Email: Donna_Walker@kpfk.org

Facebook: Pacifica Performance Showcase

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.

Recorded in Los Angeles before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center in November 2008.

Directed by Rosalind Ayres
Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg
An L.A. Theatre Works Full-Cast Performance Featuring:
Andrea Bowen as Debbie
Matt Gaydos as Brodie and TV Director
Carolyn Seymour as Charlotte
Simon Templeman as Henry
Douglas Weston as Max
Joanne Whalley as Annie
Matthew Wolf as Billy
Associate Producers: Jennifer Brooks, Christina Montaño
Recording and Mixing Engineer, Sound Designer, Editor: Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood
Sound Effects Artist: Theresa Arrison
Music Supervisor: Scott Willis  

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

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.

Email: Donna_Walker@kpfk.org

Facebook: Pacifica Performance Showcase

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.

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. 🌹⚡