Sonic Café, that’s the Honeydripper, a Baby Woodrose tune from 2003. So welcome to the café, I’m Scott Clark and this is episode 429. This time the Sonic Café presents a really cool music mix pulled from 50 years in a thing we’re calling bad robot. You’ll get why at the end of the show. Musically we’ve got Joan Jett who doesn’t just play Rock and Roll Rock n Roll, she lives it. Also Bobby Womack from the American Gangster release. Leon Russell’s classic, A Song For You. Graham Parker, waiting for UFO’s, John Newman from 2013, Kris Rodgers and the Dirty Gems covering Elton John. Even Jimi Hendrix from 1970, and of course many more. Then an important public service announcement encouraging all stupid people to get out the vote, it’s ahh what makes America great. Oh and before we forget, a surgically precise welcome to our newest sponsor. Listen for a word Auto Health Hospital; providing the latest care, entirely powered by Artificial Intelligence. They already have 3,000 locations, and are assimilating more each day, so you’ll have one soon. What could possibly go wrong, right? Here’s Paul McCartney from McCartney three, his eighteenth solo album from 2020. This is Deep Down, and we’re the Sonic Café.

Founded in 1929, the Heard Museum’s mission is dedicated to educating people about the arts, heritage and life ways of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas, with an emphasis on American Indian tribes of the Southwest. Committed to the sensitive and accurate portrayal of Native arts and cultures, the museum successfully combines the stories of American Indian people from a personal perspective with the beauty of art, showcasing old and new hand woven baskets, kachina dolls, other art and cultural objects. The museum showcases the art and regalia of Apache, Hopi, Navajo, Pueblo, and Yaqui, to name a few. More than 2000 items make up the museums exhibition. Artwork ranging from pottery, baskets, beadwork, dolls and paintings are on display. Our guest is Debra Krol, the communications manager who shared portions of the Heard Museum with me on December 10, 2011. We began our conversation with Krol when she introduced us to the Heard Museum and the unique features that reflect the evolution of south western Native American art. Debra Krol recommends two books: “Ishi’s Brain,” by Orin Starn, and “Indians, Merchants and Missionaries: The legacy of Colonial Encounters on the California Frontiers”, by Kent G. Lightfoot. Our interview with Orin Starn may be found here. The Heard Museum website is www.heard.org.

The laws around the control of marijuana and medical marijuana usage are many and complex. How we find our ways through this maze and understand the rules and regulations surrounding the marijuana plant, allegedly 1000′s of years old, used legally and illicitly worldwide and well known in Northern California by many as an economic base and/or a source of pleasure presents many curious questions. In this edition of Radio Curious we visit again with Mendocino County Sheriff Tom Allman in an attempt to clarify the laws and ordinances currently in effect in Mendocino County, California and how he as county Sheriff enforces them. Sheriff Allman has been heard to say that he would “like to take marijuana off the front page.” We hear how he views the evolution of marijuana control and whether he can foresee a time when marijuana no longer is on the front page. We spoke with Sheriff Tom Allman in the studios of Radio Curious on April 13, 2009 and began by asking what changes he has witnessed with regard to marijuana beginning when he was a child growing up in Garberville at the southern end of our neighbor, Humboldt County. The book he recommends is “Vet Tails” by Charlie Freed

Speaking at a community listening session at Trinity United Church of Christ on Chicago's south side, Mayor Brandon Johnson briefly spoke about his administration's commitment to give all the city's children and its working people, a government rooted in Care, Fairness and Justice, before taking questions. Frank Chapman, executive director of the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, preceded Mayor Johnson with a call for unity in the face of the racist and neoliberal forces working to divide the coalition that elected the mayor some fourty years after they took control of Chicago following the death of Mayor Herold Washington.

This week, on the Global Research News Hour, with politicians everywhere calling for increased spending on the military and we now standing at the cusp of an even larger Middle East war about to break out soon we are trying to assess where we may be headed. In our first half hour, we have a talk with Ken Stone of the Hamilton Coalition to Stop the War about his group’s appeals for peace during the federal election. Then in our second half hour, Larry Johnson, former CIA officer and intelligence analyst, offers his thoughts about the tensions between the US and Iran finally exploding into a major military attack in the not too distant future.

Today it is the Congo, but Paul Kagame's forces began their crime wave when they invaded Rwanda in October 1990.

A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. Japan, France 24, Germany, and Cuba.

Now more than ever, governments must support Canadian authors, publishers, and bookstores. We are what we read.

Liberating great Celtic music from around the world to the streams and the airwaves. There's Firkin from Hungary, Gangar from Norway, Canadian duets from Cassie & Maggie and Jane & Kyle, plus new Irish vocal quintet, Landless. Check out the giant playlist. Here, let me hold it up for the press, except the fake news. No one's ever seen anything like it, Celt In A Twist.

Promoting diversity, because that's what Canada does. This hour, the South Asian Invasion continues en masse with the ultimate dhol-driven party band, Red Baraat, Zamrock from the folks who invented it, new WITCH, Finnish nu-folk from Vimma and the Adult Alternative Album award winner at the Junos, Innuktitut from Elisapie. Tap in to World Beat Canada.

Nora Barrows-Friedman brings us a recap of Palestinian news from March 27th to April 3rd, 2025.

Confronting the Reality of Trump's Vile White Supremacist Agenda; Trump Targets International Students for Deportation, 1st Step to Repress Free Speech for All; Trump Attack on Immigrants and Aid Groups Felt at Local Agencies Across the US.

Our exploration into the world of AI takes a turn towards tributes as the show salutes some hard working human jobs with AI made songs about some of the unsung human heroes we deal with every day. Isn't that Ironic?

Our guest is civil rights attorney Portia Allen-Kyle – the managing director of the nation’s largest online racial justice organization, Color of Change. As a national online force driven by 7 million members, they move decision-makers in corporations and government to create a more human and less hostile world for Black people in America. In the first half of the show, we talk about the Color of Change, some of the problems created by the current political administration, and the implications of the dismantling of the Department of Education. In the second half of the show, we discuss the plight of civil rights organizations under Trump, as well as what individuals can do to support (or boycott) initiatives they feel align with their interests as citizens.

Fascist attacks, from the US to the West Bank. Bob Avakian on the need for UNITY for collective action and self-sacrificing struggle to DEFEAT this fascism. Andy Zee, the protests on April 5, and the work of Refuse Fascism. From the Bob Avakian Interviews, 2025: What is happening, how fascism can be defeated and a whole different and better future be won. Annie Day with a closer look at the massive escalation of genocide in Gaza, and the lynch mob terror in the West Bank of Palestine.

Marandi was interviewed by Nima on the podcast channel Dialogue Works. They spoke on Monday, March 24, 2025. The bombing of Yemen, that the U.S. Trump administration had launched, was continuing as they spoke. Analysts describe it as one of the largest bombing attacks on Yemen in years. There also have been ongoing demonstrations in the streets of Istanbul, Turkey. Hundreds of thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators show support for the city's jailed mayor. He is seen as the main rival of President Erdogan in the upcoming elections. Nima’s guest, Mohammad Marandi, is an Iranian-American academic and political analyst. He is currently a professor of English Literature and Orientalism at the University of Teheran. Marandi has appeared as a political and social commentator on international news networks such as Channel 4, Sky News, PBS, ABC, BBC and Al Jazeera. And he is an adviser to the Iranian nuclear negotiations team in Vienna. Nima is Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at the Federal University of Itajubá in Brazil. My thanks to Dialogue Works where the full 64 minute long conversation is posted under the title: Mohammad Marandi: Yemen's Hypersonic Strike on Tel Aviv. DATE: 3/24/2025

We've got Roosevelt Sykes who was Living In A Different World in 1946. Sure was. We'll hear what is likely the first version of Mexican Hat Rock that was only issued in Canada, by an American band; we've got a calypso band from Africa, some close harmony country singing and the irresistible blues-boogie piano stylings of Kenny "Blues Boss" Wayne, who began his career in LA in the 1960s and is still hard at it today in Canada.