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This week we explore the history of electronic music. We don’t have time for a definitive chronicle of the innovations, composers and musicians who shaped what we now call ‘Electronica’ in the early part of the twentieth century so I decided to tell a more personal story about how I came to know about electronic … Continued
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Bonnie Simmons presents a unique mix of singer/songwriter folk, rock, soul, country, and R&B.
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Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. World’s 6th largest fossil fuel company facing trial in France; Trump chairs first Board of Peace meeting, pledges funds and troops for Gaza as many fear mission creep; Amy Goodman speaks to KPFA on 30th anniversary of … Continued
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We speak with author and culture critic Odie Henderson about his latest book, Black Caesars and Foxy Cleopatras: A History of Blaxploitation Cinema. Black Caesars and Foxy Cleopatras is a spirited history of a genre and the movies that he grew up watching, which he loves without irony (but with plenty of self-awareness and humor). … Continued
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Visionary Activist Show 2.19.26 #KPFA 2pm pt (2.20 #KPFK in wee hours & 1pm pt) Raw sewage – literal and pervasive pandemic metaphor Water and Money: Re-directing the flow – from Cruelty, State Terror, Corruption – to infrastructure….health, protecting commonwealth…. Collective well-being… Empathic Sorrow be appropriate, and serves as incentive for dynamic kindness, dedicated … Continued
Fund Drive Special: Malcolm Margolin (1940-2025), the long-time publisher of Heyday Books in Berkeley, who died on August 20, 2025 at the age of 84, in conversation with Richard Wolinsky in the KPFA Studios on November 21, 2014. Also, reviews of “M. Butterfly” at San Francisco Playhouse and “The Notebook: The Musical” at the Orpheum in San Francisco.
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