Tonight on Jazz After Dark: the Nat King Cole Trio, Oscar Peterson (Billie Holiday vocals), Thelonious Monk, Ella Fitzgerald, Stanley Turrentine, Paul Desmond, Boots Randolph, Boogaloo Joe Jones, Yusef Lateef, The Modern Jazz Quartet, and Sonny Rollins.
The city's plan to cut carbon pollution in Davis to net zero by 2040 relies on electrifying buildings and transportation, plus other visible changes. On today’s program Kerry Daane Loux, the city’s project manager for the Climate Action and Adaptation Plan, and City Council member Bapu Vaitla talk about why Davis must change, and what’s ahead.
The council will take up the plan again in April.
“The next steps are very important. We’ve arrived at a hundred actions, 28 priorities, but we know that we need to prioritize within the priorities and say this year, what are the three, four, maybe five actions that we want to become law,” Vaitla says on Davisville. “It doesn’t necessarily need to be mandates, but it does need to be policies that we would place at the top of the list in terms of the climate impact they’re going to have, in terms of the greenhouse-gas reduction impact.
“ … The idea stage is nearing the end of its first phase, but now it’s the implementation stage where all of us need to be involved and give, give of ourselves.”
Mishka's Cafe is the place in Davis where everyone can go to wind down. Also on today's program: a movie review on the new movie Puss in Boots: the Last Wish, with an audio editorial on how difficult it can be to settle down in a new country after immigrating. Lastly, a profile on one of Davis High’s sneakerheads.
Packages by Sean Campbell, Jeremiah Haskins, Rowan Baar, and Lucas Liu
Laura Legacki discusses the benefits of volunteering within the Yolo CASA organization. Laura, a long-time volunteer and training director at the nonprofit, shares stories about the bond formed with the foster child, and explains what is required of volunteers and the training they receive.
From Yolo CASA: "The heart of our program is the Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA), a specially trained and supervised community volunteer appointed by the judge. Research shows that just one consistent, stable, and healthy relationship significantly improves adult outcomes for foster children."
Today: More about avocado pruning, bacterial gummosis of stone fruits, talking to plants, small space gardening, cottony cushion scale, and more (avocado photo courtesy of Marta Matvienko).
Beth Post here: Today I'm fulfilling a long-held dream of sharing a favorite "soundtrack of my life" album on KDRT's Album of the Week.
Thanks, Pieter Pastoor, for letting me cycle in.
We're playing Disc 2: "After Hours" of Chillin' at the Playboy Mansion. This album is the soundtrack to the Post family's annual North Fork of Long Island end-of-summer vacay, and just hearing the needle drop on this thing is like a month of therapy and a week at the spa.
Tonight on Jazz After Dark: songs from 1927 to 1969. Fats Waller, Count Basie & His Orchestra, Dinah Shore & Buddy Clark, Louis Armstrong, Charlie Christian, Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington And His Famous Orchestra with Johnny Hodges, Roland Kirk, Nat King Cole, Al Hirt, Miles Davis, Bud Powell Trio (Kenny Clark drum solo), Johnny Hodges, Herbie Mann, and then Ella Fitzgerald with the Ernie Heckscher Big Band & Tommy Flanagan.
Bob Dunning, a long-time journalist for the Davis Enterprise, shares his story. A new library in South Davis has started construction, with an estimated completion time in the next few years.
Packages by Elliot DeJong and Maria Anderson. Produced by Maria Anderson and Naneh Grigor. Music by Daniel Ruiz-Jimenez.
Imagining Yolo-Davis is a civic-minded interview program that features volunteers who are creating a better community for all of us.
In this premiere episode, show host Pieter Pastoor interviews Dirk Brazil, a longtime active member of the communities he has lived in. His professional career has been in city government. He is a retired city manager for Davis, and also has his own radio show on KDRT, The Twang Thang.
Listen in as we discuss the benefits of volunteering, both on a personal level and for the health of the community.
On today's program: Flowers for cutting, some old-fashioned annuals to grow from seed, sequence of seed starting for summer veggies, rats injuring citrus tree, and tomatoes for drying.
