KPFA theatre critic Richard Wolinsky reviews “A Chorus Line” at San Francisco Playhouse through September 16, 2023.
On March 26, 2018, rescue workers discovered a crumpled SUV and the bodies of two women and multiple children at the bottom of a cliff along the California coastline. The crash was a murder-suicide: a white lesbian couple had adopted six Black children, with a paper-trail of child abuse and neglect that had been ignored … Continued
Discussed in this episode: Considerations when timing and combining the COVID booster due out this fall, the annual flu vaccine, and the newly-approved RSV vaccine. A new study suggests you might get a better immune response from getting all your COVID shots in the same arm. (The study only measured antibodies and T-cells in blood … Continued
Elmore Leonard (1925-2013) was a leading light in the field of crime and thriller fiction. In this documentary using material from interviews conducted in 1988 and 1989, host Richard Wolinsky lets Elmore speak, in his own words, about his career and his writing process. Photo: HarperCollins
The mission of law & disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That’s where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature … Continued
Law Enforcement in this country kills approximately 1200 people every single year and yet the names of many are never said or known except to their families and friends. What’s more, law enforcement agencies and other state actors harm our community in a myriad of ways that also go unnoticed like profiling, sexually assaulting and … Continued
KPFA theatre critic Richard Wolinsky reviews “Mahabharata,” a co-production of Oakland Theatre Project and Z Space, at Z Space through August 20, 2023. Photo: Ben Krantz Studio.
Discussed in this episode: A new paper in Science Translational Medicine draws results from animal experiments, human samples, and human autopsies to suggest a mechanism for some cases of Long Covid: the virus binds to a protein on our cells’ mitochondria and can enduringly alter their function. Podcast music credit: Now Son by Podington Bear, licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 … Continued
August is when many of us commemorate Black August and so Law & Disorder is bringing you more Black August resistance programming. We are joined this morning by Kalonji Jama Changa is an organizer, founder of the FTP Movement, and the co-chair of the Urban Survival and Preparedness Institute and is co-founder of Black Power … Continued
Governor Gavin Newsom has committed $1.2 million for automated license plate readers in Oakland. Joining us to discuss is Brian Hofer is the Executive Director of Secure Justice, a non-profit that advocates against state abuse of power, and for reduction in government and corporate over-reach. He has also been the Chair of Oakland’s Privacy Advisory … Continued