KUCI: Get the Funk Out

1/14/19 - 9am pst - Laura B. Whitmore and Nita Strauss join Janeane to talk about the up-coming She Rocks Awards!

Laura B Whitmore is a lifelong songwriter and music industry veteran. Whether she’s operating her music marketing and PR business, blogging for Guitar World, organizing a mass group-guitar-jam attended by hundreds at Union Square, or working with the WiMN, an organization she founded which advocates for women in the music industry – there’s always been one constant in Whitmore’s life; songwriting.
About Nita Strauss
Los Angeles born guitarist Nita Strauss has become a force to be reckoned with in the music world, dazzling audiences across the US, UK, Europe, South America, Asia, Australia and Africa. Most fans will recognize Nita as Alice Cooper's touring guitarist of the past 4 years, but she has also played with R&B star Jermaine Jackson, early MTV darlings Femme Fatale, video game supergroup Critical Hit and popular tribute band The Iron Maidens. Her skill, exuberant stage presence and love for all things about her instrument have earned her a stellar reputation in the music industry and endorsements including Ibanez Guitars, Marshall Amplification, DiMarzio pickups, Monster Energy and more.
2018 has been a banner year for Nita. In January she was officially announced as the first ever female Ibanez signature artist with her own model, the Ibanez JIVA. She also released her signature pickups, the DiMarzio Pandemonium. April saw Nita playing WWE Superstar Shinsuke Nakamura's entrance music at Wrestlemania in New Orleans in front of an audience of 78,000 fans and millions streaming worldwide, and in the same month she launched a wildly successful Kickstarter campaign for her debut solo record Controlled Chaos. The campaign reached its goal in two hours, doubled it by the end of the day, tripled the following day and ended up over 800% funded. Nita produced the record herself and did the majority of the engineering, as well as playing all the guitars and bass on the record. After the record was competed, Nita signed with Sumerian Records to release and distribute the album worldwide. After finishing out the Alice Cooper tour cycle, Nita will immediately hit the road supporting Controlled Chaos alongside modern guitar virtuoso Angel Vivaldi.

1/7/19 @9:45am pst - Author John B. Lane discusses his latest book, The Beatin’ Path

Where does a person find solace in a world rushing headless into the Golden Age of Nonsense? If a Netflix binge, a bong, or a box of chocolates aren't your cup of tea, you'll find an oasis of sanity on The Beatin' Path.
'The Beatin’ Path is a bold and timely new worldview, and a fresh leap forward for the art of literature!'
About the author
John B Lane is an award-winning author and instructional designer, and a pioneer in online learning. He began his professional career as a journalist, and has written for numerous publications, from the Washington Post to the Huffington Post.
About the Book
Which part of the human mind will finalize our fate? The part that wrote the Gettysburg Address – or the part that murdered Abraham Lincoln? The Beatin’ Path - a lyrical guide to lucid evolution levels a look at both the enemies of human progress and the better angels of our nature.

1/7/19 9:30am pst - America Deconstructed Book by Chaithanya Sohan and Shaima Adin

ABOUT
Naseer was nine years old when he escaped Taliban and fled Afghanistan with his mom and siblings. His story, “There are some people who are coming to take me away”, chronicles the resilience of a nine year old boy as he traveled from Afghanistan to America in his quest for the American dream. “I saw a ripe mango I’d like to pluck” showcases the love story of Chidiebere and Ifeyinwa, which begins in rustic Nigeria and culminates into a life in America. Their journey chronicles their struggles with language, culture and being African in America. In the story “ Kosovo, really...cool”, Lisian takes us through his journey to America and often being asked his identity in spite of being white. In the story “I am exotic, mocha, P-diddy”, Parag describes his journey from a young sixth grader who hid his attraction to boys in conservative India to embracing his sexuality in America. America Deconstructed follows the journeys of sixteen immigrants who have left their home countries in search of the American dream. The stories combine humor and emotions as the protagonists maneuver cultural differences, accents and uncomfortable situations while feeling a sense of belonging in America.

1/7/19 at 9:15am pst - Kathleen Day joins Janeane to talk about her latest book,

From an author whose last book was named by “BusinessWeek” as one of the Top 10 Business Books of the Year, as well as recommended for reading by the “New York Times Sunday Book Review” comes to us “Broken Bargain: Bankers, Bailouts, and the Struggle to Tame Wall Street” (Yale University Press, 1/8/2019). This is SUCH an important topic and one I hope we will all pay close attention to in the new year... getting our economic systems fixed and our banks in line is something every American can understand better, and hopefully care about!
Kathleen Day's "Broken Bargain" explores in plain English the history of Wall Street scandals, why the government keeps bailing out bankers, and why taxpayers of all political stripes should be mad about it beyond the obvious.

1/7/19 @ 9am pst = Author Matt Geiger joins Janeane to talk about his book, Astonishing Tales! Stories and Essays

ASTONISHING TALES!*
Stories and Essays
*Your astonishment may vary
By Matt Geiger
“Matt Geiger is definitely interested in strange things—bearded Norwegian axes and transubstantiation and elderly models, for example—but also in making ordinary things seem strange, in the best possible way. It's just chickens or a car seat, but you're laughing out loud and then, suddenly, your eyes are filling with tears because he's sideswiped you with his profound tenderness. I wish he were my friend IRL (as the kids say), but in the meantime, I'll reread these funny, shimmering musings on everything that matters and more.”
-Catherine Newman, author of “Catastrophic Happiness”
Author and humorist Matt Geiger believes Jorge Luis Borges when he says the thing philosophers really seek, more than truth, more even than knowledge, is the opportunity to be amazed. With this as his starting point in his new collection of stories and essays, Geiger sets out in search of comic profundity and awe.
Geiger turns what poet Kimberly Blaeser called his “philosopher’s vision” to his own Neanderthal DNA, parenting, competitive axe throwing, death, the holidays, dandelions, doppelgangers and much, much more. With a nod to the limits of human knowledge and understanding, particularly his own, he blends whimsy and gravitas while unveiling beauty, joy, and happiness in a seemingly broken world. From the 83-year-old model whose image adorns the cover of the book, to the two-headed calf he discovers in a rural gas station, he finds reason after reason to smile, nod, and be astonished by everyday life.

12/31/18 9:45am pst - Melanie Langston-Bazzell joins Janeane to talk about being a journalist/reporter for Jane Unchained and the Founder of Kind Hear...

Journalist/Reporter- Jane Unchained at Jane Velez-Mitchell
Kind Heart Coalition Founder
About
Kind Heart Coalition
​COMMUNITY, EDUCATION AND LIBERATION!
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IN MAY OF 2018 MANY ACTIVISTS GATHERED IN BERKLEY CALIFORNIA TO ATTEND THE ANIMAL LIBERATION CONFERENCE. AFTER ATTENDING THE CONFERENCE AND REALIZING HOW IMPORTANT IT IS TO HAVE ACCESS TO COMMUNITY, EDUCATION, SELF CARE GUIDANCE AND A CENTER TO GATHER THERE WAS TALK OF CREATING A COMMUNITY SPACE IN SAN DIEGO, A CENTER TO PROVIDE EVERYONE ACCESS TO THIS SAME SUPPORT. INSPIRED BY THE BERKLEY ANIMAL RIGHTS CENTER, MELANIE LANGSTON-BAZZELL AND RACHEL DEROSE-HOSLER BEGAN CREATING A VISION FOR SAN DIEGO CENTER FOR ANIMAL RIGHTS. A CENTER NOT ONLY FOR ANIMALS BUT FOR ALL SOCIAL JUSTICE MOVEMENTS. A SAFE HAVEN FOR ARTISTS, ACTIVISTS AND EVERY DAY PEOPLE TO COMMUNE AND SUPPORT ONE ANOTHER. IT DOESN'T TAKE A SPECIAL PERSON TO HAVE A KIND HEART IT TAKES SUPPORT AND A MOVEMENT IN EDUCATION.
AND KIND HEART COALITION WAS BORN
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KIND HEART COALITION
ANIMAL RIGHTS EDUCATION CENTER
ANIMAL RIGHTS EDUCATION
FARM ANIMAL RESCUE EDUCATION
NON-VIOLENCE TRAINING
SANCTUARY TOURS AND VOLUNTEER DAYS
VIGIL ETIQUETTE AND SUPPORT
COOKING CLASSES
YOGA
GONG & SOUND BATHS
ART AND PAINTING WORKSHOPS
CAFE
ARTISTS MARKET
COMMUNITY EVENTS AND ART SHOWS
AND MUCH MUCH MORE.....

12/30/18 9:15am pst - A.W. Barnes joins host Janeane to talk about The Dark Eclipse: Reflections on Suicide and Absence

The Dark Eclipse:
Reflections on Suicide and Absence
A. W. Barnes
“Barnes brilliantly understands the memoirist’s spiritual prerogative—we are able to bring the dead back to life in our prose. We can take the pictures off the wall and make them dance; we can take the facts of dry documents and make them into vivid stories. The Dark Eclipse is a beautiful example of this.”
—Susan Cheever, author of Home Before Dark and Note Found in a Bottle: My Life as a Drinker
The Dark Eclipse is a book of personal essays in which author A.W. Barnes seeks to come to terms with the suicide of his older brother, Mike. Using source documentation—police report, autopsy, suicide note, and death certificate—the essays explore Barnes’ relationship with Mike and their status as gay brothers raised in a large conservative family in the Midwest. In addition, the narrative traces the brothers’ difficult relationship with their father, a man who once studied to be a Trappist monk before marrying and fathering eight children. Because of their shared sexual orientation, Andrew hoped he and Mike would be close, but their relationship was as fraught as the author’s relationship with his other brothers and father. While the rest of the family seems to have forgotten about Mike, who died in 1993, Barnes has not been able to let him go. This book is his attempt to do so.
Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
A.W. BARNES has a Ph.D. in English Literature and an MFA in Creative Writing. His nonfiction has appeared in Broad Street, The Away Journal, Gertrude Press, and Sheepshead Review. His academic book Post-Closet Masculinities in Early Modern England was published by Bucknell University Press in 2009. He lives in New York City.

12-24-18 @ 9am pst - Director/Producer Adam Schomer joins Janeane on KUCI 88.9fm!

Adam Schomer and i2i Productions, are known for going to extreme places and lengths to follow heroic stories that bring insights into important issues and ourselves. Adam’s Director and Producer credits began with the award winning documentary THE HIGHEST PASS (2012) a yogic Himalayan motorcycle adventure. Other credits include THE POLYGON (2014), ONE LITTLE PILL (2015), HEAL (2017) which is a #1 iTunes Best Seller, and THE ROAD TO DHARMA (2019) a 10 episode Docu-Series adventure that shows us what it means to be truly free. WOMEN OF THE WHITE BUFFALO (2019) is in post production and looks into the missing and murdered indigenous women of the Lakota Native American Tribe. i2i Productions is located in Santa Monica, California. Our mission is to Unite Through Wisdom and Entertainment
www.Livingi2i.com

12/17/18 @ 9:30am pst - Vanessa Hua, award-winning journalist, columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, and author of the riveting new book A RIVER ...

Vanessa Hua, award-winning journalist, columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, and author of the riveting new book A RIVER OF STARS. Vanessa was recently featured on NPR: https://www.npr.org/2018/08/25/641622076/a-river-of-stars-is-an-asian-american-pregnant-thelma-louise
With so many Asian-American cultural references in the news lately— from Crazy Rich Asians to this recent piece on the one-child policy in the New York Times-- there is a lot for Vanessa to discuss...
With a bounty of research, Vanessa offers incredible depth and nuance to the immigrants' journey, examining the "cultural and economic forces that shape their worlds*" among other extremely timely issues.

12/17/18 @9:15am - Dr. Georgianna Donadio NIWH Program Director Host iHeart Radio’s Living Above the Drama an Amazon #1 Bestselling, Award Winning Aut...

Dr. Georgianna Donadio
NIWH Program Director
Host iHeart Radio’s Living Above the Drama
Amazon #1 Bestselling, Award Winning Author
Relationships Expert, Best Selling Author & Media Personality Who Helps People Get More Out of Life Using Effective Communication Skills
For over 30 years, Dr. Georgianna Donadio has been a pioneer in the field of behavioral health, working with healthcare professionals and patients to change behaviors that lead to improved health. For the first time, her pioneering work is the foundation for the newly published book Changing Behavior: Immediately Transform Your Relationships with Easy-to-Learn, Proven Communication Skills (SoulWork Press, 2011).
As a sought-after Integrative Health Practitioner, behavioral health and relationships expert, media personality, and best selling author, her work has led to dramatic lifestyle changes for millions of people worldwide. A featured blogger for Huffington Post and Dr. Mehmet Oz’s ShareCare and Daily Strength, as well as Easy Health Options and Jennings Wire. Her expertise has been showcased in hundreds of print, online, radio and TV interviews including on Oprah.com, WebMD, CNN News, TODAY/MSNBC, Fox News, CBS, the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Readers Digest, Night Beat with Barry Nolan, Self and Shape Magazines, to name a few. In addition, for 20 years, until recently retiring, she hosted a nationally syndicated cable TV show, Woman to Woman® which explored all topics of interest to women with a special focus on relationships.