Month: June 2006

No show today: the KPFK fund drive continues.

More stuff to read: Jon Wiener: “White House Hound Dog Visits Graceland: What The King could tell the President” at TheNation.com/The Notion.

No show today — the KPFK fund drive continues.
Web Extra: take a look online at the trailer for a new documentary, “The U.S. versus John Lennon” — or go to www.theUSversusJohnLennon.com. The film, which opens September 15, provides a compelling look at Lennon’s transformation from lovable mop-top to anti-war activist –and also tells the true story of how and why the U.S. government tried to silence him. (The trailer is also running in theaters, before the Al Gore documentary “An Inconvenient Truth.”) The message: “War is over — if you want it.”

ALSO: VICTOR NAVASKY in L.A.: the Publisher Emeritus of The Nation will be reading and signing A Matter of Opinion at 730pm Friday 6-23, at Skylight Books, 1818 N. Vermont Ave., L.A.. Victor is also a guest on The Tavis Smiley Show on Friday, KCET Channel 28, 11pm.

no show today — it’s the KPFK fund drive.
BUT there’s more stuff to read: my sardonic comment on “BUSH IN BAGHDAD” at TheNation.com.

Your Minnesota Moment: go see the Robert Altman-Garrison Keillor film “A Prairie Home Companion” — it’s terrific, even if you’re not from St. Paul. Ella Taylor explains why in the LA Weekly.

LISTEN TO THIS SHOW ONLINE
Election Analysis with HAROLD MEYERSON: Phil Angelides will challenge Arnold in November; Jerry Brown defeated Rocky Delgadillo for the Democratic Party nomination for attorney general; and Democrat Francine Busby lost the San Diego Congressional seat vacated by Randy “Duke” Cunningham to a Republican.
Harold is Political Editor of the LA Weekly, editor at large of The American Prospect, and op-ed columnist for the Washington Post.

Plus: KATHA POLLITT talks about VIRGINITY OR DEATH! And Other Social and Political Issues of Our Time. “Witty, astute and relentlessly logical” – Publishers Weekly. For Example, Katha argues that creationists should be permitted to oppose the teaching of evolution so long as they agree to forgo the benefits of the theory –such as flu vaccines.
Katha is a poet, essayist, and columnist for The Nation.

Also: The years after punk: in the new book Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984. SIMON REYNOLDS says that the postpunk of early eighties stands as “a fair match for the Sixties” in terms of the idealism, the urgency, the excitement, and the musical innovations of the era.
PLAYLIST: Public Image Limited, “Public Image” single (Oct 1978); Gang of Four, “Natural’s Not In It,” Entertainment (1979); The Specials, “A Message to you Rudy,” The Specials (1979); Talking Heads, “Once in a Lifetime,” Remain in Light (1980)