Sonic Café that’s Lenny Kravitz expressing his love for that concrete jungle we know as New York City. So welcome to the program, I’m your host Scott Clark broadcasting from the street corner just outside the café today for episode 418, something we’re calling Living in the Big City. We pull our music mix from 44 years, each tune in the set gives us another glimpse into, you guessed it, big city living. Listen for The City Sleeps, MC 900 Ft. Jesus from 1991, City of Blinding Lights from U2, Forbidden City, by Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros, Rock City from the Kings of Leon, and ahh you get the idea. Then near the bottom of the hour we’ll catch a ride in the Sonic Café time machine back to 1966, listen for The Lovin’ Spoonful, with Summer in the City. We’ll also drop in a few comedy shorts about life in the big city, And oh before we forget, a great big city welcome to our newest sponsor, the City Zoo. The place where animals live in rooms painted to look like there natural habitat, which is kind of a metaphor for ahh living in the big city. Yea, from 1979 this is In The City, music from the Eagles, and we’re the Sonic Café
Ed Reinhart alias Earl Dixon, has been “boogying” his way around Mendocino County for over three decades. He has been calling himself “Rico Suave” since his last trip to Ecuador. Reinhart is best know as the king of boogie-woogie and blues. With his release in the mid 90′s of “Got Some On My Fingers”, which featured tunes he crafted, the CD was a regional hit with all of his fans and it established him as a musical force locally. He has been the front man for many local boogie/R&B bands including the “Burning Sensations”. Recently Reinhart has been living in Italy and Virginia, we began our visit by asking him what had taken him to live away from Mendocino over the last few years. Ed Reinhart visited the Radio Curious studio on the January 12, 2009. The book he recommends is “The Pillars of the Earth,” by Ken Follett.
Budapest's Firkin take us to the Carpathians for a different Highland Games. Meanwhile, Way Out West, Tiller's Folly debut Pioneer Days, and The East Pointers are back with Anniversary. Peatbog Faeries share one for Wacko King Hacko and Sons Of Southern Ulster take a trancendant turn, pointing to Polaris. No two stars are the same this week on Celt In A Twist.
Musical waves from the Caribbean (or the Gulf Of America as somebody calls it). We start with a new spin from Guadaloupe's Dowdelin. Alex Cuba does it all on his latest, Voce De Mi Familia, California Dreaming in Vladivostok and roots reggae from Hawaii (which would make an adorable province don't you think?). World Beat Canada Radio!
This week on the Global Research News Hour with Justin Trudeau announcing he will soon resign as Prime Minister, and as the Liberal party leader, we will be taking a close look at his record in power, and casting a similar look at what the leader who succeeds him will be like. In our first half hour, we are joined by author and activist Yves Engler who looks at Trudeau and some of the leadership candidates in terms of their foreign policy. Then in our second half hour, we will talk to researcher and analyst Matthew Ehret at the deep historical and political perspective in terms of the characters who helped bring Trudeau to the stage, and the battles that have played out within the party itself leading them to what Trudeau is doing now.
Nora Barrows-Friedman brings us a recap of Palestinian news from January 9th to the 16th, 2025
In the first half of today’s episode, we discuss the intentional whitewashing of the politics and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King by the Raegan administration to gain a broader appeal to middle America. We also discuss how Dr. King’s image is used and his words are cherry-picked by far-right conservatives to provide a veneer of decency where there often is deep-seated bigotry, fear, and division. In the second half of the show, we discuss what MLK’s thoughts would be on hot-button issues of today based on his actual words. We discuss what his views would be on equity vs equality, the teaching of CRT/American history, and Affirmative Action. Our Way Black History Fact is Dr. King’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail.
Farley Mowat makes the case for resisting the Eagle and standing up for Canada, a reading.
Israel’s Brutal Gaza War has Exacted Severe Psychological Trauma on Children; Trump Pardon of J-6 Insurrectionists: A Disaster for Democracy, Rule of Law; Catastrophic Los Angeles Wildfires, the Climate Crisis and the Future of Public Policy.
We'll look when back in the day, kids learn campy and cheezy songs at camp...enjoy some made for TV Hot Pursuit Disco, and your hosts say i'm sorry with a listener email about CW McCall. Yeah, they're not perfect.
Fires in LA... Trump's fascist press conference... Resistance... & Revolution. What needs to be done now in order to defeat Trump/MAGA fascism (from Bob Avakian's social media message REVOLUTION # 111). Would Central and South America remain the U.S.'s backyard after the revolution? Bob Avakian Answers. Revcom Corps interview a migrant at the border who shares his story. “Across the borderline” (by Outernational, featuring Bob Avakian). Plus, Bob Avakian, REVOLUTION #102 and #103.
California kicked off 2025 with some of the most devastating wildfires in the state’s history. Thousands have already lost their homes, dozens have been killed, and as of today the largest of the Los Angeles area fires is only 14% contained. This week on Sea Change Radio we speak with meteorologist Anthony Edwards of the San Francisco Chronicle to learn more about what caused the fires, how climate change is making events like these more commonplace and inevitable than ever, and what we can all do to better prepare for them. Then, we take a few minutes to look at the burgeoning industry of amateur meteorology in the ski industry and the impact that the growth in untrained meteorological professionals is having on Edwards's job, and on the field in general.
The Repository is an oubliette of musique concrete, nocturnal emanations and audio oddities. An hour of strange music, spoken word musical mash ups of questionable taste. All material is royalty-free, public domain or Creative Commons. This show makes perfect late-night fare. Please let us know if you are broadcasting this show. Our host, Jack Bailey will give your radio station a shout out! Email us at kzzh@accesshumboldt.net.
Eric Kirk and David Frank Discuss the politics of the week.
Computing the enigmatic life of Alan Turing; tiny Liechtenstein toasts the New Year with marriage equality, Lithuania’s top court strikes down the Eastern European nation’s “no promo homo” law, China cracks down on gay erotic fiction online, the alleged “gay travel agent” caught up in Moscow queer nightspot raids dies in prison, and queer U.S. vets win the right to upgraded discharges. Those stories and more this week when you discover “This Way Out”.
Afra and Mohja engage in heated discussion about the complex situation on the ground in Syria, about international interference, and about their hopes and fears over whether the next step will be a democracy including all the country's cultures, or an Islamist dictatorship that oppresses women.
Just days after the dictator Assad fled for Russia, the two of them joined interviewer Kate Raphael (then in Palestine) via Zoom to talk about the complex events, and the history of resistance, especially by women. Program includes sounds of women celebrating, and of women being released from prison. Next week in Part 2 they discuss their hopes and fears about what is next for Syria.
Matthew Parham
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