Donate your Car, Boat, R/V, motorcycle or ANY vehicle to KPFK! Call 877-KPFK-AUTO (877-573-5288) and we'll take care of everything! Turn that clunker into a donation to KPFK!
Hollywood Bowl Summer Season 2024 - Showcasing Artistic Greatness & Celebrating Our Global Cultural Heritage.
Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum 2024 Repertory Season June 1 - October 20 2024 Celebrating 50 + Years Of Magic @ Theatricum
Levitt Pavilion Los Angeles Summer Concert Series June 22nd - July 31st 2024 At Historic MacArthur Park On Saturdays (No Concert July 6th).
Grand Performances & Radio Afrodicia Present OKWY OSADEBE Saturday, July 27, 2024 6-10pm 350 South Grand Ave. In DTLA
Festival Of Tabla Sat. July 27 & Sun. 28 2024 Soka Performing Arts Center In Aliso Viejo, CA
A Hilarious LIVE Conversation With Mel Brooks Saturday July 27, 2024 7:30pm Peacock Theater At L.A. LIVE In DTLA
Esperanza Spalding Live At The Luckman Fine Arts Complex Thursday August 1 2024 8pm
Los Lonely Boys LIVE At The Libbey Bowl In Ojai Thursday August 8, 2024 7pm
The Kingston Trio: A Folk Music Celebration With The Limeliters, The Hot Licks - Music of Dan Hicks, The John Stewart Band, Cynthia Sayer, And Joyride!
Don Was And The Pan-Detroit Ensemble Sunday September 22, 2024 8pm
67th Annual Monterey Jazz Festival September 27-29 2024 Monterey County Fairgrounds
KPFK's ability to serve the community and the cause of free speech & cultural expression, peace and justice, depends on your input and involvement. Please click here to take our listener survey!
If you can volunteer for assisting in social media promotion and marketing, video production and editing, or news gathering and beat reporting for KPFK, fill out this form to apply.
Pacifica Executive Director Stephanie D. Wells has named Renee Peñaloza at the 2024 National Election Supervisor for the Bylaws-mandated election of delegates of the listeners and staff at KPFK and the other Pacifica staions to serve on the elected governance, the Local Station Boards and the Pacifica National Board. The following timeline has been adopted for the election process, commencing immediately. The date of record for membership to qualify as either a listener-sponsor or staff member is June 30, which is also the deadline for nominations to run for the position of Delegate in either the listener or staff constituencies.
June 30 at 9 pm Pacific is the deadline to qualify as a member/voter and to nominate oneself or others to run for a position as a listener (or staff) delegate
CLICK HERE TO VIEW ALL PROSPECTIVE CANDIDATES
Here's the election calendar:
June 1 - Nominations phase launch
- PSAs on-air at all stations (candidate nomination PSA, nominator instructions PSA and record date PSA)
- Candidate package facilitation - Nominator facilitation
- Fair campaign Provisions take effect - Fair Campaign Monitors to begin
June 30 - Record Date - Nominations close
- Candidate packages to be completed and submitted no later than 12 midnight ET
- Extension at stations where necessary for up to one additional week. No extension of the Record date.
July 15
- Vetted Candidate list to be posted
July 15-July 31st
- NES to coordinate with management - listener member forums at each station
August 1
- Finalized membership lists, candidate materials, ballot materials to be submitted to vendor
August 15 - Voting phase opens; voting through Sept. 30
- ballots go out (email, SMS) and reminders at weekly intervals
- listener forum schedule posted
- phone line opens for members who do not have access to the internet or who need special assistance eg for paper ballot or for telephone casting of vote. Questions? Call 707-500-1910.
- Ballot request system in place.
August 15 - Sept 30
- Various PSAs and ecampaigns to encourage participation across the network.
Sept 30 - Ballot phase closes
- Extension of up to 7 days if necessary to reach quorum (additional cost to vendor and NES)
October 15 - Certification of results
Nov 1st - NES FINAL REPORT
National Election Supervisor Renee Peñaloza can be reached at nes@pacifica.org
CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL 2023 REPORT
KPFK’s Online Public File
KPFK, under a policy adopted by the Pacifica National Board, is now accepting underwriting from local businesses, community organizations, and other non-profits, that are aligned with Pacifica’s Mission Statement. Underwriters will receive weekly on-air announcements acknowledging their support for KPFK, listing on a dedicated page on our website, and a rotated listing in KPFK’s weekly Dispatch newsletter emailed to over 17,000 of our listeners. KPFK has the strongest broadcast signal in Southern California, with listeners from Santa Barbara to San Diego to the greater Palm Springs area, and online at KPFK.org. We are listener-sponsored, commercial-free Pacifica Radio for all of Southern California.
For more details about how you can become an underwriter of KPFK, email mnovick@kpfk.org with your contact info and "Underwriting" in the subject line or click this link to fill out the preliminary contact form: https://kpfk.org/community-underwriting-intake-form
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Author Todd S. Purdum, known as a political writer for Politico, NY Times and contributing editor of "Vanity Fair" is also an acclaimed expert on the legendary team of Rodgers and Hammerstein. We'll talk about his book "Something Wonderful," and the upcoming Musique program "Plenty of Heart, Plenty of Hope: The Making of Oklahoma! and the Broadway Musical" running at the Wallis July 26-26th.
The passion of a coal barge captain's daughter and a rough-hewn sailor takes a tumultuous turn when her secret past is revealed. Nobel laureate Eugene O'Neill won the second of his four Pulitzer Prizes for this classic play. Includes a piece on the sea shanty "My Yosephine" that is featured in the play.
Just hours before Friday’s opening ceremony for the 2024 Summer Olympics, a series of apparently coordinated arson attacks were reported on France’s high-speed rail network. No one has claimed responsibility yet. Before the games, protests highlighted the displacement of thousands of migrants, unhoused people and other vulnerable communities as “social cleansing.” We go to Paris for an update with Jules Boykoff, former professional soccer player, author and scholar focusing on the Olympic Games, and Paul Alauzy, Paris-based activist with the collective Revers de la Médaille (Other Side of the Medal). “We are not anti-Olympics,” says Alauzy. “You can support the games, but you need to know that they have a big social impact and they come with a cost. And they come with a cost of the lives of hundreds, thousands of people being mistreated.” We also discuss how Palestinian athletes are taking part in this year’s Olympics amid the Israeli war on Gaza, the health risks of competing during rising heat and COVID, the environmental impact of major sporting events and more.
As Paris hosts today’s opening ceremony for the 2024 Olympics, we speak with Lebanese photojournalist Christina Assi of Agence France-Presse, who carried the Olympic torch Sunday in Paris to honor journalists wounded or killed on the job. Assi lost her leg in the same Israeli attack that killed Reuters videographer Issam Abdallah in southern Lebanon on October 13, and says carrying the Olympic torch was a great opportunity to highlight the “atrocities” happening in the region. “There was all the indications that we are press and we were just doing our jobs,” Assi recalls of the attack. “We weren’t holding guns. We were holding cameras.”
KPFK's Rebel Alliance News is our nightly weekday English-language locally produced newscast, your uncensored source of progressive news, information and commentary, with international, national, state-wide and local coverage. Interim news director Ziri Rideaux has recruited a team of unpaid newsgatherers, reporters, commentators and anchors to cover local, state, national and international news, including Angela Birdsong, Jack Kennedy, Polina Vasiliev, Ann Garrison, Don DeBar, Dan Nowman, Marcy Winograd and others. We are looking for more beat reporters and volunteer stringers from OC, San Diego, and covering local government, housing and policing issues in Southern California including LA City and County and other municipalities. Email news@kpfk.org
On today's BradCast, we take up the President's charge to stand "in defense of democracy". [Audio link to full show follows below this summary.] Among our coverage today... During President Biden's solemn, somber and historic prime time Oval Office address to the nation on Wednesday evening (transcript here), to explain his Sunday decision to drop out of [...]
Follow @GreenNewsReport... (Or use "Click here to listen..." link below.) IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Explosive wildfire season worsens in Canada and Western U.S.; Earth just had its hottest two days ever recorded, thanks to man-made global warming; PLUS: Republicans' Project 2025 would gut federal science agencies, the EPA, and force you to pay for your free [...]
In an extensive report for YES! Magazine, journalist Aina Marzia makes the case that Octavia Butler’s solutions to late-stage capitalism in Parable of the Sower are inspiring a new generation grappling with our contemporary dystopian reality.
Our criminal justice system ensnares low-income people, people of color, and those from marginalized communities in general. What does someone personally trapped by this system say about it?
Currently heard Tuesdays at 7am on KPFK Archives of the program can be found HERE ![]() |
Something's Happening is KPFK's long-running overnight program midnight to 6:00 AM Tuesday-Friday with segments of holistic health, meditation, psychology, philosophy, political economy, science fiction and fact, old radio and more, created and long curated by the late Roy of Hollywood, Roy Tuckman. KPFK has been maintaining it since he passed in his honor and memory and in the framework and format he developed and evolved over the decades, which continues to evolve.
Monday overnight to Tuesday features political economy, including Creative Frontline, a new segment developed exclusively for radio for KPFK by filmmaker Robert Lundahl and producer Tracker Ginamarie Rangel Quinone, a Chiricahua Apache investigative reporter, about Indigenous land and water protection in the face of extractivism industries. Extended video versions are available on YouTube. Equal Rights and Justice from WBAI also airs in that early morning. We have added a trial run of MOATS - the Mother Of All Talk Shows with George Galloway to the line-up, a delayed radio broadcast of the podcast and YouTube show on Tuesday and Friday early mornings from 4-6:00 AM.
Tuesday overnight to Wednesday is holistic health, with About Health and Herbal Highway from sister station KPFA, Green Street and Food Sleuth Radio from the Pacifica affiliates unit, and Whole Mother about pregnancy, childbirth and child-rearing from sister station KPFT.
Wednesday overnight to Thursday features an anti-fascist focus, with programming from David Emory's "For the Record," the Grayzone Radio from Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate', also developed for radio on KPFK's initiative, Final Straw Radio from young anti-authoritarians from the Pacifica affiliates unit, and Out-FM from sister station WBAI in New York.
Thursday overnight to Friday focuses on philosophy, psychology and consciousness/enlightenment, with Alan Watts, an old radio break, or episodes from Sounds True - Insights from the Edge with Tami Simon, The Magical Mystery Tour with Tonio Epstein from the Pacifica affiliates unit, and at 3:00 AM, Caroline Casey, the Visionary Activist from sister station KPFA in Berkeley, a long-running feature on Something's Happening. We have also been running occasional lectures from the "History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps" from Kings College in London.
Each hour is separately posted on the stations archives for easy listening - Something's Happening A hours 1-3, and Something's Happening B hours 1-3 each overnight. Check it out! Dynamite radio for night people also available 24-7 on kpfk.org (for listening, not download).
Tuesdays at Midnight (late Monday night)
CLICK HERE FOR KPFK LOCAL STATION BOARD INFORMATION AND NEWS
Members and Officers of the Local Station Board, 2024
Rodrigo Argueta Vargas
Christina Avalos
Doug Barnett
Veronica Becerra
Mike Bressler
Tatanka Bricca, Chair
Rachel Bruhnke
John Cromshow
Ace Estwick
Vic Gerami
Aryana Gladney
Jan Goodman, listener director
Wendell Handy
Nikki Haun, Vice chair
Michael Heiss
Sue Cohen-Johnson
Evelia Jones, listener director
Oye Oyeyipo
Robert Payne
Nancy Pearlman
Myla Reson, staff director
Oscar Ulloa
Harvey Wasserman, listener director
Carlos Zavala
Ex officio, non-voting: Michael Novick, interim General manager
Secretary: Leslie Dione Emge
Treasurer: Steven Meeks (serves ex officio on PNB's National Finance Committee)
Pacifica National Board and Local Station Board meetings, as well as those of their committees can be found here:
Pacifica's governance - Pacifica National Board and the Local Station Boards/dlegates of the five stations are considering the following Bylaws amendment affecting the filling of vacancies of delegates, which the delegates will consider at a Local Station Board meeting in July:
Pacifica Foundation Info can be found on the foundation's website at www.pacifica.org.
The Pacifica National Board (PNB) can be reached by email at PNB@pacifica.org.
The Local Station Board (LSB) can be reached by email at LSB@kpfk.org.
Information about governance meetings can be found at https://kpftx.org
PNB Directors' Reports are now on a blog - click on blogs on the top navigation menu above.
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KPFA Radio Berkeley - UpFront Producer Sought -
UpFront is a mostly-live morning public affairs show that delivers a mix of local, state, and international coverage through engaging interviews, civil debates, breaking updates, and in-depth discussions with authors. We broadcast Monday to Friday from 7 to 8 am on 94.1 FM and at kpfa.org. This producer will have primary responsibility for setting up most days’ shows, with help from the show’s host and interns. More info here
KPFK is seeking to fill several pro bono (unpaid) interim management and coordinator positions. These include:
interim unpaid development director to form and guide a development task force to raise funds for the station;
interim unpaid social media marketing manager to coordinate social media promotion efforts at and by the station;
interim unpaid volunteer coordinator to recruit and supervise volunteers for diverse tasks at the station.
Those interested in applying for these unpaid interim positions, please contact interim GM Michael Novick at gm@kpfk.org.
Pacifica Foundation Radio seeks an experienced leader for the position of General Manager of its Los Angeles station, KPFK 90.7 FM For more information and to apply, click HERE or see http://pacifica.org/jobs_kpfk.php |
Midnight - 2:00am
A blend of house, electro pop, and everything in between with DJ Dani Mamath
2:00am - 4:00am
Hand picked Massive music from every corner of the globe with Dj D.Painter
6:00am - 7:00am
Bike Talk! celebrates bike rides, collectives, activists, artists, commuters, enthusiasts, professional cyclists, inventors & repairers and of course, the bicycle itself as an alternative human-powered mode of transportation
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Midnight - 2:00am
A blend of house, electro pop, and everything in between with DJ Dani Mamath
2:00am - 4:00am
Hand picked Massive music from every corner of the globe with Dj D.Painter
6:00am - 7:00am
Bike Talk! celebrates bike rides, collectives, activists, artists, commuters, enthusiasts, professional cyclists, inventors & repairers and of course, the bicycle itself as an alternative human-powered mode of transportation
7:00am - 9:00am
Folk and roots music and more, sundry sounds from bluegrass to bebop and beyond.
A Hilarious LIVE Conversation With Mel Brooks July 27, 2024 Peacock Theater At L.A.LIVE + A 50th Anniversary Screening Of Blazing Saddles 7:30pm
at Peacock TheaterFestival Of Tabla: July 27 & 28, 2024 Soka Performing Arts Center Concert Hall Alison Viejo, CA
at Soka Performing Arts CenterCelebrating Palestinian Culture In Time Of War Sunday July 28 2024 All-Saints Episcopal Church Pasadena 3-5pm
at All Saints Episcopal ChurchOUTLAW FEST Featuring Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan, John Mellencamp, Brittney Spencer + Many More Wednesday July 31, 2024 Hollywood Bowl 5pm
at Hollywood BowlSunny
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