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  • Pacifica Performance Showcase/Arts in Review, Friday, May 8 from 2-3 pm, with guests Grace Yoo ("Flower Drum Song"), Christiane Noll (The Sound of Music), Manuel Oliver ("Guac") and Diavolo, Architecture in Motion ("Escape")

    Hosts Donna Walker and Julio Martinez combine forces for a special fund drive edition of "Pacifica Performance Showcase" and "Arts in Review," welcoming Grace Yoo starring as "Mei Li" in East West Players production of "Flower Drum Song" adapted by David Henry Hwang, now playing at the Aratani Theatre in Little Tokyo; also Christiane Noll starring as the Mother Abbess in "The Sound of Music" opening on May 6 at the Pantages; Manuel Oliver, returning to the Kirk Douglas Theatre with his powerful one-man show, "Guac" in tribute to his son, a victim in the Parkland mass shooting; and Diavolo (Architecture in Motion) on their new dance production "Escape." We'll be offering tickets as 'thank you' gifts. Tune in and pledge!

    Posted by Donna Walker at Tuesday, May 5, 2026

  • LA Theatre Works, "For All of Us," by Jeanne Sakata, starring Ed Asner, Greg Watanabe, Josh Stamberg

    A team of lawyers uses a little-known legal writ to fight and overturn the conviction of Fred Korematsu, unjustly sentenced for resisting the WWII mass incarceration of all Japanese Americans on the West Coast. The play draws much inspiration from Enduring Conviction: Fred Korematsu and his Quest for Justice by Lorraine K. Bannai (University of Washington Press 2015) and Justice Delayed by Peter Irons (Wesleyan University Press 1989). Includes a conversation with playwright Jeanne Sakata and four of the attorneys from the Korematsu v. United States case: Lori Bannai, Peter Irons, Dale Minami and Don Tamaki. "For Us All is" sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library.

    Posted by Donna Walker at Monday, May 4, 2026

  • Phil and Ted's Sexy Boomer Show, Tuesday, May 5 at 2:00 pm, with guest author Ethan Elkind ("Railtown: The Fight for the Los Angeles Metro Rail and the Future of the City")

    Our guest, Ethan Elkind, is the author of “Railtown: The Fight for the Los Angeles Metro Rail and the Future of the City.” Phil and Ted discuss how Los Angeles, a metropolis built for the automobile, is traffic-jammed, suffers the country’s worst air pollution, and is now reinventing itself with urban rail and developing compact neighborhoods adjacent to transit that are profoundly changing the city.

    Posted by Donna Walker at Monday, May 4, 2026

  • KPFK is on the Move

    A letter from iGM Ace Estwick

    Posted by Ace Estwick at Friday, April 24, 2026

  • 'Enough Is Enough': Sanders Kicks Off California Billionaire Tax Campaign at The Wiltern

    Union workers, healthcare advocates, and thousands of Angelenos packed The Wiltern on Wednesday for the official launch of the California Billionaire Tax Act. Senator Bernie Sanders, Tom Morello, and leaders from the state's biggest unions made the case for taxing 200 of California's wealthiest residents.

    Posted by Ace Estwick at Friday, February 20, 2026


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