Amelia Gonzalez interviews Adriana Sevahn Nichols about her one woman show, “Taking Flight.” Adriana Sevahn Nichols is a New York-born artist of Armenian, Dominican, and Basque ancestry currently living in Los Angeles. Taking Flight came out of a two week-intensive training in 2005 with Diane Rodríguez at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, as … Continued
Recorded on February 2, 2008, this KPFA Event celebrates the poet Rumi. Upcoming KPFA events: Tenderness: A KPFA Valentine Evening with Maxine Hong Kingston February 14, 2010 and An Evening with Eve Ensler, February 18, 2010. Visit kpfa.org for more information
Broadcasting from KPFA, WPFW, and Capital Hill Hosted by Mitch Jeserich with Aileen Alfandary, Davey D and Leigh Ann Caldwell. There will be a brief pre-show of likely no more than 10 minutes, until the Obama speech begins. At the conclusion of the speech, wrap-up with Mitch Jeserich and Aileen Alfandary at KPFA (Berkeley) together … Continued
A sketch of The Fountains, the luxury, Spanish-style compound in which Joe’s mother and Freddy, Joe’s adoptive father, live. Anecdotal stories concerning Freddy’s never-ending frugality and the suffering it causes Joe’s mother; Freddy’s gaffes, like eating a fortune cookie with the fortune still in it; the progressive brain shrinkage of Freddy’s admired friend, Conrad; Joe … Continued
Bang the Drum Slowly Adapted by Eric Simonson from the novel by Mark Harris, starring David Schwimmer, Jonathan Silverman, and Ed Begley, Jr. A humorous and poignant story that follows a fictional major league baseball team through a summer season when the team comes together after one of the players is diagnosed with Hodgkin’s disease.
In a Clinton-esque speech, Joe apologizes for his marital infidelities and urges voter support for his wife, running for mayor of Santa Monica. Joe interviews a Baptist minister about his faith. Having just watched a National Geographic television program, Larry expresses his contempt for primitive peoples and baboons at the Frankfurt Zoo. Joe tells the … Continued
Part 1 of Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia merges science with human concerns and ideals, examining the universe’s influence in our everyday lives and ultimate fates through relationship between past and present, order and disorder and the certainty of knowledge. Set in an English country house in the year 1809-1812 and 1989, the play examines the lives … Continued
Elfie is an historic figure. An ex-marine,who had been a labor reporter in Chicago, he came to Fresno in 1953 to edit the Valley Labor Citizen. He went on to document via photos, the farm worker movement, the UFW and social justice movements. George, a long time friend of KPFA and KFCF, often featured on … Continued
Alan Alda and Swoosie Kurtz star in John Guare’s award-winning work. In a Fifth Avenue apartment high above Central Park, art dealer Flanders Kittredge and his wife Ouisa are trying to interest a moneyed friend in a $2 million investment. When an unexpected young guest arrives, claiming to be the son of Sidney Poitier, the … Continued
