Today’s topics: planting in hot weather, ash trees, weeds and mulching, mildew on crapemyrtles, other crapemyrtle issues, choosing shrubs for bloom and wildlife, what to plant now, and more.
Six longer sets tonight:
Davis has just gone through a local news media earthquake. We’re talking about the Davis Enterprise’s decision to lay off Wary I columnist Bob Dunning (left, in photo), which shocked and/or angered thousands of people in town. In less than a week, Dunning had restarted his column and sports writing on Substack, with enough paid subscriptions to more than replace his salary at the Enterprise. Within days, Comings & Goings local business columnist Wendy Weitzel left the paper voluntarily to also move her work to Substack.
The evolving Davis news and information story has many parts. Today on Davisville we talk with local small business tech entrepreneur Brian Bolz (on right in photo), who helped Dunning and Weitzel get started on Substack, where they quickly found audiences. Bolz discusses how he became involved, plus his goals, what he’s doing, and how he sees the larger picture.
Vices To Virtues is a powerful dynamic duo group with musicians David Martin and Violet Brown blending elements of folk, jazz, world, funk, psychedelic rock and dub with intricate vocal harmonies and powerful conscious lyricism.
Spend some time with a couple of musicians as they radiate their love of music.
There's still time to plant vegetables. Plus we talk about wildflower seed mixes, flowers in May, daylilies, mimulus, problems with okra, more about things digging and other wildlife garden problems and opportunities, redhumped caterpillars and leaf-footed bugs hatching now, whether squash and pumpkins hybridize, and more.
Nick Saloman is back with another edition of IMPLOSION! Tune in this evening at 5p Pacific for the finest psychedelic sounds and so much more — the Chairmen of the Board, Swervedriver, Johnny Winter, Furniture, Group Axis, and, yes, the Phantom — right here on KDRT 95.7fm | KDRT.org!
KDRT invites YOU to Suds & Sounds at Armadillo Music in downtown Davis on Wed., May 29, 4 to 6 p.m. Meet K-DiRT friends and fans, grab a sticker & a new T-shirt, pick some vinyl to spin...! Beverages will be available at the Bootleg Bar. This gathering repeats every month on the last Wednesday — mark you calendars!
On tonight’s show:
These days, you can get all the quick takes and snap judgments you want. They seem easier to find than facts, partly because they're catnip to the algorithms and impulses that drive social media. Today’s guest is doing something different with opinions — something more difficult, in my book, and more useful, especially in the long run. Since fall 2022, Claire Schad has been writing opinion columns for the California Aggie, the student newspaper and news organization at the University of California, Davis.
Writing opinion columns will seem like an outdated, narrow pursuit — newspapers in any format have much less influence than they did — but a good column that hits its mark generates ideas, not just reactions. It can create room for nuance, for admitting and engaging different points of view. Writers learn about people and ideas, and how to make ideas useful. How to move them forward.
Claire is graduating in June, and we talk about her experiences today on Davisville.
Please join us at 6 p.m. Pacific for Divine Intervention. We'll hear the latest from Shellac (RIP Steve Albini), Oakland's Shannon and the Clams, The Darts, The Libertines, Nick Saloman & The Bevis Frond, Charming Disaster, and local heroes Th' Losin Streaks — plus at least one guaranteed opportunity to tap your twinklin' toes — only on KDRT 95.7fm + KDRT.org, your grassroots radio refuge!
