Scoop’s Summer of Love Rant. Can you dig it? Put some flowers in your pipe and journey back 50 years to when the world was young. The Summer of Love. A bus full of laughing hippies takes idealistic flower children to frolic in the sun. Savor the world and have another toke. Celebrate the age … Continued
Susannah Martin directs the Shotgun Players production of “The Events,” a play by David Greig now at the Ashby Stage in Berkeley through June 4. She is interviewed by KPFA associate theater critic C.S. Soong.
On this episode, we caught up with George Ciccariello-Maher, a radical professor, organizer, and author of the recent book, Decolonizing Dialectics. We discuss both their coming under fire from Alt-Right trolls after mocking the concept of ‘white genocide’ on social media, but also discuss the notion of free speech itself. We talk about his recent appearance … Continued
Octavia Butler (1947-2006) in conversation with Richard Wolinsky and Richard A. Lupoff, recorded in 1983. Octavia Butler, who died in 2006 at the age of 58, was one of the giants of modern science fiction. Winner of multiple awards for her short fiction and novels, her work explored issues involving gender, race, and power and featured protagonists often at odds with their societies.
Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007), interviewed in 1991 by Richard Wolinsky and Richard A. Lupoff. In 1991, while on tour for his collection of essays, “Fates Worse Than Death,” Kurt Vonnegut Jr. stopped in the KPFA studios to speak with the hosts of the “Probabilities” program about his work, his career, and his feelings about life and politics.
Heathens United Against Racism (HUAR) might be a group that you’ve never heard of unless you travel in Heathen and Pagan spiritual circles. While the group may not be well known, since they formed in the wake of the Occupy movement, they’ve had a big impact on their wider community. In short, the group is … Continued
Heathens United Against Racism (HUAR) might be a group that you’ve never heard of unless you travel in Heathen and Pagan spiritual circles. While the group may not be well known, since they formed in the wake of the Occupy movement, they’ve had a big impact on their wider community. In short, the group is … Continued
Jonathan Allen, co-author of “Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton’s Doomed Campaign” in conversation with host Richard Wolinsky. Nobody expected Hillary Clinton to lose the 2016 presidential election. Jonathan Allen and his co-host Amie Parnes followed the campaign from the beginning to the dreadful night in November when Donald Trump was elected president.
Steven Bach (1938-2009) author of the biography “Leni: The Life and Work of Leni Riefenstahl”, interviewed in 2007 by Richard Wolinsky. Leni Riefenstahl was the film maker behind the Nazi propaganda films Triumph of the Will and Olympia. Reifenstahl, who died in 2003 at the age of a hundred and one, to the end of her life denied her work was political, that she was an artist.
Peter Brook, visionary director, in conversation with Richard Wolinsky. Peter Brook is one of the greatest theatrical directors of the twentieth century. Artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company for twenty years from 1962-1982, he transformed how the English speaking world looked at the plays of William Shakespeare. Now, at the age of 92, he and his collaborator Marie Helene Estienne have gone back to the Mahabharata with a short theatrical piece, “Battlefield,” which is playing at ACT’s Geary Theater through May 21st.
