From jumping off pianos with James Brown to running the streets with Etta James, Sugar Pie DeSanto has led a wild life. In this episode, the soul singer shares memories of performing in Oakland’s legendary 1950s blues clubs, stunning global audiences with her risqué moves, and making grown men cry. As Sugar Pie puts it, … Continued
What would you do if your family’s home was threatened by eminent domain to make way for a pipeline of fracked gas? Would you roll over? Give up? Take the money and run? Or would you stand and fight? This interview, with Camp White Pine, details how one family in Pennsylvania stood up to a … Continued
“OG Told Me” isn’t just a new book, it’s a survival guide packed full of advice that Pendarvis Harshaw gathered from more than 50 interviews with Black elders. This episode takes a trip back in time though hyphy-era sideshows, graffiti yards and even a possibly haunted building in downtown Oakland.
New Superintendent of the San Francisco Unified School District Housing Issues in San Francisco. The Mayor Race.
There’s no question that antifascism has taken up a lot of space on both IGD and within the wider anarchist movement. Talk about antifascists has also spilled into the mainstream, with many journalists treating it, along with the tactics like the black bloc, as a new phenomenon that has arisen in the past few months … Continued
Gore Vidal, in conversation on March 11, 1998 with Richard Wolinsky and Richard A Lupoff while he was on tour for his novel “The Smithsonian Institution.” In the wide ranging interview he talks about the demonization of the Clintons, health care in America, United States history, his own biography and his work in stage and film.
KPFA theater critic Richard Wolinsky reviews “The Legend of Georgia McBride” by Matthew Lopez, at Marin Theatre Company through July 2, 2017.
Photos from Ann Harkness In this audio reportback, we speak with Kit O’Connell, of the OSWN Collective in Austin, Texas. In the interview, we discuss what happened on June 10th, and how a group of anarchists and antifascists were able to shut down a anti-Muslim rally attended by neo-Nazis and Alt-Right ‘Stickmen.’ Kit explains the context … Continued
Han Ong is a playwright whose latest work is “Grandeur,” at the Magic Theater in San Francisco through June 25, 2017. He is interviewed by KPFA theater critic Richard Wolinsky. Han Ong has written several plays since the 1990s, and two novels, including the well-reviewed “Fixer Chao” in 2001. This is his second play following a twelve-year absence. “Grandeur” concerns a meeting between a journalist and the late poet and writer Gil Scott-Heron in 2010 upon the release of the album “I’m New Here,” and a year before the poet’s death.
KPFA theater critic Richard Wolinsky reviews “The Roommate” by Jen Silverman, directed by Becca Wolff, at San Francisco Playhouse through July 1, 2017.
