordinating implementation of the state's records management laws, which are constantly in the news for one reason or another; affixing the state's seal; regulating use of the seal; filing and attesting to official acts of the governor; certifying what the Legislature does; and sometimes even called upon to represent the state in international trade and cultural missions and greeting dignitaries. There's so much under that umbrella, each of which seems like it could potentially be its own office really, but so broad. How has your experience as an auditor helped to prepare you for the full portfolio of what you're going to be managing if you're elected to be Secretary of State? [00:08:07] Julie Anderson: I would say it's auditor plus my whole professional portfolio. So I come with public and nonprofit leadership experience in human services, criminal justice, and economic development. I was notably the Executive Director of the YWCA in Tacoma-Pierce County, so that speaks to the sensitivity and understanding of the Address Confidentiality Program, and I can tell you how I would apply that to expand that program. And then in economic development, I was a Senior Policy Advisor for the State Department of Commerce, where my portfolio included workforce development and developing a green economy and also innovation zones. But that body of work in the public and nonprofit sector means that I'm really tuned into the importance of community, and the unique conditions in community, and understanding that I have to have a partnership in community to do any of those things well. A top-down management model or staying isolated in that executive position is not going to make the organization better or better connected with the citizens and residents of Washington. And we don't just serve citizens, we serve the residents of Washington State. So I think that my community connections and my work on the 2020 census, for example, I have some great ideas about how to engage community in each of those programs, whether it's talking about voter turnout, access for people living with disabilities, or how we are talking about curating the heritage and history of Washington State to make sure that we don't disappear people and cultures and make sure that we're doing culturally relevant screening of our collection and portfolio and working in partnership with community to do that. [00:10:04] Crystal Fincher: So now you mentioned voter engagement and turnout - you've talked on a few occasions about efforts to increase voter registration, and increasing voter registration is not necessarily consistent with increasing voter turnout. What do you propose to do to increase voter turnout, to increase the amount of people who are participating in our government and democracy, making their voices heard? And how are you going to go about that? [00:10:32] Julie Anderson: Well, it's my belief that election administrators are facilitators, not catalysts. And looping back to community, I'm going to leverage community a lot. For example, I think you have to pay attention, first of all, to data and trends. We know that the four-year election cycle has really unique peaks and valleys that are pretty darn predictable. In a presidential election cycle, we probably don't need a lot of help with getting the word out. But in these off-year elections and in local elections, we need a tremendous amount of help because that's when voter turnout is the lowest. One of the things that I would propose doing is partnering with local government and with schools to focus on municipal elections and pooling resources and having - the Secretary of State can certainly provide materials and infrastructure, but the execution of how that gets delivered in a community is going to be unique in every community. But I can see municipalities all focusing their energy on a one-week period where we're getting voters prepared to vote, getting them to develop a plan, and helping them if they need reminding about what their local government does for them and with them. And then partnering with schools in that same one-week period where you're doing some education in schools about local government and then challenging kids to go home and talk to their parents about the election, so they can have a dinner table, a kitchen table conversation about it. So there's concentrated energy in just one week, it's hyper-localized - because strategies that are going to work in Asotin County is going to be completely different than King County - and locals know best. So I see myself as being a facilitator and having local communities tell the Secretary of State how I can help. But at least laying out a plan and applying some leadership to get everybody pulling in one direction, concentrating on one week, I think would be helpful. You have probably visited my website and you also know that I plan a VOICE Program, which is Voter Outreach and Innovative Civic Engagement, where I'd be replicating some really successful strategies from the 2020 Census, pooling philanthropic dollars with government dollars, and then having a very low-barrier granting program where communities can propose their own voter outreach and engagement programs. And again, I can't wait to see how creative people are, and it's going to get very - we're going to get some very niche products, but yeah. So those are a couple of ideas, but I would say that the first thing is really paying attention to the data, not just the trends that I talked about - which elections have low turnout and don't - but also geography. One of the great things about the Washington State Voting Rights Act that has been proposed - we already have a Voting Rights Act, but what I think of as Phase 2 that's been proposed - is it came with money and authority for the University of Washington to hold data and they're going to be getting electoral inputs, like candidate filing, rates of voter registration, rates of ballot return, and combining that with demographic data. And doing basically heat mapping and analysis so that we can also look at geographic areas and populations that have low voter turnout or low levels of engagement. So let's pay attention to the trends, let's pay attention to what that Washington State Voting Rights Act data tells us, and start developing strategies in response to that. [00:14:28] Crystal Fincher: That makes sense, and the ideas that you have - especially that one week, I'd love to see that implemented - that would be exciting. There are also efforts to increase turnout through some structural changes to the ways that we vote, and there are changes that are on the ballot in several jurisdictions right now in our state, including ranked choice voting, approval voting, a number of different things. Are you in favor of ranked choice voting, approval voting, some of these changes? Do you support those? [00:14:55] Julie Anderson: I support the local option bill for ranked choice voting that has been kicking around in the Legislature for about six years now, and I look forward to supporting local jurisdictions that want to adopt ranked choice voting. I think it is head and shoulders the leader in electoral reform proposals, and it seems to be particularly popular among young voters - and Gen Xers and Millennials are going to be the biggest share of the voting population by 2028 - if we're talking about increasing voter turnout, we've also got to look at youth and really change the way we talk with youth - not talk at them, and not using government channels. I look forward to harnessing some of that young adult leadership and having them tell us the best ways to engage with young voters, and one of the things that they're saying is ranked choice voting. There's a lot of disenchantment with our primary system, and I think that they're really looking for alternatives and wanting untraditional candidates and maybe minority party candidates to have a fighting chance in the primary. So I think they're excited about that, and if your community decides to take it on, I'm ready to support. There's a load of work to be done to make ranked choice voting successful, and there's a lot of rulemaking that falls on the Secretary of State, so one of the first things I'm going to do is gather together a cohort of communities that are seriously talking about this and start working on the rulemaking so that we have a chance of having some standardization as this rolls out. [00:16:32] Crystal Fincher: Absolutely, and one component of that that I think is particularly important - I'm wondering what your perspective is on it - is the voter education component. Whenever there is a change - we struggle with our existing system to make sure everyone understands how to make sure that everyone understands how to vote, and even something like - hey, remember to sign the ballot - still slips through the cracks for a lot of people. Several things can seem very intuitive, but maybe not actually be for everyone for a lot of different reasons. When we're making a major change, the importance of education is that much greater. How do you propose, when there are changes, to make sure that we do have an adequate amount of voter education in all of our communities across the state so that people aren't intimidated or disenfranchised by the change? [00:17:23] Julie Anderson: First, taking a clue with other states that have been doing this a while - I've been through several webinars and in-person visits with jurisdictions that do it. But instead of just copying what somebody else does, I want to do usability testing. Assume nothing. Let's get that cohort together, let's get stakeholders and end users together. Do mock ballots, do mock voter instructions. And actually test it through scientific usability testing and find out where the errors are going to be made and what we can do to change it. And that includes - ranked choice voting ballots that may need to be translated for people that don't speak English well, or different types of ranked choice voting - that's the other thing that's not well understood is - the local option doesn't force you to combine a primary and a general election and just have one election. It's an option. It also leaves open the opportunity for applying a ranked choice voting ballot and using proportional representation elections. There's all sorts of different ways that a ranked choice voting ballot can be applied depending on what the jurisdiction is trying to achieve. We need to do usability testing in all of those forms. [00:18:44] Crystal Fincher: Looking at that and the coordination that's necessary for that, your opponent has talked about - hey, there's a lot of misinformation and disinformation out in the current environment. Now's not the time to make changes, we're experiencing enough of a crisis with trust from some people in our current systems - it's going to require a lot of education, may disenfranchise people. Do you think that's reason enough to not move forward with things that could potentially increase turnout or help better represent communities? [00:19:17] Julie Anderson: Name a reform that didn't have opposition. Name a reform that didn't have barriers and reasons not to do it. Reform is hard in the beginning, and I think we need to have more confidence than that. We need to approach it carefully. We need to do that usability testing. We need to do lots of voter education. Tactically, one of the things that I would like to do - you've noticed on my website, one of the things I propose with transparency is - I want to find a secure way to have voted ballots and cast vote records visible to the public. Other states do it. There is a way to do it. We may need legislation - because paramount is preserving voter privacy, right? That goes without saying. We absolutely can't do it if we can't guarantee voter privacy. But if there is a way that we can, and I believe that there is, and if we can get rules made by the Secretary or legislative fixes, then making those available is really going to help demystify people who don't trust a ranked choice voting ballot and the algorithm that gets used to reallocate votes. If we can make cast vote records public, there is open source software available where they can run the records themselves and retest the vote allocation if they want to. So, I want to look at things like that not only because there is a lot of public interest in auditing elections, but because it also is an enabling feature to making ranked choice voting more understandable and independently auditable. And there is some really neat communication tools that other jurisdictions have used in terms of color coding the reallocation of votes between each round, and they've gotten good results. [00:21:13] Crystal Fincher: And the issue of trust overall is one that you will have to contend with. [00:21:17] Julie Anderson: Always. [00:21:17] Crystal Fincher: We are dealing with an environment where there is certainly disinformation and people who are just spreading information that is false, whether it's denial of the 2020 election federally, or in our state and local elections, who question the security of vote by mail, of ballot dropboxes, of a variety of things that we have implemented successfully. And what they cite about them is false. That's a bad faith effort. But because of that bad faith effort, there are a lot of people who genuinely believe that there are problems - from all sorts of backgrounds, for all sorts of reasons. So how, in this environment where there is disinformation, do you help increase trust in our voting systems and our electoral system with people who frankly just don't have faith in it currently? [00:22:13] Julie Anderson: First of all, not acting defensively, and not acting aggressively, and having a nonpartisan message. The best thing that we can do to maintain and increase confidence is to keep doing what we're doing, which is running error-free elections that are auditable and serve the people. We can do some minor things that I've suggested on my website for transparency. We can do additional risk-limiting audits. Doing a statewide risk-limiting audit, I think, is a good idea. We currently have audits in counties that are called by the political parties, but they're not statistically valid batches of ballots that are being hand counted, and every county is counting a different race. To the Loren Culps of the world, who are just mystified by how the top-of-the-ticket candidate could lose, while the down-ballot candidates prevail, a statewide risk-limiting audit would be really helpful. And by the way, I would be proposing this as a best practice, even if we weren't currently getting pushback from candidates and parties. But to loop back to your question about confidence. Crystal, this is where I think that the nonpartisanship really helps. There's a good study out there that shows that you can, by double digits, move - and this is a phrase I do not like to use, but for shorthand's sake, let's say an election denier, somebody that really believes that the 2020 election was stolen. Even among that group, you can move them by double digits into the confidence tally by simply talking about the due process and the ability to challenge an election. Instead of acting aggressively and defensively about the accusation that it's stolen, just calmly educate them and inform them how elections can be challenged, the due process, how they can challenge individual voter registrations, and repeat how interested we are in any evidence that they have, and that we don't even need them to go to court for them to present us with evidence. I'm still waiting in Pierce County to get some of that canvassing work that the communities say - the door-to-door stuff that they're doing. They're not doing it in Pierce County, but I'm waiting for that because we can sit down and walk through the data with them. And almost always, it's a misconception of - either they're missing pieces that they don't know, or they're misinterpreting the data - and we can walk through it. And occasionally, I would expect to find a correct case. Occasionally, I would expect them to find, among 4.7 million voters and voter registrations, an error in a voter registration record - and we want to know about it and need help fixing it. [00:25:30] Crystal Fincher: Now, you talk about it - that seems reasonable, that is encouraging data and research, and there's certainly a lot that we can talk to people about with that. And it does seem like not being a partisan may be helpful in explaining that - the trust and faith that people have there. But you've been under attack from the Chair of the Democratic Party over this past week. It looks like saying that - oh, no, no, no, Julie Anderson is a partisan, she is a Republican, has a - I will read it and allow you to respond. I see - testified against bills expanding voter accessibility, against election officials promoting voter outreach and education, office sent flawed ballots, takes no position on campaign finance laws, accountable to no one, have talked about having a consultant and campaign staff or consultants who are Republicans and have supported Republicans. Now, I will say - there are quite a few Democrats that I saw question this and say - especially from Pierce County - saying, well, we've regularly seen Julie Anderson in Democratic events also. But some people countered with - well, now we're looking at her with JT Wilcox. I guess starting with the partisanship, and now you're actually associated with Republicans - and I think Rob McKenna has notably talked about endorsing and supporting you - you have been at those events. Can people credibly see you as a Nonpartisan when they see these associations and these endorsements? [00:27:16] Julie Anderson: Sure. I'm a Nonpartisan because I don't belong to any political party, which is different than not talking to anybody. I am not soliciting or accepting any endorsements from any political party, and I'm also not soliciting or accepting any money. But I regularly ask to be introduced. I try to break into legislative meetings and PCO meetings of both parties. Sometimes they'll let me in to introduce myself, sometimes they won't. I asked JT Wilcox if I could crash his salmon bake because I wanted to meet Republicans, and he said yes. And I'm sure that he got a rash of - from his supporters - for having me there. But just not belonging to a party doesn't mean that I don't talk with people, and I think that's important for the Secretary of State to do. One of the critiques is that I'm accountable to no one - I'm accountable to voters, and I've been re-elected overwhelmingly three times as an election administrator in Pierce County, so I have earned the trust and the votes of the residents of Pierce County who have seen me in action. I think it says something that the political parties don't run opponents against me. Presumably if I'm bad and bad for their party's interests, they're going to run somebody against me. The people who are working on my campaign - it was very difficult to find any consultancy that would take me on as a client because there were both credible Republicans and credible Democrats running in the race, and here comes this Nonpartisan lady wanting a contract with them. That's a business model and a relationship they didn't want to ruin, and so it was very hard to find somebody. I ended up getting a referral from Mary Robnett, who's the Pierce County Prosecutor who ran as a Nonpartisan, and I said, who were your consultants? And she introduced me to Josh Amato, and he has been associated as a Republican, I don't even know if he's still a Republican - I'm imagining that he is - and he has worked on Republican campaigns and Nonpartisan campaigns. This is an income-constrained campaign. I do not have a lot of money. I have been having to run this campaign the way I'll run the Secretary of State's office, which is modestly and judiciously. So I had to wait until the general election to hire a staff person, and when I did, I chose a young gentleman who came from the Derek Kilmer campaign, and had worked on Emily Randall's campaign, and worked with the Alliance for Gun Responsibility. It is true that I contracted with an independent vendor for PR in the primary, and she had Republican roots. But my detractors are cherry-picking - they also failed to notice that I hired a fundraiser who is very progressive and comes from the non-profit community, so I think I'm pretty balanced in who vendors, what kind of vendors are helping me. But most importantly, the vendors don't boss the candidate around. I'm the one that's responsible for every single policy position that you hear me talk about. Do you think the Republican consultant was happy about me saying I support ranked choice voting in the Washington State Voting Rights Act? No, he thought that that was a crazy thing to do - but I'm the boss, not him. I've lost track of the attacks. What other attacks do we want to look at? [00:31:07] Crystal Fincher: Well, I think one worth addressing is testifying against bills expanding voter accessibility - and I think that one, maybe for voters, is probably a concern. If looking at Republicans - hearing the attacks on seemingly democracy, partisanship - hey, we want to stop same-day registration, we don't like vote by mail, we need to reduce the amount of drop boxes, and the types of reforms that we have embraced here in Washington State - and is that going to impact where you stand on those issues and how much of a leader you are there? [00:31:47] Julie Anderson: So, in testifying, I had a leadership role in the statewide Association of County Auditors. So, I was either the Legislative Co-chair on the Legislative Committee or the President. And 39 counties come to a consensus on what their position on bills is - and because of proximity or leadership position, I was often asked to represent the association on those bills. Crystal, name for me a legislative proposal that is perfect on the first day that it's introduced. [00:32:18] Crystal Fincher: Well, I can't do that. I can't do that. [00:32:20] Julie Anderson: Not many. Many of them need to, in the legislative process - through testimony, stakeholder engagement, and the amendment process - needs to be changed. And often county auditors, who are the ones that have to operationalize good ideas and bad ideas, have feedback and have concerns. Most of that testimony was done at a time when the state wasn't paying for state elections, and it was all falling back on county general funds. It wasn't until 2020 that the state passed a bill to start funding their share of state elections, and it didn't take effect until 2021, which does us no good - it's really going to make an impact this year. So, a lot of the testimony was driven by our concerns about resources, time, money, and staffing to get done some complicated things. In other cases, it was technology. So, same-day registration only became viable when we had VoteWA up and running so that we had real-time visibility on registration and balloting transactions around the state. And I will say - again, cherry-picking, my detractors are - in as early as 2015, I was personally advocating for the Washington State Voting Rights Act well before it got passed, even though the association either had a neutral stance or they had constructive feedback and testimony. So, I am a strong supporter of vote-by-mail, strong supporter of same-day registration, strong supporter of just about every electoral reform that's taken place since 2016. And the expansion of ballot dropboxes - I know that one piece of feedback that's been fluttering around is my opposition to dropboxes on college campuses - again, in my role as, in the Association of County Auditors. And - like in Pierce County, at that time, I was really struggling for expanding dropboxes, period, in my community. And I knew, using that geographical and demographic data and that voter turnout data that I used to make decisions, I knew that there were pockets in my community that really could have benefited from a ballot dropbox - as opposed to the University of Washington of Tacoma, which is a commuter school, not a residential school with young people far-flung from all over the United States that might be confused about how to get a ballot or how to register. It's a commuter school. And having a ballot dropbox on that campus, where people are driving to and from their homes to classes, and not being able to install a box at the Housing Authority or at Manitou, which - anyway, you don't know my neighborhoods. [00:35:35] Crystal Fincher: I know a little bit. [00:35:37] Julie Anderson: Okay. All right, all right. So that didn't make a lot of sense to me, and I stand by that. I really think that the control of where ballot dropboxes go should be local, using local intelligence and local needs. I completely support the threshold, like population standards. And by the way, all of this wraps around to why I support the Washington State Voting Rights Act, and the expanded version that's going to come up in session again this year. Right now, we have a Voting Rights Act that is really specifically tailored or focused on vote dilution and that helped us get through redistricting safely. But we are now talking about vote denial and vote abridgment. And I support it strongly for this very reason. If you're going to give local election administrators control over where to place ballot dropboxes, we need to make sure it's not at the detriment of protected populations and that it's doing the most good. And I like that kind of structure. [00:36:47] Crystal Fincher: And I hear you there. I guess the questions that pop up for me personally when I hear that are - one, for me, ideally, shouldn't we be able to find a way to place them in more places, period? And should being a commuter location or a commuter school, given that we aren't limited to returning ballots in a jurisdiction where we're registered, where we vote - a lot of people do commute there, which means a lot of people are there. It's a convenient place to be able to vote. It's an enfranchising thing, even though it may not be for the particular precinct that that ballot dropbox is located in, or neighborhood. Do you factor those things in to making your decisions there? [00:37:34] Julie Anderson: Oh, yeah - I'm making a rookie mistake getting into an argument with the host. So it made perfect sense when I was able to place it at the transit station on the street of Pacific Avenue, just outside of UWT, as opposed to inside a pedestrian plaza not accessible by an automobile and not visible to the general public. And also, by the way, very hard to geolocate on Google Maps for people that are searching for a place to drop their ballot. I do think that the number of ballot dropboxes is increasing - the number is worth looking at, especially because we don't know what's going to happen with the United States Postal Service. By the way, I would work hard as Secretary of State to work with letter carriers to preserve door-to-door delivery. But if that doesn't happen and Congress continues to privatize that service, we need to be prepared and with more dropboxes. And you know something - the Voting Rights Act and UW's data collection that they're going to be doing is going to be very informative about whether we have enough ballot dropboxes and if we have them in the right place. So I'm completely open to it - I just don't like the Legislature deciding where they go. I want to be holistic, data-driven with local intelligence. [00:39:05] Crystal Fincher: That absolutely makes sense. The other one I just want to get to - just talking about accuracy - we've actually seen errors in a number of jurisdictions in a number of ways - from misprinted Voters' Pamphlets, ballots that have to be reprinted. There was talk you provided voters false information and lost 100 cast ballots. What happened there? [00:39:30] Julie Anderson: Okay, two separate incidents, and you're right - errors happen all over the state and all over the country - reminding us all that elections is a human process. We leverage technology a lot, but it requires expertise and a lot of proofreading and sometimes things slip through the crack. In one case, the vendor that Pierce County - well actually, the vendor that is used by over 60% of the electorate in Washington State, K&H - made an error when we mailed out ballots to our military voters and 88 voters out of 550,000 were impacted. What happened was they shuffled the return envelope with the mailer so that 88 people got a ballot packet on time, but the return ballot had somebody else's name on it. When we found out about that, we immediately contacted the voters, reissued the ballots, and immediately sent out a press release. That's what you can count on from me - is tattling on myself, telling people, taking corrective action, and doing whatever we can to make sure it doesn't happen again. In that case, I amended the contract with the provider that said next time you have a machine stoppage and you've got a set of quality control procedures that you use - this is like using your Xerox in your office or your home where you have a paper jam, and then by the time you finish ripping everything out, you've got to figure - do I reprint the whole document or do I figure out what page I left out on? The quality control at that plant is to reprint the whole darn thing, and somebody on the line decided that would be wasteful and they didn't do it. And so I amended the contract to say there's going to be consequences if you deviate from your own quality control. In the infamous case in 2016 where Pierce County urged voters to, if they were going to use the United States Postal Service, to do so - let's see, I think it was 5 days before the election - but if they were going to use a drop and to please use a dropbox otherwise. The allegation says that we were sued - we were not sued. There was a threat of a lawsuit and at the end of the day - what the Democratic Party wanted was for me to mail out a postcard to voters saying that's advice not a requirement, and they wanted me to make that clear on our website. And so that's what we did. And at the end of the day, the attorneys agreed we did nothing illegal. And we haven't done it again since because it created such a stir and so much upset. So we don't even give people advice anymore about - if they're using the Postal Service to do it early, but you should. [00:42:45] Crystal Fincher: Well and yeah - that's the complicated thing. And as someone who is interested in making sure people not only vote, but that their votes get counted and they arrive on time, we are experiencing more challenges with the United States Post Office. There is some uncertainty and certainly at the time, during the 2016 election, there's lots of conversation about potentially challenges with mailing things. So I do generally advise people to mail as early as you can if you're going to do that, but yeah - so I am glad we have gotten some clarity on a number of these issues, but also want to ask about some other things. I guess one of them is talking about preserving the historical records of the State and making them readily available to the public. What are your plans there and how can you make those more accessible and available to researchers, to the public, to everyone? [00:43:41] Julie Anderson: A couple of things. One, the Secretary of State's office, I think, is behind in terms of digitizing paper records and getting them indexed and available. I do believe that my opponent has invested in additional scanning equipment, so that's a good thing. I don't know if they have sufficient FTEs to do that - I'll have to look at that when I get there. But my big concern is looking towards the future government - so our state archives hold all of the records that are produced by local and state government that have permanent retention value all the way from territorial days to right this minute. And in the last 10 years, government has been producing a heck of a lot of digital native, digital born documents that never were a piece of paper. And in my experience, our state archives still has a paper mindset because they're used to working with precious ephemera and paper documents. But we've been producing tons of native, digital born documents that are complex and interactive. Is the Secretary of State's office ready to ingest a high volume of digital records that are interactive and richly indexed, and turn them around and make them accessible to the public? I don't think so, and that's a project that I want to tackle right away. If you think about everything that just happened with redistricting - with all of those maps that were generated, so many different versions - and if you tracked it, you know that that was highly interactive data, right? You could move lines around. That is a record. Is it being preserved in that state, that interactive state, or are the maps being preserved? So those are the questions I'm interested in and want us to be forward thinking about. I am a certified public records officer, so I am very passionate about public access to public information and one of the things that the Secretary of State's office needs to do - there's two things - is provide more training to local records officers and maybe even a camp for requesters. I think that would be a good idea. [00:46:05] Crystal Fincher: No, I think that's excellent and was leading into - the next thing I wanted to talk about was document retention and how closely linked it is with records requests. And we're seeing challenges in that area in jurisdictions across the state - one, in properly retaining the correct records. But the purpose of that retention is so that they can be accessed and provided to people who are entitled to see them, including the public. And we are seeing and hearing reports from a number of reporters and people making requests in jurisdictions across the state who are receiving increased wait times, increased estimates of wait times - sometimes comically long, decades long wait times - for some of those requests potentially. Hearing that localities are short staffed - it's challenging to respond to these kinds of things. And even getting into accusations of bad faith use of the public disclosure request system and records request system - some people trying to do that. Or on the flip side, people just being unhappy about receiving a request and having something looked into and calling things a bad faith attack and looking to delay the process, maybe unnecessarily, in those. How can you help make that process more consistent, help localities handle those in a more consistent way so that people can request and receive public documents when they're entitled to them? [00:47:46] Julie Anderson: Two things - I'm going to be the Secretary of State that's known as a "Clean your closet, kid" Secretary of State. Government is producing more records than ever and they don't know what to do with them. If you don't know how to store them, then you can't find them. So record retention is about record management. The Secretary of State's office used to have a pretty good training program for records officers about that. That needs to be rebooted and redoubled and it needs to have a modernized context. I cannot tell you how many emails are generated hourly by government. We don't know which of those are important or not until you have a sorting and classification system that you maintain constantly that marries emails with the associated documents, right? So that's something that we did in Pierce County. I want to take that passion with me to the Secretary of State's office and hire somebody that's an expert at this to help train local government. And I'll also be an advocate for resources for local government. There are some jurisdictions that are literally drowning and they're also having turnover issues. So I do want them to have resources, but first of all they got to know how to clean their room. [00:49:10] Crystal Fincher: So as we close and as people are trying to figure out how to make this decision - they hear from you, they hear from your opponent, lots of outside groups, and a lot of noise. When you are talking to someone who is considering making this choice between you and your opponent, does not know which direction they're going to go, what do you tell them to help make that decision? [00:49:32] Julie Anderson: That like them, I love Washington State's election laws - want to preserve them, make them even better. And for the first time in history, they have a choice of hiring somebody that's a professional administrator with expertise in these subjects without party strings attached. [00:49:52] Crystal Fincher: Thank you so much for taking the time to speak with us today, join us today, and letting the voters just get more familiar with you. Much appreciated. [00:50:01] Julie Anderson: Thank you. Thank you for the questions. And I love that you're a fan of the Public Records Act. [00:50:06] Crystal Fincher: I'm such a fan of it - and if it's follow up and organizations being accountable to adhering to it. But yes, thank you so much. [00:50:16] Julie Anderson: You're welcome - bye bye. [00:50:18] Crystal Fincher: Thank you all for listening to Hacks & Wonks. The producer of Hacks & Wonks is Lisl Stadler. Our assistant producer is Shannon Cheng, and our Post-Production Assistant is Bryce Cannatelli. You can find Hacks & Wonks on Twitter @HacksWonks, and you can follow me @finchfrii, spelled F-I-N-C-H-F-R-I-I. You can catch Hacks & Wonks on iTunes, Spotify, or wherever else you get your podcasts - just type "Hacks and Wonks" into the search bar. 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It's summer time and our intrepid hosts Kari Janisse and Mike Walsh were determined to record another podcast highlighting a Catholic restauranteur. So they headed down to Wildwood Crest with friend-of-the-show Father Cadmus (Mazz) Mazzarella, pastor of Notre Dame de la Mer Parish, to visit with a parishioner and owner of Carini Ristorante and Pizzeria, Giovanni (John) Sanzone. In addition to a great chat about the shore town and the restaurant family John grew up in, they also do a tasting of some of Carini's best dishes. Mike has determined the pizza is the best he's ever had in the United States. To visit Carini's Ristorante and Pizzeria, find them at 9854 Pacific Avenue, Wildwood Crest, NJ and check out their menu at https://cariniwc.com/. Listen to Talking Catholic everywhere podcasts can be found, at https://talking.catholicstarherald.org/show/talking-catholic, or catch us on Domestic Church Media radio Sundays at 11 AM or Mondays at 4 PM domesticchurchmedia.org. Follow us on... Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TalkingCatholic Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/talkingcatholic Twitter: https://twitter.com/talkingcatholic

In this episode of the podcast we take a tour of Professor Mike Honey's office. Honey is a founding faculty member of UW Tacoma. He started in 1990 and moved into his current office in 1997. The office overlooks Pacific Avenue which runs right through the heart of downtown. Honey's office is lined with books and posters. Research material and graded papers are stuffed into accordion file folders. There are at least two guitars and a banjo in the space. There are also records, cassettes and VHS tapes. The carpet is faded and worn from use. Honey has spent countless hours here. It is, in many ways more than just an office; it's a home, a library and a gathering place. In this office Honey has conducted research, and written articles and books. He's also met with students, community members and civil rights and labor leaders. Honey is retiring from teaching in July and will hand over the keys to his office, eventually. Honey may be retiring from teaching, but that doesn't mean he's done working.

Will has a chat to Harry and Ben from the surf/rock 'n' roll outfit Pacific Avenue.  The trio chat about the band's latest single Giving It Up For Yourself, musical inspirations and the perks of touring as a band.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The spirit of some French house legends flows through one of the week's best songs + there's a rising Brisbane duo making sassy strut-worthy music.

The spirit of some French house legends flows through one of the week's best songs + there's a rising Brisbane duo making sassy strut-worthy music.

In this episode of South Coast Sounds, - Gabi Cabral speaks with local blues musician Frank Sultana about his move to Kiama from Sydney,    his musical background and his style.-Josh Hamilton gives a tribute to Australian music legend Michael Gudinski, who died during 2021.- Helen Lear brings you music from Pacific Avenue, Frank Sultana and a brand-new track from local duo, El Grande.

Remember the TV show, “Cheers” where “everybody knows your name”? You get that same attention and recognition when you visit the two locations of Colosimo Coffee Roasters: the coffee house at 140 Provencher Blvd and the coffee bar at 145 Pacific Ave. For Jay Colosimo, it's about connecting over coffee. He loves the interaction he has with his customers and the opportunity to talk about coffee and about their day. The fact that he and his staff can have those experiences and interactions with their customers helps to build those relationships and, in essence, they become part of the Colosimo coffee family. ----more---- Jay started his coffee journey in Calgary. While attending university, he started working part-time for a coffee roaster. Soon after, he fell in love with the whole coffee process. When he returned to Winnipeg, he started his own coffee business. First, as a supplier of coffee for offices, cafes, and restaurants. And then, a few years ago, they started their own brand - Colosimo Coffee.  Working with a coffee roaster in Calgary, they source their own beans and create their own roast profiles, which allows them to know where the beans are coming from, and share that knowledge with their customers.   ----more---- When COVID hit in 2020, he pivoted to create their first brick-and-mortar on Pacific Avenue to feature their own coffees. This allowed people, who were ordering coffee for their home delivery, to try the coffees first, which created those conversations over coffee that are now such an important part of their business. In May 2021, Jay opened his second location on Provencher, and soon after that, created his Coffee Club - a subscription program where you can sign up online for a 3 or 6-month subscription. Once a month, they deliver a 2 lb bag of coffee (a different one or your fav) to your door for free. Jay is planning to open a third location on Henderson Hwy in 2022, where he will set up a micro-roaster in the cafe, where customers can see the roasting process and then enjoy a cup of freshly roasted Colosimo coffee. ----more---- www.colosimocoffee.com www.instagram.com/colosimocoffee ----more---- You can find Genny at @coffeewithgennyb  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Sophisticated Dingo are an endearing and unstoppable Melbourne duo consisting of best mates Jimmy and Lew, who draw on personal experiences and relationships to coin in their own brand of nostalgic, hook-driven and roaring “trash pop”The duo have proven to be a staple in Melbourne's live scene with multiple sold out headline shows under their belts in addition to supporting the likes of Press Club, Betty Rays, Tired Lion, British India and Pacific Avenue. This episode we chat with Sophisticated Dingo about their new single ‘Day In The Life' which follows their recent live achievements and comes ahead of their upcoming national tour. We discussed some of their favourite shows and how their band name came from a night out on the town that nobody remembers.

You know our special guest from Inspired Unemployed, Pacific Avenue, Big Twisty & The Water Runners. The one & only Dom Littrich joins us to talk about heroin addiction and the dark paths it can lead you down in suburban Canada.  Bio: "Addicted" is a song by Canadian rock band Simple Plan from the group's debut album No Pads, No Helmets...Just Balls.Subscribe to us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts, Deezer, Podchaser, iHeartRadio, TuneIn, Podcast Addict, Stitcher, Listen Notes, Vurbl or wherever you get your podcasts.Follow us on:Instagram @1001songsthatmakeyouwanttodieTikTok: @the1001crewFacebook: @1001songsthatmakeyouwanttodieTwitter: @the1001crewTumbler: @1001songsthatmakeyouwanttodieEmail us with any shit song suggestions at 1001songsthatmakeyouwanttodie@gmail.comWebsite: www.1001songsthatmakeyouwanttodie.comSupport the show (https://paypal.me/pools/c/8p4yD1sVwP)

Episode Notes In this episode of the What to Be Show we hear from Elfin Saffer. Elfin has worked for the legendary surf company O'Neill for 30 years and today he handles marketing, advertising and manages the downtown retail store on Pacific Avenue. Listen as Elfin shares his stoke for his job and the love for the iconic O'Neill family.

Max dials in with Tristan  from the Freed Man Podcast to chat about a few new tracks, and a few catch-up tracks that are a sheer necessity for the modern middle-age man.Connect with The Freed Man Podcast online and on Facebook to join the virtual beer garden and discover the huge variety of topics that the modern man needs to be across.Wait - M83Easy Love - Pacific AvenuePittsburgh - The Amity AfflictionLonely but not Alone - EGOISMFeather - Little DragonMethod to the Madness - The WombatsCheck out the Hot Singles Playlists!Apple Music:https://apple.co/2O6bCotSpotify:https://spoti.fi/30niUX5----------Get more new music and your favourite artists on Instagram @78Amped, on Facebook, or on our website, www.78amped.com

Some coastal indie dudes have channeled the summer of love on their new banger and you'll swear you're hearing an Australian Dominic Fike with a hybrid of hip hop and bedroom pop. New music from Pacific Avenue, Korky Buchek, Yi-Lynn, Olive Amun and HANNI.

Some coastal indie dudes have channeled the summer of love on their new banger and you'll swear you're hearing an Australian Dominic Fike with a hybrid of hip hop and bedroom pop. New music from Pacific Avenue, Korky Buchek, Yi-Lynn, Olive Amun and HANNI.

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Join hosts Gabi Cabral and Helen Lear for the latest edition of our music show, South Coast Sounds. The show features the latest new releases, interviews with key players in the music industry, what's on and news from our area. In this episode, Gabi speaks with local blues musician Frank Sultana about his move to Kiama from Sydney, his musical background and style, and his upcoming national tour. The show's producer Josh Hamilton also gives a tribute to Australian music legend Michael Gudinski, who sadly passed away earlier this month. Listen in to hear music from Pacific Avenue, Frank Sultana and a brand-new track from local duo, El Grande. To put forward interview suggestions, submit new music or events, email the team at kcradiocontent@gmail.com

Join host Helen Lear as she chats with local musician Dom Littrich from bands Pacific Avenue and The Water Runners and revisits their first interview, which aired as part of the pilot episode back in July 2020. Listen in to find out what life has been like for the band and Dom's view on the state of the local music industry today. He also discusses his latest solo project, Big Twisty, and new track “Pick Up Truck”. To share any news, tips or interview suggestions, email kcradiocontent@gmail.com

Ep 31 - Leanne Mitchell from the Gerringong Association and Number$ Count Join host Gabriella Cabral as she speaks with Leanne Mitchell, the owner of Gerringong accounting practice, Number$ Count. After 25 years in business, Leanne speaks about the importance of supporting and strengthening the local business community and the changes she has witnessed over the last quarter century.  Leanne is also a community advocate for change as Treasurer of the Gerringong Association, which was formed to develop the retail landscape in Gerringong after the closure of the ANZ Bank in 2017. She has also been a driving force behind the proposed arrival of the Bendigo Bank in 2021.  Mark Whalan returns with his regular segment, Heritage Hotspot. Today we hear the mysterious story of the Swedish Captain who was found in Kiama Harbour in 1880.  With music by Gerringong/Kiama indie-rock band, Pacific Avenue. To share any news, tips or interview suggestions, email kcradiocontent@gmail.com Listen at www.kiamacommunityradio.org/listen or on Spotify.  *Number$ Count is a proud supporter of Kiama Community Radio

This week Andrea and Mel review Kianti Pizza and Pasta on Pacific Avenue downtown Santa Cruz outdoors on a Friday evening during the pandemic.

This bonus episode, produced for the twentieth anniversary of the earthquake by then UCSC instructor Sarah Yahm and some of her students, is conceived as an audio walking tour of Pacific Avenue in Santa Cruz meant to immerse you in the downtown as it was in the days leading up to and just after the Loma Prieta Earthquake.

This episode, after graduating from the University of Beer History with an overachieving 2.0 GPA, we pontificate about our knowledge of the original cerevisaphiles. Next, we visit a taproom and eatery owned by two southpaws who offer 30-plus, meticulously-vetted beer selections, six of which are featured in this month's Battle Royale Beer Dome competition. Finally, we converse with two former Anchor Brewing employees who expound their perspective on the perilous pitfalls and prosperous paragons (whew!) in the beer industry. That, and our usual craic on this episode of Life in 16 oz. Show Notes Beer News (02:18) Pontificating about Beer History in the U.S. (11:49) Top Craft Beers in the U.S. and California, and more pontificating (13:10) More Beer History in the U.S. (26:37) California Beer History and Anchor Brewing Company (29:04) Julio Peix, formerly with Anchor Brewing Company, Lefty's Eatery & Taproom co-owner (41:13) Beer Dome - Lefty's 6 Picks - Intro (1:10:56) Julio Peix joined by Dan Mitchell, also formerly with Anchor Brewing Company (1:25:14) Beer Dome - Lefty's 6 Picks - Finale (1:42:38) CraftBeer.com / SupportBeer.com / American Homebrewers Association / Dad's Kitchen / Cider House / Lefty's Eatery & Taproom / Anchor Brewing Company / Alaro Craft Brewery / Crooked Lane Brewing Company / Drake's Brewing Company / Pizza Port Brewing Company / Blue Note Brewing Company / Full Circle Brewing Company #Lifein16oz #WhatsinYOURpint #BeerDome #BeerHistory Feature photo: Our first ever Battle Royale Beer Dome, featuring six beers chosen by Julio at Lefty's Eatery & Taproom (see below). These beers butt heads in the categories of IPA (Heavy), Pale and Amber (Medium) and Lager (Light). The styles don't match up for the most part, but it was fun drinking them! Tune in to find out which one of our three finalists was the overall winner of this episode's six-way Battle Royale Beer Dome. (Life in 16 oz. photo illustration/Paul Wade) Keep scrolling for more info and photos related to this month's episode! BEER DOME - LEFTY'S 6 PICKS Pilsner and Lager (Light) La Boheme - WINNER Czech-Style Pilsner, 5.3% ABV / 26 IBU Alaro Craft Brewery, Sacramento Veedels Bräu: Kölsch Kölsch, 5.3% ABV / 27 IBU Crooked Lane Brewing Company, Auburn Pale Ale and Amber (Medium) 1500 - WINNER Pale Ale, 5.5% ABV / 48 IBU Drake's Brewing Company, San Leandro Chronic Ale Amber, 4.9% ABV / 10 IBU Pizza Port Brewing Company, Carlsbad/San Diego IPAs (Heavy) Guardians Unfiltered Galaxy IPA, 6.8% ABV / UNK IBU Blue Note Brewing Company, Woodland Juicy - WINNER New England IPA, 6.6% ABV / 55 IBU Full Circle Brewing Company, Fresno IN CASE YOU DIDN'T TAKE NOTES  6 Ways to Explore New Beers at Home During Self-Isolation Referred to by Paul in his Beer News segment. Published by Food & Wine. 2019 Zymurgy’s Best Beers in America Results The top 10 beers in America referred to by Brandon and Paul on the show. Published by the American Homebrewers Association. Top Rated Beers: California, United States The top 10 craft beers in California list referred to by Brandon on the show. Published by BeerAdvocate. The 10 Best Craft Beers Brewed in Northern California The top 10 craft beers in California list referred to by Paul on the show. Published by Active NorCal. AND FINALLY ... Horses pick up fresh cargo in 1906 at Anchor Brewing's original location on Pacific Avenue between Larkin and Hyde Street in San Francisco. (Courtesy photo/Anchor Brewing Company) The Anchor Brewing Company building at 1705 Mariposa, San Francisco in 2020. (HaeB via Wikimedia Commons/Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International) National Brewery, San Francisco, California. It was located at the intersection of Fulton and Webster Streets. In the late 1800s the business was first co-owned by John F. Glueck and Charles E Hansen (1861-1877), later by Mrs.

This is the first episode of Kiama Community Radio. Join your co-hosts Graeme Gherashe and Diana McLaren to learn more about us and what we do. We have three incredible interviews for you. Historian Mark Whalan opens the pilot, chatting with presenter Gabi Cabral about how he's been immersed in Kiama local history since childhood after his mother helped found the Pilot's Cottage Museum. This led to him looking at Kiama history with the eyes of a journalist on the blog kiamalocalhistory.  Drummer Dom Littrich from Gerringong/Kiama band Pacific Avenue talks to presenter Helen Lear about life as a musician in lockdown following the band's blazing success in 2019, a year which saw the release of their debut EP “Strawberry Skies”, a sold-out national tour and playing alongside the likes of Tash Sultana, Ocean Alley, Lime Cordiale and The Vanns. Claire Roberts is an event coordinator, musician and manager of the Kiama Makers & Growers Market. She is heavily involved in the music industry, having been a full-time musician for over thirty years and is on the committee of the Illawarra Folk Club. She talks to presenter Glenn Shepherd about how the business has changed during the pandemic and the future of local markets in 2020.

Midway are the three-piece rock group from Newcastle. Their lead singer and guitarist, Jordan, joined Cam and Eamonn to discuss their new single 'Beach Girl', as well as creating and hosting Instagram live gigs, covering Pacific Avenue for COVERED-19, and why they use so much broccoli art in their profile pictures and as emojis for website links. Catch up on everything Homebrewed here: https://linktr.ee/Homebrewed

Dom Littrich is 1/4 of Aussie band 'Pacific Avenue'. The bands energetic drummer dropped into the experience to discuss how it all began and the process that lead up to reaching over 500,000 streams on Spotify in 2019. We chat about his alter ego 'Big Twisty' a funk rap inspired act, playing at some of the country's biggest music festivals & their upcoming Australian tour. I have no doubt that 2020 is going to be an amazing year for Dom & Pacific Avenue, I wish them nothing but the best in realising their music dream.

Chris Sznewajs is Managing Partner at Pacific Avenue Capital Partners, a Los Angeles-based private equity firm with deep expertise in operations and growth enhancement in the middle market. Topics: - His wanting to fix things led to his mindset in restructuring and turnaround  - The Gores Story, how it inspired him, founding of the firm  - Starting the firm and family support  - Building a team of people with different DNA - Picking his bets and finding the right deals - Morning routines and habits that can lead to success  - The next chapter for Pacific Avenue Capital

Many sins to absolve this week: It's long. We have disagreements. There's a burp. Andrew from Wolfmother drops an F bomb (we beeped it). Scandals a-plenty! Let's have a royal commission into this episode. But we won't apologise, on account of the the amazing songs we discuss and even the ones that aren't so amazing. Listen and enjoy, also let us know who's side you're on for opinion clashes.

Ryan "Rabs" Warren joins the show and takes the liberty of listing about half a dozen songs. Well played Rabs, well played. Make the most of the time you have. So 3 songs are added to the playlist this week and I'm pretty darn certain you will love all three. I don't know what your personal taste is, but these songs are good. Billie Eilish is bloody brilliant, just in case there was any doubt. Cassie needs to stop judging artists based on punctuation and grammar.

Tocco Divino Salon, 2626 Pacific Avenue, Stockton, CA 95204 Me: Well, good morning everyone. Today, I am in front of Tocco Divino and I'm going to get my hair cut. And we're going to talk with Melissa Sherwood. Right in here right now. Me: And as you can see Melissa took good care of me over in the chair. Me: This is kind of her grand opening, almost? We're getting closer. Melissa: The grand opening will be January, February. Me: January, February. Melissa: Yeah, so it’ll be a while before we’ll have that. We had to get the little details taken care of before we do that. Me: Well, there have been a lot of details as we've kind of moved through this process. That's for sure. This used to be an office building. And it took a little bit at the city. As well as here to make it the beautiful place it is now. Melissa: Oh, yes, it took from the time of signing four months of hard construction. Yeah. Yeah, it was quite a transformation. Me: Have you got any pictures of the before and after? Melissa: I do have. I do have a video it's on Facebook. Of the before and after the full transformation from getting the keys to opening day. Me: Oh, very cool, very, very cool. So, that's on Tocco Divino. Melissa: Tocco Divino Salon Facebook page. It's also on my personal page if you happen to be a friend of mine. Yeah, I'm trying to find some other avenues to get it out there. So people can take a peek. Me: Very cool. Very cool. YouTube? Melissa: I tried to put it on YouTube. I haven't figured it out yet. Me: Very good. Very good. So tell everybody about what makes this different from any other salon. You are the new salon in town. Melissa: We are the newest salon in town. We really pride in making it a place that when you walk in that you just feel at home. That it's beautiful and you feel pampered just walking in. But, you also feel very comfortable. What also makes us different is that we believe that everybody that works here that we're family. And so you feel the difference just in the environment and atmosphere as far as a sense of community, a sense of family. And I think that makes us very different from any other salon. Because there's a lot of talent out there and we do have a lot of talent here as well. But the atmosphere, the environment makes us very different. Me: Very nice. Very nice. I know it does feel very, very homey in here. I enjoyed coming in. It’s my second trip and I was the first one I got to be a chair for. Melissa: Yes. Very true. I don't know if that was good. I was half-asleep. Me: You were a little tired that day. You were a little tired. That was what? Three hours of sleep you got. Melissa: One hour. Me: One hour, oh man. I was a brave man. Melissa: You were a brave man. Yes. Me: Well, everybody, make sure and stop by and see Tocco Divino. And Melissa Sherwood “The Cosmetologist For Everyone Who Sure Would Like To Look Good!” Thank you so much, and we'll talk to you all again later. Thanks. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/yourperfecthome/message

After the Loma Prieta earthquake destroyed much of downtown Santa Cruz in 1989, city leaders and residents came together to rebuild the downtown in a deliberate way. A 36-member committee formed a plan for development which continues today. On the quake’s 30th anniversary, Santa Cruz Local talks to some of the key players and explains how Pacific Avenue came to be. Editor's note: The Loma Prieta earthquake was a magnitude of 6.9 on the moment scale, the scale most commonly used to describe large quakes. This episode lists the quake’s magnitude as 7.1, which was its surface-wave magnitude, not a commonly-used metric for large quakes.

- Claire's embarrassing moment - NZ Mosque's to reopen - Pacific Avenue appearing at Rewind In The Vines - Myspace BUNGLE - Sesamee Street linked to intelligence - Peking Duk join C&S

Welcome to my American adventure series – Los Angeles, this is the Travelman Podcast! If you’re joining me for the first time my name is Ben and I’m an experienced traveler who’s been travelling the world since he was a kid! Thanks to my mum who worked so hard at various airlines and always made sure her sons could travel the world! I’m happy you could join me today as this podcast is focusing on my adventures with Mandy (my wife) who I travelled with throughout America when we were there in Spring this year. America was awesome!!!! We had an amazing time and I recorded various moments of our holiday for you to listen to. You’ll hear that the audio will sound different depending on where we were and I hope that’s not too distracting. I recorded it with the intention that you can experience the open environments and feel that you are immersed in our adventure also. Enjoy part one of My American Adventure Series - Los Angeles. Mandy and I got very excited at the old Farmer’s Market as we saw that loveable Netflix foodie Phil Rosenthal from Somebody Feed Phil walking around. I’ve heard he frequents the Old Farmer’s Market so maybe you should get down there if you’re in LA! Oh, how I wish I could’ve got him on my podcast! Oh well maybe next time! Also, RIP Anthony Bourdain who was a legend and someone I looked up to! He’s gone way too early. Timestamps: Intro to the show 2:48 Venice Beach 8:24 The Original Farmers Market 13:53 The Getty Center 27:34 San Diego but talking about what we did in DTLA Additional Information: Eggslut, 1611 Pacific Avenue, Los Angeles in Venice Beach The Original Farmers Market, 6333 W 3rd St, Los Angeles The Getty Centre, 1200 Getty Centre Drive, Los Angeles Grand Central Market, 317 South Broadway, Los Angeles The Broad Museum, 221 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles https://www.thebroad.org/ MOCA, 250 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles https://www.moca.org/ Plant Food and Wine, 1009 Abbot Kinney Blvd, Venice http://www.matthewkenneycuisine.com/plant-food-wine-venice San Juan Capistrano Spanish Mission, 26801 Ortega Hwy, San Juan Capistrano https://www.missionsjc.com/ Javier’s, 536 Spectrum Center Drive, Irvine http://javiers-cantina.com/mobile/menuis.php Follow Travelman Podcast: iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/travelman-podcast/id1281446908 SoundCloud: https://m.soundcloud.com/user-265082759 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/benthetravelman/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/travelmanpodcast/?hl=en Twitter: https://twitter.com/TravelmanPod Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/ben-dow/travelman-podcast Travelman Podcast Website: https://travelmanpodcast.wixsite.com/travelman (New website coming soon via www.travelmanpodcast.com)

I’ve just come back from the states, actually just on Sunday, when I was supposed to release an episode. I thought I’d release this little episode just to give you a taste of what I ate in the US and what I am going to do in Bali. The US was great and always feel a bit sad leaving a place that I like so much. It was my first time to Miami and I didn’t really like it too much, South Beach is where I stayed and it was a bad move on my part as it’s full of posers and the type of people that I’d never be seen dead with. New York was very cool, I ate some great food there and enjoyed Brooklyn for the first time. Los Angeles is my favourite city in the US for many reasons and reasons I’m not gonna list it now. Also, went to San Diego, which was great as Chris from Yellow Productions drove us around, one day around Orange County and the other day around San Diego. My wife and I also drove all the way down to Key West from South Beach. Key West is awesome. I love it. The drive was very nice also. And now I have my Bali trip coming up and I’m doing this holiday to test the theory that; Is having a holiday after a holiday a good thing or not needed, because you always hear of people that have had busy holiday’s like I have, sightseeing and walking many many kilometres/miles each day. My America trip was full on and we did 14 to 15kms per day of walking, so about 15,000 steps on average. All that fatty food I ate and I didn’t put on a kilogram. In Bali, I’ll be relaxing by a pool with my brothers and my sister-in-law and my wife Mandy, and just drinking a lot so I think in the 10 days that I’ll be in Indonesia I may put on more weight than what I did in the US. In America I really enjoyed a host of great food. I went to some pretty well known food establishments. I’m listing the places that made an impact on me, positive or negative. Here’s my take on the food I ate in USA. Timestamps: Intro to the show Los Angeles 6:17 Orange County and San Diego 18:12 New York 21:35 Miami and Key West 27:26 Bali info 30:45 Additional Information: Los Angeles Eggslut, 1611 Pacific Avenue, Los Angeles in Venice Beach Lemonade, 1661 Abbot Kinney Boulevard, Los Angeles Wexler’s Deli at Grand Central Market, 317 S Broadway, Los Angeles Sticky Rice at Grand Central Market, 317 S Broadway, Los Angeles Prawn Coastal at Grand Central Market, 317 S Broadway, Los Angeles Wurstküche Restaurant, 800 E 3rd St, Los Angeles In-N-Out, 9149 South Sepulveda Boulevard, Los Angeles The Original Brooklyn Water Bagel Co., 8732 S Sepulveda Blvd, Los Angeles The Original Farmers Market, 6333 W 3rd St, Los Angeles Orange County and San Diego Lucille’s Smokehouse Bar-B-Que, location unknown Crack Shack, 2266 Kettner Blvd, San Diego New York Shake Shack, Madison Ave & E 23rd St, New York Dominique Ansel Bakery, 189 Spring Street (between Sullivan and Thompson), New York Le Relais de L'Entrecote, 590 Lexington Avenue, New York Friedman’s Lunch at Chelsea Market, 75 9th Ave, New York Stella34 Trattoria, 151 W 34th St, New York Grimaldi’s, 656 6th Ave, New York Miami and Key West Taquiza, 1506 Collins Ave, Miami Beach Puerto Sagua Restaurant, 700 Collins Ave, Miami Beach Blue Heaven, 729 Thomas St, Key West Southernmost Beach Café, 1405 Duval St, Key West Follow Travelman Podcast: iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/travelman-podcast/id1281446908 SoundCloud: https://m.soundcloud.com/user-265082759 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/benthetravelman/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/travelmanpodcast/?hl=en Twitter: https://twitter.com/TravelmanPod Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/ben-dow/travelman-podcast Travelman Podcast Website: https://travelmanpodcast.wixsite.com/travelman (New website coming soon via www.travelmanpodcast.com)

Debbie Wendt, Director of the City of Yuma Parks & Recreation Department, discusses the Pacific Avenue Athletic Complex, a brand new elite tournament complex, which opens in Yuma, Arizona on Sept. 1, 2017 for the 2017 USA Softball Men’s Western Class E Slow Pitch National Championship. www.YumaAZ.gov

Join Founder and Organizer of Each One Teach One Conference, Kevin Amos tonight as he previews this Saturday's day long event. | Please join us for Pittsburgh's one and only home grown music-tech- radio conference. Admission is free of charge and open to the public. The Each One Teach One Music and Radio Conference brings together incredible array of musicians, arts advocates, policymakers, technologists, media representatives and industry figures to discuss issues at the intersection of music, technology, policy and law. | WHEN Saturday, April 23, 2016 from 10:00 AM to 4:30 PM (EDT)|r WHERE: Bloomfield - Garfield Community Center - 113 S. Pacific Avenue (at Dearborn), Pittsburgh, PA 15224| Positively Pittsburgh Live is a media sponsor for this event and host Joanne Quinn-Smith aka TechnoGranny wil speak at the conference on extending the life of radio and podcast shows using the twitter app, Periscope. | Listen in as Kevin and TechnoGranny hi-light all of the other great speakers and presentations.| If you think you have a "face for radio" don't miss this preview or the Each One Teach One Conference on Saturday.

In this week's episode, Matt talks with Super Fan, Eric Kenny aka "Thunder Man." Susan and Matt also chat about Macaronage.Thunder Man Eric "Thunder Man" Kenny Eric explains how he went from a new fan of ECHL hockey to "Thunder Man". He shares with us how with a little inspiration from other fans and the help of his wife, they came up with what would eventually become his signature look.As a self-appointed hype man for the Stockton Thunder, Eric cheers and hypes the crowd to keep fans involved and in the game. Although he is not associated or employed by the Stockton Thunder organization, he is a true "Super Fan" and he enjoys being a part of the fun and action that goes on at the arena.To learn more about Eric "Thunder Man" Kenny, visit him on at facebook.com/thunderman204.MacaronageSusan talks about how she discovered Macarons and fell in love at first bite. She and Matt talk about their experience when they visited the store and tried their tasty treats. Definitely a hidden gem of Stockton that is worth checking out. See what Macaronage is all about by visiting them at facebook.com/macaronagebygrace or yelp.com/biz/macaronage-macarons-stockton. And don't forget to stop by the store located in the Hammer Ranch Shopping Center at 7610 Pacific Avenue, Suite B6, Stockton, CA 95210. Call them at (209) 955-0857.Instameet & Local Food Truck FrenzySaturday, March 29, from 5pm to 8pm, the Stockton Instameet community will have a meet-up behind the Stockton Arena (on Arena Rd). There will be more than 9 different food trucks, contests and live music. This is sure to be an awesome event!Find out more at instagram.com/p/l3Kq2VNFIS/ and facebook.com/localfoodtruckfrenzy.

This week, we had the pleasure of talking with Paul and Cindi Marsh, proprietors of the Mile Wine Company. Mile Wine Company Mile Wine Company is unlike any other place in Stockton. A quintessential wine bar and restaurant that also serves great beers, cheeses, and gourmet seasonally prepared food.Mile Wine Company offers an exceptional selection of distinctive and eclectic fine wines from around the world, artisan cheese, charcuterie, monthly winemaker dinners, a wine club, and weekly wine classes hosted by Paul Marsh, who is a certified sommelier.The Brubeck room inside Mile Wine Company is an intimate, private room for business lunches, formal dinners, or private celebrations. It's a perfect room for smaller groups.In addition to fine wines and great food the Mile Wine Company offers a relaxing atmosphere, outdoor seating and live music by local musicians.Mile Wine Company is located on the Miracle Mile at 2113 Pacific Avenue, in Stockton.View their menu or plan your next small event at milewinecompany.com. You can also connect with Mile Wine Company at facebook.com/milewinecompany and @MileWineCompany.

Today we talk with Miranda Winters of the Stockton is Magnificent committee. Join thousands of proud Stockton residents in celebrating the talent, history and culture of our great city on Saturday, October 5, 2013, from Noon to 3 PM on Pacific Avenue between Alder and Castle streets. This event is FREE to the public. The event will kick-off at 12:00pm with the Children’s Parade, featuring the Celebrate Stockton Fun Time Band (Jazz Band) and Delta Fusion.This year’s Big Picture – a photo taken of the whole festival crowd – will take place at 1:00pm at Tuxedo Circle with photographer Steve Pereira.The Stockton is Magnificent mission is to encourage civic pride, to inspire and educate Stockton residents of the rich and diverse past, present and future of our community.Visit stocktonmagnificent.com for all the details. You can also learn more about this event at facebook.com/stocktonmagnificent.Saturday, October 5, 2013Pacific Avenue, (Miracle Mile) between Alder and Castle streets12 PM to 3 PMAdmission is FREE to the publicWe hope to see you there!Listen below or click here to save or play the audio.

Golf Anyone?Matt and Susan talk about golfing in Stockton. Maybe a Podcast Stockton Golf Tournament someday??? Stockton offers two well known municipal 18-hole golf courses, and a Par 3 Executive Golf Course for your golfing pleasure. Swenson Park Golf Course and Van Buskirk Golf Course. Both are easily accessible from Interstate-5.  With other courses like The Reserve at Spanos, Elkhorn and others, there's lots of opportunities for great golf in town.To find out more about golfing in Stockton visit stocktongolfcourses.comLet's Talk Dogs!Susan and Matt both try Casey's Hot Dogs and meet with the owner, Peter.Recently opening on July 4th, Casey's Hot Dogs is the newest restaurant on the miracle mile.The name Casey, of course, comes from "Casey at the Bat" following the theme of "The Might Casey at the Bat". Enjoy gourmet hot dogs and catch a baseball game on the flat screen TVs.Casey's Hot Dogs is located on the Miracle Mile at 2311 Pacific Avenue, between La Palma Mexican restaurant and the new location of Mid Town Creperie.Stockton City LimitsIn this episode, Matt and Susan are joined in studio by David Garcia the author of the blog, Stockton City Limits. David Garcia Stockton City Limits is a blog about growth and development in Stockton. David earned his Master’s Degree in Public Policy with an emphasis on Urban Policy from the Johns Hopkins Institute for Policy Studies. He works as a researcher/analyst for a Congressional research agency in Washington, DC. We hope you'll visit the blog and read his thought-provoking and data driven research that touches on many facets of urban planning, growth, and development.To learn more about Stockton City Limits visit the blog at stocktoncitylimits.com and continue the conversation on Facebook at facebook.com/stocktoncitylimits and Twitter @STK_City_Limits.

Welcome to Podcast Stockton, featuring an interview with Dawn Correll-Cruz and Tera Moore from Stockton's Relay For Life. In this episode:This week's special guest co-host is Gabriel, aka Abraxas579.The San Joaquin County Fair opened this week. Follow the fair on Twitter and Facebook.Sports update with Lowell TuckermanReview of Siamese Street Thai Restaurant at 3236 Pacific Avenue. Check out their menu here and read the reviews on Yelp.What's new on ClosetGoodies.comHappy Fathers Day!FatherFest is this weekend, as is Red Circle Father's Day Powwow. There's a lot of other things going on this weekend. Check VisitStockton.org for the area's largest events calendar.An interview with Dawn Correll-Cruz, Fight Back Chair, and Tera Moore, Event Chair, of Stockton's Relay For Life. This year's event is June 26-27 in downtown Stockton. For more information, visit their website. This year, participants will have the opportunity to take place in the history Cancer Prevention Study 3.A few quick things:Please keep sending us your interview and event suggestions! We appreciate your support!iPhone 4 is almost here. If you get one on launch day we want to see it!Until next time, make it great Stockton!- Matt & Gabriel

Welcome to Podcast Stockton for Friday, April 30, 2010. On this episode, we cover:This Saturday, May 1, is Free Comic Book Day. Stockton comic creators, Adam Messinger and Ramon Villalobos will be out in Tracy giving away autographed copies of Frank and Elenore in "It's Raining Blood on Prom Night!". Go support Adam and Ramon at King's Comics and Games at 245 E. 11th St in Tracy from 11 to 6. You can find Spectacle Press (Adam) on Facebook and Twitter, follow Ramon on Twitter.Sports update with Lowell Tuckerman.Come join Podcast Stockton as we take on the Stockton Stingrays in their first exhibition practice game. Saturday, May 8, at 10 AM at Atherton Park. For more info on the Stockton Stingrays from the Community Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired, visit their website.What's new on ClosetGoodies.com.Restaurant review of Pho Saigon Bay Restaurant at 5756 Pacific Avenue.Until next time, make it great Stockton!- Matt & Rod

Welcome to Podcast Stockton, episode 27, featuring an interview with local musician Michael Seymour. In this episode:What to do on Valentine's Day in Stockton?Matt's review of La Palma Mexican Cuisine, located at 2301 Pacific Avenue, on The Miracle Mile and can be reached at (209) 941-4179. Matt's rating 4/5.Sport, sports, sports. An update from Lowell Tuckerman, the Trash Bet is over and are you going to the Thweetup on Friday?A mini-interview with Dwight Richards. With unemployment rates soaring, some job seekers will go to great lengths to get noticed. Matt spotted Dwight on corner of Pacific Avenue and Ben Holt Drive wearing a sandwich board proclaiming, "Will Work For A Career". Hear Why Dwight is looking for work and what kind of job he is looking for. If you'd like to reach Dwight, call him at 209-423-6304. News10 also ran a video story about Dwight.Matt's interview with local musician Michael Seymour. Michael is currently preparing his new CD, Searching For. This Saturday night, he's playing at Plea 4 Peace. He stopped by the studio for an interview and brought his guitar. Hear what he has to say and two of his songs, Searching For and More Than Rain. You can listen to more of his music at Myspace.com/suddenlyseymourrocks and YouTube.com/BOOGMON88. Follow him on Twitter as @Suddenly209 and Facebook.What was your first tech toy or gadget? Tim's Coleco and Rod's football game.What's new on Closetgoodies.com Wes's Stockton activities guide. Go to VisitStockton.org to sign up for the weekly events e-mail and follow @Stockton_CA on Twitter and on Facebook.Next week, we're talking about taxes! How do you prepare yours? Are you old-school with a pen and forms? Do you have someone else do them for you? Or are you part of the growing number of 2.0 people that do your taxes online? Let us know.Until next time, make it great Stockton!- Matt & Rod

Welcome to Podcast Stockton, episode 26. In this episode, Matt and Rod sit down with Tod Ruhstaller, CEO of The Haggin Museum.In this episode:A couple of items from the news: In honor of Black History Month, Stagg High School students will participate in Lend Your Hand’s (501c3) National Black History Bee (NBHB) competition. For more information, call Andres Uyeda or Kathy Davis 209-933-7445 ext. 8471. This Saturday, February 6 at 12 PM, there is a rally and petition signing at the Tuxedo Park Station. The event will be held at 2616 Pacific Avenue. If you cannot attend, but would like to sign the online petition, visit stocktonmiraclemile.com.Will Susan Eggman shave her head for $5,000? Sparked on Twitter, Council Member and friend of the show,Susan Eggman said she would shave her head if Stockton Twitter users raised $5,000 for kids cancer research.Thunder + Twitter = #thweetup. Come join local Twitter celebrities, @MikeBravo11, @Abraxas579, @omardesign209, @griffin209, @PGHMatt and more on Friday, February 12 as the Stockton Thunder plays host to the Ontario Reign. Discounted tickets are $7. Visit stocktonthunderandlightning.com/thweetup to get yours!The sports update with Lowell Tuckerman.Lights, Camera, Literacy! You are cordially invited to attend the 19th annual Trivia Bee put on by the Library & Literacy Foundation for San Joaquin County. We will be there to support one our favorite charities in Stockton. We need one more person to complete our three-person team. Are you good at movie trivia? If you're interested, send us an e-mail or call Matt at 483-5199. We are paying the $550 entry fee and if you're selected, we'll pay for your guest to attend as well. Check out the official brochure here and visit sjcliteracy.org. Come help the Library & Literacy Foundation raise some much needed money!Interested in becoming HAZWOPER certified? Green Works Environmental Services has a couple of spots open for the 40 hour training that starts Monday, February 8. The class normally costs $750 but you can get in for $150. For more information, call Dawn at 603-7104.Our interview with Tod Ruhstaller, CEO/Curator of History of The Haggin Museum. Learn about the 1st and 3rd Thursdays program and the 79th Annual McKee Student Art Exhibition, visit hagginmuseum.org. Also, follow them on Twitter and Facebook.What's the one piece of tech you can't live without? We get some great responses on Facebook and some voicemails from Kraig, Devin and Gabriel from The Singlemalt Versus Podcast, Jon, Andy.What's new on Closetgoodies.comNext week, we want to know what was your first gadget or electronic toy?Until next time, make it great Stockton!- Matt & Rod

Welcome to Podcast Stockton, episode 25. This week, Matt sits down with Kenny McCann, the creator of Petros.tv. In this episode:First, the news: Stockton has to cut another $14 Million from the budget. The Stockton Stingrays begin batting practice. The Lexington Hotel hosts the HIREvent job fair.Trash Bowl 2010 is half over.Andy Pinasco will be doing his part to clean up Stockton with the NY Jets's loss to the Indianapolis Colts. Will Matt join him? Not if the New Orleans Saints win the Superbowl.Review of Chuck's Hamburgers. Gabriel and Matt recently met for breakfast at the long time Stockton establishment. Chuck's can be found at 6034 Pacific Avenue and can be reached at (209) 473-9977. Check out Gabriel's podcast at TheSingleMaltVersus.com.Apple announces the iPad. On Monday, January 27, Apple announced the iPad. As a follow up to what we were hoping to see, we discuss what we like and what we don't like about the new product.Where do you get your tech news?Andy calls in with his thoughts on the tech news scene.BuyMeAniPhone@garyveeMac OS KenMashableTWiTTotally Cool TechTech Crunch@jasonCNETTUAWTechnoramaTechSpotEngadgetRevision3Andy IhnatkoTypical Mac UserDiggnationLike Totally AwesomeApple InsiderWiredGizmodoAn interview with Kenny McCann from Petros Media. Check out Petros.TV and follow him Twitter @petrosmedia.What's new on Closetgoodies.com.Matt fills in for Wes for the Stockton activities guide. Go to VisitStockton.org to sign up for the weekly events e-mail and follow @Stockton_CVB on Twitter and on Facebook.Next week, we want to know about the one gadget you can't live without.Until next time, make it great Stockton!- Matt & Rod