With the Tour of California bike race in town this week, your host interviews Jim Langley (writer for Road Bike Rider) about aspects of the local Stage 2 course that runs through the heart of the Santa Cruz mountains.
Also listen to a feature by writer Amy West, about the growing popularity of mountain biking as sport for high school student.
And for the third part of the show, Kirby Scudder interviews the filmmakers of ”California State of Mind: The Legacy of Pat Brown”, who are actually the grand daughters of the late California Governor. The film kicked of this years Santa Cruz Film Festival.
Bike week begins tomorrow – the semiannual celebration of cycling. Cyclists get free coffee in Santa Cruz County. Monterey County businesses are competing for the most bike friendly workplace award. And on Thursday all around the Monterey Bay cyclists will be served breakfast. Piet Canin, a long time organizer of bike week discusses the accomplishments the event has made in its 25 years. And the Steinbeck Festival was May 3-6 at the National Steinbeck Center in Salinas. One of the speakers this year was Nora Guthrie, director of the Woody Guthrie Archives. She also spoke to KUSP.
A meadow at Little Basin, a recently opened expansion of Big Basin Redwoods State Park. Photo: littlebasin.org
Little Basin, the former Hewlett Packard retreat site has opened as an addition to Big Basin Redwoods State Park. Also in the show: Santa Cruz County is one month into a new policy that changes how residents get groceries home; And Graeme Divine worked on some of the most popular video games in recent decades. Now he’s going solo and establishing GRL Games a new game company in Santa Cruz. He speaks with KUSP’s Kirby Scudder about a life in game design; KUSP takes a look at an invention from the Monterey Bay area that changed how kids play baseball; Jeff Dayton Johnson reviews a new album that marries classical and jazz, and David Anthony reviews the documentary Bully.
In this week’s Talk of the Bay Dennis Morton reviews Salmon fishing in the Yemen and Jeff Dayton Johnson introduces us to three new albums demonstrating the relationships between jazz and traditional Moroccan music. First we look at an effort to plan for a transportation future that facilitates economic growth while improving the environment and meets the needs of the people who use roads, buses and sidewalks.
Santa Cruz celebrates its 100th art tour. Kirby Scudder, one of the events’ founders takes us back to the beginning. Also Ken Burson offers a look at a computer game to help low income couples prepare for birth and Meghan Rosen reports on at the continuing hazard of lead in the environment and new stricter regulations for the toxic element. Also when Monterey Bay area schools fall behind, one of the critical standards they hope to improve is math. They’re not alone, schools across the state are struggling to improve math scores – let alone restore art class. Lillian Mongeau reports that a southern California group is demonstrating how both to reach both goals. And David Anthony’s look back at the two film versions and the novel, Cry the Beloved Country.
The Watsonville Community Band performed at the White House and taken its show around the world. For the last 7 years its been conducted by Eugene Smith, a member of the band since 1966. Smith has announced he’s retiring from the band. KUSP’s Wes Sims reports from one of Eugene Smith’s final rehearsals.
Also in the show: Leslie Sunny is the Executive Director of the Food Bank for Monterey County. The food bank has been feeding more people while adjusting from using donated surplus food to distributing fresh fruit and vegetables.
Santa Cruz County’s Local Agency Formation Commission was expected to okay the esxtension of Santa Cruz City water service to the north of the current UCSC campus, allowing the university to expand. Sante Cruz County District 1 Supervisor John Leopold serves on the commission. He explains his motion that delayed the approval. Monterey County emergency services manager Sherrie Collins discusses Monterey County’s preparations for tsunamis.
