by Admin | Jan 21, 2020 | Past Events
Wednesday March 4, 7pmBooks Inc.317 Castro St, Mountain View, CA Michael Shapiro will speak about The Creative Spark at Books, Inc. in Mountain View. During the past decade, Shapiro has interviewed some of our most creative luminaries, including Smokey Robinson,...
by Admin | Dec 17, 2019 | Featured Interview
Dec. 17, 2019: I was on San Francisco’s KNBR-AM radio with Murph and Mac talking about The Creative Spark. We spoke about SF Giants announcer Mike Krukow who is profiled in the book as well as Smokey Robinson. It was just 5 minutes – the time flew by – fun to be on...
by Admin | Dec 6, 2019 | Past Events
December 12, 2019 from 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM PT Museum of Sonoma County425 Seventh Street, Santa Rosa, CA 95401 | 707-579-1500 Literary and visual art work can be a natural medium to explore topics that may be controversial, very personal, or just uncomfortable to talk...
by Admin | Oct 29, 2019 | Past Events
Dec. 2, 2019, 7pm, Left Coast Writers salon Michael Shapiro and Linda Watanabe McFerrin Book Passage bookstore, 51 Tamal Vista, Corte Madera, Calif. Creativity: how do we access it, nurture it, and sustain it? This question propelled journalist Michael Shapiro during...
by Michael Shapiro | Aug 1, 2019 | Interviews, Sports, Stories
San Francisco Giants broadcaster Mike Krukow is one of baseball’s best announcers, but for years has been battling a debilitating muscle disease. Yet he never complains, and for Giants fans he remains a treasure of knowledge and irreverant wit. Here’s my...
by Michael Shapiro | Aug 1, 2019 | Blog, Featured
Travel writer and photographer Michael Shapiro takes you from Ireland to Guatemala, from Kenya to Ecuador, and talks about how meeting people all over the world helps build bridges and shatter expectations. This talk was given at the 2017 Sonoma County TEDx event in...
by Michael Shapiro | Mar 27, 2019 | Blog, Sports, Stories, Travel
Back in 2008, I received a dream assignment from a gorgeously designed magazine called Lexus that’s read by more than 1 million Lexus drivers in North America. The editor asked if I’d spend a week in January playing baseball at San Francisco Giants fantasy...
by Michael Shapiro | Feb 1, 2019 | Blog, Stories, Travel
In November 2018, my mom saw a story in Art News about the first true Pieter Bruegel the Elder exhibtion ever, to be held at the Kunsthistoriches art museum in Vienna. She asked if I wanted to make a trip to Austria and I said I’d love to but had a book deadline...
by Michael Shapiro | Jan 10, 2019 | Blog, Food, Interviews, Stories, Travel
Last September, a year after Hurricane Maria devastated the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico, I was sent to the island to report a story about how some farmers were shifting from export crops to growing food for local people. I met some savvy, organic, badass farmers,...
by Michael Shapiro | Jul 1, 2018 | Blog, Interviews, Stories, Travel
Dr. Sylvia Earle has been one of my heroes since I saw the 2014 documentary “Mission Blue” about her tireless work on behalf of the oceans that sustain us. I had the privilege of interviewing her for my Saturday Evening Post story, “Oceans on the...
