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  • RESERVATIONS: for your 2 hours of slow-food radio with conversation, music and play: 415-664-9500, or TICKETWEB Tickets for most shows are $15 when purchased in advance via phone or ticketweb. $18 is the walk-up price at the door the day of the show. Children up to 18 are $5. Occasionally, special broadcasts have different ticket prices which will be noted.
  • Doors usually open at 9:30AM, the show finishes its set-up as you arrive, then we broadcast live 10am - 11:59am coast-to-coast.
  • Please see our affiliate page. Stations across the country stream West Coast Live, including KSJN, Jefferson Public Radio, KALW, and many other places.

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  • West Coast Live is happy to announce that KCLU, the winner of more Golden Mikes for news and public affairs than any other Southern California radio station is the newest venue for West Coast Live. KCLU is found on two frequencies: 88.3 FM in Ventura County and 102.3 FM in Santa Barbara, and West Coast Live airs there Saturdays 10pm - Midnight. KCLU also streams on the internet, so you can catch West Coast Live at another time, too, if you can't hear all the live show at 10AM on Saturdays.
  • James Fallows, National Editor of the Atlantic Monthly, wrote about West Coast Live. (link working again)
  • LIVE SATURDAY May 3rd, 2008 - at the San Francisco Ferry Building, site of CUESA's San Francisco Farmers' Market As for ways to get to the show, here's a map.

    • JIM STEINMEYER, author of The Book of the Damned: The Collected Works of Charles Fort an account of man and the weird supernatural sightings, pre-News of the World
    • ROBERT BLY, and EAVAN BOLAND, poets, (or, as a British Immigration official decided about W.H. Auden on seeing his occupation on his immigration card, crossed out poet and wrote unemployed.
    • ELIZABETH MCKENZIE, author of , MacGregor Tells the World,
    • JULIE CUMMINS, talks trash about the Waste Wise efforts at the Farmers Market.
    • CALAVERAS,whose latest recording Green Girl takes the traditional fiddle and fuses with a folk and jazz rhythm section and a strong lead guitar.
    • CLAIRE PEASLEE, naturalist on the nouveau spring.
    • Music from piano player MIKE GREENSILL, who knows his meat from his veg.

    LIVE SATURDAY MAY 10, 2008 - at the San Francisco Ferry Building, site of CUESA's San Francisco Farmers' Market As for ways to get to the show, here's a map.

    • SYLVIA BROWNRIGG, author of Morality Tale a new book about the triangulations of a marriage, mordant, saucy innocence say some. Also, author of the forthcoming The Delivery Room, and the acclaimed and saucy Pages for You.
    • MARY ROACH, author of Bonk: The curious Coupling of Science and Sex, once again takes to place her curiosity leads and we follow.
    • RABIH ALAMEDDINE, author of The Hakawati
    • STAN DEVOTO, of Devoto Gardens, growers in Sebastopol of heirloom apples and flowers.
    • Music from THE BLUEBELLIES, with whom you'll be laughing and dancing.
    • Music from piano player MIKE GREENSILL, who knows his meat from his veg.

    LIVE SATURDAY MAY 17, 2008 - at a fabulous location TBA

      LIVE SATURDAY May 17th, 2008 - at the BERKELEY REP THEATRE , 2025 Addison Street near Shattuck in Downtown Berkeley,

    • CARL HIAASEN, author and humorist whose books include Sick Puppy, Native Tongue, Downhill Lie and Hoot
    • ANDREW SEAN GREER, whose new book is The Story of a Marriage
    • JIM SHEELER, author of FINAL SALUTE
    • other music to be announced, too
    • Music from piano player MIKE GREENSILL, who knows his left hand from his right.

    LIVE SATURDAY MAy 24, 2008 - at the San Francisco Ferry Building, site of CUESA's San Francisco Farmers' MarketAs for ways to get to the show, here's a map.

    • ELEANOR COPPOLA, author of Notes on a Life including her work as a filmmaker.
    • JOHN STRALEY, author and private eye in Sitka, Alaska, has a new thriller set in 1935, The Big Both Ways.
    • Music from piano player MIKE GREENSILL, who knows his Sitka from his Skagway

    LIVE SATURDAY MAY 31, 2008 - at the San Francisco Ferry Building, site of CUESA's San Francisco Farmers' Market As for ways to get to the show, here's a map.

    • COURTNEY JONES, the singer-songwriter stops in for some songs and tea.
    • other guests TBA.
    • Music from piano player MIKE GREENSILL, a true afficianado of kale.

    LIVE SATURDAY JUNE 7th, 2008 at the Freight and Salvage 1111 Addison, Berkeley, off University and San Pablo....continental snacks and coffee available

    • WILLIAM GIBSON, author of Spook Country , Neuromancer where he coined phrase cyberspace, and many other books. One of the great original thinkers of our time.
    • and in a kind of gnerational mash-up:
    • LISA LUTZ, author of The Spellman Files, and Curse of The Spellmans which share their author's comic audacity.
    • ANDREA ASKOWITZ , author of My Miserable, Lonely, Lesbian Pregnancy.
    • ADAIR LARA, author of The Granny Diaries: An Insider's Guide for New Grandmothers ahead of the curve for baby boomers with grand humour and insight.
    • Music from piano player MIKE GREENSILL, who plays from all generations.

    LIVE SATURDAY JUNE 14th, 2008 Live show from The Freight and Salvage Coffee House, 1111 Addison at San Pablo in Berkeley. Morning pastries and coffees available. TODAY, their 40th Anniversary Celebration
  • SEDGE andMIKE GREENSILL, welcome special guests.
  • LIVE SATURDAY JUNE 21st, 2008 Live show from The Freight and Salvage Coffee House, 1111 Addison at San Pablo in Berkeley. Morning pastries and coffees available.

    • MICHAEL MEYER, author of The Last Days of Old Beijing an account of what is being lost and what is being left in China.
    • Music from piano man MIKE GREENSILL, who used to work the Hong Kong Honky-Tonks.

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  • RESERVATIONS: for your 2 hours of slow-food organic radio with only the freshest conversation, music and play: 415-664-9500, or TICKETWEB Tickets for most shows are $15 when purchased in advance via phone or ticketweb. The walk-up price at the door the day of the show is $18. Children up to 12 $5. Occasionally, special broadcasts have different ticket prices which will be noted.
  • Doors usually open at 9:30AM, the show finishes its set-up as you arrive, then we broadcast live 10am - 11:59am coast-to-coast.. You can hear us, too, on-line via many of the public radio stations that carry West Coast Live both on-the-air and streamed across the globe by KSJN, Jefferson Public Radio, KALW, and many other places, if you're outside one of our broadcast areas. Please see our affiliate page.
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