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Krista Almanzan

News Director & All Things Considered Host

Krista joined KAZU in 2007.  She is an award winning journalist with more than a decade of broadcast experience.  Her stories have won regional Edward R. Murrow Awards and honors from the Northern California Radio and Television News Directors Association.  Prior to working at KAZU, Krista reported in Sacramento for Capital Public Radio and at television stations in Iowa.  Like KAZU listeners, Krista appreciates the in-depth, long form stories that are unique to public radio. She's pleased to continue that tradition in the Monterey Bay Area.

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Local
3:42 pm
Thu July 26, 2012

Machine Grows Local Bookstore by 8-Million Titles

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The Espresso Book Machine at Bookshop Santa Cruz
The Espresso Book Machine prints a book.
A book printed on the Espresso Book Machine.
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Rare book seekers and aspiring authors have a new resource.  Santa Cruz is now home to a print on demand book machine, one of only four in the state. 

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Music Interviews
1:38 pm
Wed July 25, 2012

The Practical Side Of The Great American Jam Band

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The Grateful Dead circa 1970. The band's members were quintessential rock hippies — but, a new exhibit reveals, savvy businessmen as well.
Credit Stanley Mouse and Alton Kelley / Rhino/UC Santa Cruz Grateful Dead Archive
A promotional poster for The Grateful Dead's 1970 album American Beauty.
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One of many pieces of elaborately decorated fan mail in the Grateful Dead Archive at Santa Cruz.
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Originally published on Wed July 25, 2012 4:29 pm

The Grateful Dead's eponymous live album started it all for Nicholas Meriwether.

It was 1985. He was studying history at Princeton and got hooked by psychedelic jams like "Wharf Rat." After his first concert, he knew: "I will spend the rest of my life thinking and studying this."

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Local
5:55 am
Thu July 5, 2012

The Tall Tale and True Story of the Tin House

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Credit Courtesy of Pam Grossman
an undated photo of the Tin House
Credit Miklos Benedek
The Tin House in 2012
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The Tin House in 2012
Credit Miklos Benedek
Inside the Tin House 2012
Credit Courtesy of Pam Grossman
an undated photo of Lathrop Brown and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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Tin House view to the South
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Tin House view to the North
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Big Sur’s Tin House is a place that’s inspired myths and intrigued visitors for decades.

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Local
10:15 pm
Thu June 28, 2012

Dead Archive Opening

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On display in Dead Central: part of the Jerry Garcia Memorial Altar
On display in Dead Central: envelopes fans decorated and mailed to the Grateful Dead when ordering concert tickets.
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When the Grateful Dead Archive at UC Santa Cruz opens to the public Friday, it will reveal some things that even fans might not know about the band.

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Local
11:09 am
Fri June 22, 2012

Henry Miller Library Needs Help for Upgrades

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For more than thirty years, the Henry Miller library has been a living memorial to the late author, artist and Big Sur resident.  Today the Library needs some structural improvements, and the public’s help. 

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