KPCC News: Arts Podcast: Episodes
Steven Cuevas: A popular Inland Empire rapper is waging a battle in the courts to avoid a San Bernardino County gang injunction. More on the story from KPCC's Steven Cuevas.
Steven Cuevas: Clint Eastwood's new film "The Changeling" tells the story of a mother who battled the LAPD in the search for her missing son. The Depression-era tale also involves a sinister figure from the Riverside area who's the focus of a new book, "Nothing is Strange With You."
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Steve Julian: The advice columnist we know as Dear Abby was born on July 4 eighty years ago, 17 minutes after her twin sister, who grew up to become Ann Landers. Ann - or Eppie Lederer - passed away six years ago. She's the subject of a one-woman play by David Rambo. Rambo's not only a playwright. He ...
Adolfo Guzman-Lopez: Southland museum leaders have officially unveiled a collaboration that will showcase Southern California's groundbreaking contemporary art movements. KPCC's Adolfo Guzman-Lopez has the story.
Queena Kim: UCLA's Herb Alpert School of Music has appointed its first artist-in-residence: the famed composer and violinist Mark O'Connor. He's launching his residency with a concert at UCLA's Schoenberg Hall tonight. KPCC's Queena Kim has this interview with Mark O'Connor.
Shirley Jahad: Supreme Court takes up television indecency case; Oliver Stone talks about new movie 'W', which is based on the life of President Bush; and actor Nick Nolte escapes fire.
Adolfo Guzman-Lopez: The roots of avant garde music extend back to World War Two when American and European musicians created experimental compositions. Experimental music's signature work is John Cage's composition Four Minutes, Thirty-three Seconds. It's that much silence, intended to turn listeners' ...
Queena Kim: The LA Phil is celebrating the fifth anniversary of Walt Disney Concert Hall with free concerts on Saturday. Off-Ramp's Queena Kim says that one concert of note is "Peter and the Wolf," which will be accompanied by a Toy Theater and conducted by 22-year-old assistant conductor Lionel Bringuier.
Adolfo Guzman-Lopez: For the last century in classical music, the dominant force has been the large symphony orchestra of about one hundred musicians. Smaller chamber orchestras have worked hard to carve out audiences in the shadow of their larger, more flashy siblings. The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra ...
Brian Watt: In an election for the Screen Actors Guild board, a faction dissatisfied with the Guild's Hollywood leaders has won a majority of the seats up for grabs. KPCC's Brian Watt examines the new board's potential effect on the Guild's stalled negotiations with film and television producers.
Kitty Felde: The Los Angeles airwaves have lost a familiar face, and a familiar voice. Longtime TV anchor and syndicated radio host George Putnam died Friday after a long illness. He was 94. KPCC's Special Correspondent Kitty Felde has this look back at his long career.
John Rabe: Bill Melendez, the man who brought the "Peanuts" comic strip to television, died Tuesday in Santa Monica. He was 91 years old. Melendez produced and directed more than 70 Peanuts specials and films. He won eight Emmy Awards and two Peabodys. Animation expert Charles Solomon told KPCC's John ...
Kitty Felde: Last week, a trio of Food Network stars entertained a crowd of groupies in Anaheim doing what they do every week on TV: talk and decorate cakes. KPCC's Special Correspondent Kitty Felde sat down with the aces behind "Ace of Cakes" and whipped up this profile.
Steve Julian: KPCC business analyst says there were warning signs of the mortgage mess that went back about four or five years, but they were largely ignored; the sale of Univision has left the new owners with a large debt.
Adolfo Guzman-Lopez: DJ culture, with its turntables, record scratching and fashions is ever-present in mainstream television, movies and advertising. An exhibit at a downtown L.A. gallery argues that East L.A. DJs as far back as 30 years ago and the Eastside parties where they played constitute an overlooked ...
Steven Cuevas: Eight years after the death of cartoonist Schulz, his classic "Peanuts" strips still run daily in hundreds of newspapers. An exhibit of Schulz's work is now open at Riverside Metrololitan Museum. As KPCC's Steven Cuevas found out, some of the original artwork for those strips is missing, ...
Sandra plans her trip with friends to the Burning Man Festival.
Shirley Jahad: Hundreds of dancers young and old are tapping out the rhythms of their lives at a festival underway in Culver City. KPCC's Shirley Jahad takes us there.
Kitty Felde: Thirty years ago, musician Danny Elfman led his quirky rock band Oingo Boingo on stage before a small but loyal crowd of fans at U.C. Irvine. This week, Elfman is back in Orange County with a different sort of theatrical troupe. American Ballet Theatre will perform the West Coast premiere ...
Adolfo Guzman-Lopez: Art historians and local activists in Sherman Oaks are decrying the likely destruction of an 85-foot-long mural created in a Jewish neighborhood. KPCC's Adolfo Guzman-Lopez has the story.