KPFK 90.7 FM: Programming Highlights Information about programs and specials https://www.kpfk.org/blogs/programming-highlights/ Mon, 03 Aug 2026 15:15:38 +0000 en Copyright 2026 KPFK 90.7 FM Aiir http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Pacifica Performance Showcase/Arts in Review, Friday, July 31, 2-3:00 pm, with guests singer, songwriter Judy Collins (Sweet Judy Blue Eyes, Farewell Tour), also actress/director Willow Geer and playwright/actor Bernardo Cubria (People of Pompeii) Hosts Donna Walker and Julio Martinez combine forces for a special fund drive edition featuring actress/director Willow Geer and playwright/actor Bernardo Cubria to talk about "People of Pompeii," part of the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum 2026 Summer Season. In the second half, we welcome the legendary songstress Judy Collins to talk about her 6 decades-long career and her "Sweet Judy Blue Eyes, Farewell Tour," coming up at the The Ford Amphitheatre on Friday, August 7 at 8:00 pm. We'll also talk about her 55 iconic albums, along with her work as an author and poet. Wed, 29 Jul 2026 21:15:00 +0000 https://www.kpfk.org/blogs/programming-highlights/post/pacifica-performance-showcase-arts-in-review-friday-july-31-2-300-pm-with-guests-singer-songwriter-judy-collins-sweet-judy-blue-eyes-farewell-tour-at-the-ford-and-willow-geer-and-playwright-ac/ o237-863-6a6a847763d9a Donna Walker Programming Highlights PACIFICA PERFORMANCE SHOWCASE, arts & culture to enlighten, enliven and educate with host Donna Walker, covers the best in film, theatre, music, and the arts.  Archives of this show can be heard here - https://archive.kpfk.org/index_one.php?shokey=pperf

Email: Donna_Walker@kpfk.org

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Arts in Review with Julio Martinez
Fridays at 2:00 PM

EMAIL: julima@aol.com

DESCRIPTION: Arts in Review celebrates the best in local live performance, including theatre, cabaret, music and dance. Hosted by arts journalist Julio Martinez, the weekly one-hour program features interviews and performances by a wide range of talented performers who are performing locally.

]]> https://www.kpfk.org/_app_pages/stations/3455/blogs/posts/85935 LA Theatre Works, Sunday, August 2 at 10:00 pm, David Mamet's "Speed the Plow" starring Jeff Goldblum and Adam Arkin David Mamet’s satire of the American movie business. Jaded Hollywood producer Bobby Gould has spent a career reaping what others sow, until the night he’s forced to choose between his loyal friend’s sure-fire hit and a beautiful girl’s art-house project. During a wicked evening of seduction and manipulation, Bobby discovers that the power he exerts is more elusive than it seems. Includes interviews with Jeff Goldblum and Adam Arkin. Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:35:00 +0000 https://www.kpfk.org/blogs/programming-highlights/post/la-theatre-works-sunday-august-2-at-1000-pm-david-mamets-speed-the-plow-starring-jeff-goldblum-and-adam-arkin/ o237-863-6a67f8bee0199 Donna Walker Programming Highlights David Mamet, one of America's most dynamic and acclaimed playwrights, was nominated for several Tony Awards for 1988's "Speed the Plow," with actor Ron Silver winning best actor. Says Mamet, "I remembered the saying that you see on a lot of old plates and mugs: "Industry produces wealth, God speed the plow." This, I knew, was a play about work and about the end of the world, so "Speed-the-Plow" was perfect because not only did it mean work, it meant having to plow under and start over again."

Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles in March of 2003.

Directed by Andrew Robinson
Adam Arkin as Charlie Fox
Jeff Goldblum as Bobby Gould
Dina Waters as Karen  

]]> https://www.kpfk.org/_app_pages/stations/3455/blogs/posts/85910 Phil and Ted's Sexy Boomer Show, Tuesday, July 28 at 2:00 pm, Orson Osman's "Treasure Island: A Telling for the New World" (Part 5) The tale continues with Part 5 of "Treasure Island: A Telling for the New World." Phil and Ted present the Los Angeles premiere of an eight-part dramatization of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic "Treasure Island" liberally adapted by writer/director Orson Ossman. "Treasure Island: A Telling for the New World," includes an all-star cast including Keith David, John Goodman, and Glynn Turman, it also features Firesign's Phil Proctor, with an original score by music legend Taj Mahal. "Treasure Island: A Telling for the New World" will air every Tuesday throughout the summer. Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:15:00 +0000 https://www.kpfk.org/blogs/programming-highlights/post/phil-and-teds-sexy-boomer-show-tuesday-july-28-at-200-pm-orson-osmans-treasure-island-a-telling-for-the-new-world-part-4/ o237-863-6a67f3e3273ce Donna Walker Programming Highlights

About the Show

Phil and Ted's Sexy Boomer Show is a free-form, comedy/talk live radio show heard in Los Angeles on KPFK and as a podcast. Co-hosted by long-time collaborators Phil Proctor and Ted Bonnitt, the show features special guests and Hollywood stars in fun and deep conversations.

A voice for the fast-growing 50+ podcast audience while appealing to all ages, the show is produced by Radio Pictures, Inc., a Hollywood-based creative production company. More at sexyboomershow.com.

 

Hosts

Phil Proctor and Ted Bonnitt

Phil Proctor

An accomplished humorist, author, and actor, best known as a founding member of the groundbreaking comedy group The Firesign Theatre.

Ted Bonnitt

A writer, host, and producer of national entertainment podcasts, as well as radio, television, and film programming, including with members of The Firesign Theatre.

 
]]> https://www.kpfk.org/_app_pages/stations/3455/blogs/posts/85909 Pacifica Performance Showcase/Arts in Review, Friday, July 24, 2-3:00 pm, with guests actress Bruna Fachetti ("The Hour of the Star") and Filmmaker David Alvarado ("American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez") Hosts Donna Walker and Julio Martinez kick off the KPFK summer fund drive with guests Bruna Fachetti, starring in "The Hour of The Star," (adapted from Clarice Lispector's novel) running at the Broadwater Black Box Theatre for five performances and Filmmaker David Alvarado, writer and director of "American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez," part of the American Masters series, about the legendary playwright and filmmaker who changed the landscape of Chicano theatre with Teatro Campesino and "Zoot Suit," a pioneer who also wrote and directed what remains the most successful film Chicano film ever made, "La Bamba" the story of Ritchie Valens. Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:45:00 +0000 https://www.kpfk.org/blogs/programming-highlights/post/pacifica-performance-showcase-arts-in-review-friday-july-24-2-300-pm-with-guests-actress-bruna-fachetti-the-hour-of-the-star-and-filmmaker-david-alvarez-american-pachuco-the-legend-of-luis/ o237-863-6a6164e9c1785 Donna Walker Programming Highlights PACIFICA PERFORMANCE SHOWCASE, arts & culture to enlighten, enliven and educate with host Donna Walker, covers the best in film, theatre, music, and the arts.  Archives of this show can be heard here - https://archive.kpfk.org/index_one.php?shokey=pperf

Email: Donna_Walker@kpfk.org

Facebook: Pacifica Performance Showcase

 

Arts in Review


Arts in Review with Julio Martinez
Fridays at 2:00 PM

EMAIL: julima@aol.com

DESCRIPTION: Arts in Review celebrates the best in local live performance, including theatre, cabaret, music and dance. Hosted by arts journalist Julio Martinez, the weekly one-hour program features interviews and performances by a wide range of talented performers who are performing locally.

]]> https://www.kpfk.org/_app_pages/stations/3455/blogs/posts/85839 Remembering Bob Weir (1947–2026) 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. Sat, 10 Jan 2026 08:00:00 +0000 https://www.kpfk.org/blogs/programming-highlights/post/remembering-bob-weir/ o237-863-696401b329b24 Arnella Barbara Programming Highlights 🌹⚡️ For Bob ⚡️🌹

The music has shifted.

The air itself feels altered.

Beloved Bob Weir has left this physical plane, and the long strange trip will never feel the same again. Something essential — something living and breathing — has slipped beyond our reach, and we are standing here together, stunned, heartbroken, and forever changed.

Bob was not just a musician.

He was a frequency.

A compass in the dark.

A living bridge between chaos and communion.

The Grateful Dead was never only a band — it was a universe, a language, a way of surviving this world with your soul intact. And Bob Weir was one of its great storytellers, guiding us through winding roads where answers dissolved and truth lived in the asking.

Every chord he played felt like an invitation:

to wander,

to wonder,

to feel deeply,

to belong.

I was meant to have Bob on my show this spring.

We spoke with his PR team just weeks ago.

The thought that he was still out there — still moving, still creating, still shining — makes this loss cut impossibly deep. Plans were forming. Stories were waiting. And now, all that remains is gratitude tangled with grief.

From me — the Dark Star Gurl, host of Dark Star, Dead and Music — and from Deadheads everywhere:

We are shattered.

We are grieving.

And we know, in our bones, that we will never fully recover from this.

Bob’s music didn’t just accompany our lives — it held us.

It carried us through heartbreak, addiction, joy, rebellion, awakening.

It taught us how to stay soft in a hard world, how to keep dancing even when the night felt endless.

This is not just the loss of a man.

This is the loss of a living current of American soul.

A light that shaped generations.

A voice that told us we weren’t alone.

So tonight, let us all light a candle.

Watch the flame dance.

Let the smoke drift upward so Bob can see how deeply he is loved.

Tonight, the road stretches on without you, Bob —

but your songs are still moving through us.

Your spirit still hums in the static.

Your love still binds this family together.

We will keep listening.

We will keep dancing.

We will keep carrying the music forward — brokenhearted, but grateful beyond words.

Thank you for the road.

Thank you for the courage.

Thank you for the eternal invitation to belong.

This world will never be the same without you.

And because of you, neither will we.

Forever Grateful.

Forever Dead.

Forever Bob. 🌹⚡

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