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• LA Theatre Works, Sunday, Dec. 29 at 10:00 pm, "Zeni" starring Michael Sun Lee and Keiko Agena

  Posted by Donna Walker at Wednesday, December 25, 2024 at 8:45 PM

  Kenichi Zenimura – known as “Zeni” – loved baseball. As a young man in the 1920s he developed a Nisei baseball league in Fresno, California, and later organized barnstorming tours that brought the likes of Babe Ruth to the West Coast and Japan. And despite being sent to a Japanese-American internment camp in Arizona during World War II, he knew that somehow, baseball would be the key to improving the lives of his fellow detainees.

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• Arts in Review Holiday Special, Wed. 12/25/24, 11 am - 1:00 pm, TWO RADIO DRAMAS, ‘FOLLOWING YONDER STAR,’ AND ‘DRIEDELS AND DONUTS"

  Posted by Donna Walker at Monday, December 23, 2024 at 10:00 PM

  Host Julio Martinez celebrates the holidays with his original radio dramas, “Following Yonder Star” (the story of the creation of the popular hymn, “We Three Kings”); and an encore of the Hanukkah play, “Dreidels and Donuts," along with holiday music and sketches, performed by Al Jarreau, Jane Fuller and others. Performed by the AIR Repertory Ensemble.

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• Phil and Ted's Sexy Boomer Show, Tues. 12/24/24, 1:00 pm, A Holiday Encore with Lakota Tribe Medicine Man David Swallow, Jr. and Washington, D.C. labor rights attorney Adele Abrams

  Posted by Donna Walker at Monday, December 23, 2024 at 9:45 PM

  A holiday encore of Phil and Ted’s Sexy Boomer Thanksgiving dinner, attended by special guests and your calls. Lakota Tribe Head Man and Traditional Medicine Man David Swallow, Jr., and prominent Washington, D.C., labor rights attorney Adele Abrams join us for blessings and a fun yet sobering look at the immediate future of the United States from two very telling perspectives. Followed by a collection of Thanksgiving-themed comedy from the Firesign Theatre.

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• ROOTS MUSIC & BEYOND - This Saturday 7-9am

  Posted by Ali Lexa at Wednesday, August 31, 2022 at 8:30 PM

  Roots Music & Beyond is now on Saturdays from 7-9am!

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• Maggie LePique interviews Olivia Harrison!

  Posted by Ali Lexa at Monday, August 29, 2022 at 9:58 AM

  Join Maggie LePique Tuesday August 30th at 3pm for an in-depth interview with Olivia Harrison about her new book, Came The Lightening: Twenty Poems for George. Olivia Harrison presents Came the Lightening, a book of twenty poems dedicated to George, marking the twentieth year since his passing.

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• CalState LA Community News Hour is Tuesdays at 3PM

  Posted by Ali Lexa at Monday, August 22, 2022 at 9:49 AM

  Check out the CalState LA Community News Hour! This Tuesday at 3PM. Local stories and news brought to you by the students of the CalState LA Journalism Department!

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• Roots Music & Beyond Saturday 7am-9am!

  Posted by Ali Lexa at Friday, August 19, 2022 at 11:10 PM

  Join us Saturday morning Aug 19th for a special edition to listen to four legendary radio hosts jockey for one microphone. It'll be a true hoot. Add in some of the finest music you'll ever hear on the Southern California airwaves and Saturday morning couldn't be better. See ya!

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• The Lawyers Guild Wednesdays at 2PM

  Posted by Ali Lexa at Tuesday, August 16, 2022 at 9:00 AM

  On this week’s Lawyers Guild Show. Paul Boden & Kath Rogers will talk about the State’s latest effort to criminalize mental illness. Then, Services Not Sweeps’ Peggy Lee Kennedy, Robin Petering and Ricci Sergienko will update us on LA City Council’s and LAPD’s escalating campaign to disappear unhoused people. 

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• Roots Music & Beyond 3 Hour Special!

  Posted by Ali Lexa at Friday, August 5, 2022 at 12:16 PM

  Join the Roots Music Team this Saturday from 6am to 9am for a 3 hour dive into Americana, world music sounds, folk to funk, bluegrass to blues and beyond

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• Classical Composers & Composition with Earl Ofari Hutchinson Saturdays at 10 am

  Posted by Ali Lexa at Friday, July 29, 2022 at 11:14 AM

  Richard Wagner's Towering Götterdämerung Played and Discussed - Saturday July 30 KPFK-Pacifica Radio 90.7 FM streamed at kpfk.org 10:00 AM PST

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• Wednesdays at 2PM it's The Lawyers Guild

  Posted by Ali Lexa at Tuesday, July 26, 2022 at 3:35 PM

  Tune in Wed., July 27 from 2-3pm on KPFK 90.7 FM for this week’s edition of the Lawyers Guild Show. We explore findings of a new report by UCLA researchers, Evaluating the Autopsies of 59 Deaths in Los Angeles County Jails, 2009-2019. Labor and Immigrant Rights Activist Victor Narro talks about his new book, The Activist Spirit: Toward a Radical Solidarity, and how to make the struggle for justice more compassionate, fulfilling, caring and sustainable.

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• EcoJustice Radio - Wednesdays at 3PM on KPFK!

  Posted by Ali Lexa at Tuesday, July 26, 2022 at 2:29 PM

  EcoJustice Radio - A Vessel for Empowerment for the Gulf Coast: Overcoming Superstorm & Petrochemical Invasions

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• Out Of The Box With Christine July 26 at 1PM

  Posted by Ali Lexa at Monday, July 25, 2022 at 8:00 PM

  Want to know all about the Narcissist? Well, you're in luck. On the next episode we feature my interview with a Master Narcissist known as HG Tudor. You will get to know who they are, why they do what they do, and most importantly, how to be free once and for all of these emotional vampires.

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• The CalState LA Community News Hour Comes to KPFK!

  Posted by Ali Lexa at Friday, July 22, 2022 at 6:08 PM

  Local news and stories produced by the Cal State LA Broadcast and Journalism Department. Listen in Tuesday July 26th at 3PM!

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• The Earl Ofari Hutchinson Show, Saturdays at 9am

  Posted by Ali Lexa at Friday, July 22, 2022 at 2:13 PM

  Los Angeles residents and radio listeners will speak out on Free Griner! Brittney Griner will be back in court on Tuesday, July 26, in Russia that will determine her fate.

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• Wednesdays at 2PM, It's the Lawyers Guild

  Posted by Ali Lexa at Tuesday, July 19, 2022 at 2:46 PM

  Tune in Wed, July 20 from 2-3pm for this week’s edition. Our topic is Anniversary of the Pelican Bay Prison Hunger Strikes. We’ll speak with Marie Levin, whose brother, Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa, was a principal thinker behind the actions, and former lifer, Terry Williams, who participated and organized. We’ll also talk with Minister King and Attorney Maya Garza, who are committed to bringing the struggles and the lessons learned to new generations.

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• Hear BIKETALK on KPFK Tuesday July 19 at 3PM!

  Posted by Ali Lexa at Friday, July 15, 2022 at 10:45 AM

  Bike Talk celebrates the street fighters who help us liberate ourselves from car dependency. We'll talk about implementing the city’s Mobility Plan even before the Healthy Streets LA ballot measure appears on the ballot.

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• Living In The USA with Jon Wiener moves to 4pm on Thursdays

  Posted by Ali Lexa at Wednesday, July 13, 2022 at 10:49 AM

  Talking about politics, thinking about the Left. Hosted by Jon Wiener, co-author of "Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties," contributing editor at The Nation, will now be broadcast on Thursdays at 4PM

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• Out Of The Box with Christine coming to Tuesdays at 1PM!

  Posted by Ali Lexa at Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 10:25 PM

  Starting Tuesday July 19th at 1PM, catch Christine Blosdale's captivating and inspiring interview program! Conscious Radio For Conscious Folk

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• Wednesdays at 3, it's The Lawyers Guild

  Posted by Ali Lexa at Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 10:17 PM

  Tune in Wed, July 13 from 2-3pm on KPFK 90.7 FM for this week’s edition of the Lawyers Guild Show. With Sheila Bates, BLM Long beach organizer, with Check the Sheriff Coalition updates & readying for the Nov. election. Then Rubens Valente, Brazilian Award-Winning Reporter & Author, on the Bolsonaro government’s intimidation of media; the recent murders of his close friend Bruno Pereira and reporter Dom Phillips; and where he still finds hope to write on. With Co-hosts Jim Lafferty and Maria Hall.

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• KPFK's "LSB Report To The Listener" Weds June 29th 8PM

  Posted by Ali Lexa at Monday, June 27, 2022 at 12:26 PM

  The KPFK "LSB Report To The Listener" will air live on Weds June 29th 8PM. Hear the latest from KPFK's Local Station Board and your calls

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• The Hutchinson Report, Saturdays at 9am

  Posted by Ali Lexa at Thursday, June 23, 2022 at 5:48 PM

  What Now for Poor, Black and Brown Women-After Roe Scuttle? No abortion, open gun toting, public money for religious schools, no suits against corps. All in one week from SCOTUS --AND they're still in the bullpen just getting warmed up. PS As I've said often-You Didn't Think They Wouldn't Take it Back the first chance they got. The "it" being civil rights, civil liberties, LGBT, environmental, immigration, labor, and economic rights and gains fought and died for in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s - Earl Ofari Hutchinson

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• Wednsdays at 2 It's The Lawyers Guild on KPFK!

  Posted by Ali Lexa at Wednesday, June 22, 2022 at 10:20 AM

  Tune in Wed, June 22 from 2-3pm on KPFK 90.7 FM for this week’s edition of the Lawyers Guild Show: The Graying of US Prisons and the Liberate Our Elders Project. We’ll speak with members of California Prison Focus and Aging People in Prison Human Rights Campaign. With Co-hosts Jim Lafferty and Maria Hall.

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• SPECIAL LIVE BROADCAST From the Poor People's Campaign in Wash DC This Saturday

  Posted by Ali Lexa at Thursday, June 16, 2022 at 7:00 AM

  Live from Washington, pacifica brings you the sounds and sites of the poor people’s campaign beginning at 7am pacific on KPFK. Pacifica Radio, building a better world one broadcast at a time!

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• Wednesdays at 2PM, It's The Lawyers Guild!

  Posted by Ali Lexa at Wednesday, June 15, 2022 at 11:23 AM

  This week’s edition of the Lawyers Guild Show: “Who’s Policing the Police?” We speak with Check the Sheriff Coalition member Andres Kwon on the Sheriff election and latest Department scandals. Then, we speak with Hamid Khan of Stop LAPD Spying

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• Classical Music with Earl Ofari Hutchinson, Sat at 10 AM!

  Posted by Ali Lexa at Friday, June 10, 2022 at 12:14 PM

  Take a Musical Journey to the Land of a 1001 Arabian Nights and the fable of the famed storyteller Scheherazade. A discussion and complete play of the colossal work Scheherazade by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov

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• Special Coverage of the January 6th Committee Heatings

  Posted by Ali Lexa at Wednesday, June 8, 2022 at 12:54 PM

  Mitch Jeserich will host the public January 6th hearing on Thursday June 9th,commencing at 5:00 PM PT and continuing for a minimum of three hours.
  

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• Wednesdays at 2pm, it's the Lawyers Guild!

  Posted by Ali Lexa at Wednesday, June 8, 2022 at 12:39 PM

  Tune in Wed, June 8 from 2-3pm on KPFK 90.7 FM for this week’s edition of the Lawyers Guild Show. We’ll speak with special guest, Oscar López Rivera, Puerto Rican Activist and Militant about serving 35 years as a political prisoner, his commutation by President Obama in 2017.

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• On Air Townhall: What Can Stop School Massacres?

  Posted by Ali Lexa at Friday, May 27, 2022 at 9:57 AM

  Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable President and the Earl Ofari Hutchinson Show Host Earl Ofari Hutchinson will host an on-air townhall on the issue. Saturday, May 28, 2022 9:00 to 10:00 AM PST

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• Wednesdays at 2PM , it's the Lawyers Guild!

  Posted by Ali Lexa at Tuesday, May 24, 2022 at 10:19 PM

  Tune in Wed, May 25, 2pm on KPFK 90.7 FM! with Vincent DeStefano, founding member of So Cal Assange Defense, Then Erin Darling, civil rights attorney and candidate for LA City Council District 11 talks environment, housing, police reform and a more sustainable future.

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