Programming Highlights

• Blogs Home
• Feed

• Pacifica Performance Showcase, Friday, March 27 at 2:30 pm with guests actor Ryan Jinn ("Kim's Convenience") and Executive Producer, Kenji G. Taguma (15TH ANNUAL FILMS OF REMEMBRANCE)

  Posted by Donna Walker at Wednesday, March 25, 2026 at 4:05 PM

  Host Donna Walker welcomes actor Ryan Jinn, currently starring in "Kim's Convenience" at the Ahmanson. The play gave rise to the Netflix series of the same name about a Canadian Korean family running a convenience store, dealing with "customers, each other and the world around them." In the second half, Kenji Taguma talks about the 15th Annual Films of Remembrance screenings in Southern California, March 28 and 29, focusing on the forced incarceration and displacement of 120,000 US citizens of Japanese descent during WWII. "Remembrance is resistance to erasure."

  • Read More

  

• LA Theatre Works, Sunday, March 29 at 10:00 pm, Beth Henley's "Abundance" starring Amy Madigan, Ed Begley, Jr., Gary Cole, Steven Weber and JoBeth Williams

  Posted by Donna Walker at Wednesday, March 25, 2026 at 2:00 PM

  From Beth Henley, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Crimes of the Heart, comes this story of the hard lives of pioneers on the high plains of Wyoming in the 1860s. Macon and Bess are two mail-order brides, lured to the West by the promise of new beginnings through marriage to men they've never met. As Abundance follows the two women through their friendship and adventures for the next 25 years, this Western epic unearths the dark underside of American mythology. Includes a feature with Chris Enss, author of Hearts West: True Stories of Mail-Order Brides on the Frontier.
  

  • Read More

  

• Phil and Ted's Sexy Boomer Show, Tuesday, March 24 at 2:00 pm with guest writer/comedian Debbie Kasper

  Posted by Donna Walker at Monday, March 23, 2026 at 7:05 PM

  Debbie Kasper is a stand-up comedian and writer. She was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for her work on "The Rosie O'Donnell Show." She also wrote for "Roseanne" during its ninth season. Her one-woman show, "Monkeys on My Back & Everywhere Else!" is now playing at the Odyssey Theater in Los Angeles. She co-wrote and co-stars in "Self-Help: The Comedy" and tours in the show.

  • Read More

  

• Pacifica Performance Showcase, Friday, March 20 at 2:30 pm, with guest Filmmaker Robert Sarkies ("Pike River")

  Posted by Donna Walker at Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 4:00 PM

  In honor of Women's International History Month, host Donna Walker welcomes filmmaker Robert Sarkies to discuss his film "Pike River" starring Melanie Lynskey, Robyn Malcolm and Lucy Lawless, based on the actual events surrounding the 2010 mining disaster in Pike River in New Zealand. Two remarkable, courageous women - one who lost her son, the other her husband - made it their mission to bring a negligent corporation to account, no matter the odds stacked against them, culminating in a political movement which brought Jacinda Ardern to power and a message of perseverance and hope.

  • Read More

  

• Phil and Ted's Sexy Boomer Show, Tuesday, March 17 at 2:00 pm, with very special guest actor John Goodman ("Roseanne," "Righteous Gemstones," "The Big Lebowski")

  Posted by Donna Walker at Tuesday, March 17, 2026 at 12:20 PM

  Acclaimed and beloved actor John Goodman has worked in film, television, and theater. An Emmy, Golden Globe and SAG Award winning actor, he's known for his collaborations with the Coen brothers in such films as The Big Lebowski (1998), O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), "Raising Arizona," and "Barton Fink," among others. Other acclaimed films, such as "Argo," and many animated films, such as "Monsters, Inc," rendering him a "Disney Legend." His television work includes his long time role as Dan Connor in both "Roseanne" and "The Connors," and more recently as the patriarchal televangelist, Eli Gemstone, in "The Righteous Gemstones." Beginning his theatre craft at the illustrious Pubic Theater in NY, he debuted on Broadway in "Big River." He'll join Phil and Ted to talk about showbiz, life, and the Palisades fire.

  • Read More

  

• Pacifica Performance Showcase, Friday, March 13 at 2:30 pm with special guest actress/author/animal activist Stefanie Powers ("Girl from U.N.C.L.E." "Hart to Hart")

  Posted by Donna Walker at Monday, March 9, 2026 at 3:55 PM

  Host Donna Walker welcomes beloved actress Stefanie Powers who starred in the milestone series "Girl from U.N.C.L.E." (the first hour-long show to feature a female lead) followed by the long-running "Hart to Hart" co-starring Robert Wagner. She'll also discuss her devotion to animal preservation and protection, as founder and president of the William Holden Wildlife Foundation, established in 1982 to continue her long-time partner’s conservation work in East Africa after his death.

  • Read More

  

• Phil and Ted's Sexy Boomer Show, Tuesday, March 10 at 2:00 pm with guest, journalist Greg Bishop ("Project Beta" and "It Defies Language!: Essays on UFOs and Other Weirdness") specializing in UFO/UAP studies.

  Posted by Donna Walker at Monday, March 9, 2026 at 1:45 PM

  Greg Bishop is an investigative journalist specializing in UFO/UAP studies. His books include "Project Beta- The Story of Paul Bennewitz, National Security, and the Creation of a Modern UFO Myth” and "It Defies Language!: Essays on UFOs and Other Weirdness. Join Phil and Ted for a discussion that's out of this world!

  • Read More

  

• Remembering Bob Weir (1947–2026)

  Posted by Arnella Barbara at Saturday, January 10, 2026 at 12:00 AM

  Bob Weir, founding member of the Grateful Dead and a towering figure in American music, passed away on January 10, 2026. Arnella Barbara, host of Dark Star, Dead & Music on KPFK, shares a personal tribute reflecting on his life, his music, and what his passing means to Deadheads and listeners everywhere.

  • Read More

  

More posts...