Review by KPFA Theatre Critic Richard Wolinsky of “The Madwoman in the Volvo” by Sandra Tsing Loh at Berkeley Rep through January 15, 2017. Berkeley Rep
San Francisco’s Historic Stud Bar is Saved From Closure. Pasta Pomodoro Closes All 15 Bay Area Locations. Efforts to Criminalize Marijuana Smoking.
Richard Adams (1920-2016) interviewed in 1978 by Richard Wolinsky. Richard Adams, the author of “Watership Down,” “Plague Dogs” “Shardik” and other novels, died on Christmas Eve, 2016 at the age of 96. It was on tour for “The Plague Dogs” upon its American publication in the spring of 1978 that Richard Wolinsky interviewed Richard Adams. Though he’d conducted a handful of interviews with a co-host, this was Richard Wolinsky’s first solo shot in what would be a long career as literary interviewer.
Rabih Alameddine, author of “The Angel of History” is interviewed by Richard Wolinsky. Born in Kuwait and now living in San Francisco and Beirut, Rabih Alameddine is the atuhor of several novels, including “The Hakawati” and “An Unnecessary Woman.” His latest novel deals with memory and forgetting, as a poet remembers his lover and others who died of AIDS during the ’80s in the context of both the real world and a fantasy dialogue between Satan and Death.
2016 Challenges, Victories and Disasters; SF Losses Three Progressive Supervisors; and the New San Francisco Chief of Police.
Jonathan Safran Foer, author of the novel “Here I Am” is interviewed by Richard Wolinsky In his latest novel, the author of “Everything is Illuminated” and “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” focuses on the question of what it means to be a secular Jew in America today. “Here I Am” was named as one of the 100 notable books of 2016 by the New York Times.
Local Housing Development and the Fire at The Ghost Ship; The Chronicle’s Fox Wannabes; and Sanctuary Cities under Trump.
The Pacific Northwest Anti-Fascist Workers Collective is an inspiring group of people who are organizing both on the inside of prisons and in active labor unions to popularize anti-fascist ideas while also creating capacity for people that want to leave white supremacist gangs a way to do so. Wanting to get more information on the … Continued
When people think of revolutionary self-organizing and action, they probably don’t think about West Virginia. But the region has a deep history of violent confrontation to the bosses and corporations that profit from coal and destroy workers and the environment in the process; from the “Mine Wars” of the early 20th Century, to the recent … Continued