KPFA Theatre Critic Richard Wolinsky reviews “Rachmaninoff and the Tsar” at TheatreWorks Mountain View Center for the Arts through February 9, 2025.
Incarcerated people work for penny wages, and, in several states, for nothing at all. Many of us outside of prisons rely on their labor in areas like repairing roads, fighting wildfires, or clearing debris after hurricanes. Prisoners manufacture products like office furniture, mattresses, license plates, dentures, glasses, traffic signs, garbage cans, athletic equipment, and uniforms. … Continued
Susanna Clarke discusses his now-classic fantasy novel, “Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell” in this interview recorded in the KPFA studios on September 12, 2005. This is the first time the full edited interview has seen the light of day. Hosted by Richard Wolinsky, (Photo: Susanna Clarke in 2020).
On today’s show, we explore the undercounted death toll in Gaza and how the Lancet’s research team has developed a system to evaluate a more realistic toll. We’re in conversation with Francesco Checchi, an epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine who supervised and worked on statistical analysis for the Lancet’s recently published study, … Continued
On today’s show we start in conversation about the ceasefire deal announced on Wednesday after political negotiations between Hamas and Israel. We’ll speak with Ziad Abbas as well as Samer Araabi. Ziad Abbas is the executive director of the Middle East Children’s Alliance, a Berkeley-based international aid organization whose work includes providing food, medicine, medical … Continued
Discussed in this episode: H5N1 Avian Influenza has produced its first human death in the US. This was a different strain (D1.1) from what’s moving through dairy herds (B3.13). The victim is believed to have contracted the virus directly from bird flocks he kept in his yard. Virus samples from the victim showed genetic changes … Continued
On today’s show, we return to our weekly Monday segment The Palestine Post, focusing this conversation on a recent report studying the psychological impacts of Israel’s genocide on the children in Gaza. We’re in conversation with Kim McCall, the Executive Director for Children in Conflict, whose UK-based partner organization called War Child recently published the … Continued
Vernor Vinge (1944-2024), in conversation with Richard Wolinsky and Richard A. Lupoff, recorded in the KPFA studios, May7, 1992 while on tour for his Hugo winning novel, “Fire Upon the Deep.” Over his career, Vernor Vinge won five Hugo Awards, three for Best Novel and two for best novella, and is credited as the first science fiction writer to create cyberspace, a few years before William Gibson, and to use ideas about singularities.
KPFA Theatre Critic Richard Wolinsky reviews “Some Like It Hot,” the national tour production, at BroadwaySF Orpheum Theater through January 26, 2025.
