Spreading the Maker Movment
First there was MAKE magazine. Then there were the Maker Faires. And there’s still more making on the way. Described as "The Greatest Show (and Tell) on Earth," the 9th annual Bay Area Maker Faire will...
View Article1960s Theme Powers Hall of Flowers Designs
The Hall of Flowers is always a powerful attraction at the Sonoma County Fair. This year, they’re going all… er, far out with brilliant and elaborate illustration of their 1960s theme—Flower Power. In...
View ArticleInnovation Week Showcases Entreprenural Creativity
It’s Innovation Week in the North Bay, when businesses and other groups show off their best new ideas. The big finish is a competition on Friday, in which some promising inventors and entrepreneurs...
View ArticleSanta Rosa Orchestra Debuts New Works
Some modern classical music will be heard for the first time at the Green Music Center this weekend, as the Santa Rosa Symphony’s program includes a world premiere. Composer Mohammed Fairouz is...
View ArticleFictionalized Petaluma Featured in new Sci-Fi Novel Series
A darkly humorous author avatar and a lightly fictionalized Sonoma County city feature prominently in a new novel by a local writer who knows them both well. Author Daedalus Howell pays a visit to the...
View ArticleCampus Store Offers Student-made Goods
Creative and entrepreneurial students at Sonoma State now have a new outlet for the goods they make, a student-run store that is now open on their campus.
View ArticleA Musical View from Inside San Quentin
Every inmate inside San Quentin prison has at least one story to tell. Some of them were melded into music by the late Audrey Auld. The North Bay singer-songwriter talks about that process on today’s...
View ArticleThe Geography of Genius
Down through human history and around the globe, there have been occasional times and places where creativity and innovation flourished. In The Geography of Genius , reporter Eric Weiner explores the...
View ArticleDogsled Race Inspires Local Composer’s Song Cycle
Inspiration is where you find it. For Robin Eschner , most recently, it was in the deep snow and cross-cultural history of far northern Minnesota. Eschner's extended song cycle isn't just written for a...
View ArticleGeyserville 3rd Grader's Story Gets 'Pirated'
Madeleine Munselle is a 9 year-old 3 rd grader from the Alexander Valley. She is also the author of a lively short story that is being adapted for the stage by a touring theater company that is heading...
View ArticleStudents’ Engineering Creativity on Display at SSU
Sonoma State is primarily a teaching campus, but many students also engage in research projects, including some innovative inventions, that were on display yesterday in the University's newly combined...
View Article"Your Song Changed My Life"
From established stars to promising newcomers, there always seems to be one key song from their early years that was a turning point in their musical life. But the connection between that song and...
View ArticlePlotting "The Plot Against Shakespeare"
Once playwright David Beckman decided that his new play about Shakespeare would find the Bard suffering from writer’s block, it was up to the Santa Rosa writer to find his own words to tell that story....
View ArticleMedusa’s Return to Burning Man
F rom the neck up, she is 26 feet tall, with a head-full of fire-breathing snakes. It’s the Burning Man version of Medusa, the attention-commanding creation of Petaluma artist Kevin Clark . B ehind the...
View ArticleSuzanne Ciani’s Musical Odyssey
Bolinas-based composer Suzanne Ciani has achieved success and earned five Grammy nominations for her New Age piano music – but her body of work goes far beyond that one category. Ciani was an early...
View ArticleSan Rafael Gallery Celebrates Works of Bad Art
Have you ever gone into an art gallery and seen a particular work of art and thought...huh? For one Marin County couple that’s the exact effect they want to get at their art gallery at their art...
View ArticleKeeping Fiction Stranger Than Reality
Carl Hiaasen’s latest novel mocks reality TV, restaurant inspection standards, product liability lawyers, and beach restoration opportunists. But he insists that it’s all rooted in the skewed reality...
View Article'Cultivating Curiosity'
Efficiency and curiosity are fundamentally at odds with each other, says a Sonoma State liberal studies professor. And that basic conflict needs to be acknowledged in shaping our educational systems....
View ArticleWill Durst Finds Serious Humor in Politics
Political issues and positions are of secondary interest to comedian Will Durst. He zeros in on their personalities and foibles to, in his words, “put the ‘mock’ in democracy.” Will Durst’s shows are,...
View ArticleSonoma State Opens New Makerspace to Dreamers and Thinkers
The rise of the do-it-yourself movement, combined with the push in STEM, or science, technology, engineering and math education, has led to a boom in Makerspaces across the country. KRCB’s Tiffany...
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