Past Programs 2007

SATURDAY JANUARY 6th a classic from the archives. -- February 08, 2003

A show from The Bayfront Theater with inspiring and droll guests for the new year

• PO BRONSON, a writer who captured the zeitgeist of the late '90s Bay Area with "The First $20 Million is Always the Hardest" finds there are new questions on people's minds in his new book : "What Should I do with My Life?".
• SONYA HUNTER, San Francisco based singer/songwriter, her Fall 2002 album is "Sun in Mind".
• WILLIAM GIBSON, the acclaimed author of "Neuromancer" has been called the Raymond Chandler of the digital age, noir master of the Web. His new book is "Pattern Recognition".
• SUSAN KARE, one of the first designers to work on the Apple Macintosh interface, she has designed some of the icons that we see every day, and continues to attempt to humanize cell phones, PDAs, and other baggage of our modern lives. Iconic in her own way, and reflections that will interest you even as MacWorld begins this next week.
• Radio improvisation from TRUE FICTION MAGAZINE.
• Music from piano player MIKE GREENSILL, who'll even sing about chattering audiences.

The LIVE organic show of 2007 will be January 13th with VENDELA VIDA, novelist and editor of The Believer, and cosmopolitan sensations WESLA WHITFIELD and MIKE GREENSILL, followed by 20TH, both at the San Francisco Ferry Terminal Buliding, and the 27th, in a restaurant TBA 2007 shows 676-679

Guests will include CALVIN TRILLIN on January 27th Watch for details, or sign-up for the weekly -e-mail! We'll hear more of MIKE GREENSILL

SATURDAY JANUARY 20th at the S.F. Ferry Terminal Building - Port Commission Hearing Room, 2nd floor -- (as will our shows be January 27, February 3 and February 10.

• STEVE SANDO, from Rancho Gordo beand and salsas and other Mexican Foods
• DIRTY MARTINI, the Portland-based trio sensation, whose new CD is Tea and Revenge
• FRANK POPE, author of The Dragon Sea a sea adventure account of exploration and greed off the coast of Vietnam
• TIPS ON TRAVEL, with the brilliant guys who know their way around the inside of paper bags and hidden corridors of Heathrow and Narita, CARL and KARL
• Radio improvisation from MARCIA GAGLIARDI, from the weekly food and restaurant e-letter, Tablehopper.
• Music from piano player MIKE GREENSILL, who will heft the pomegrantes and taste a beer at almost anyone's table

SATURDAY JANUARY 27th at the S.F. Ferry Terminal Building - Port Commission Hearing Room, 2nd floor -- (as will our shows be February 3 and February 10.

• CALVIN TRILLIN, whose most recent book is About Alice
• EDDIE MULLER, author of San Francisco Noir
• NEAL POLLACK, self-aware author of Alternadad his account of fatherhood despite himself
• WAKE THE DEAD, Celtic jam band homage to the music of the Grateful Dead
• Radio improvisation from MICHAEL BROOK, composer and performer, whose most recent atmospheric score is for Al Gore's, An Inconvenient Truth
• Music from piano player MIKE GREENSILL, who flavors us the way lavender salt perks up a cantaloupe

SATURDAY FEBRUARY 3rd at the S.F. Ferry Building, site of CUESA's San Francisco Farmers' Market -- (as will our show be on February 10). As for ways to get to the show, here's a map.

• ALICE WATERS, of CHEZ PANISSE
with ANYA FERNALD, from Community Alliance with Family Farmers, on the essential SLOW FOOD movement
• BLAME SALLY, the band you'll find no fault with
• DANIEL ALARCÓN, author of Lost City Radio
• Music from piano player BILL KIRCHEN, renowned guitarist, whose riff made Hot Rod Lincoln
• Music from piano player MIKE GREENSILL, who hits every note right the first time

SATURDAY FEBRUARY 10th at the S.F. Ferry Terminal Building --

• PEGGY ORENSTEIN, author of Waiting for Daisy, her account of her six-year journey to motherhood with her husband, filmmaker Steven Okazaki
• JIM BRUNBERG and FURTIVE ROSE, another Portland-based sensation
• MIRAFLORES, a nouveau trio band
• VERONICA KLAUS, chanteuse
• Music from piano player MIKE GREENSILL, as portrayed by the Rev. SAM BARRY today

SATURDAY FEBRUARY 17th, a pre-prepared show from JANUARY 12, 2002

A CLASSIC from the Freight and Salvage Coffee House.

• LILY TOMLIN, prolific and outrageous comedienne, talks about her one-woman show, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe.
• MICHAEL FRANTI and Spearhead present their powerful blend of social activism and soul music. Their CD: Stay Human.
• REBECCA WALKER, author of Black, White and Jewish, a memoir in which this daughter of a famous black mother and Jewish father attempts to define herself as an individual, not as a symbol.
• Masterful multi-instrumentalist and jazz pianist URI CAINE.
• Music from piano marvel MIKE GREENSILL.

SATURDAY FEBRUARY 24th, LIVE from SFMOMA (show ticket includes museum admission to the new Picasso exhibit!)

PAULA WEST, marvelous singer, back from her triumphs in NYC.

STAN LAI, author of Forbidden Love in Peach Blossom Land, which is about to have its English-language premiere at Stanford, has toured worldwide, been made into an award-winning film and has had no less than 50 different productions in Beijing alone. A recent feature in "The New York Times" said that it "may be the most popular contemporary play in China.""Asia Week" has called him "Asia's top theater director. The play is both funny and wrenching.

WILLIAM POY LEE, author of The Eighth Promise, a memoir set in San Francisco's Chinatown.

TRUE FICTION MAGAZINE, radio improv before your very ears.

Music from piano marvel MIKE GREENSILL.

SATURDAY MARCH 3rd

ROLLICKING AND LIVE at at the Freight and Salvage 1111 Addison, Berkeley, off University and San Pablo....continental snacks available

JOE ELY, one of the truly fine musicians stops in.

CARA BLACK author of mysteries set in Paris including Murder in the Marais lives here, imagines there.

ONE-MAN STAR WARS TRILOGY, writer and performer CHARLES ROSS, whose show distills Episodes IV, V & VI to a certain wry iconic essence.

Masterful bassist MARK IZU joins BRENDA WONG AOKI, whose story of Uncle Gunjiro's Girlfriend The true story of the first Japanese/Caucasian marriage in California, a forbidden love.

The pedal steel guitar stylings of JOE GOLDMARK and his fine-pedaled friends and Friends

Music from piano marvel MIKE GREENSILL.

SATURDAY MARCH 10th, LIVE from

at the Freight and Salvage 1111 Addison, Berkeley, off University and San Pablo....continental snacks available

MIKE FARRELL, B.J. Hunnicutt from M*A*S*H, now has a new memoir out: Just Call Me Mike: A Journey from Actor to Activist.

ARNOLD HANO, now in his 85th year, the baseball writer and author of A Day in the Bleachers , an inning by inning account of the 1954 World Series in wich Willie Mays made his famous catch.

ALEC WILKINSON and POPPA NEUTRINO, author and subject of The Happiest Man Alive, an account of an adventurer who sailed the Atlantic with his family in a boat made of trash, and wants to do the same across the Pacific (explore the linked website for some astonishing stories).

RUSTLER'S MOON, featuring Kathi Kallick and Bill Evans.

MARTHA and MONICA, the piano-cello duo.

Music from piano marvel MIKE GREENSILL.

SATURDAY MARCH 17th

REVIVING AND LIVE at at the Freight and Salvage 1111 Addison, Berkeley, off University and San Pablo....continental snacks available

ANNE LAMOTT, Grace (Eventually), is her newest book. Anne's been with us for all of her books since Joe Jones in 1985, and in between for her reflections on just about anything.

SUSAN WERNER singer pianist guitarist lyricist of grace and wisdom and wryness with songs from her new album The Gospel Truth.

NORA GALLAGHER, author, of Changing Light, set in Los Alamos in 1945.

JULIA SCHEERES, author of Jesusland, her memoir of race and religion and her adopted brother

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March 24: Live from the Freight & Salvage in Berkeley

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MORNING SHOW, 10 AM - Noon (doors at 9:30)

CRAIG CHILDS, author of House of Rain

LISA LUTZ , author of The Spellman Files

ANN CUMMINS, author of Yellowcake

Music by ANCIENT FUTURE

The Fabulous Mike Greensill

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MARCH 31: A Fun(d) Raising Classic from Oct, 2nd, 1999

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PAULA WEST, singer

RODDY DOYLE, writer

SIMON WINCHESTER, author

ERIC IDLE, comedy writer, performer

Piano with GINI WILSON

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APRIL 7: Strong Women, Strong Musicians

Live in Berkeley at the Freight and Salvage 1111 Addison, Berkeley, off University and San Pablo....continental snacks available

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10 am - noon (doors at 9:30)

ANCHEE MIN author of The Last Empress, Wild Ginger, Red Azaela

JAMES D. HOUSTON, author of Bird of Another Heaven, Continental Drift, Snow Mountain Passage

JANE GANAHL, Naked on the Page: The misadventures of my unmarried midlife

Music by VAGABOND OPERA, gypsy Klezmer from Portland, Oregon

THE HOT CLUB OF SAN FRANCISCO, le jazz hot with Paul Mehling & his band.

KARL and CARL, with tips on travel, and today, introducing their Travellers' Bill of Rights.

The Effervescent MIKE GREENSILL

MORNING SHOW, LIVE - 10 AM - Noon (doors at 9:30)

JONATHAN LETHEM, author of You Don't Love Me Yet

GENE YANG, author of the graphic novel American Born Chinese

Music by TANGO No. 9

A blend of Celtic and jazz byMELANIE O'REILLY

The Intrepid MIKE GREENSILL...and much, much, more

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APRIL 21: First time aired (recorded 3/31/007)

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Annual West Coast Live Poetry Jam...

Guests will be some of the Bay Area's most accomplished poets, with...

STEVE AJAY

DAVID ALPAUGH

KIRSTEN ANDERSON

JOHN M. CAMPION

NEELI CHERKOVSKI

JUSTIN CHIN

CHRISTOPHER COOK

SHARON DOUBIAGO

CAMILLE DUNGY

KEITH EKISS

ROBIN EKISS

SEAN FINNEY

MOLLY FISK

GUY JOHNSON

SUSANNA KITTREDGE

MARY MACKEY

CAROLINE GOODWIN

MIKE GREENSILL

MITCHELL HOLMAN

JEREMY LARNER

STEVEN NIGHTINGALE

SUZI KAPLAN OLMSTED

KIM ROSEN

RENEE SEDLIAR

GARY SOTO

J.C. TURBILLION

MAW SHEIN WIN

Music by bard AUSTIN WILLACY, and The Exceptional MIKE GREENSILL

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APRIL 28: First time aired today (recorded March 24)

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CAT CORA, first and only Female Iron Chef

TOM BISSELL, author of Father of All Things

AMY STEWART, author of Flower Confidential

TRACY CHEVALIER , author of Burning Bright and Girl with a Pearl Earring

Music from LARRY GALLAGHER

Music from piano marvel MIKE GREENSILL.

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MAY 5: "LIVE-ish" at the Freight & Salvage in Berkeley (recorded April 14)

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MICHELLE RICHMOND, author of The Year of Fog

PETER PLATE, author of Fogtown

MUSIC by MISTY RIVER

Music by KURT HUGET

Biographer of painter Olaf Palm IRENE THOMAS

The Dramatic MIKE GREENSILL

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MAY 12: First time aired today

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CLAIRE MESSUD, author of The Emperor's Children

CLAIRE TOMALIN, author of biographies of Samuel Pepys and Thomas Hardy

BILL BRYSON, the writer of travel memoir and just about nearly everything else on the plan, writes about his upbringing in Iowa and his return to his natal land.

LANG-LANG, the renowned pianist flies by, ebullient indeed.

Music from piano marvel MIKE GREENSILL.

MAY 19, 2007 ( from May 05, 2001)

Live show from The Freight and Salvage Coffee House Continental patries, coffee, tea on-hand.

• The Baroness of Holland Park P.D. JAMES, author of the Inspector Adam Dalgliesh stories and Death in Holy Orders.
• Renowned Scottish fiddler ALASDAIR FRASER, accompanied by Judy Thomson on piano.
• DORIS HADDOCK, author of Granny D: Walking Across America in My 90th Year. She is now 97.
• Radio improvisation from TRUE FICTION MAGAZINE.
• Music from pianist GINI WILSON.

MAY 26th, 2007 -- LIVE TODAY

Live show from The Freight and Salvage Coffee House Continental patries, coffee, tea on-hand.. 1111 Addison, at San Pablo, near University in Berkeley.

Aware of the fate of the oceans, JULIA WHITTY, author of a collection of short stories and a new book about the fate of coral reefs.. She also wrote the cover story of the current Mother Jones magazine about loss of species by 2100.

MAL SHARPE, man-on- the-street meets man-about-town, from the surreal to the jazz-honed, Mal knows from zeitgeist.

HELEN SIMPSON, author of the set-in-England In the Driver's Seat and Four Bare Legs in A Bed and other books, from London, with brilliant and droll insights and writing about love and relationships and children and, well, life.

MIKE LIPSKIN, a man who just doesn't take the piano out for a walk, he takes it out for large-gaited strides.

TERESE GENECCO, where BETTE MIDLER collides with MELISSA ETHERIDGE, and KAYE BALLARD dances with ROSEMARY CLOONEY, and other high concepts lead to TERESE GENECCO!

Music from the refreshed pianist MIKE GREENSILL.

JUNE 2nd, 2007 -- LIVE TODAY

Live show from The Freight and Salvage Coffee House Continental patries, coffee, tea on-hand.. 1111 Addison, at San Pablo, near University in Berkeley.

• TUCKER MALARKEY, Resurrection.
• MATT RICHTEL, author, Hooked, also NY Times writer of high-tech.
• CLAIRE PEASLEE, naturalist, about barnacles.
• ROBIN FLOWER and LIBBY McLAREN, with DANNY CARNAHAN, with their Celtic fusion.
• HOT CLUB SANDWICH, the great Django Reinhardt inspired group from Puget Sound.
• MIKE GREENSILL

JUNE 9th, 2007 -- LIVE TODAY from San Jose Convention Center, The elegant Salon D

Live show from The Book Group Expo Special ticket price $35 includes show and admission to Expo.

• STEVE WOZNIAK, iWoz, the other Steve of Apple
• PAT MONTANDON Oh the Hell of It All
• NATHAN ENGLANDER, Ministry of Special Cases, and the short stories For the Relief of Unbearable Urges
• ROSALIE SORRELS, singer and storyteller, once called a folkways Edith Piaf, a favorite guest of ours when she travels from her Idaho home
• DEBORAH PARDES, singer-songwriter inspired by books.
• MIKE GREENSILL, piano

SATURDAY JUNE 16th at the S.F. Ferry Building, site of CUESA's San Francisco Farmers' Market -- (as will be our shows through 7th July.). As for ways to get to the show, here's a map.

• JUST ADDED: EMO PHILLIPS, comedian, joke writer, salon model
• MICHAEL CHABON, author of The Yiddish Policemen's Union and Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
• JOSH WAITZKIN chess wiz and martial arts wiz, his youth portrayed in "Searching for Bobby Fisher"
• MARKUS JAMES and WASSONRAI, musical confluence of Mississippi Delta and Mali sounds
• ROY ZIMMERMAN singing political satirist
• NIGEL WALKER and his rooster
• MIKE GREENSILL, the man who likes his cheese sharp and dislike beer that is flat

SATURDAY JUNE 23rd at the S.F. Ferry Building, site of CUESA's San Francisco Farmers' Market -- (as will be our shows through 7th July.). As for ways to get to the show, here's a map.

• DANIEL HANDLER, Adverbs, a lemonly non-snickettly collection of stories
• MIN JIN LEE, author, Free Food for Millionaires her new novel just out
• WAILIN' JENNYS, 3-part harmonies
• CRYSTAL ZEVON, I'll Sleep When I'm Dead, the memorist talks about her rocking rolling life
• MIKE GREENSILL, the man who knows the white keys from the black keys

SATURDAY JUNE 30th at the S.F. Ferry Building, site of CUESA's San Francisco Farmers' Market -- (as will be our shows through 7th July.). As for ways to get to the show, here's a map.

• KYLER ENGLAND, singer-songwriter of grace and panache
• CARL and KARL, Karl and Carl with their tips on travel, leaving you gasping with jet laughs.
• TONY and CATHY ANGELO, piano duo, part of their music festival of multiple pianos and many hands July 5-9, 2007
• DAN IMHOFF Food Fight, Paper or Plastic, author of books and speaker about food, environment and design.
• GREG MASSA brown rice grower from Massa Organics in the Central Valley
• EMILY MITCHELL, author of The Last Summer of the World her novel about the photographer Edward Steichen's wartime return to France and his reckoning with his past.
• MIKE GREENSILL, the man who knows the white keys from the black keys

SATURDAY JULY 7th at the S.F. Ferry Building, site of CUESA's San Francisco Farmers' Market -- (as will be our shows through 7th July.). As for ways to get to the show, here's a map.

• STEPHEN SALMONS and OLIVIA SEARS, from the San Francisco Silent Film Festival. He programs, she translated the Italian of Maciste, that is the interstial cards, of the film.
• LADY BIANCA, she who knows how to tobasco-up a piano
• NICOLE MONES, author of The Last Chinese Chef, Lost In Translation
• BRUCE COLE Edible San Francisco editor of the complex topic, and, my, isn't the pyramid tasty!
• MIKE GREENSILL, the man who knows the white keys from the black keys is indisposed today, so the ebullient DAVID MIOTKE is in for Mike today

SATURDAY JULY 14th

at the Freight and Salvage 1111 Addison, Berkeley, off University and San Pablo....continental snacks available
• RICHARD DAWKINS, author of The Selfish Gene, The Blind Watchmaker, and The God Delusion
• LISA SEE, author of Peony in Love, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
• RUPA and THE APRIL FISHES, a whimsical magic carpet ride through time and place
• GLENN KURTZ, author of Practicing: A Musician’s Return to Music, "Whether as an artist, an athlete, at your job, or in love, practice gives direction to your work, gives shape to the longing for a music beyond you.”
• TRAVIS BEAUCHAMP, a singer-songwriter of great youth.
• MIKE GREENSILL, the man who knows the white keys from the black keys

SATURDAY JULY 21st

at the Freight and Salvage 1111 Addison, Berkeley, off University and San Pablo....continental snacks and coffee available
• CHIP TAYLOR and the TRAIN WRECK REVUE, his song-writing career included Wild Thing made a hit by the Troggs and later making a living as a professional gambler. Therein lie some tales for song material.
• BARBARA QUICK, author of Vivaldi’ Virgins, the story of the Red Priest and his, well, young student for whom he wrote at least 28 violin concerti.
• 26 WRITERS MISBEHAVE, with Ellen Susman, Kaui Hart Hemmings, Michelle Ricmond, and Elizabeth Rosner
• THE BIGGER THE BETTER, 21 funny Women on Beauty Body Image, with two of them, Beth Lisick and Molly Watson
• THE OTHER WOMAN, 21 women talk about deception love, betrayal, with Victoria Zackheim, Ellen Sussman (busy lady!!) and Karen Archambeau.
• MIKE GREENSILL, the man who knows where to stash his glass of ale and cast a wondering eye at our theme today.

JULY 28 (from August 5, 2000)

Show from the Curry Village Amphitheater in YOSEMITE VALLEY. This show was underwritten in part by Gorp.com.

• JESSE COLIN YOUNG and Sons.
• Cartoonist PHIL FRANK, creator of "Farley" and a whole family of bears.
• ROSS HANNA and LIZ HANNA, descendants of JOHN MUIR.
• Ranger KATE McCURDY, National Park Service bear expert.
• TOM BOPP, master of Yosemite songs.
• Music from mountain man MIKE GREENSILL on a packed-in keyboard.

LIVE SATURDAY AUGUST 4, 2007 at the S.F. Ferry Building, site of CUESA's San Francisco Farmers' Market -- . As for ways to get to the show, here's a map.

• SHANA MORRISON, her cookin' band sautees up a side of blues and a side of rock.
• STEVEN OKAZAKI, Berkeley-based Academy Award winner for documentaries, his latest, White Light/Black Rain which created controvery in Japan about Hirsohima, airs this week on HBO.
• VAGABOND OPERA, with vintage gypsy klezmer balkan bellydance band back by popular acclaim
• SOYOUNG SCANLAN, cheesemaker from Andante Dairy
• STEVE WHITE, virtuostic, transcendent bluesish.
• MIKE GREENSILL, the man who knows where the best tomatoes grow.

LIVE SATURDAY AUGUST 11, 2007 at the S.F. Ferry Building, site of CUESA's San Francisco Farmers' Market -- . As for ways to get to the show, here's a map.

• THE BLUEBELLIES, hecho in Petaluma, con Aaron Harris.
• JULIA FLYNN SILER, author of House of Mondavi, a vinious tale of the empire by a San Francisco writer for the Wall Street Journal.
• Other guests, too. Watch these pixels.
• MIKE GREENSILL, the man who knows where the best peaches grow.

LIVE SATURDAY AUGUST 18, 2007 at the S.F. Ferry Building, site of CUESA's San Francisco Farmers' Market -- . As for ways to get to the show, here's a map.

• ARMISTEAD MAUPIN, his new Tale of the City, called Michael Tolliver Lives.
• SCOTT McCLOUD, the inventive cartoonist is drawn out.
• GAUCHO, the the gypsy jazz swings.
• TRUE FICTION MAGAZINE, the improv troupe in for a Farmers' Market plot.
• MICHAEL CLOES, of the Chef Culinary Network of Paris.
• MIKE GREENSILL, the man who knows where the best broccoli grows.

AUGUST 25th, 2007 (Classic from September 13th, 2003 )

from The Freight and Salvage Coffee House Continental patries, coffee, tea on-hand.

• JACK CASADY, the legendary bassist from Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna, with members of BOX SET, Jim Brunberg and Jeff Perhson. Jack's band will be playing music from their new CD "Dream Factor".
• DIANE JOHNSON, author of L'Affaire and many other novels, codedies of manners.
• TIMOTHY FERRIS, author of Seeing in the Dark.
• THE WAYBACKS, performers of a bluegrass offshoot self-described as crabgrass.
• TONAL CHAOS, improv vocals from the sublime to the surreal.
• J. RAOUL BRODY on house piano, in for Mike Greensill.

SEPTEMBER 1st, 2007 (Classic from August 28th, 2004)

Live show from Greens Restaurant, Fort Mason, San Francisco

A show of blues, food, and views -- a harvest show at Greens

• ANNIE SOMERVILLE, Greens chef and cookbook author
• Zen raconteur DAVID CHADWICK , author of Crooked Cucumber and other witty treatises
• Filmmaker KELLY DUANE , whose acclaimed film Monumental: David Brower's Fight for Wild America shows the politics necessary to keep from losing our environmental heritage and the personal work of one man who helped us protect much of our natural landscape.
• GERALD GASS, author, "Olive Harvest" about olive oil.
• BACK BURNER BLUES BAND -- various renowned chefs work their musical chops
• MAXINE WELDON, international blues singer.
• Vegetarian polka from Accordion Princess BIG LOU
• Alan Steger in for Mike Greensill, piano man!

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 8th, 2007 -- Back LIVE! -- at the S.F. Ferry Building, site of CUESA's San Francisco Farmers' Market -- . As for ways to get to the show, here's a map.

BILL PULLMAN, actor, director, whose production, Expedition 6, about the shuttle Columbia opens at the Magic Theater this evening.

CALAVERAS, the band that gets inside your head.

PAUL JOHNSON, author of Fish Forever, and founder of Monterey Fish Market.

JENNIFER AYRE, she calls herself the Singing Sommeliere, uncorked.

MAGGIE GOSSELIN and SARAH KLEIN, creators of the Local Foods Wheel.

MARKE BIESCHKE, of the SF Bay Guardian, purveyors of Bests Lists.

MIKE GREENSILL, the ever-tasty handiwork of the man who knows how to pick strawberries.

LIVE SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 15th, 2007 at the S.F. Ferry Building, site of CUESA's San Francisco Farmers' Market -- . As for ways to get to the show, here's a map.

DAVID LEAVITT, author, whose newest book is The Indian Clerk.

JONATHAN COULTON, the Internet Superstar singer-songrwriter and creator of Thing-a-Week songs stops by to show why he is the exemplar of Where Tradition Meets Tomoorrow.

ANN PACKER, novelist, whose newest is Songs Without Words.

DAVID GANS, singing some words about food.

DAVID WINSBERG, from Happy Quail Farms, where Tolstoy is never read aloud.

MIKE GREENSILL, with a hint of nutmeg, the man who knows a sautee from a sashay.

LIVE SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 22nd, 2007 at the S.F. Ferry Building, site of CUESA's San Francisco Farmers' Market -- . As for ways to get to the show, here's a map.

ROBERT REICH, former Secretary of Labor and author of Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life, a true supertitle.

WESLA WHITFIELD, with songs of scenes, and appearing, too, at the Plush Room tonight.

RICHARD SCHWARTZ, author of Eccentrics, Heroes and Cutthroats of Old Berkeley, inspiring stories of people who came west and made it what it is.

JOHN O'KEEFE, with scenes from Walt Whitman's Songs of Myself.

DAVID STOCKDALE, executive director of CUESA, the producer of the Ferry Farmers' Market days and what we can learn from the food and people here.

BIG WIDE GRIN, the musicians who smile.

MIKE GREENSILL, the man with late-season blueberry stains on his fingers.

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 29th, 2007 in PORT TOWNSEND, Washington

at the PORT TOWNSEND FILM FESTIVAL in the UPSTAGE CAFE , 923 Washington Street.

Tix $10 advanced and for Film Festival Pass Holders, $12 at the door, with filmic marvels and the aroma of organic popcorn on the radio, and featuring

BILLY COLLINS , poet.

actor ELLIOTT GOULD

CHARLES BURNETT, auteur filmmakers whose 1980s film Killer of Sheep is revered as the great Italian masters, though made in Watts for 10k.

THE EDGE, auteur improv artists from the Pacific Northwest.

DAN Big Hands COLVIN, a bit of blues, a bit of country, a bit of rain.

MIKE MURRAY, singer-songwriter, with that northwest flair.

ANDREW SHIELDS in for Mike Greensill.

LIVE SATURDAY OCTOBER 6th, 2007 at the WAG Hotel, site of our DOG SHOW

A special live show from the WAG pet hotel in San Francisco: "Litquake Goes to the Dogs," with

AMY TAN, companion to a v. tiny dog.

GEORGE DAUGHERTY , composer for dogs

KELLY GORMAN DUNBAR dog, or is it human, trainer.

MARIA GOODAVAGE, a guidebook for dogs, who know where to go.

CLAUDIA KAWCZYNSKA, editor of BARK Magazine , devoted to modern cultured dogs

TERRY CASTLE renowned lit crit with a soft spot for dachshunds.

the Dogged MIKE GREENSILL and other

LITERARY HOUNDS circle three times, and settle in for a chat and a scritch behind the ears .

SATURDAYS OCTOBER 13th and OCTOBER 20th, 2007

CLASSICS from the Archive

OCTOBER 13th from May 24, 2003

Live show from the Freight and Salvage Coffee House.

• Eoin Colfer this "uproariously funny" Irishman, and one of Sedge's favorite children's authors, unveils his new adventure book, "Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code", in which young criminal Artemis has found a way to construct a supercomputer, from fairy technology.
• Philosopher, Elaine Pagels, author of "Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas".
• Carol Hughes, author of "Jack Black and the Ship of Thieves".
• Improvisation by 3 For All, featuring Rafe Chase, Stephen Kearin, and Tim Orr.
• The naturalist perspective from Claire Peaslee.
• Music from pianist Gini Wilson, accompanied by Steve Heckman on saxophone.

OCTOBER 20th, from May 31, 2003

Live show from the Freight and Salvage Coffee House. .

• Calvin Trillin, the New Yorker mainstay offers his bi-coastal food criticism in "Feeding a Yen: Savoring Local Specialties from Kansas City to Cuzco".
• The Flying Other Brothers, with the legendary Pete Sears on keyboards.
• Sue Murphy, a great comedian, longtime San Franciscan now relocated to southern California, where the LA Times wrote of her: "an extremely likable performer with ... a high energy quotient and no qualms about acting silly".
• Violinist Carla Kihlstedt of Tin Hat Trio, with cellist Marika Hughes.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill

SATURDAY OCTOBER 27th, 2007

LIVE at at the RANCHO NICASIO in Nicasio, Marin County in downtown Nicasio...big breakfasts available. Guests include:

RICHARD RUSSO, author, Nobody's Fool, Bridge of Sighs

ROBERT REICH, economist, author

CARL and KARL, with Tips on Travel

JERRY HANNON, singer-songwriter

The Lippizanner Stallion of pianists, MIKE GREENSILL

SATURDAY NOVEMBER 3rd, 2007

LIVE at at the RANCHO NICASIO in Nicasio, Marin County in downtown Nicasio...big breakfasts available. Guests include:

CLAIRE PEASELEE, naturalist

PETER KAUKENON Trio

HENRY PETROSKI, author The Pencil, The Toothpick

BILL EVANS, Bajo for Dummies

JOSEPH EPSTEIN, In a Cardboard Belt

A Country Lad, pianist MIKE GREENSILL

LIVE SATURDAY NOVEMBER 10th, 2007 at the S.F. Ferry Building, site of CUESA's San Francisco Farmers' Market -- . As for ways to get to the show, here's a map.

JILL EIKENBERRY and MICHAEL TUCKER, appearing in Love Is A Duet

The REDUCED SHAKESPEARE COMPANY, bonsai lit genius

TIM BATES of the Apple Farm

The cello and koto musicians from Steppenwolf theatre at Berkeley Rep's After the Quake

Music by TERRI HENDRIX andLLOYD MAINES in from the far far East of the West, Texas.

NATHAN AWEAU and HERB OHNTA, JR. in from the Far Far West for some Island music

MOIRA GUNN, author of Biotech Nation

JOSHUA RAOUL BRODY, in from Bernal Heights in for Mike Greensill

LIVE SATURDAY NOVEMBER 17th, 2007 at the S.F. Ferry Building, site of CUESA's San Francisco Farmers' Market -- . As for ways to get to the show, here's a map.

HA JIN,novelist, whose new book is A Free Life

KEN ALBALA, history of Beans

JON GARRONE, with Far West Fungi

MATTHEW DIFFEE, editor of The Rejection Collection, New Yorker Cartoons that didn't make it in.

MAUREEN DRAPER, pianist and editor of The Music Lover's Poetry Anthology.

LARRY GALLAGHER, the poetically inspired comic singer of loss and more loss.

MIKE GREENSILL, who'll appear with Wesla Whitfield at the Plush Room December 27 through December 31st.

LIVE SATURDAY NOVEMBER 24th, 2007 at the S.F. Ferry Building, site of CUESA's San Francisco Farmers' Market -- . As for ways to get to the show, here's a map.

ALICE WATERS, the woman who is changing the way we think about food for ourselves and our children, has a new book, The Art of Simple Food.

REV BILLY, the documentary What Would Jesus Buy? opens around the country. The preacher Starbucks, Wal-Mart, and Disneyland won't let preach, features in a new Holiday Classic.

LAURIE LEWIS, the blue grass legend stops in to slect winter veg and sing and play

ROSALIE WISE SHARP, author of Rifke: An Improbable Life, her memoir of her 51-year marriage with Isadore Sharp, founder of the Four Seasons Hotels.

MARY RISLEY, founder of Foodrunners.

MIKE GREENSILL, , the man with pumpkin pie on his fingers..

LIVE SATURDAY DECEMBER 1st, 2007 at the S.F. Ferry Building, site of CUESA's San Francisco Farmers' Market -- . As for ways to get to the show, here's a map.

QUARTET SAN FRANCISCO Grammy-nominated Whirled Chamber Music, whose latest CD is Latigo.

JESSICA YU Oscar winning director whose latest film Protagonist, is opening around the country.

ANN VILEISIS author of Kitchen Literacy

DAVID MAS MASUMOTO author, Heirlooms: Letters from a Peach Farmer

MICHELA O'CONNER ABRAMS and LARA DEAM publisher and founder Dwell magazine

HOUSTON JONES band with their breezy way with lyricsand high octane americana

MIKE GREENSILL, the man with powdered sugar on his fingers..

LIVE SATURDAY DECEMBER 8th, 2007 at PIEDMONT PIANO 660 - 3rd Street in San Francisco between Townsend and Brannan for Poetry and Pianos.

ROBERT HASS,just won 2007 National Book Award for Poetry for Time and Materials, and served as Poet laureate.

AL YOUNG, the musical poet whose new collection is about the Blues.

SCOTT FOGlESONG, whose work includeds the Haydn Piano Sonata Project.

ROY ZIMMERMAN, the musical satirist.

MIKE GREENSILL, the man who'll play 22 other pianos in the course of this broadcast.