In Deep With Angie Coiro: Interviews

Show #89, Hour 1 | Guests: Egon Terplan, Regional Planning Director, SPUR; Derecka Mehrens, Executive Director, Working Partnerships. | Show Summary: Rent control. Owner move-ins. Skyrocketing property values. How do Silicon Valley and the Bay Area try to keep their populations financially diverse, and keep the American dream alive for those with less income? We’ll spend the hour on an examination of the stakeholders, potential solutions, and how other major cities have confronted the issue. Guests: Egon Terplan, Regional Planning Director, SPUR. A regional planner and economic development specialist with more than 14 years of experience, Egon Terplan has authored or co-authored numerous reports and policy studies related to regional planning, economic development, transportation and government reform, including the first-ever report on the Northern California megaregion and a 2011 report on land use planning and high-speed rail in California. Prior to joining SPUR, he spent more than five years with ICF Inte

Show #88 Hour 2 | Guest: Luke Lorentzen, filmmaker | Show #88 Hour 2 June 06, 2015 | This week, Stanford University presents a pre-release screening of New York Cuts, the latest work from documentarian Luke Lorentzen. New York Cuts explores a variety of barbershops and hair salons throughout disparate cultural enclaves of New York City. Focusing on themes of ethnicity, class, and community, conversations between stylists and clients are observed and intertwined in a portrait of urban multiculturalism. Luke Lorentzen is an undergraduate Film Studies major and American Studies minor at Stanford University. His short film Santa Cruz Del Islote, documenting life on a three-acre Columbian island, won multiple awards and screened internationally.

Show #88 Hour 1 June 06, 2015 | Guest: Cyrus Farivar, Ars Technica’s senior business editor | Show Summary: Ars Technica’s senior business editor returns to In Deep for an update on the tension between surveillance, security, and privacy. How private is your home with commercial and private drones overhead? What privacy toll is exacted when every vehicle in town has its license plate photographed and tracked – with the information available for sale? What’s at stake in the current debate over the Patriot Act? Cyrus Farivar is the Senior Business Editor at Ars Technica, and is also an author and radio producer. His book, The Internet of Elsewhere – about the history and effects of the Internet on different countries around the world, including Senegal, Iran, Estonia and South Korea – was published by Rutgers University Press in April 2011. He previously was the Sci-Tech Editor, and host of “Spectrum” at Deutsche Welle English, Germany’s international broadcaster. He has also reported for the Canadian Broadca

Show #87 Hour 2 | Guest: Brooke Borel, science writer | Show Summary: Angie sits down with science writer Brooke Borel to discuss her new book detailing her personal experiences with bedbug infestation.

Show #87 Hour 1 | Guest: Mark Romeser, Community Advocate, Silicon Valley Independent Living Center | Show Summary: Mark Romeser, Community Advocate, Silicon Valley Independent Living Center, defends the point of view that legislation supporting assisted suicide is not in the interest of the disabled individual.

Show #86 Hour 2 | Guest: Andrew Keen, writer, entrepreneur | Show Summary: Tech entrepreneur, writer and skeptic Andrew Keen shares his unalloyed criticism of the powerful interests driving technology with Angie, in a far-ranging and insightful hour.

Show #86 Hour 1 | Guest: Diana Kapp, journalist | Show Summary: The city of Palo Alto and the Gunn High School administration are slowly opening up about teen suicides. Questions about the first cluster, in 2009-10, met a wall of silence. But as the school saw more suicides, families and authorities began to open up. In her new article for San Francisco Magazine, Diane Kapp interviews students, adolescent depression experts, and bereaved families to piece together why the phenomenon continues.

Show #85 Hour 2 | Guest: Dave Johnson | Show Summary: Dave Johnson of Campaign for America’s Future joins Angie to discuss the deceptions and implications of the so-called Fast Track authority for President Obama in negotiating the Transpacific Partnership Treaty.

Show #85 Hour 1 | Guest: Kenji Yoshino, writer, lawyer, professor | Show Summary: Angie sits down with writer, lawyer, and NYU law professor Kenji Yoshino to discuss the timeline of the advances in marriage rights, and the case currently before the US Supreme Court.

Show #84 Hour 2 | Guest: Clare Bidwell Smith, writer | Show Summary: What happens after we die is a difficult matter to frame for discussion, but Claire Bidwell Smith takes Angie on a tour through her recent deep exploration of the subject.

Show #84 Hour 1 | Guest: Jinho -The Piper- Ferreira | Show Summary: Angie talks with The Piper about his one-man-show Cops and Robbers, currently at The Marsh in San Francisco, and about the larger issues of race, crime, social standing, police authority and equality under the law.

Show #83 Hour 2 | Guest: Geoff Hoyle, Actor, Comic, Fool. | Show Summary: Show #83 Hour 2 May 2, 2015 | Bay Area favorite Geoff Hoyle has returned to the stage in “Lear’s Shadow”, in which the Jester, recently unemployed, tells his side to Shakespeare’s most tragic, cosmic, and human of stories. This poignant one-man piece was written in collaboration with and directed by the master of the solo form, David Ford.

Show #83 Hour 1 | Guest: Dr. Lynn Ingram, author of The West Without Water, Professor of Earth and Planetary Science, and Geography, UC Berkeley. and Lance Williams, investigative reporter with The Reveal and The Center for Investigative Reporting. | Show Summary: Show #83 Hour 1 May 2, 2015 | Dr. Lynn Ingram, author of The West Without Water, Professor of Earth and Planetary Science, and Geography, UC Berkeley. and Lance Williams, investigative reporter with The Reveal and The Center for Investigative Reporting, sit down with Angie to unpack the myths and facts of California’s dangerous drought.

Show #82 Hour 2 | Guest: Lance Simmens, Political Consultant, Analyst and Writer | Show Summary: What's happened to our democracy in the years since Reagan? What can we do to get the system back on track? Author and longtime political consultant Lance Simmens thoughtfully breaks down the problems and lays out practical solutions. His latest book is The Evolution of a Revolution: The Attack upon Reason, Compromise and The Constitution.

Show #82 Hour 1 | Guest: Gabrielle Glancy, Poet and Educator. | Show Summary: Angie sits down with poet and activist Gabrielle Glancy to discuss navigating the ins and outs of a difficult-to-diagnose illness, and the impact it had on her life and on those closest to her. Glancy is the author of the recent book about her quest to diagnose and remedy her life-threatening illness, I'm Already Disturbed, Please Come In.

Show #81 Hour 2 | Guests: Julie Metzger and Dr. Robert Lehman, Sex and Health Educators at Great Conversations, Seattle WA | Show Summary: How do you engage pre-teens and teenagers with real facts about sex? How about letting them sneak you anonymous questions while you stand before a classroom wearing a sanitary-napkin corsage? Julie and Rob's wit, frank nature, and medical backgrounds combine in their groundbreaking program that pushes past shyness and shame to deliver plain facts about sex and reproduction. Their classes reach out to kids, parents, and teachers, and are a long way from the "mental hygiene" film lessons of past generations. Julie Metzger combined her experience as an RN with her passion for working with adolescents and their families to create her class For Girls Only, now taught through Seattle Children's Hospital and Lucille Packard Children's Hospital. She was recently profiled in the New York Times, and is based in Washington state. Her latest book is This is Me: A Jour

Show #81 Hour 1 | Guest: David M. Lutken, musician and actor. | Show Summary: Angie visits with cast member David M. Lutken of TheatreWorks' current production, Fire on the Mountain. From the creators of It Ain’t Nothin’ But the Blues, Fire on the Mountain portrays the lives of mining families in the heart of Appalachia. Told in the unique rhythms of bluegrass, it's a tribute to - and a celebration of - the working families of America’s heartland: the culture, hardships, and heroics of life on the Blue Ridge.

Show #80 Hour 2 | Guest: Bernadette Meyler, Professor of Law and Deane F. Johnson Faculty Scholar at Stanford University | Show Summary: Indiana Governor Mike Pence knew well enough that his state's RFRA would be controversial that he held the signing ceremony in private. Even so, the nationwide reaction rocked the state government and Chamber of Commerce, and a bill adjustment is promised. Indiana isn't the first nor the last to consider moves ostensibly designed to protect religious freedoms. But how to define those freedoms - and how to assure that the bills don't trample the freedoms of others - is a multi-faceted issue that incorporates the Constitution, LGBT rights, Citizens United, and past and pending lawsuits. Stanford's Professor Bernadette Meyler walks Angie and the audience through the many considerations and precedents to the case.

Show #80 Hour 1 | Guest: Scott J. Myers-Lipton, Professor of Sociology and Interdisciplinary Social Sciences at San Jose State University | Show Summary: Economists may disagree on cause and cure, but they agree America's middle class is vanishing - some tiny percentage achieving riches, the vast majority becoming lower-class or impoverished. Could the answer be in a new bill of rights? The right to a job; the right to a home; the right to a decent wage - what if these were guaranteed? Scott Myers-Lipton of San Jose State University founded the successful effort to raise San Jose's minimum wage to $10. He discusses his new book, Ending Extreme Inequality: An Economic Bill of Rights to Eliminate Poverty (Paradigm Publishers, April 2015.)

Show #79 Hour 2 | Guests: Giovanni Zoppe / Zoppe Family Circus | Show Summary: Angie sits down with Giovanni Zoppe, patriarch of the Zoppe about running a traditional circus in an ever-changing world. How is this small circus connected to Cecil B. DeMille? You'll have to listen to find out!