Homegrown Radio for West Marin

KWMR is community, non-commercial radio, offering a wide range of information and entertainment from our studios in

The Creamery Building, in downtown Point Reyes Station, CA.

 

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KWMR Executive Director

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Spring Pledge Drive Begins

St. Patrick's Day, Wednesday, March 17 through Friday, March 26

A Glimpse Ahead......

Wednesday, March 17

                  Live at Toby's at Toby's

8-10 am All Day Music — Breakfast and Laughs!

10-11 am Anne Lamott with Joy Maulitz on Turning Pages.

In the Studio

12-2 pm “The Chieftains with Ry Cooder: San Patricio.”  Irish troops in the Mexican-American War of 1846-48, and the connections between Irish and Mexican music.

 

4-5 pm “Art's Delight” George Lakoff and Rafael Nuñez on the language and art of mathematics, with Julie Motz.

5-6:30 pm Point Reyes Birding Festival; then “The Iraq and Afghanistan Elections,” hosted by Frederick Smith.

.....more Pledge Highlights Following the Current Week.......

 

CURRENT WEEK HIGHLIGHTS

 

Wednesday, March 10

5 pm "Politics with Norman Solomon" Trisha Almond with V-Day, working to end violence against girls and women. Trisha has arranged screenings of the award-winning documentary, “Until the Violence Stops”, and art shows exhibiting positive images of women and altars paying homage to victims and survivors, and produced sold-out staged readings of Eve Ensler’s “The Vagina Monologues.”

4 pm “Hot Tech/Cool Science.” Bruce Lipton, rebel cell biologist discusses his new book, Spontaneous Evolution, with host Julie Motz.

5:30 pm “Epicenter: Disaster Response. How prepared are we? Haiti, New Orleans, West Marin. Myriam Kaplan-Pasternak, DVM; Libby Colman, Coordinator West Marin Disaster Council; A New Orleans participant, TBA.

 

Friday, March 12

10 pm “Stone in the Water.” Ian hosts the charming and extremely talented Nicole Sutton and Mark McGee from the Rock/Americana band LUVPLANET. They will discuss their music and new projects, as well playing a few tunes live from Studio A.

1 pm “ViewPoint.” Host Ellen Shehadeh speaks with Lori Gottlieb, author of Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough. Single and forty, Gottlieb examines why so many women of a certain age who would like partners are alone, through looking at her own life, and speaking with many researchers and other experts.

Saturday, March 13

9 am “Vicarious Traveler.” Vicki Leeds’ guest is Chuck Thompson, author of To Hellholes and Back: Bribes, Lies, and the Art of Extreme Tourism.

 

Tuesday, March 16

8:45 am “Wake Up West Marin.” Raul Gallyot talks with Mother Jones magazine editor, Mac McClelland, about his story on Burma’s war, For Us Surrender Is Out Of The Question.

 

PLEDGE HIGHLIGHTS

Wednesday, March 17

Live at Toby's

8-10 am All Day Music feeds us breakfast and makes us laugh!

10-11 am Anne Lamott with Joy Maulitz on Turning Pages

In the Studio

12-2 pm “The Chieftains with Ry Cooder: San Patricio.”  Irish troops in the Mexican-American War of 1846-48, and the connections between Irish and Mexican music.

 

4-5 pm “Art's Delight” George Lakoff and Rafael Nuñez on the language and art of mathematics, with Julie Motz.

5-6:30 pm Point Reyes Birding Festival; then, “The Iraq and Afghanistan Elections” hosted by Frederick Smith.

Saturday, March 20

11 am “ViewPoint” Ellen Shehadeh hosts Ben Angulo of Drakes Bay Café and Michael Zilber of Tomales Bay Foods.

2-4 pm “Hawaii Calling” Spend time in the Islands with Susanna Henderson.

6-8 pm “The Celtic Universe.” New albums from Karan Casey and John Doyle; Nuala Kennedy; The Chieftains and Ry Cooder.

 

Sunday, March 21

12-2 pm “Jazz….. with Kendrick Rand”

2-4 pm “Salsa….. with Susan and Ed Santiago”

 

Monday, March 22

8 am “With Eyes Open!” Peter Asmus hosts Claire Cummings, author of Uncertain Peril.

 

Wednesday, March 24

4-5 pm “Hot Tech/Cool Science” Julie Motz hosts Dr. Richard Post of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories on magnetic fusion and the future of maglev trains.

 

Thursday, March 25

2-5 pm Classical Thursday Loves Gershwin “An American in Paris” hosted by Susan Santiago.

5 pm “Speaking of Faith” program host Krista Tippett talks with Lyons Filmer.

 

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KWMR now available on iPhone through the

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Find out how it works.

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    KWMR listeners in Bolinas and Stinson Beach now have a new home on the dial at 89.9 fm. This is good news - the change has brought  improved reception to the two communities and to the Highway One corridor between Dogtown and Steep Ravine.

In the Point Reyes area, the frequency remains the same at 90.5 fm, and listeners can still hear the live stream 24 hours a day right here on the KWMR website (click the flashing cow up top)

Let us know how the new signal is working for you.

 

Program Schedules available online.

We'd love to hear from you, contact the staff.

 

KWMR Vehicle Donations

Do you want to help KWMR with on-going broadcast expenses? If you have a car, boat, truck or other vehicle that you no longer need, consider donating it to KWMR. You will receive a receipt for tax purposes and we will receive revenues from the sale of the vehicle.

Cars don't need to run or pass smog and our representative will make arrangements to pick it up

Call 888 KWMR AUTO

(888-596-7288)