Category Archives: Outbeat Collage

Hosts Mikala Kennan and Gary Carnivele will chat with Joy Anagostis of OutWest Dance, a group that produces monthly Country & Western partner & line dance events in Sebastopol. Transgender photographer Karen Massing will be on hand to talk about … Continue reading →

Hosts Gary Carnivele and Mikala Kennan will chat with Mark Galipeau who organizes Queer Contra, a LGBT group that performs a centuries old New England folk dance. Petaluma-based singer/songwriter Bobby Jo Valentine will be in the KRCB studio to talk … Continue reading →

Hosts Mikala Kennan and Gary Carnivele will chat with Colin Turek the producer of the documentary “Gen Silent,” a film about LGBT seniors and the problems they face when seeking care and housing in a less than LGBT-friendly environment. Model, … Continue reading →

Hosts Mikala Kennan and Gary Carnivele chat with Santa Rosa writer and retired family therapist Kay Mehl Miller, PhD., about her new book “Living with the Stranger in Me – An Exploration of Aging”; also, local musician and former host, Sun Bell, returns for an in-studio performance and update … Continue reading →

Mikala Kennan and Gary Carnivele talk with two local writers: Charlie Pendergast, is a poet and founder of Risk Press Gallery and Risk Press Foundation in Sebastopol, who’s annual publications help support Food for Thought. Also, Dr. Dianna Grayer, co-host of Outbeat’s Living Proof, who … Continue reading →

Mikala Kennan interviews visual artist Lenore Chinn about her work and her involvement with the Queer Cultural Center, the Asian American Women Artists Association, and Lesbians in the Visual Arts. Gary Carnivale chats with psychotherapist and author Jan Ogren about her new book, Dividing Worlds.

Hosts Mikala Kennan and Gary Carnivele with talk about Calabash, Food for Thought’s annual fundraising event, which features a silent auction of fine gourd art, with the AIDS Food Bank’s Rachel Gardner.  Gary will interview the director of the new, gay … Continue reading →

Hosts Mikala Kennan and Gary Carnivele talk with Denny Hamann about his work as a composer, and about his new novel Purple Grass. Rick Dean, Executive Director of Face to Face Sonoma County  AIDS Network, talks about Art for Life, the group’s big fundraiser on … Continue reading →

Hosts Mikala Kennan and Gary Carnivele will chat with Theater Director Buzz Bense about Pegasus Theater’s current production “Avow.”  Jason Perdue from the Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival with be here to talk about the organization’s “Best in the Fest” program’s July 22 screening of “Out … Continue reading →

Outbeat Host Jeff Basham gives a report on the 35th Annual SF International LGBT Filmfest; Co-host Mikala Kennan interviews two Sonoma County artists: Corrine Haverinen whose expressionist style and fascination with trees is conveyed with ink on Japanese absorbent papers and, … Continue reading →