KZSC Bushwhacker's - Editorial Cartoon Monthly 'The Comic News' publishers Thom Zajac & John Govsky
Release Date: 12/27/2024
KZSC Bushwhacker's - Editorial Cartoon Monthly 'The Comic News' publishers Thom Zajac & John Govsky
KZSC Santa Cruz
Thom came to Santa Cruz in the 1970s to attend U.C. Santa Cruz, where he majored in (but did not graduate in) Aesthetic Studies (he was one of the last majors); John moved to Santa Cruz in the 1980s, and he now teaches at Cabrillo College (our local community college), digital design, web design; there are 3 iterations of the Comic News: the Santa Cruz Comic News, delivered locally with partial ad support, the Comic News, mailed to subscribers and subscription supported, and TheComicNews.com, subscription supported; Thom was interested in editorial cartoons and tried to sell his own one at a...
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Bruce 'B-Movie' Bratton_a life of movie reviews_kzsc_Bushwhacker's_20241206
KZSC Santa Cruz
With 19 years of movie reviews, have not set up an archive (yet); B-Movie sees ~200 movies per year; 19 years ago, started Bratton Online at about the same time Bruce started duing movie reviews on "The Bushwhacker's Breakfast Club"; B-Movie studied film at UC Berkeley for 5 years, then UC Santa Cruz for 4 years, receiving a degree in film studies; was Bruce able to do film as his "day job"? No. But he did run the Silent Film Festival at the Castro Theater; why quit now? Burned out? In part, yes...also, the average quality of films has declined, theaters are closing left & right, and there...
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Pam Delgado, Singer Songwriter (part of Duo Quartet) - The Bushwhacker's Breakfast Club, KZSC Santa Cruz
KZSC Santa Cruz
"Duo Quartet" started as a 'Happy Accident'; The Pam & Jeri Show (Jeri Jones) booked a gig at the Freight & Salvage in Berkeley, and they wanted a double bill, so they asked Chris Webster & Nina Gerber to join them, and they ended up playing together & really enjoying it (10-12 years ago); everybody in the quartet writes songs; Nina & Jeri Jones play guitar, Chris Webster on washboard, and Pam Delgado plays cajon - everyone but Nina sings; the Money Question? for Pam, not anymore...she's an account manager at a landscape company, but her boss is both a musician and a...
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KZSC Bushwhacker's - Crys Matthews, Singer Songwriter - Folk & Social Justice - The Bushwhacker's Breakfast Club, Nov. 8, 2024
KZSC Santa Cruz
First performing gig was in 2007....her career took off in 2017 after she won an award at the 2017 NewSong Music Performance & Songwriting Competition at the Kennedy Center; as a songwriter, sometimes the songs just come to her; she writes and sings about social justice (e.g.: "Cancel Culture"); she plays banjo, having majored in music at college in North Carolina; started tour with Julian Taylor from Toronto...they're playing separate gigs, but will be back together for show next Thursday at The Ugly Mug in Soquel.
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Gail Pellerin, California 28th District Assemblymember, Nov. 15, 2024, on KZSC's "The Bushwhacker's Breakfast Club"
KZSC Santa Cruz
What can we do to prepare for Trump's clear mandate? It's a marathon, not a sprint...change starts local, and in ourselves; discussion of the changing face of local journalism, with Lookout Santa Cruz's birthday last night, and how they are rolling out in local schools; Gail studied journalism in college (Cal Poly, SLO), where she was editor of the Mustang, & later a reporter at the SLO Bulletin, Elk Grove Citizen, where she realized she had opinions; worked for Rusty Arias' district office, then the Bill Tracking Unit in Sacramento, and later, Santa Cruz County Clerk; the Governor *has*...
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KZSC_Bushwhacker's_Santa Cruz City Councilmember_Martine Watkins_20241101
KZSC Santa Cruz
Martine Watkins, City Councilmember in Santa Cruz, California, discusses history of sugar-sweetened beverage tax in Santa Cruz, and how earlier efforts were cut off by passage of the California Keep Groceries Affordable Act, which penalized charter cities who would raise taxes on sugar sweetened beverages. Martine and Cultiva La Salud sued the state, and won in the Third District Court of Appeal, which struck down the Act's penalty provision. On June 25, 2024, the City Council adopted resolution (No. NS-30,360) requesting that the Nov. 5, 2024 General Election ballot include a general tax of 2...
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kzsc_Bushwhacker's_musicians Zoë Aqua, Dmitri Gaskin, and Raffi Boden_20240329 Eastern European Village Music
KZSC Santa Cruz
Zoë Aqua, Dmitri Gaskin, and Raffi Boden play Klezmer music, in the tradition of Ashkenazi Jewish people from Eastern Europe villages. Dmitri plays accordion and lives on a Watsonville apple farm, Zoë plays violin & recently completed a Fulbright in the Transylvania area of Romania(!), & Raffi lives in Brooklyn and is a full time freelance musician playing in 3-4 Klezmer bands. Zoë also teaches, and Dmitri is an apple farmer. How did they stumble into Klezmer? Good question! Dmitri's parents had Klezmer music CDs when he grew up in Berkeley, California, and legendary Klezmer...
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Santa Cruz City Councilmember Scott Newsome - The Bushwhacker's Breakfast Club (9/27/2024)
KZSC Santa Cruz
Scott Newsome, City Councilmember in Santa Cruz, California, discusses how city ordinances are introduced and passed. Tennant protection ordinance, and an ordinance to prevent outside police departments from depositing unhoused individuals in Santa Cruz. The role of a city council member is to listen, and make progress; downtown construction and lowering barriers to approving housing. Hosted by "Dangerous Dan" Orange
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Risa Hosking, Singer Songwriter - The Bushwhacker's Breakfast Club (9/20/2024)
KZSC Santa Cruz
Risa Hosking, Singer Songwriter, on her life path and career, including where she grew up (Hatchett Mountain), 15 miles from the nearest school, and her early influences (the Mountaineer Jug Band) and a teacher who convinced her to join an all-girl band. It wasn't 'till she got to a California Bluegrass Association camp and heard people jamming at night that she learned she was playing "Old Time Busic"; now "country/folk with a little twang". Rita got a grant from Arts Council from the state, to write music / songs about climate change; making a living with music performing, running a...
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Owen Ragland and Kat Baker aka Honey Run, musicians- The Bushwhacker's Breakfast Club (9/27/2024)
KZSC Santa Cruz
Owen Ragland and Kat Baker performing as Honey Run. They went to high school together, and reconnected after college - they knew they wanted a band, and were searching for a nature-inspired name...a friend told them about a name rejected by their band, and lo-and-behold!! they became "Honey Run". Owen is doing a bunch of music projects, & Kat is a civil engineer and works for the Forest Service by day, with music after hours. Owen is a multi-instrumentalist, whose parents were bluegrass musicians, with Owen wanting to play fiddle since he was a kid and, when he was a teenager, guitar; Kat...
info_outlineThom came to Santa Cruz in the 1970s to attend U.C. Santa Cruz, where he majored in (but did not graduate in) Aesthetic Studies (he was one of the last majors); John moved to Santa Cruz in the 1980s, and he now teaches at Cabrillo College (our local community college), digital design, web design; there are 3 iterations of the Comic News: the Santa Cruz Comic News, delivered locally with partial ad support, the Comic News, mailed to subscribers and subscription supported, and TheComicNews.com, subscription supported; Thom was interested in editorial cartoons and tried to sell his own one at a time; he learned about synidcates which, to an editorial cartoonist, are like a record label to a musician; after being inspired by a book of editorial cartoons at Kepler's bookstore in Menlo Park, on April Fool's Day 1984 he put out his first bi-weekly paper including stringing together editorial cartoons; helped introduce Nina Paley, who John says was first published in Santa Cruz in the Monthly Planet, a monthly newspaper of the Nuclear Freeze Movement (but Nina might not have been paid); changes in circulation and office space and the internet; Comic News makes money, but not much - both Thom and John have other means of support; the Santa Cruz Comic News was the first, with 7 direct spin offs and dozens of other close followers, including the nationally distributed Funny Times, whose founders came to Santa Cruz in 1985 to check out our Comic News before going back to Cleveland and starting their monthly humor periodical; print is not a growing medium - the future is digital (but AI image generation threatens human artist and cartoonists).