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Booklovers’ Cafe – Rikki Ducornet, The Plotinus

(Airdate: January 30, 2024) Rikki Ducornet joins Cris Wilson on Booklovers’ Cafe to talk about her latest novella The Plotinus and to celebrate the reprint of Phosphor in Dreamland. Rikki is a transdisciplinary artist, fiction writer, and essayist who resides in Port Townsend. She has written 10 novels including Trafix, Netsuke, and The Jade Cabinet. Her work follows her dreams into the realms of surrealism and science fiction. She brings themes of authoritarian abuse, tyranny, beauty, and hope into her writing with a mastery of language and sensuality.

Living Incognegro

(Airdate: January 29, 2024) Host Jim Burke spoke with Director Denise Winter, Actor/Playwright Gin Hammond, and Scenic Designer Michelle Cesmat. All three are involved in the Upcoming Key City Public Theatre’s production: Living Incognegro, that runs from the February 1 preview through February 11. From KCPT’s website: “When your cultural identity is one thing, but your physical identity is another, how do you navigate self-expression? Both a humorous love-letter, and an academic discourse, dedicated to those who find themselves in the middle of a cultural battle they never asked for.”

County Connections

Jim Burke and co-host Commissioner Greg Brotherton welcome Matt Sircely, Vice-Chair of The Jefferson County Planning Commission and Joel Peterson Associate Planner- Lead for the County Department of Community Development. They all discuss the Planning Commission’s mandate to update the comprehensive plan for Jefferson County, which will be updated in June of 2025, and seeks community input from everyone in the meantime to make sure issues like housing and growth are updated to reflect the ongoing needs in the County. The Planning Commission is composed of 9 citizen volunteers appointed by the Board of County Commissioners to support the Department of Community Development and to make advisory recommendations on land use planning matters to the Board of County Commissioners as authorized in the Planning Enabling Act (RCW 36.70.040).

Brewocracy Now ~ 1/25/24

Taylor Clark and his co-host John Mauro discussed the special city council meeting that happened Monday, January 2, 2024 to consider a resolution calling for a cease fire in the Gaza Strip. We also talked about upcoming grants opportunities through the Port Townsend Arts Commission and the Lodging Tax Advisory Committee. Check cityofpt.us Latest News for more information.

#655 Latest News on the Pinto Abalone

(Reprise airdate: January 25, 2024) Get the latest on efforts to restore the endangered Pinto Abalone populations in the Salish Sea with Nan Evans and Josh Bouma of the Puget Sound Restoration Fund. Plus, think about how conservation scientists design species recovery plans.

#236 James Schultz, Quimper Sound’s Maestro

(Airdate: January 23, 2024) Maryanne McNellis interviews James Schultz, owner of Quimper Sound, PT’s record & guitar store. James was into music from a young age and moved to Seattle at the peak of the grunge music scene. He played and toured with a variety of bands. But none of them achieved star status. He was working at a guitar shop between road trips and almost by accident ended up with full time employment when he began to crave some stability. That snowballed into owning a guitar shop in Seattle. Next came ownership of Quimper Sound, one of the country’s most venerable independent record stores. It’s celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2024. Online sales of both records and guitars are leading the shop into the future. Custom work such as inlays by Native American artists are now giving Quimper Sound’s guitars a competitive edge.

FEED Truck in Chimacum, CoLab Downtown

(Airdate: January 22, 2024)  Kellen Lynch describes the newly introduced Chimacum Schools’ FEED truck and Rachel Carben opens the doors to her new venture, Port Townsend’s only CoLab. Hosted by Phil Andrus.

Our Working Waterfront ~ 1/21/24

KPTZ’s Chris Bricker joins co-hosts Eron Berg, Port of Port Townsend’s Director, and Port Commissioner Pam Petranek to explore people, boats and stories surrounding our Working Waterfront. Nestled in along the Working Waterfront and across from the Boat Haven Marina, the aromas of freshly baked muffins and fresh coffee spill from the windows and doors of the Marina Cafe. The eatery, run by Jen Takaki and Shawn Meyer, serves up hearty food to a mixture of shipwrights and town folk rolling through for coffee and a muffin, a take-out special, or a sit down breakfast or lunch. Part of the week, there’s even an evening tapas menu. We thought we’d stop in today and visit with Jen, Shawn, and some of the regulars to see what hopes and dreams lie ahead for 2024.

County Connections

(Airdate: January 19, 2024) Co-hosts Jim Burke and Heidi Eisenhour talked about an Olympic Peninsula Strategic Plan with Steve Shively of the Jefferson County Tourism Marketing Group and Marsha Massey, Executive Director of The Olympic Peninsula Tourism Council.

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